Checkinstall, install from the source in the best way

Recently I’ve discovered this great program that helps a lot to avoid one of my worst nightmare, to have a lot of packages installed from the sources, and lose track of them in my system, how ? CheckInstall keeps track of all files installed by a “make install” or equivalent, creates a Slackware, RPM, or […]

A galaxy of Linux Distros

by Frank Harris-Smith The Internet is a great place to scratch the itch of curiosity. I’d heard some interesting things about Arch Linux so I Googled it. I wanted to know what the Distro was all about and a bit of it’s history. I accidentally discovered The GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline which informed me where Arch […]

Linux Games: Dungeons of Dredmor

Thanks to the Humble Bundle i’ve discovered also this nice game: Dungeons of Dredmor. It’s a classic Rogue-like game, you have to move your hero in 10 level of dungeons where you’ll fight against terrible monsters, to get new equipment, skills and fight the big bad Evil guy, from the official site: Long ago, the Dark […]

opensource Asset Management software : Fusion Inventory

This is my second article on this topic, Asset management with opensource tools. In the first article i’ve published information about OcsInventory NG, a mature French project that recently has released his 2.0 release. Today we’ll take a look at Fusion Inventory, another French project that has exactly the same goals, but that’s much more […]

Upstart from the SysAdvent site

We are in December and for this month i suggest to keep an eye on the site: http://sysadvent.blogspot.com This site it’s a sysadmin relative of the Perl Advent Calendar: One article for each day of December, ending on the 25th article. With the goals of of sharing, openness, and mentoring, the authors aim to provide great articles […]