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δ Crucis
Delta Crucis or δ Crucis, also identified as Imai (), is a star in the southern constellation of Crux, and is the faintest of the four bright stars that form the prominent asterism known as the Southern Cross. This star has an apparent magnitude of 2.8, and its proper name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union on 10 August 2018. Imai is a massive, hot and rapidly rotating star that is in the process of evolving into a giant, and is located at a distance of about from the Sun. Nomenclature ''δ Crucis'' ( Latinised to ''Delta Crucis'') is the star's Bayer designation. The International Astronomical Union Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) approved the name ''Imai'' for this star on 10 August 2018 and it is in the list of IAU-approved star names. ''Imai'' is the name selected for the star designated Delta Crucis by the Mursi people of modern-day Ethiopia. The star Imai has some significance as when it "ceases to appear in the evening sky at dusk (around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crux
CRUX is a lightweight x86-64 Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users and delivered by a tar.gz-based package system with BSD-style initscripts. It is not based on any other Linux distribution. It also utilizes a ports system to install and upgrade applications. Although '' crux'' is the Latin word for "cross," the choice of the name "CRUX" itself has no meaning. Per Lidén chose it because it "sounded cool," and ends in "X" which puts it in line with various other Unix flavors such as IRIX, Ultrix, Mac OS X and IBM AIX. Installation CRUX does not include a GUI installation program. Instead, the user boots the kernel stored on either a CD or diskette; partitions the hard disk drive(s) to which the operating system An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
