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I have released the first public version of cpu-stat, a command line program which provides CPU usage statistics for Linux systems. Source code is open and available on GitHub.
This article explains how to create a simple program in C++ that shows the current CPU usage from command line in Linux. That’s achieved processing the file /proc/stat which contains several kernel/system statistics.
Second month of development and second status update on Shade, a cross-platform framework for 2D games which will be the core technology of all my next mobile and desktop games.
As anticipated in my previous post, I’m going to post a status update on Shade the last week of every month, so here the first update of the series.
I’ve been working on a new (coding) project for the last few weeks and, even if it’s still in a very early stage, I decided to announce it on my blog. Ladies and gentlemen let me introduce you: Shade.
In this post I’m going to show you how to build SDL2 as a static library on Linux using a building tool called SCons. The static library will be used to create a basic program which opens a window, nothing fancy, but…
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Virtualbox by Oracle is definitely the best choice when you need a free solution for your virtualization needs. Using it is pretty straightforward, but recently I had an issue with the screen resolution running Linux (Kubuntu 13.04) on a Windows…
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