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PUBLIC MARKS from macroron with tags my-install-notes & scripts

January 2006

GNOME: The Free Software Desktop Project

desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for end-users, users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop.

December 2005

Backup Manager - an easy to use backup tool

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a command line backup tool for GNU/Linux, designed to help you make daily archives of your file system. Written in bash and perl, it can make tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, and zip archives and can be run in a parallel mode with different configuration files

BashBurn - a bash script designed to make CD burning at the console easier. It supports burning normal data CDs, audio CDs, blanking CD-RWs, multisession, and more.

BashBurn is the new name for the cd burning shell script Magma. It's not the best looking CD-burning application out there, but it does what you want it to do. (And if not then probably didn't want to do it anyway)

Chickenfoot Script Repository

a repository of scripts for the Chickenfoot (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/) extension for Firefox.

Chickenfoot Home - Firefox Extention

a tool that puts a programming environment in Firefox so you can write scripts to manipulate web pages and automate web browsing. In Chickenfoot, scripts are written in a superset of Javascript that includes special functions specific to web tasks.

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.

November 2005

October 2005

PyRPM - experimental project-rpm package management-python module-

collection of scripts-similar functionality as rpm, yum and co.-written from ground up-implemented in python.-rpm packages-yum repositories-repo data.

September 2005