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16 December 2005

From Power Up To Bash Prompt

by macroron
a brief description of what happens in a Linux system, from the time that you turn on the power, to the time that you log in and get a bash prompt. Understanding this will be helpful when you need to solve problems or configure your system.

10 December 2005

06 December 2005

Expanding Linux Partitions with LVM - FedoraNEWS.ORG

by macroron
We're going to backup our home folder with tar, since we want the permissions to be kept as they are. BACK UP TO CD

Simple Backup Solution Home - a simple backup solution intended for desktop use.

by macroron & 1 other
a light weight application which makes scheduled backups and also handles partial/full recoveries when they are needed. The tool is a Python script which, despite its small size, has a graphical interface.

05 December 2005

CheckInstall - Linux Utility

by macroron
utility to automatically build RPM/Debian or Slackware packages from tar.gz source pages. This makes it possible to do a "clean" installation and de-installation of almost any source code tar.gz package.

02 December 2005

Klik Wiki - install software, as non-root user or from a Live-CD. because one software package is one compressed cmg file.

by macroron & 1 other
an easy way to install software, even while running as non-root user or from a Live-CD. Because one software package is always exactly just one compressed cmg file, you can always delete software packages without any problems for other software. Because y

29 November 2005

The Fedora Legacy Project - a community-supported open source project.

by macroron
to work with the Linux community to provide security and critical bug fix errata packages for select End of Life Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core distributions. This will allow for a longer effective life for those releases.

25 November 2005

23 November 2005

Boutell.Com, Inc: Linux Software Map

by macroron & 2 others
a database of many of the packages that have been written for, ported to, or, these days, simply compiled for linux and made available. The software map is maintained by Aaron Schrab, and his web page explains the correct way to submit new entries. this h

22 November 2005

21 November 2005

Plan 9 from User Space - download my-install-notes +

by macroron
a port of many Plan 9 programs from their native Plan 9 environment to Unix-like operating systems.

Jesse's Bookmarklets Site: Web Development Bookmarklets

by macroron & 21 others
These bookmarklets let you see how a web page is coded without digging through the source, debug problems in web pages quickly, and experiment with CSS or JS without editing the actual page.

20 November 2005

17 November 2005

16 November 2005

Megashares - remote backup - upload whatever you like without a required registration

by waddaman & 3 others (via)
single session upload limit is 1.5GB (1,500 Megabytes!). This can be a single file up to 1.5GB, multiple files or a folder using our browser based custom uploader.