Sun Microsystems is contributing Project Looking Glass, based on Java™ technology, to the open source community. Project Looking Glass is an exploratory project to bring innovative 3D features to the desktop environment. The desktop interface will offer an intuitive, new 3D environment to interact with desktop applications featuring window transparency, rotation, zoom, multiple desktop workspaces, […]
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Backup and Restore Linux Partitions Using Partimage
Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions in many formats (see below) to an image file. The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple files to be copied on removable floppies (ZIP for example), … Partitions can be saved across the network since […]
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Shows source-package information apt-show-source
This program parses the APT lists for source packages and the dpkg status file and then lists every package with a higher version number than the one installed.
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