I am a computer science engineering student and I've been programming on the .NET Framework for 2-3 years but I haven't used Linux. I thought, for my final year project, a Linux distro would be good. I was thinking of a few ways to implement it, when this crazy idea occurred to me: Can we implement the .NET Framework first on the Li...
Hi. I have a c++ code that runs perfect on my linux machine (Ubuntu Karmic). When I try to run it on another version, I have all sort of shared libraries missing. Is there any way to merge all shared libraries into single executable? Edit: I think I've asked the wrong question. I should have ask for a way to static-link my executable w...
I'm interested in contributing to a Linux distro, but regarding the various distro's developer communities, I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out which one I'd most like to join. What languages I know: C, C++, Lua, Python, and fairly familiar with Perl (though I wouldn't say I "know" it). In particular, I have very little experience ...
I want to work with low level system programming and virtualization for my research. I tried Ubuntu 10.04 + Xen 4.0.0 but they weren't going quite well right from the installation. One of my friends suggested to take up Gentoo. Any more suggestions? ...
I'm debugging a program that runs fine on one machine running (fill in the blank with some linux distro and version) but acts flaky on another machine running (different distro/version). A helpful clue would be to see a side-by-side list of versions of all the major libraries provided by each distro - Qt, boost, libpng, fftw3, etc. in...