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October 17, 2025 max-sperling

Systemd commands (Overview)

System management $ systemctl show $ systemctl status $ systemctl reboot $ systemctl suspend $ systemctl hibernate $ systemctl poweroff

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September 22, 2025 max-sperling

Signals (POSIX)

It’s a mechanism, which allows the operating system to inform processes about defined events. Events (selection) Signal Number * Description

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November 6, 2021 max-sperling

Symlink to switch between SW versions

I was building Node.js v16 which uses a fork of GYP (meta-build tool written in python). The setup script contains

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August 5, 2021 max-sperling

Inter process synchronization (Linux)

Synchronizes the access on critical sections between processes. Prototypic lock file (with symlink) Alternative Boost has an interprocess namespace which

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March 29, 2021 max-sperling

X11 with DRI (Linux)

In the past all rendering from the X Clients happened through the X Server via the X11/GLX protocol. It’s called

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October 29, 2020 max-sperling

Mount points (Linux)

Linux differs from Windows with creating just a single directory tree for all partitions. Request all mount points user@DeveloperVM:~$ df

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October 8, 2020 max-sperling

Change owner, group and permissions (Linux)

Change owner/group chown [options] ({owner}|:{group}|{owner}:{group}) file Examples chown root file.txt // For file.txt set owner to root chown -R root:admin

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September 30, 2020 max-sperling

Sandboxing (Linux)

There are multiple possibilities with Linux to sandbox applications. chroot … Changed file system root namespaces … Separated namespaces (e.g.

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June 10, 2020 max-sperling

(Unnamed) Pipe (POSIX)

… is user for unidirectional inter process communication on a single machine. In the following example a pipe gets created

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June 4, 2020 max-sperling

Audio on Linux

Illustration Creator: Yihui Xiong Scenarios ALSA (The red scenario) – Using ALSA without any sound server – Just one source

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