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

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.
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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 to build their version of […]

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 he could exploit your whole […]

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 Thunderbird does not need many […]

The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the second release
candidate (RC2) of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Etch. Unless
release critical issues are discovered, this will be the version of the
installer that will be included in the release of Etch.
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I’m delighted to be able to welcome a new colleague who’s starting with Sun today. He is starting a newly-defined role as Chief Operating Platforms Officer at Sun, and is responsible for building a new strategy to evolve both Sun’s Solaris and GNU/Linux strategies. The appointment is at the same time both brilliant and controversial, […]

Version 2.20 of FSlint is a program whose functionality is at odds with its design. On the one hand, a program for — as the name suggests — locating and removing unnecessary or useless material (”lint”) from a filesystem is a handy one to install. On the other hand, a rough interface with cryptic buttons […]

Being that I rarely ever use a office suite or even a word processor the whole file format thing has never been high on my personal list of issues. Any writing I do on a computer is mostly email, irc, or in a simple text editor (aee, vim, gedit).
For those of you plagued with dependency […]

Media player is a term typically used to describe computer software for playing back multimedia files. Most software media players support an array of media formats, including both audio and video files.Some media players focus only on audio or video and are known as audio players and video players respectively. The producers of these players […]