I was very happy when I heard that debian lenny has been released. I have to download the DVD version of the distro. Since I have a low bandwidth internet connection, it will take few days to download the entire OS. So, anyone who need a copy of the OS have to wait for my next post on Debian Lenny.
Will catch you back from Lenny soon… 🙂
It is the time to share my experience with FOSS’07 which I mentioned in my previous post. The first day seminar was addressed by Mr.Joe Steeve. As it is the first day, there comes the need to give an introduction about FOSS and he is the right person to do. He made a good session regarding the Need for FOSS, its history, its advantages through the famous spoon example. He also explained the various licenses around the FOSS world and the way how the FOSS world gets developed. He too made another session on Programming tools.
The second day went with the installation session with Debian sarge conducted by Mr.Praveen but I couldnt attend the session. The third day session was conducted by Bharathi Subramanian which I couldnt attend due to exams. I missed his speech, again I have to continue only through the mailing lists. 😦
The fourth day seminar was addressed by Mr.Ananth Srinivas who is working for Sun Microsystems. He gave a wonderful seminar regarding the debugging tools. Among them, he explained about ltrace, strace and dtrace. The fifth day, Mr.Senthil Kumaran addressed the seminar with his presentation with DBMS and Web Designing Tools. The sixth day seminar was continued by him and I couldnt attend the seminar.
The main thing that I learnt from the seminars is that I should work even more harder to become a good Computer Science Engineer or a Programmer :).
A seminar on Free and Open Sourse Software (FOSS) Tools is to be held from January 8th to 13th in TCE. The unique feature of the seminar is to bring together faculty in the academic institutions and Industries working in Free/Open Source Software to use this as a forum to exchange views and ideas and lead to innovation. The chair persons will be Mr.Karumuttu T.Kannan, the Correspondent of TCE, Dr.V.Abhai Kumar, the Principal of TCE and Dr.Rajaram, the HOD of CSE Dept, TCE.
The persons delivering the lectures will be my college alumni by whom I got inspired into the world of FOSS. It will be a great experience to see all the geeks at the same time. Thanks to TCE for conducting the Seminar…
For further details, visit here.
Linux kernel itself is a program and the first bootstrapping task is to get this program into the memory so that it can be executed. Linux implements a two stage booting process. During the first stage, the system ROM loads a small boot program into the memory from the disk which in turn loads the kernel. Then, the kernel performs the memory tests to find out how much RAM is available. Some of the kernel’s internal data structures are statically sized, so the kernel sets aside a fixed amount of real memory for itself when it starts which is used only by the kernel [Kernel space](Correct me if I am wrong..) and the users cannot use it. Then the kernel prints on the console the total amount of physical memory and the amount available for the user processes.
One of the kernel’s first task is to check out the hardwares connected to it. When you design a kernel, you have to inform it which drivers are to be found and it will find them and prints a criptic information of each of the devices on the console. The kernel probes the bus and try to locate the drivers, if not found, they are disabled and are enabled when found afterwards.Then, after the basic initialization, the kernel creates several spontaneous processes (as they are not created using fork()). init() [PID 1] is accompanied by several kernel and memory handling processes like kflushd, kupdate, kpiod, kswapd. Of these, only init() is a full-fledged process, others are part of the kernel that have been dressed up to look like processes for scheduling and architectural reasons .
Once the spontaneous processes have been created, then we can say that bootstrapping is complete. The remaining processes that handle other operations are started by init().
To enter into single-user mode, we have notify init() by setting a command-line flag. init() eventually turns the control over to sulogin, and prompts for password. You can continue wih the multi-user mode by pressing Ctrl-D. A shell appears in the single-user mode, where we can use all the commands used in the multi-user mode. Usually, most of the daemons wont run in the single-user mode. We have to manually mount the filesystems that are not in /bin, /sbin, /etc.
The fsck command is normally run during an automatic boot to check and repair filesystems. In the single-user mode, you need to run the fsck commannd by hand. When the single-user mode exists, the system will attempt to boot into multi-user mode.
Finally, many of the start-up scripts are called by init(). getty is called as the last process by init(), using which we can login to the system.
Hi all, this day will an unforgettable one for me. As me, Sai and Balachandran (my frends) have entered into the world of servers, we got an opportunity to install debian sarge in the Itanium IA-64 processor machine and we did it well. The installation would have been done by our seniors (who are the present administrators of TCENet). But in their absence, we did it with the help of our staff and an HP guy.
Initially, we had a problem of booting the system using HyperTerminal. Then, with the help of the HP guy, we booted the system and installed sarge in the server. After starting the installation, we were stuck with the partition phase (where we will stuck up often during our early times in Linux), because the server had 2 hard disks and had been raided. We removed those raided partitions and installed debian.
We learnt about a new partition called EFIboot (Extensible Firmware Interface). The IA-64 (Intel Architecture 64) architecture is more speed than the 32-bit architectures developed in co-operation by Intel and Hewlett Packard.
TELNET (TELetype NETwork) is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area network LAN connections. The telnet I mention here is a software program which is used as an inteface for TELNET.
To use telnet, type the following command in the console.
First telnet to any host.
telnet hostname/IP port_number
Then to send message to anyone, do the following steps :
(Here, the port number to be selected is 25.)
mail from : Your mail address
rcpt to : Recepient’s mail address
data
subject : subject
from : your mail address
to : recepient’s mail address
Enter your message here
(Finally, put a dot to indicate the end of the message).
Now, your message would have been sent 
Note : The port number is selected according to your neccessity. For example, if you want to send mail to someone, select the port number as 25.
More updates will be done in this topic soon.
Hakuna matata 