filed in Operating Systems on Dec.25, 2012
“Work began on the Hurd, the true kernel of the GNU operating system, in May 1991, but it has yet to materialise as a production-ready kernel. Richard Hillesley tells the story… Although the GNU operating system was first conceived in 1983 and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) had first declared an interest in using the [...]
filed in Linux, Mac OS X, Tips, Unix on May.03, 2012
If you’re using a Unix or Unix-like operating system you can leverage the GNU iconv library to validate the encoding of a file or files. Although, the GNU iconv library is actually meant to do file conversions, it can still be used in a way that will give you some understanding if the file(s) contain [...]
filed in Algorithms on Aug.24, 2010
GNU Grep has been around for decades. This is a common *nix tool for searching named input files for lines containing a match to a given pattern. The original author, Mike Haertel, has a post on the FreeBSD mailing list describing why its so far compared to the BSD implementation of Grep. There are a [...]
