http://linuxslut.net Linux is free and easy, so it must be a slut! Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:50:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A quick and dirt howto mount a remote share via sshfs can be found at sociallysour.org. http://linuxslut.net/2007/12/10/sociallysourorg-mount-via-sshfs-debian/ A library that sends desktop notifications to a notification daemon, as defined in the Desktop Notifications spec. These notifications can be used to inform the user about an event or display some form of information without getting in the user's way. This is a wonderfully useful utility to display notifications from ... http://linuxslut.net/2007/11/02/package-libnotify-bin/ While I was stumbling around the web today, I came across a rather old article on Redhat's site. CVS is out, Subversion is in http://linuxslut.net/2007/05/30/old-subversion-article-from-redhat/ There are several special entries, some which are just shortcuts, that you can use instead of specifying the full cron entry. The most useful of these is probably @reboot which allows you to run a command each time the computer gets reboot. Read More http://linuxslut.net/2007/05/11/neat-crontab-tricks/ PARODY: Debain is the only group of software developers who still believe that Richard Stallman invented programming. Everyone else now correctly credits Bill Gates for doing so. Debain developers hold themselves separate from the rest of the Linux community because of their pride in not stealing from other operating systems ... http://linuxslut.net/2007/04/29/debain-wretch-review-of-an-unamerican-linux-system/ Kernel 2.6.21 was released today. http://linuxslut.net/2007/04/26/kernel-2621-released/ GParted uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables while several (optional) filesystem tools provide support for filesystems not included in libparted. GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating space for new ... http://linuxslut.net/2007/04/25/package-gparted/ Jailing is a mechanism to virtually change a system's root directory. By employing this method, administrators can isolate services so that they cannot access the real filesystem structure. You should run unsecured and sensitive network services in a chroot jail, because if a hacker can break into a vulnerable service ... http://linuxslut.net/2007/04/25/linuxcom-ssh-jail/ Kernel 2.6.20.8 has been released today. http://linuxslut.net/2007/04/25/kernel-26208-released/ The recent upgrade to Thunderbird 2.0 marked a nice evolution of the client and while it did not bring a lot of major changes it did include a few much needed tweaks. Between these changes and my general requirement of using as few extensions as possible I have found that ... http://linuxslut.net/2007/04/24/the-best-extensions-for-thunderbird-20/