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Shred and secure-delete: tools for wiping files, partitions and disks in GNU/Linux

I carry a small, laminated card indicating my subscription to the IUSP (International Union of the Super Paranoid, tin hat division). Well, you can’t...

Bidirectional filesystem syncing – DirSync Pro vs. Unison

Author: Ben Martin Everyone knows and loves rsync, the command that lets you clone a directory tree to another disk or system with the ability...

Browse all your source code revisions with ViewVC

Author: David Pendell For programmers on big projects, a version control system for managing source code is vital, but working on files in a large...

Three graphical mount managers

Author: Bruce Byfield Mounting and unmounting filesystems used to be straightforward in GNU/Linux. A basic knowledge of the mount command or some editing of /etc/fstab...

6 of the Best Lean Linux Desktop Environments

Author: JT Smith Mainstream Linux distributions typically default to one of two desktop environments, KDE or GNOME. Both of these environments provide users with an...

Gmail notifiers let you know “you’ve got mail”

Author: Federico Kereki If you are into email like Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan were in the movie You've Got Mail, you probably want to...

Debug your shell scripts with bashdb

Author: Ben Martin The Bash Debugger Project (bashdb) lets you set breakpoints, inspect variables, perform a backtrace, and step through a bash script line by...

SimplyMEPIS: The best desktop Linux you haven’t tried

Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Nowadays, everyone uses Ubuntu, most people have used Fedora, and many folks have tried openSUSE. SimplyMEPIS ... not so many. That's...

A graphical way to MySQL mastery

Author: Amit Kumar Saha MySQL GUI Tools is a suite of graphical desktop applications for working with and administering MySQL servers. The suite consists of...

Doing a diff without touching the command line

Author: Ben Martin With diff-ext, GNOME users can compare and merge files from within Nautilus. If, instead, you use KDE 3, try out kdiff-ext from...