Category: OS

CVS is a very powerful tool to manage a set of files handled by lot of people in the same time (ex: a worldwide team of developers working on an open source project). Anyway, you can store what you want in a CVS repository! A crazy guy backups for 2

A new linux distribution on a USB dongle called Flonix. A “must have” when you travel or when you go visit your parents on rainy Sundays 🙂 http://flonix.tuxfamily.org/

Amiga computers were (and are still) the most exiting machines I ever owned… I found the following page which presents an history of the Workbench/Kickstart releases: http://www.gregdonner.org/workbench/index.html

One more time, a new worm called ‘Swen/Gibe.F’ strarted his job on the Net yesterday… As usual, it spread itself via mail,lan,kazaa… More funy, the worm increments a web counter once installed 🙂 http://ww2.fce.vutbr.cz/bin/counter.gif/link=bacillus&width=6&set=cnt006

I’ve a APC Remote Power Switch @ home. Very usefull toy to control up to eight devices remotely via telnet or HTTP. Anyway, I was looking for a way to automate some actions (ex: power on my backup server during the night, perform backups and power off) via crontabs but

Open your favourite telnet client and connect to kevin-on-demand.takedown:4010. Take a coke and watch 😉 More info here: http://kevin-on-demand.takedown.com./

Seen on Netcraft, strange signature reported by the Microsoft website 🙂 The site www.microsoft.com is running Microsoft-IIS/6.0 on Linux. See http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.microsoft.com

Do you see Linux only as a desktop/server operating system? Your vision will change after a visit to www.linuxdevices.com. This portal is dedicated to embedded Linux solutions. Of course, there are lof ot PDA which can run Linux but also more “funny” devices such IP-phones, audio/video entertainment devices, … See

HP put online a complete testdrive platform based on all current CPU/OS from Alpha to RISC and from Linux (all distrib) to HP-UX or VMS! Even an Linux iPAQ is available! This is a really great idea! See: Hewlett-Packard/Compaq Test Servers

RedHat announced a new beta version of their Linux distribution called ‘Severn’… <quote> Among other things, SEVERN has: – a new graphical boot – GCC 3.3 – an updated 2.4.21 kernel – updated Evolution and Mozilla – and more! </quote>