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16 December 2005

Linux Junior Home - Your community driven Linux site!

a place for our guests and members to learn about Linux, share their views and help each other. You'll be able to read up-to-date information about computers, software, hardware and the people behind it. This site is maintained solely by volunteers and no

How To Build a Minimal Linux System from Source Code

These are instructions for building a minimal linux system from source code. It used to be part of From PowerUp to Bash Prompt but I've separated it to keep both documents short and focussed. The system we build here is very minimal, and not ready for rea

From Power Up To Bash Prompt

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.

12 December 2005

OpenWrt Wiki Front Page

Linksys WRT54G/GS series of routers - device turned into a mini linux PC with OpenWrt acting as the distribution, all linux commands, a package management system for easily loading on extra software and features.

11 December 2005

Bangalore Linux Users' Group - blug.in

huge group of Linux users here - several thousand over the various mailing lists, and 60-100 attend every meeting. What else would you expect from a LUG in the IT Capital of India? ;-)

10 December 2005

09 December 2005

Tech Support and Business Questions? Ask Dave Taylor!

by 2 others
industry guru Dave Taylor answers questions about a wide variety of technical topics, including HTML, online advertising, Cascading Style Sheets, Web design, Unix, Linux, search engine optimization, Mac OS X, shell script programming and Windows. If you h

06 December 2005

Expanding Linux Partitions with LVM - FedoraNEWS.ORG

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 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.

Open Source Projects Index

Directory Of Open Source Projects - Firefox - Linux - +

05 December 2005

CheckInstall - Linux Utility

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.

03 December 2005

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 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.

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

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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