I’ve been using and blogging about FreeBSD for about five years now, and I have been dabbling in Linux even longer. My main server, which hosts about 5 web sites, currently runs FreeBSD 6 and I’m still very happy with it.

You are probably familiar with common keyboard sequences like Ctrl-C to end a program, but there are dozens of useful shortcuts you can use in BASH to edit the command line, move around your command history, and control jobs. I've collected 18 useful Ctrl and Meta (Option) sequences to make you more productive in BASH.

Screenlets are themed mini-applications programmed in Python. They are comparable to the widgets in OSX and Windows. This post will guide you through installing Screenlets and setting them up with Compiz Fusion to work similarly to widgets in Apple’s OSX.

"There has been some discussion about shipping it with Firefox 3, but I think that has been put behind in favor of an extension to Firefox so we can follow our own timeline. Luckily, FF3 has a new neat feature that allow you to pass the -app parameter to run a xul application. Nifty..."

Midnight Commander (mc for short) is the most popular console (command line) file manager. Its design was inspired by classic two-panel interface found in the famous Norton Commander, a DOS file manager. Midnight Commander is equipped in many functions.

"Freebase, a cutting-edge service that could turn out to be a milestone in semantic web technologies, is now in “public alpha”... [...] Freebase gatheres its data from open accessible data sources such as wikipedia and does an obviously highly sophisticated semantic analysis on it, which means this database/searchengine “knows” the data it handles..."

"Firefox 3 will be able to launch full blown XUL applications - running in their own separate processes and separate profiles. Up until now, XULRunner was the only way to deploy XUL-based applications..."