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By: Aleksa Sarai

May 26, 2025 9:29 am

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Four Years On, Umoci Celebrates A Long-Awaited Release

After a nearly four-year hiatus, there is a new umoci release! umoci is the reference implementation of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) image specification, and provides users with the ability to create, manipulate, and otherwise interact with container images. It is designed to be as small and unopinionated as possible, so as to act as […]

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By: William Vera

September 4, 2013 9:37 am

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Compiling the Linux Kernel, the SUSE way

Today Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux Kernel 3.11 "Linux for Workgroups" (is not it funny?). Let's get straight to the point: How to compile the kernel manually, SUSE style!. For this example, I'll use the new kernel 3.11 (obviously) on a SLES11 SP3 server. 1. After all we […]

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By: dmair

March 27, 2009 11:58 am

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Accessing File Systems on Disk Block Image Files

You probably know how to mount CD or DVD iso images on Linux using the loopback block device. The loopback device can be used for a whole lot more. As a programmer I find virtual machines very useful. I use them so much now that I often need to access files in them...even when […]

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