Gil's LotD

http://lwn.net/Articles/528935/ Al Viro on how signals are handled during syscalls in Linux.

http://static.debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/ The Debian Administrator's Handbook is an ebook now available for free on the web.

Yesterday's Gil's LotD was caught by Google's spam filter. If you didn't get an email you can always read it on the website.

http://www.ibiblio.org/oswg/oswg-nightly/oswg/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/alan-cox/mac/mac.html Alan Cox on porting Linux to 68k Macintoshes.

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/136274.html A rant on the desire to create "lightweight" open source software replacements. I'm linking this in particular because "To a first approximation, when someone says "Lightweight" what they mean is 'I don't understand the problems that the alternative solves'." is an excellent quote and summary of the issue.

http://devstructure.com/ Blueprint figures out your server's configuration so you can reproduce it later.

http://codemonkey.org.uk/2011/06/01/red-star-kernel/ North Korea has released its own Linux distribution. I'd love to see the source.

http://checkinstall.izto.org/ CheckInstall wraps up standard GNU makefiles and creates packages for various package managers.

http://www.mnxsolutions.com/security/two-factor-ssh-with-google-authenticator.html Google's new two-factor authentication can be hooked into PAM.

https://10.cloud.ubuntu.com/ Try out the server version of Ubuntu Linux for free on a VPS.

http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Recovering_deleted_images_from_flash_cards Photorec can help you recover deleted or damaged photos off a digital camera memory card.

http://www.andlinux.org/ A port of Ubuntu Linux to Windows. This is a direct port and does not include any type of emulation.

http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/781/slurpr-the-mother-of-all-wardrive-boxes Homemade project to leech from multiple open wireless networks for a faster connection.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409# A documentary on the Open Source movement.

5/18/07 Gil's LotD
http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net/ Read and edit Wikipedia as a filesystem! For Linux, of course.
http://www.psstpassiton.com/ Different teams work on designing and creating the same film in separate steps.
http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/subway/ Subways all drawn to the same scale, very cool.

4/12/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/worstaprilfools.html
The worst April Fools jokes.
http://www.mensjournal.com/healthFitness/0601/napping_power.html
Tips on power napping.
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/14738
How to get Knoppix installed on a USB key. Cool beans.