Do you have a linux server without a keyboard or monitor? Need to administer the server on-site but don't want to lug over a monitor and keyboard (or kvm)? Then setup the server to output the console ...

Microsoft on Monday announced a preview of a new Serial Console command-line tool for recovering Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) running on Azure infrastructure. The Serial Console tool is ...

This hack shows how to make a dumb terminal out of a keyboard, LCD screen, and an 8-bit microcontroller. From time to time, a portable dumb terminal can be handy for when you have to rescue a headless ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Microsoft makes Windows, but Microsoft isn’t really as focused on Windows these days as it is on its Azure cloud ...

In the last two installments of Driving Me Nuts [LJ August 2002 and October 2002], we covered the tty layer, explaining how to create a minimal tty driver. We also explained some of the various ioctls ...