Is there a good source of information about how Linux distributions and installers identify and interact with the hardware devices in a system? We are particularly interested in the shutdown process that leads to complete power-off…
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We run several CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 systems as virtual machines using VirtualBox on Windows 7. Most of these systems have continuous up time. The Windows 7 foundation platforms have no difficulty keeping accurate system time unless they are shut d..
Our smallest network has just three systems permanently attached to a 100/1000 router. There is one additional port available to temporarily plug in a laptop. The largest systems are both Dells, one running Windows 7 and one running CentOS 6.7..
We have a requirement for a new application that will be used fixed, portable, and mobile. The hardware requirements drive the need for networking as well as some general purpose and special purpose interfaces. The software requirements are qu..
There has been a bit of grumbling recently about HP printer capability in one of our smallest prototyping Labs. We have a single GigE switch connecting a Windows 7 machine and a Dell/CentOS-6 machine. The CentOS machine also has connectivity ..
Recent power management discussions plugged into one of our current frustrations, namely the interaction of the screen lock and power-save features on Intel/CentOS 6 platforms. We certainly would not have guessed that locking the screen would inhi..
Many years ago, we began scrapping the RTOS approach for some of our timing-critical applications. Our first applications were based on Solaris real-time extensions and served well us well for many years. Then came the era of shaky support for In..
We plan to use new digital voice recorders. Products are available from Olympus, Sony, and others. All of these digital voice recorders offer file-based audio storage. We would like to take advantage of this feature and move the files to our compute..
We have recently been asked to evaluate some computing machinery for a new project. This particular end user has very limited experience with the stated security requirements in a lights-out environment. Their primary work (as well as mine) in the p..
My experience with RHEL and CentOS is quite limited, andwould classify me as novice. I have been running CentOS 6for a little over a year and recently brought up a CentOS 7system as a virtual machine under Windows 7. One of the first things I usua..
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