Marty Kalin

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Chicago

I'm an academic in computer science (College of Computing and Digital Media, DePaul University) with wide experience in software development, mostly in production planning and scheduling (steel industry) and product configuration (truck and bus manufacturing). Details on books and other publications are available at

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Open Source Evangelist People's Choice Award Emerging Contributor Award 2019 Author Contributor Club Rust

Authored Content

Is Occupy Wall St. really an "open source protest?"

Getting started with OpenSSL: Cryptography basics

Need a primer on cryptography basics, especially regarding OpenSSL? Read on.

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Inter-process communication in Linux: Sockets and signals

Learn how processes synchronize with each other in Linux.

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Inter-process communication in Linux: Using pipes and message queues

Learn how processes synchronize with each other in Linux.

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Inter-process communication in Linux: Shared storage

Learn how processes synchronize with each other in Linux.

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Which programming languages should you learn?

Learning a new programming language is a great way to get ahead in your career. But which one?

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CFS: Completely fair process scheduling in Linux

CFS gives every task a fair share of processor resources in a low-fuss but highly efficient way.

Authored Comments

mkalin@depaul.edu

15 Aug 2021

Linux package managers: dnf vs apt

Very helpful, thanks.

mkalin@depaul.edu

27 Jul 2021

5 Rust tools worth trying on the Linux command line

Very helpful--thanks.