CDBackup, utility designed to work with any backup and restore for Linux CDBackup is a utility designed to make backups to CD- R(W) media easier. It is designed to work with any backup and restore software that can read from stdin,write to stdout, and can handle linear devices such as tape drives. Dump/restore, cpio, afio, and tar should all work fine.

The completely new theme for Ubuntu 8.04 has been deferred to the following release. The original plan was to have a fresh theme for every long-term-support release, starting with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.Now it has been decided to put off the redesign until Ubuntu 8.10. Many theme concepts can be found in the Ubuntu Artwork wiki.The completely new theme for Ubuntu 8.04 has been deferred to the following release. The original plan was to have a fresh theme for every long-term-support release, starting with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Now it has been decided to put off the redesign until Ubuntu 8.10. Many theme concepts can be found in the Ubuntu Artwork wiki.

Questa è semplicemente una raccolta di "Cose da fare" e impastata assieme per rendere il nostro CentOSun bel desktop. Quindi, niente di nuovo sotto il sole :-)Ecco quello che andremo a fare.Installiamo i repoistories rpmforge e quindi da terminale digitiamo:rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txtrpm -ivh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpmAttenzione 1): io parto dal presupposto di un CentOS a 32 bit.Attenzione 2): per comodità mia per le installazioni scriverò in questa guida "yum install"In certi casi ciò non funzionerà; basterà allora digitare la frase in questo modo:yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install [Nome_Pacchetto]Cominciamo.

GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe.GNU cpio supports the following archive formats: binary, old ASCII, new ASCII, crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old tar, and POSIX.1 tar. The tar format is provided for compatability with the tar program.A cpio archive is a stream of files and directories in a single archive, and often ends with a .cpio file extension. The archive has header information that allows for an application such as the GNU cpio tool to extract the files and directories into a file system. The header of a cpio archive also contains information such as the file name, time stamp, owner and permissions

This article describes a simple backup method that I use every day to backup my home Linux systems.It's an easy method that non-technical Linux users can use to backup their important data. We'll discuss the decisions you have to make in order to do a thorough backup.You hear it all the time from writers and your geek friends: "You should backup your computers." Well, here's one more geek to bug you about it again, but also to give some help.

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Kubuntu 8.04 is derived from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and uses the KDE desktop instead of the GNOME desktop.

Oggi ho conosciuto questa simpaticona e strepitosa signora. Tranquilli non mi sono fatto una cannone o roba simile, in realtà spulciando con apt-search tra i pacchetti di debian mi sono fermato di fronte a questa stupenda signora . Il suo nome è swisswatch.

This document describes step by step how to set up a Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) desktop. The result is a fast, secure and extendable system that provides all you need for daily work and entertainment.

Ieri è stata rilasciata Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, la nuova versione della popolare distro di casa Canonical. La sigla LTS, sta ad indicare che questa nuova edizione, a differenza delle due precedenti, gode di un supporto a lungo termine (fino al 2011). Questa caratteristica renderà Hardy Heron maggiormente interessante alle aziende, le quali tendono a preferire lunghi cicli di upgrade per i propri sistemi operativi. Questo rilascio sarà come al solito la base delle nuove versioni di Kubuntu, Xubuntu ed Edubuntu. Kubuntu 8.04 non è però un rilascio LTS e sarà supportato per soli diciotto mesi. Le novità di Ubuntu sono tante: dalle ultime versioni di: Gnome, Firefox ed OpenOffice, all’introduzione di nuovi software come: Vinagre per la gestione di desktop remoti, Pulse audio come server audio, KVM per la virtualizzazione e Trasmission come BitTorret client, e tanto altro.

This tutorial shows how you can set up a gOS Rocket G 2.0 (GNOME) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. gOS is a lightweight Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu 7.10, that comes with Google Apps and some other Web 2.0 applications; gOS Rocket G 2.0 uses the GNOME desktop.