In order to thoroughly understand what makes Linux tick and why it works so well on a wide variety of systems, you need to delve deep into the heart of the Kernel. The Kernel handles all interactions between the CPU and the external world, and determines which programs will share processor time, in what order. It manages limited memory so well that hundreds of processes can share the system efficiently, and expertly organizes data transfers so that the CPU isn t kept waiting any longer than necessary for the relatively slow disks.
penMesh is a generic and efficient data structure for representing and manipulating polygonal meshes. OpenMesh is developed at the Computer Graphics Group, RWTH Aachen , as part of the OpenSGPlus project, is funded by the German Ministry for Research and Education ( BMBF), and will serve as geometry Kernel upon which the so-called high level primitives (e.g. subdivision surfaces or progressive meshes) of OpenSGPlus are built.
It was designed with the following goals in mind :
Flexibility : provide a basis for many different algorithms without the need for adaptation.
Efficiency : maximize time efficiency while keeping memory usage as low as possible.
Ease of use : wrap complex internal structure in an easy-to-use interface.
This book is intended for embedded system programmers, consultants and students interested in real-time operating
systems. μC/OS-II is a high performance, deterministic real-time Kernel and can be embedded in commercial products
(see Appendix F, Licensing). Instead of writing your own Kernel, you should consider μC/OS-II. You will find, as I
did, that writing a Kernel is not as easy as it first looks.
cryptoboot is set of tools for disk encryption on Unix. It is especially suited
to encrypt root partition, so _everything_ (except Kernel and
cryptoboot inself) is encrypted.
