Tuxology is a web site dedicated to the Linux training courses provided by Codefidence and Hi-Tech College.

It aims to provide an on-line counterpart to the courses material for students who wish to expand their knowledge and keep their skills up to date both during and after the training courses.

You can view the main headlines from Tuxology here:

• Videos from the Linux Symposium in Ottawa - The wonderful Michael Opdenacker and Thomas Petazzoni from Free Electrons are at it again - they have released 29 videos of talks, tutorials and “birds of a feather” sessions given at the 2008 Linux Symposium in Ottawa. The released video includes the following: Keynote: The Kernel: 10 Years in Review, by Matthew Wilcox (Intel) Talk: Tux on the [...]
• Using ldd and nm to locate crashing function - A new video post tutorial, showing how to locate the function where your Linux application crashed if all you know is the address where the crash happened using two common Linux utilities: ldd and nm. Enjoy!
• Announcing Herzelinux - We are please to announce the founding of a new Linux User Group for the Herzlia Pituch area: Herzelinux. Much like its older brothers Haifux and Telux and similar other Linux User Groups around the world, in each meeting one of the club regular members or a guest gives an informal lecture or a talk about [...]
• Benchmarking boot latency on x86 - One of the tasks embedded system developers face is managing boot latency, or the time it takes for a device to become functional after power up. After all, a set top box that will take more then 60 seconds from the time the “On” button is pressed until the end customer can at least interact with [...]
• A new lecture: Crash N? Burn - We’ve just added a brand new tutorial to the lectures section on the site, entitled: “Crash and burn: Writing Linux application fault handlers“. Check out the full description, slides and example code on the lecture page. Or, if you’d rather see our very own Gilad Ben-Yossef present the tutorial in front of a live audience, you’re [...]
• Writers Wanted! - Got a story to share about your latest Linux bring up on a new board? have a great tip you would like to share with your peers? wrote an excellent how-to for you co workers and wish to share that with the world? Great! Now you can win something in addition to your peers admiration - [...]
• Updates - Hi there, We just added a new section to the site: lectures, where we’ll post the slides of technical lectures given at various conferences, events and panels. Already posted are the slides for two lectures: one about different approaches to real time with Linux and another about Open Source virtualization solutions, so go check them out. Also [...]
• Linux Network Stack Flow - A wonderful article, describing the control flow and the associated data types of the Linux networking stack of kernel 2.6, written by Arnout Vandecappelle of Mind, is available via the kind folks at the Linux Foundation. Accompanying the article itself, an elaborate graphic schema of the network stack and data type, is also included. Looks like [...]
• Penguin In a Box 2008 - We are proud to announce that the third annual Penguin In A Box embedded Linux seminar organized by Codefidence ltd. in cooperation with Hi Tech College, will be held at the 03/07/2008 07/08/2008 in the Daniel hotel and convention center in Herzelia, Israel. As the use of Linux in the embedded market is on the rise [...]
• Remote Debugging with Eclipse - Eclipse is an open source development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and run times for building, deploying and managing software across the life cycle. CDT is the name of the C/C++ development plug-in. It includes a graphical GDB front end. The following slides are a short visual “how to” demonstrating configuring and using CDT to debug [...]