Saturday, September 16 2000

E

• EL/IX
  the goal is to be a standards-compliant subset of POSIX and ANSI C new

O

• OSEK
  a German standard for an open architecture for distributed vehicle control units new

R

• Real time OS
  a real-time operating system is able to execute all of its tasks without violating specified timing constraints new

U

• µITRON
  a Japanese standard for embedded systems new

Sunday, September 10 2000

K

• Kirch, Olaf
  author of the Linux Network Administrator's Guide. Olaf also moderates the Linux Security Mailing Lists, developing the Linux NFS daemon and a kernel-based nfsd. NFS file locking is also being worked on. new

U

• utmp
  allows one to discover information about who is currently using the system. There may be more users currently using the system, because not all programs use utmp logging new

W

• wtmp
  records all logins and logouts. Its format is exactly like utmp except that a null user name indicates a logout on the associated terminal new