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The Power of the UNIX Command-Line

One of the most novel and differentiating features of a UNIX system is its command line. With just a few keystrokes, including a bit...

Interview with New Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith

Earlier this year, former Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields announced he'd be stepping down from the post and that Fedora and Red Hat were...

EMC Acquires Data Warehousing And Analytics Company Greenplum

Enterprise software giant EMC has acquired data warehousing company Greenplum Software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but the acquisition is an...

Introduction to Puppet: Streamlined System Configuration

  If you have one Linux system to administer, you need a good working knowledge of scripting, command line utilities, and a trusty text editor....

Easy Linux backups with Lucky Backup

  We would all like to think that, since we are using Linux, we will never really need a backup of our data. Now, let's...

The Beat Goes On: Open Source Multimedia Tools Part 2

Last week, I started to share information on FOSS multimedia tools, covering some integrated multimedia distributions and some audio tools. This week, in part...

Weekend Project: One-Time Passwords for Extra Linux Security

 Do you take your security extra seriously? Do you reject all unencrypted email and use a 15,360-bit RSA key when you log in over...

Getting a Grip on GNU grep

If you've been using Linux for any amount of time, you've probably heard about grep, though maybe you're not familiar with using it. GNU...

Install VMWare Player on Gentoo (amd64), the easy way

Here I'm, back again with a new blog.There's been a while since my latest one but I'm now back.Here's a very simple argument with...

The Spring 2010 Linux Distro Scorecard (Part 2)

"Zonker" picks up right where he left off yesterday. In this Spring's Linux Distro Scorecard, he provides brief reviews of Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint,...