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Happy Birthday, Tux

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Mit dieser Meldung fing alles an.
Meine erste Erfahrung mit Linux machte ich im Oktober 1994, damals mit SuSE aktuell, basierend auf Kernel 1.1.12, die Modelines für die Konfiguration des X Server mussten noch von Hand berechnet werden, fvwm als Window Manager, von KDE oder GNOME weit und breit keine Spur… das waren noch Zeiten
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Recently I needed to do some distance education; one of my coworkers wanted me to show him how to do software builds on Linux. The only problem was that I’m on the East Coast and he is on the West. How could I show him the build and install process? After considering some alternatives, we [...]

DesktopLinux.com has launched its 2006 Desktop Linux survey, asking users of Linux desktops to identify what distributions they use, as well as their choice of windowing environment (KDE, GNOME, etc.), web browsers, email clients, and Windows-on-Linux solutions.
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Installed nagios

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I installed nagios on my server system to monitor the availability of several services and to monitor available disk space on some partitions where the Linux distributions are getting downloaded.

Installed dirvish

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Today I installed and configured dirvish. It’s a disk based, rotating network backup system that excellent fulfills my needs. It’s features are:

uses rsync just to copy what has chaned since last backup
stores the backup in a filesystem
saves space in the backup directories by using hard links for files that haven’t changed.
expires files by deleting just [...]