This is part 4 of a multi-part article. Part 1 discusses the importance of complex passwords and also discusses some ways to create them in Linux. Part 2 covers the KeepassX, a program with a very nice graphical user interface. In part 3, takes a look at the gpass program which is a nice graphical user interface for the gnome desktop (will work on others too), part 4 takes a look at the command line pwsafe. pwsafe is a unix commandline program that manages encrypted password databases.

fuseiso is a FUSE module to mount ISO filesystem images (.iso files, .bin files, .nrg files..). It is also used by some other programs too such as acetoneiso2 (additional article same web site). It requires you to have fuse support in your running kernel. FUSE is fully functional file systems in a user space program.

A contest will soon go underway to see which operating system is more secure: Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X. It should be a fun contest that isn't taken too seriously.

I've been wanting to confirm a theory that I've held for a while now, that the Linux operating system has progressed enough to be usable by "regular" computer users.

Ubuntu and Red Hat are the most used Linux distributions among the 35,000 members of content-management vendor Alfresco's community, the company found in its second survey of trends in enterprise open-source software usage.

Linux is known for letting users configure settings to customize nearly every aspect of their desktops. In the past, this has largely been relegated to the more advanced crowd, since it often required editing text-based configuration files; but as Linux becomes more mature, many GUI programs are being written to allow easy customization of the user interface. The Nautilus Actions Configuration utility is one such program that lets you add custom commands to the right-click menu in Nautilus, the default file manager in Gnome.

Many image editing programs have a library or "scrapbook" where you can store images for future use. You can then open this scrapbook (within the image editing app) and drag and drop the image into the image you're working on(usually as a new layer). You can easily create a scrapbook for Gimp and store images for future use to edit and incorporate in all your photo projects.

There has been a lot of debate recently over whether or not it's a good idea to run an anti-virus program if you're using Linux. I hope to clear up a common misunderstanding: An anti-virus program running on Linux is designed to detect Windows viruses, so that they aren't spread, unknowingly, by the Linux user. This article explains when you should run a Linux anti-virus, and what exactly they do.