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more »Newsbeuter 1.0: RSS Feed Reader for Text Terminals and Podcasts
Aug 21, 2008On August 20, developer Andreas Krennmair announced the official release of Newsbeuter, the “mutt of RSS feed readers.”
more »Command Line: Process Control Process and job control
Jul 31, 2008What is happening on your Linux machine? Various shell commands give you details about system processes and help you control them.
more »Lynis Shell Skript Checks Unix Security
Jul 16, 2008The first step towards improving a system's security, is discovering the status quo. Lynis, a small command line program helps users do so.
more »ntfsprogs Exploring the ntfsprogs toolset
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more »Command Line: Diffutils The Diffutils tool collection
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more »Command Line: make Handling of complex tasks with make
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more »Command Line: FTP and NcFTP FTP and NcFTP
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