Servers, containers, networks, kernel, observability.
Jabber routes messages and presence between independent servers via dialback, and bridges the closed networks with transports. Technical notes on a streaming-XML protocol in 2001.
Read moreIn February 2001 Apache serves nearly 60% of the sites Netcraft found. How the 1.3 prefork works, what the Multi-Processing Modules in the 2.0 development tree change, and why the licence and the governance weigh as much as the code.
Read moreThe network services a small office LAN needs already exist as mature open-source projects. The hard part is making them coexist on one administrable machine.
Read moreThe 2.2 kernel keeps everything in kernel space yet loads and unloads code while the machine is running — a middle way relative to the 1992 microkernel argument.
Read moreIn amateur packet radio the AX.25 link layer carries no routing at all: incompatible network protocols live on top of it. Technical notes on how a Linux node terminates and translates between them on a single machine.
Read moreBringing amateur packet radio onto Linux means moving the AX.25 and NET/ROM stack into a kernel whose code you can read and fix. An account of the work done at the ARI section in Pisa: patches to the kernel, libraries and tools, the IP-over-radio bridge on the 44/8 network and an IP-IP tunnel to Tampa.
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