Linux

Abercrombie and Fitch is the most famous brand of New York, dealing with the casual wear of men and women ranging between the ages of 18 and 22. Abercrombie and Fitch stores have a record and hold the goodwill of distributing and dealing with some of the best materials in casual wear. The brand is acclaimed worldwide and is operating in more than 300 locations worldwide.

(read more about Abercrombie and Fitch...)

It has been quite some time since I introduced a tutorial on using LInux (UNIX) command line. The last one that I did on Tar.gz compression drew quite a substantial interest from readers. Hopefully, this will do so likewise.

This time, I will introduce using command line to Test all the files within the compressed file, using command line only. There are 2 significant uses: first, it consume lesser memory, and secondly, it is much efficient and quicker if you need to test multiple compressed files.

(read more to find out how to use Command Line to Test Compressed Files...)

Today, I am back to give you a quick tip on how to count the Total Number of Files in a Directory (as well as sub-directories underneath it).

(Learn how to do it in Linux, using Command Line...)

Starting with the release of the highly expected BTRFS filesystem, the new Tuz logo (see above) will be replacing the popular Tux Pengiun logo, that all of us have known about for years (see below).

The change is simply because Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, thinks that we should all contribute to Save The Tasmanian Devil.

"...There will be a number of driver updates and some m68k header updates (fixing headers_install after the merge of non-MMU/MMU) that end up being pretty noticeable in the diffs..."

said Linus Torvalds in the official release announcement of the BTRFS filesystem.

Just heard on of the saddest news in the new year of 2009. Thiemo Seufer, a dedicated and active member of the Debian Project community has died on December 26^th in a tragic car accident.

Thiemo was the main leading supporter of the Debian port to the MIPS architectures and was in a way involved in several Debian projects, including small projects. His work and dedication will not be forgotten.

To honour his contributions to Debian, the project decided to dedicate the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" to Thiemo.

In just a few more weeks to go, Ubuntu 8.10, nicknamed Ubuntu Intrepid, will officially be released. Meanwhile, Ubuntu developers has revealed the progress of alpha stage into beta stage, with Ubuntu 8.10 Beta now made available online for testers to download.

As advised by the Ubuntu developer team, this is still a beta release and it is strongly advised that it should not be installed on production machines. Just wait for three more weeks as the final (official) stable version will be released on October 30^th, 2008.

New users can download the ISO files from the local sites or mirror sites, via the link here. To upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04, you can do the following:

1. Press Alt+F2.
2. Type in "update-manager -d" into the command box.
3. Update Manager will inform you that a new distribution is available, i.e. "New distribution '8.10' is available".
4. Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.

This will automatically upgrade the distribution from your current version to this beta version (which is a good thing about Ubuntu). Enjoy!

Other related link
About Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope

Ubuntu 9.04 is nicknamed "Jaunty Jackalope". This is the next Ubuntu project outlined for April next year, as part of its regular Linux distribution release. As usual, the developers continued to name its software release after animals. The decision was already made even before Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex - is released, which is scheduled some time in late October. According to Mark Shuttleworth, project's founder,

"...As we approach the launch of Ubuntu 8.10, it's time to create space for future plans... (Jaunty) will be the focus of our efforts from November through to April next year..."

The main focus of this release will be on boot time improvement and integration of desktop and web-based applications.

Furthermore, the project founder mentioned that more details will be released at the Ubuntu Developer Summit, held in Google's Mountain View campus from December 8^th to 12^th, 2008. Next year will see Ubuntu compete fiercely with its commercial rivals, such as Microsoft and Apple.

Still running on the ancient, but stable version of Drupal 4.7.x, NeoHide's CMS engine has upgraded to the last release of 4.7.x branch to Drupal 4.7.11.

The upgrade is pretty smooth, particularly with the excellent compatibility across all the modules and themes used within the site. The next major project for our site is to upgrade the CMS engine to Drupal version 5.x branch before further upgrading to version 6.x release.

This is to be done with careful investigation so that the database system, themes and the modules do not break upon a major version upgrade. The migration process should take place within the next couple of months, before the end of this year.