Switch to a text console in Fedora
I have switched recently to Fedora 22 from Ubuntu Gnome. In Ubuntu gnome, when my Kodi media center used to hang while in full-screen, I used to press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to terminal.
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How to easily build your own Linux Distro?
I wanted to have a go at creating my very own Linux Distribution. Could you suggest some nice and easy-to-follow tutorials (preferably text based and not videos).
I have heard something about Arch Linux but I don’t know how to go from there. What do I need?
sysrq won’t reboot with a keystroke, but will with echo “b” > /proc/sysrq-trigger
CentOS 6.2, 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 laptop. SysRQ is enabled for keyboard input, as is witnessed by:
Is it possible to fake a specific path for a process?
I’m trying to run ADB on a linux server with multiple users where I am not root (to play with my android emulator). The adb daemon writes its logs to the file /tmp/adb.log which unfortunately seems to be hard-coded into ADB and this situation is not going to change.
Getting information about a process’ memory usage from /proc/pid/smaps
For a given process in /proc/<pid>/smaps, for a given mapping entry what are:
How does load average work with modern CPU’s?
My understanding of load average lead me to be quite shocked with my current system. The CPU in my workstation is an i7 with hyperthreading enabled, and cat /proc/cpuinfo produces 4 ‘cpu’s.
Need explanation on Resident Set Size/Virtual Size
I found that pidstat would be a good tool to monitor processes. I want to calculate the average memory usage of a particular process. Here is some example output:
In Linux, which filesystems support reflinks?
btrfs supports reflinks, XFS supports reflinks (since 2017 I think?).
What is the correct way to view your CPU speed on Linux?
I found two commands to output information about my CPU: cat /proc/cpuinfo and lscpu. /proc/cpuinfo shows that my CPU speed is 2.1 Ghz, whereas lspcu says it is 3167 Mhz. Which one is correct?