Why do I have TCP connections in the CLOSE_WAIT state(Unix/Solaris)?

DescriptionThis document provides information and details on TCP connections showing CLOSE_WAIT states. Steps to FollowWhy does netstat -a show connections in the CLOSE_WAIT state? The CLOSE_WAIT state on tcp connections occurs if the system has not received a close system call from the application, after having received notification (FIN packet) from the other system that … Read more

Most Popular Software Repositories

Here is a complete collection of the most popular software repositories: CentOS http://mirror.centos.org/centos/ Fedora https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/ Open Suse https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ Open Solaris https://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/ Open AIX ftp://www.oss4aix.org/ HP-UX http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/packages.html Ubuntu https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ Debian https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ Alpine https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/ Alma https://repo.almalinux.org/ Rocky https://download.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/ Gentoo https://packages.gentoo.org/ Manjaro https://repo.manjaro.org/ Arch https://archlinux.org/packages/ Remi Repository https://rpms.remirepo.net/ Epel Repository https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/ Perl Modules (MetaCPAN) https://metacpan.org/ Perl Modules (CPAN) … Read more

Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution is a book published by O’Reilly Media. It is an anthology of essays written by luminaries of the open source and free software movements. The essays variously chronicle aspects of free software history, describe various philosophical positions, or sketch groups important to the movements. The book is … Read more

Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

Once upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood. Then he wrote a groundbreaking operating system and distributed it via the Internet — for free. Today Torvalds is an international folk hero. And his creation LINUX is used by over … Read more