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.

Better yet, as everybody's working on dynamic web pages today, our nice database server is very quick at estabilishing a connection. If you have already tried a CGI script connecting to Oracle, DB2 or some other powerhouse database you know how the connection time can slow down your web site.As with any modern tool, you can write C programs to get your data from, but it's easier to write a REXX script or a Java applet. It even comes ready with an easy to use web gateway. Add to this wide multi-platform coverage and we have a perfect match to our desires.On the downside, you won't get some nice features common in corporate workhorses like transaction commit and rollback, no locking (our database simply serializes all requests to avoid concurrency problems), no stored procedures, nested queries nor two-phase commit.Even with that limitations, our database is being successfully used by many web sites and corporations to build a broad range of systems. It's a tried-and-trusted solutions with broad third-party support.

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.

OpenMoko has announced an upgrade to its Linux-powered mobile phone and plans to present the device at CES. That’s a slap in the face for open source competitor Google Android, which is still in development.In its announcement, OpenMoko writes “. . . at CES we will formally preview GTA02 to the public. We are doing this at an invitation-only media event, and not the general show floor.”The GTA02 model was renamed FreeRunner and according to OpenMoko will be “previewed at CES and ship later this spring– first to developers and then to end users as software for the new hardware features becomes available.”OpenMoko may be looking to build a larger community of Linux software developers as it begins to to make its phone consumer-friendly.

GDM (o Gnome Display Manager) permette ad un utente di effettuare il login grafico attraverso un server X in un sistema UNIX tramite una piacevole interfaccia in cui inserire username, password ed eventualmente scegliere il window manager da avviare o scegliere di riavviare o arrestare il sistema. GDM viene distribuito solitamente fra i pacchetti di GNOME, uno dei Desktop Environment più famosi ed è facilmente configurabile tramite l'utility gdmsetup o manualmente modificando il file /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf (operazioni che richiedono i privilegi di root). Le sue principali alternative sono KDM, il Display Manager di KDE, e XDM, il Display Manager di default di X.

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.

Dump è una semplice ma anche potente utility per il backup in Linux. Dump esamina i file in un filesystem, e determina quali sono i componenti a rischio stratificando il backup dei files in base alla sua importanza, da cima in fondo. Consente il backup incrementale e può essere controllato attraverso PServer. Come tanti altri programmi per Linux è un progetto SourceForge.net Repository CVS.

Non potevano mancare i repositories medibuntu per la prossima versione di ubuntu 8.04Medibuntu (Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In Ubuntu) è un repository di pacchetti che non possono essere inclusi nella distribuzione Ubuntu per motivi legali. Per darvi un’ideadi cosa trovate dentro vi cito i w32codecs (i codec per win), Skype già impacchettato, oppure Google Earth.

FileBunker is a file backup application which uses one or more GMail accounts as its backup repository.Because each GMail account supplies 1000 megabytes of storage, it serves as an excellent facility for this purpose. Files are compressed and encrypted for security and efficiency, and can be restored on demand.