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Migrating Red Hat applications to SUSE – Technical Overview

Abstract: This document is a technical overview of the process of migrating Red Hat applications to SUSE LINUX. Specific references are mentioned for detailed information. Read More

Building Applications with the Linux Standard Base

Abstract from Web Site: Linux Standard Base is a term that is used to describe both an organization and a standard. Since its inception in 1998, the LSB project has been supported by countless participants interested in developing a standard to unify and bolster the operability of Linux. Their cooperative effort has resulted in the releasing of multiple products that are calculated to establish Linux as a viable and affordable platform with broad market potential. Read More

Converting an existing development system to the 2.6 kernel

Abstract from web site: This whitepaper is the third in a series from TimeSys's "2.6 Linux Resource Center" on using the new Linux 2.6 kernel. Authored by TimeSys Senior Product Manager William von Hagen, the whitepapers in this series place special emphasis on the primary issues in migrating existing drivers, applications, and embedded Linux deployments to a Linux distribution based on the 2.6 kernel. Read More

Migrating device drivers to Linux kernel 2.6

Abstract from web site: This whitepaper is the second in a series from TimeSys’s "2.6 Linux Resource Center" on using the new Linux 2.6 kernel. Authored by TimeSys Senior Product Manager William von Hagen, the whitepapers in this series place special emphasis on the primary issues in migrating existing drivers, applications, and embedded Linux deployments to a Linux distribution based on the 2.6 kernel. Read More

Migrating apps to the 2.6 kernel and NPTL

Abstract from web site: For most application developers, changes between the 2.4 and 2.6 kernel families have little direct impact. However, kernel and system changes that affect how applications spawn and manage other processes and threads are a significant exception to this rule. This whitepaper discusses topics related to migrating existing applications to the 2.6 kernel and the Native POSIX Threading Library (NPTL). Read More

Java Apps to Linux

Porting Java applications to SUSE LINUX Abstract: Moving Java applications from another platform to Linux is quite straightforward, with a few caveats. Even though Java is a write once, run anywhere language, there are still some configuration and platform specific requirements to be understood. This paper is designed to aid developers and consultants in understanding where these requirements lie and approaches to be considered in porting Java applications to SUSE LINUX. Read More

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