I just stumbled upon this news on Distrowatch, seems the Linux Mint fellows have a new project: Linux Mint Debian! Instead of using the stable release of Debian they are using the testing branch (Squeeze) and it will be a rolling release like Sidux. Now, I was not too fond of Sidux because it had [...]

It took me a while to find the right command for this so I decided to add it to the blog to save it for a later date echo -n ‘the_password’ | md5sum – Very simple yet does exactly what I want. I’m still surprised this isn’t a standard function in Linux since md5sum exists [...]

A few years back I started messing around with another OS than Windows. I looked for one with lots of documentation and a strong passion for open-source software. After having looked at many Linux distro’s I actually decided on using FreeBSD 4. Their handbook was by far the easiest method of finding good documentation about [...]