Posts tagged with "Linux"

Explore file descriptors, a fundamental UNIX abstraction that connects files, pipes, network sockets, and the UNIX philosophy of building programs that work together.

Follow one engineer's journey from a single Raspberry Pi to a full-featured home lab and the lessons learned along the way.

A Linux origin story—from Memphis in the 1990s to ORNL, explore how Linux became more than a computing tool but a journey companion with unlimited opportunities.

Discover how sharing a side hobby/project caught someone's attention and turned into a career—an unexpected path to professional success.

Peek behind the curtain of containers—understand the fictions needed to create these stages and how different operating systems combine them into compelling reality.

What does HPC really mean? Explore the history, reasoning, and technical considerations of High Performance Computing—how it differs from enterprise IT and its future direction.

Discover the power of Bash as an interpretive language—learn how builtins can make scripts faster, portable, and more fun, including sending emails over TCP sockets without external commands.

Master common Linux tools to work efficiently and effectively—build powerful command lines using pipelines, regular expressions, find, grep, awk, and sed to save time and execute complex tasks with ease.

With PowerShell Core now running on Linux and Mac, join Wesley Kirkland to explore cross-platform automation in the next era of scripting convergence.

There's been a lot of talk surrounding the changes RedHat has made in the latest release of it's flagship operating system. This talk will focus on separating fact from FUD by highlighting some of the key differences between RHEL 6.5 and RHEL 7.

Shane will describe his experiences in the design and deployment of Ouroboros, a log management system for a large enterprise environment. Topics include requirements definition, system design, implementation, and monitoring.

Les will be discussing the types of disaster recovery, methods, and techniques; and how they are implemented at UT with lessons learned.

A dive into the minds of your systems and understanding what makes them tick and, more importantly, break. This talk will cover CPU, network, IO, and memory issues that can make a system seem like it's "gone crazy".

Syslinux and Grub2 are two of the most popular bootloaders used by the Linux community. In this talk we will compare feature sets, explore the parts of the bootloader, and look at atypical installations.