Today I finally upgraded my main system to the latest Fedora release, Fedora Core 5, probably the best distribution on the planet at the time of writing. Actually, until now, I was using the development version of FC5 (aka Rawhide), last updated on the 25th of February, so the new features and improvements were well known to me, but the final stable release adds a boost in performance and GUI rersponsiveness, which are considered only as dreams for the Rawhide version.

This is one of the best HOWTOs around about authoring DVDs with menus by using only Linux native software. Shiznix writes in his article: This howto is written in the attempt to help those reading to: Accomplish transferring a video media file (.avi, .mpg, .wmv, .mov, etc.) to DVD media in a format that will [...]

It’s been almost two days since Fedora Core 5 Test 2 was released and madpenguin.org has come up with a very interesting review. Adam Doxtater writes in his article: So, what do we have to look forward to in Fedora Core 5? Well, I will say this right up front: what I’ve seen so far [...]

I am proud to announce that this web site is based on the latest stable version of WordPress. Go grab it from the official download page, while it’s still hot! The administration panel has been revised and, as the developers say, it contains many modifications in the code structure so that plugin writers or code [...]

This post is a bit delayed, but I was away from town. I just love the fact that I had plenty of free time to spend with good old friends and family. I wish Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year with peace to all people worldwide. Now that I am back and since [...]

I had made a post in the past about an awesome sed tutorial by Bruce Barnett. This is not his only tutorial though. His web site contains high quality information about awk, bash, regex, csh etc. I highly recommend it.

The Red Hat RPM Guide is available under the Open Publication Licence (OPL) at: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ This is an excellent document that covers all aspects of the Red Hat Package Management system, not only providing general RPM usage information, but also includes in depth reference to RPM package creation and other advanced topics. You should definitely [...]

It is sometimes needed that you monitor the progress of data through a pipe. After searching around the net, I finally discovered a little terminal-based utility that does exactly that! It’s called Pipe Viewer or just PV. Here is some quick info on how to use this tool.

Meld is a visual diff tool. I’d say it’s one of the most useful applications I have ever used. You can compare two or three text files or directories at the same time or work with CVS and SVN directories and files. It displays the differences in a very handy and visually attractive way. Supports [...]

SED is powerful. It can, besides many other things, substitute, append, remove characters or groups of characters or whole lines in a text file or the console output. You may find it difficult to use, but here is an excellent web page that will help you get going: