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According to wikipedia, glibc is a very widely used library in unix/linux, so since it's so popular, why isn't it installed to system by default?
You are confusing glibc with glib. glib2 is only installed if there are applications that need it.
I see the linux-kernel tag on your question, so I am guessing you are asking why GNU libc is not part of the kernel. The simple answer is that libc in general is the user-land library providing generic/standard application interface over varying set of OS kernel system calls.
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I would want to install a free Linux OS in my laptop. I am not a techie. I am looking for Linux OS which will have inbuilt features for Fn(Function) keys. Please suggest me if you know any particular Linux OS with these features.
This OS have a laptop version. Easy to use, and supports the newest hardwares:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
There are so many choices. Ubuntu is the defacto first distro, although I don't really care for it ever since they went to Unity and Gnome 3. I would rather use Mint with Cinnamon.
A good start is to look at something like Linux Watch http://distrowatch.com/ and see what distros sound good to you, then burn the live disk and check it out. If you like it you can then install it.
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Know anybody, how i can install NodeJS on dd-wrt, openwrt or freewrt system?
Or Maybe on any Router with one on these systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_router_or_firewall_distributions
I stumbled across one fellow on Twitter who claimed to have done so back in 2011 April and offered a high-level overview of the process. My research indicates that this will only be possible on little-endian chipsets (e.g. "mipsel", as on the ASUS RT-N16) as even the MIPS version of v8 does not support big-endian implementations of that architecture (e.g. as the Atheros chipset on the Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H is using).
Sorry, couldn't find any references that indicate it's been done. I suggest checking out the dependencies for Node.
You will need at least the following:
gcc4-g++
git
make
pkg-config
zlib-devel
openssl-devel
openssl
python
Note, that is from the older Cygwin compile instructions so they might not be exactly right.
If you can find all of those for your router OS then it should be possible. Just note that it will take a LONG time to compile.
You may also struggle with memory as most routers are severely lacking. This question on Google has a bit of information.
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I heard that there is no virus in Linux.
The source code of Linux is freely available.
Then why nobody is creating virus in Linux?
It's my understanding most viruses are written to attack the U.S. government and other organizations that run Microsoft Windows on the desktops, etc... so although I am sure it is possible to write Linux viruses, people are less inclined to do so. (Also sure it has to do with the number of people they can hit with Windows viruses vs. Linux viruses).
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wasn't too sure where to ask this. I am just trying to find which Linux OS's or past OS's had the Linux Kernel 2.6.32. Just need to know for compatibility issues with some modules I am working on.
Thanks in advance!
debian squeeze currently uses this kernel.
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I am trying to find the linux 2.4 kernel source code. It seems that it has been removed from the official download site and the mirrors. This may have been result of the kernel.org compromise but it would be nice to have access to historical kernel source. I have looked in the following directories on kernel.org and mirrors and found nothing:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/
Google gave me very quickly this uk mirror for linux 2.4
but please explain why you want such an old version. Are you sure to have the hardware to run it???
You can download the kernel of 2.4.x from this URL: http://eduunix.ccut.edu.cn/index2/mirrors/kernel3/linux/kernel/v2.4/