Category Archives: Linux

A Look at HTML Tidy

One thing I love about the UNIX philosophy is the idea that each program should do one job and do it really well. There are zillions of small tools for UNIX-type OSes that make life much easier and are hugely useful, but they don't necessarily get written about. They certainly don't receive the same kind [...]
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Making Thunderbird Financially Sustainable: How it Could Work

Mozilla Messaging is looking forward to a big year in 2010 including Thunderbird 3.1 and figuring out how to make the project financially sustainable. Making Thunderbird better is the easier part. Figuring out how to make money as a project is another story entirely. No doubt the next release of Thunderbird, currently code-named Lanikai, will do [...]
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Taking Command of the Terminal with GNU Screen

GNU Screen is one of the most useful utilities you can have at your disposal if you spend any time at all working at the command line. Screen allows you to manage multiple shell sessions from one terminal window or console, view multiple shell sessions at the same time, and even log into the same [...]
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Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work

Sun used to boast that it was one of the largest contributors to open source. That's being demonstrated now that Oracle has acquired the company. Oracle's acquisition of Sun, and subsequent layoffs, are having ripple effects on the open source community. The cuts are also hitting the GNOME accessibility (a11y) team and leading the project [...]
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Writing a Simple Bash Script

The first step is often the hardest, but don't let that stop you. If you've ever wanted to learn how to write a shell script but didn't know where to start, this is your lucky day. If this is your first time writing a script, don't worry — shell scripting is not that complicated. That [...]
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Beautiful projects deserve beautiful sites

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. The old cliche is true, and it applies to the Web sites of FLOSS projects as surely as it does a first date or a job interview. Unfortunately, all too many FLOSS Web sites make a very, very poor first impression. Not surprising, since [...]
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Today is Clean Out Your Computer Day: Use Linux...

According to WebWorkerDaily, today is "Clean Out Your Computer Day," which means anything from scanning your system for viruses or getting the rat's nest of files under control on your desktop. Of course, if you want to go squeaky clean, think about putting Linux on your computer or help someone else with their spring clean [...]
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