In keeping with our current theme of cool user-space file systems, this article examines the first user-space file system I ever used: SSHFS. SSHFS has a client that can mount and interact with a remote file system as though the file system were local. It uses sftp so it’s as secure as sftp is (I’m not a security expert so I can’t comment on the security of ssh).
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Autokey – Desktop automation utility for Linux and X11
AutoKey is a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11. It allows you to manage collection of scripts, and assign abbreviations and hotkeys to these scripts allowing you to execute them on demand in whatever program you are using.
Read more »FreeBSD 8.1 release announcement
The FreeBSD (free software operating system) Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduces some new features.
Read more »KDevelop 4.0.1 released, with updated PHP support
KDevelop is a free, open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment), based on KDevPlatform, and the KDE and Qt libraries. It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages. This is a bugfix only release and everyone is urged to upgrade as soon as possible.
Read more »Install Imule On Debian Lenny
When I write these lines, the latest version of Imule is 1.4.6. But ... It relies on packages version (libgcj10, libstdc++6) that are released with the unstable (sid) version of Debian. So either you upgrade Debian to unstable version or you choose a lower version of Imule. I chose the latter: to install an old version of Imule.
Read more »Why I'm Reinventing Disqus
"Why am I reinventing Disqus? That is the question I've been getting asked since I 'announced' on Identi.ca that I'd be replacing Disqus with a free (AGPL) comment system that I was to write." ... "Complete lack of Source Code: Currently, Disqus doesn't distribute their source code, and don't plan to do so in the future.
Read more »Redmine 1.0.0 released
Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database free software. The new release contains many bugfixes and new features. However it is still considered a release candidate (RC).
Read more »OCFS2: Unappreciated Linux File System
It's common knowledge that Linux has a fair number of file systems. Some of these are unappreciated and can be very useful outside their "comfort zone". OCFS2 is a clustered file system initially contributed by Oracle and can be a great back-end file system for general, shared storage needs.
Read more »[Tip] PostgreSQL Tip of the Day - mass modification of sequences
Someone posted a dilemma to the pgsql-sql list today that involved many if not all of his sequences getting out of sync with their respective "serial" columns. In other words, something like "SELECT max(id) FROM sometable" yields 42, but the sequence nextval for sometable.id is currently set to 36. This is obviously bad (for reasons left as an exercise for the reader).
Read more »GNU rush 1.7 released
"Hello, I am pleased to announce the release 1.7 of GNU Rush. GNU Rush is a restricted user shell, designed for sites providing limited remote access to their resources..."
Read more »Installing Maia Mailguard On Debian Lenny (Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix/MySQL)
This guide explains how to install Maia Mailguard, a spam and virus management system, on a Debian Lenny mailserver. Maia Mailguard is a web-based interface and management system based on the popular amavisd-new email scanner and SpamAssassin.
Read more »The Haskell 2010 report is done!
« The Haskell 2010 report was published in July 2010, and is the current definition of the Haskell language. It is freely available online, in the following formats: ...»
Read more »Ardour 2.8.11 is released
Ardour is a free software hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application,running on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and other OS. Ardour's intention is to provide digital audio workstation software suitable for professional use. It includes recording, mixing, editing and mastering capabilities.
Read more »Midnight Commander 4.7.3 released
GNU Midnight Commander is a free software visual file manager, licensed under GPL. It's a feature rich full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees, search for files and run commands in the subshell. Internal viewer and editor are included.
Read more »CSQL - Command Line SQL Interpreter
I decided to update this CSQL Interpreter Tutorial to make it clearer why it is a must-know tool for database administrators. Once a user has installed CUBRID database server on their machine, the first thing they need to do is to connect to the database server, and then create the necessary databases, table, and so forth.
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