SUSE Linux Enterprise in the Americas

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Scripting the Vim editor, Part 3: Built-in lists

IBM Developerworks: “Vimscript provides excellent support for operating on collections of data, a cornerstone of programming. In this third article in the series, learn how to use Vimscript’s built-in lists to ease everyday operations such as reformatting lists, filtering sequences of filenames, and sorting sets of line numbers.”

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Introducing TermBuilder – a Linux command line generator

TuxRadar: “This is TermBuilder, an easy-to-use script that helps newbies form Linux terminal commands by selecting from options in their web browser. To get started, all you have to do is select one of the command options from the selection box below, and click Add.”

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Disk-O-Tech: Linux Disk Management

Linux Magazine: “Are you bewildered by disk management in Linux? Don’t be. Here are the nuts and bolts of adding a new disk to your system.”

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Google’s Chrome OS: Tomorrow’s Desktop Today?

IT World: “Sometime in 2010, Google will release Chrome OS, its take on a netbook operating system. It will be far more than just that though. It’s an entirely new take on the desktop operating system.”

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Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Explained

Linux User and Developer: “ICMP is one of the core protocols of the IP suite. It a network-layer protocol that is primarily concerned with routing issues.

With the help of this protocol, routers are able to send error or control information to their hosts.”

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Monitoring Disk Usage With Iotop

Tip of the Trade: “If you want to keep an eye on the CPU usage of your processes, you can use top. For disk I/O, the Python program iotop does the same thing…”

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Monitoring User Activity with psacct or acct

Begin Linux: “An excellent program for monitoring users and applications is psacct. This program will work in the background of your system recording what all users are doing on your system as well as the resources that are being consumed.”

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Novell lose Open Source CTSO as Nat Friedman leaves

The H Open: “Nat Friedman, co-founder of Ximian and Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Open Source at Novell has announced in a blog posting that he has quit. ”

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Diskless NAS shares USB storage via WiFi

LinuxDevices: “EMC subsidiary Iomega is readying a WiFi-enabled, Linux-based network-attached storage (NAS) device that costs $100. The Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station has no storage of its own, but acts as a wireless hub that shares data stored on devices hooked up to its four USB 2.0 ports.”

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