If you have read the previous post about installing services on Linux (What, you haven’t? Do it now!), you will have a rough idea on how init and the rc.d scripts work. On OSX, launchd is the tool that replaces them both. launchd is invoked by the kernel while booting the system and takes care of managing the processes, just as init does. To interact with launchd there is a tool called launchctl, which will be used in this tutorial.

The daemon scripts are located at /Library/LaunchDaemons. Only the system administrator has the permissions to write there, so… more

Allow me to give you a little introduction on the subject prior to the proper howto. The Linux boot process can be split up in three steps:

* Loading the kernel * Device detection and configuration * Granting control to ‘init’

The ‘init’ program is a daemon that spawns all other processes in the system. It is responsibe for loading the system using initialization scripts, which are usually found at /etc/init.d. There are two ways for init to operate, BSD and SystemV. Typically, Linux systems use SystemV, though there are distributions like Arch Linux or Slackware that use… more

QtCentre together with the sponsors – Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Integrated Computer Solutions Inc., Trolltech ASA, BitRock, Thorsen Consulting, Apress and basysKom GmbH – just launched the second edition of the Qt Programming contest, the only programming contest focused on the Qt/Qtopia community. They haven’t announced the prizes yet, but last year, they gave away pretty cool stuff – Macbooks, Green Phones, electronics and more.

The categories are:

# Collaboration — an application or tool that helps users work together and interact. This can be collaborative editors, front-ends for a version control that are not just useful for developers,... more

We’re happy to announce the release of JRubyStack for Linux, Windows and OS X. JRuby is a 100% Java implementation of the Ruby programming language. It is Ruby for the JVM. JRuby provides a complete set of core “builtin” classes and syntax for the Ruby language, as well as most of the Ruby Standard Libraries.

The BitNami JRubyStack includes ready-to-run versions of JRuby, Rails, Java, Tomcat, GlassFish gem, MySQL and Subversion. With JRubyStack you can… more

Now that virtually all BitNami Stacks are available on Linux, Windows and OS X, we’re working on porting them to Solaris. We just released Solaris Sparc and x86 stacks for Drupal, Joomla!, Wordpress, and Mediawiki. If there’s a stack you’d like for us to port to Solaris, please leave a comment in our forums.... more

Subversion has been leading the BitNami poll for some time now, so we are happy to announce that the BitNami Subversion stack has been released! We currently have support for Linux, Windows and OS X, and we’ll be releasing a Solaris version shortly.

You can download the stack from the Subversion page.

Asterisk and Openbravo are now leading the polls. If your favorite app. isn’t near the top of the list, vote for it!

After several beta releases, RubyStack 1.0 is finally here! RubyStack bundles everything you need to get going with Ruby on Rails in an easy to use installer. This latest release adds support for OS X, so we now support all three platforms (Linux, Windows and OS X). The components of RubyStack are:

• Ruby 1.8.6
• RubyGems 0.9.4
• Rails 2.0.2
• ImageMagick 6.3.5
• Subversion 1.4.5
• SQLite 3.5.1
• MySQL 5.0.45
• Apache 2.2.6
• PHP 5.2.5
• phpMyAdmin 2.11.2

Download it now!