Introduction

I'm starting a new series of posts about container and VM specific API's and tools in the Linux operating system. These posts reflect some of the work I'm doing systematically exploring the containerization and virtualization options natively available in the Linux kernel. I will also explore some APIs and tools built on top of these functionalities.

In the first post here we look at creating a simple namespace and then using that namespace to modify some resource in that namespace.

Namespaces

Namespaces are one of the fundamental concepts available in new Linux kernels which support isolation of resources. A …

My Ubuntu Linux Desktop

Let me introduce you to my desktop today. Its an Ubuntu Linux (version 7.0.4, codename "Feisty Fawn") system. I've been using this Ubuntu installation for a few months now, and I'm very happy with both the ease of use and power.

And it looks so good, here's a screen shot (click to enlarge).

If you are unfamiliar with Gnome Linux desktop, they you will notice some unique features:

1. Multiple panels(top & bottom)
2. There are 5 desktop pages (bottom right)
3. There's a host of applets added (like weather, mail, network etc) on the top panel …