Archive for September 23rd, 2008

10 Command-Line Applications I Use in Debian and Ubuntu

In this article I’ll briefly review ten of my favourite CLI (command-line interface), not necessarily the most popular or most powerful of them. So if you don’t find your personal favourite, (e.g. Midnight Commander or mp3blaster), it’s because the article includes the tools I use more often. So here it goes:

Irssi This is definitely one of my top 10 favourites. Irssi is a powerful IRC client with a user-friendly interface and support for Perl scripting. Irssi can be customised in any way I like and documentation on the official website helps to learn it at a fast pace.

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Helix 2008R1 - Released

Helix 2008R1 (2.0) has officially been released and is available for download! This is a major update to the bootable side of Helix, as it is based on Ubuntu rather than Knoppix. There are a number of other changes that you can review by looking at the changelog.

The MD5 hash value of the iso is 93a285bfa8ab93d664d508e5b12446d3.

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