prepend to a file with sponge from moreutils

2010-03-16 1 min read Linux

<a href="http://bashcurescancer.com/prepend-to-a-file-with-sponge-from-moreutils.html">A few weeks I wrote about a tool, which helps you easily prepend to a file. I submitted prepend to moreutils and Joey was kind enough to point out this could be done with `sponge’.? sponge reads standard input and when done, writes it to a file:
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KDE For Windows – An Overview

2010-03-13 0 min read Linux

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<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/kde" title="KDE" rel="homepage" href="http://www.kde.org/">KDE is turning out to be a fabulous Desktop. The latest version – KDE 4.4.0 aka Caikaku is choke full of features which gives the term ”Desktop <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/usability" title="Usability" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability">usability” a new meaning all together. What makes KDE all the more appealing is the plethora of well designed <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/application_software" title="Application software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_software">applications that come bundled with it.

How to Install KDE in Windows]

2010-03-12 0 min read Linux

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For over a decade, <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000021de6" title="KDE" rel="homepage" href="http://www.kde.org/">KDE has supplied Linux and <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000003e17c" title="Unix" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix">Unix users with a graphical <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000007eda2" title="Desktop environment" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment">desktop environment and a suite of useful <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000254091" title="Application software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_software">applications. It has become one of the most popular desktop environments and is the default on many <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000024e02" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux distributions. With the coming of KDE 4, developers promised native KDE applications running on <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000025fe8" title="Windows" rel="homepage" href="http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS">Windows. While the current release is still not ready for production, as of KDE 4.3.3, it is coming closer and worth trying. What follows is a brief guide to getting KDE running on Windows.

Fedora 12 Released

2010-03-12 0 min read Fedora

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Fedora 12, the latest version of the popular open-source operating systems for desktops and servers, has been released: ”The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 12, the latest version of its free, open-source operating system distribution…..

Build custom KDE ditro online in minutes with your selection of packages

2010-03-10 1 min read Linux

There’s a new guy in the block and its called NimbleX. From various sources, I have found that this is quite fast. I am downloading this currently. The main advantage is that the distro is of just 200MB with most of the day to day utilities available in the distro by default.

And if you think that this is just not for you as you like some package and its missing from NimbleX, no problem. Just go <a href="http://custom.nimblex.net/ " target="_blank">here, and create your own live distro withing minutes with custom package’s that can be used as Live CD or can be installed on the HDD/USB. Now that’s generations ahead of Windows or any other OS. What do you say?

101 Linux hacks – free Linux Ebook

2010-03-09 1 min read Linux

Go and grab your copy of the free <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGeekStuff/~3/KNUpyY4YE9c/" target="_blank">ebook.

Quite nice book with small little hacks but sometimes the details are too much, specially the one on the cd command. I think there was no need for 3-4 examples of the same thing, but then nice collection and nice ebook.

Bash histoy – common history in different terminals

2010-03-04 1 min read Bash Linux

I have been looking to do this for sometime. The bash history is per
session basis and the last session to quit overwrites the bash_history
file and thus all other terminals started between the time last terminal
lasted does not get to write the commands in the history file. Secondly
the history gets cluttered with lot of duplicate entries and entries
with ls and cd commands. So finally I added these to the bashrc file: