"Coreutils version 6.9.90 has been released. This is a feature release, but it includes a surprising number of fixes for very old bugs. If you haven't heard about the GNU coreutils, the FAQ is a good place to start..."
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
Read more »"For those who haven't seen this news: Last night we added OpenID as an additional way to sign comments in Blogger..."
Read more »"...Git is not part of GNU Emacs but resides in the emacs contrib’s section of the Git distribution in contrib/emacs ..."
Read more »"Well, after a painfully bureaucratic process, Boston University Free Culture is officially formed and now has a spiffy new blog and wiki, provided most generously by Asheesh Laroia from the FreeCulture.org mothership. Our first meeting will be..."
Read more »You can use find command or recursdir command to recurse through local or remote directories to command/find files or create tar files.
Read more »2007. What a year. Ubuntu cranked out two more solid releases, sub-$500 laptops flooded the market and undermined Microsoft's influence, and 3D desktop effects continued to improve. The DistroWatch charts were invaded by Texans, and several new distros appeared on the scene, while existing ones (Mint, Sabayon) joined the ranks of the Top 10. And what a Top 10 it is...
Read more »For companies who inspire them, user cults are nice because they motivate customers to overlook strategic blunders, exaggerate product successes and -- most importantly -- walk the earth “virally” marketing products without pay.
Read more »I thought you might like to see the Lagos Analysis Corp.'s keyboard "patent" allegedly infringed by OLPC. It turns out it's not a patent in the usual sense. It's a design registration. Why does that matter? Because what is registered is the way it *looks*, not the way it *works*.
Read more »Add some secret ninja power to your Ubuntu system today with Easy Crypt. With only a right click you can open or close a ‘top secret’ file, protected by military grade encryption (AES 512-bit Whirlpool). Easy Crypt is a cute little menu which brings the power of TrueCrypt to your system tray. No terminal commands necessary.
Read more »"...Starting immediately, you can pick up your own copy of the MySQL 5.1 Cluster DBA Certification Study Guide and get started polishing your skills for the Cluster DBA certification exam..."
Read more »"...For applications that run internally we use Ruby on Rails. Because we enjoy using it, it's fast to develop with, straight forward to use and because we use it (i.e. to reduce knowledge transfer and training requirements) we decided to follow the same design patterns and coding conventions used in Rails when we built our MVC framework. Yes that's right we've built Perl on Rails..."
Read more »"Hey everybody. Now that Miro has reached the big 1.0, we need to make the documentation better for our users. That’s why I’m asking everybody to please, take a look at the documentation at http://getmiro.com/documentation and lend us a hand..."
Read more »23meg is an Ubuntu member and Forum Ambassador with a direct hand in bug triaging, idea collection, documentation and even moderating. An artist and a computer enthusiast with a history that dates back to 8-bit machines, 23meg is a perfect example of how someone can be involved in many different parts of the entire Ubuntu whole — and all at the same time.
Read more »Officials at Mozilla said they have released an update to fix a flaw in the recently released 2.0.0.10 version of their Firefox browser.
Read more »I am increasingly convinced all of the arguments between Linux distributions are going to become moot very soon. If they aren't there already...I think the distributions are becoming so similar in their construction, and the differences between them so subtle, the whole notion of distribution superiority is completely moot.
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