Archive for September, 2006
Acrobat Reader and the decimal comma problem
When printing a PDF file, Acrobat Reader creates a Postscript and sends it to the printer spooler (or, optionally to a file). Nothing new here, as it’s a common way for Unix programs to print files.
However, I found that under certain circumstances the Postscript file was corrupt: it could not be printed or opened with […]
Posted: September 28th, 2006 under Planet Igalia, English, Software, Planet GPUL.
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User-mode Linux and skas0
User-mode Linux (UML) is a port of Linux to its own system call interface. In short, it’s a system that allows to run Linux inside Linux.
UML is integrated in the standard Linux tree, so it’s possible to compile an UML kernel from any recent kernel sources (using ‘make ARCH=um‘).
Traditionally, UML had a working mode which […]
Posted: September 13th, 2006 under Planet Igalia, English, Software, Planet GPUL.
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