BlogFS

BlogFS is a FUSE filesystem allowing you to mount your WordPress blog on your local filesystem. It uses XML-RPC and the MetaWeblog API to communicate with WordPress. It might work on other MetaWeblog compatible weblogs, but it has only been tested with the single user edition of WordPress 1.5.

December 23, 2005 Â· 1 min Â· 49 words

Fish: a new Unix Shell

fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux. Bash is a standard (de facto), as every *nix user now but… this is the beauty of the OpenSource: any other programmer can think “hey, I want to remake this in another way!” and, than, do! Fish is a beautiful example. For screenshots-addicted users (like me ;)), go here. -EDIT- Thanks to Nemo for “errata-corrige”.

December 20, 2005 Â· 1 min Â· 70 words

New pages on www.detronizator.org

Hi. Finally, I take a lot of time to make my personal pages. I insert the “right things” in the pages WORKS (my occupations, my works and my experiences), and OUTPUTS (my universitary and personal projects).

December 18, 2005 Â· 1 min Â· 36 words

Gentoo Linux - Visual Installer Project

It’s, IMHO, the project that can give to Gentoo the right “power” and “motivation” to become the BEST source-based distribution in the world (is it not already? ;)). The installer looks really coerent with the “manual-old-style” Gentoo Installation and offers an on-line help to guide the user through the (beautiful) installation process. There is a graphical partitioning tool and … some other interesting features. Good luck Gentoo. Link. -EDIT- Thanks to KillinMilk for the “errata-corrige”.

December 16, 2005 Â· 1 min Â· 75 words

L'universitĂ  non sceglie Linux

Interessante digressione di OSBlog su un problema PESANTEMENTE SENTITO da me (come altri miei colleghi) dell’uso SBAGLIATO, INDISCRIMINATO E SENZA MOTIVO di software a pagamento nei centri di ricerca e nelle università (soprattutto dove si potrebbe evitare, anche e soprattutto per motivi didattici). Dal mio punto di vista, sono diversi anni che suggerisco (ormai sempre con meno vigore… gli ignoranti restino ignoranti) nel mio ambiente universitario l’uso di software opensource lì dove se ne trarrebbe SOLO vantaggio. Leggasi vantaggi economici, vantaggi didattici (usare un sistema unix accresce e di molto le proprie conoscenze informatiche), vantaggi “amministrativi” (l’Università, la mia facoltà potrebbe tranquillamente scegliere 3/4 ragazzi in gamba per gestirsi sito web e tanti servizi ad esso correlati… invece si affida ad aziende che si fanno pagare contratti milionari per fare cose che dei bravi studenti (magari sotto la guida di un buon docente) potrebbero TRANQUILLAMENTE fare da soli). ...

December 16, 2005 Â· 1 min Â· 152 words

A certifiable path to Linux Jobs

You don’t have to have a Linux certification to get a job working with Linux, but it can’t hurt. Simply working on Linux is easy. Join a Linux community like The Debian Project, Red Hat’s Fedora, Novell’s OpenSUSE, or half-a-hundred projects and go for it. Of course, you won’t get paid, and 95 percent of the work on Linux projects is programming. So, if you want a salary, and your skills lie in system administration or network management, it behooves you to look into Linux certifications. … ...

December 13, 2005 Â· 1 min Â· 116 words