Jeff Mahoney has released an early version of ReiserFS ported to Big Endian/PowerPC machines. It is exteremly unstable, and writing does not work. You can check it out .

Thanks to Thomas Graichen you can download patches for Linux 2.4 for . XFS is an enhanced file system from . You can find the patches .

In Linux, the command-line terminal offers a wealth of very powerful tools, and is not all that difficult to use. This explains to ordinary, non-technical users, some of the basics of how to use the shell.

If you want to log from one linux box into another, the safest way to use is of course ssh. However, if you have to login often, and if you want to move files from one box to the other using scp (ssh copy tool), entering the password each time can be pretty annoying.

Fortunately, ssh supports RSA based authentication, which allows to login without giving a password. (While still authenticating)

Read on for detailed info...

is the name of over a . Mutt is a powerful console based mail client, and Nicholas Petreley discusses why Mutt is a strong competitor to those GUI based mail clients.

We have put together a guide to Open Firmware. Open Firmware is the "bios" on new world Apple systems (iMac, iBook, G4, some G3 PowerMacs and PowerBooks etc). You can find the guide here.

LinuxFocus.org has a on simple shell programming. It's mainly aimed at people new to shell scripts, so I think it's a good start for them.

The GNU text utilities package is a flexible and powerful set of tools for automated text processing under Linux and all other UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems, including Mac OS X. This of tips for Linux users offers an easy introduction to the GNU text processing tools -- how to use them, how to avoid pitfalls, and how to combine them to create powerful custom tools.