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SA government to switch to open source

In a statement the cabinet said “all new software developed for or by the government will be based on open standards and government will itself migrate current software to FOSS. This strategy will, among other things, lower administration costs and enhance local IT skills.” “All the major IT vendors in the country have both supported […]

Quick package search in Debian/Ubuntu/etc.

Here is a simple command for searching for “ruby” in the Tag: fields in Debian’s package lists: # egrep -hr ‘^(Package:|Tag:.+ruby)’ /var/lib/apt/lists|grep -B1 ^Tag|grep ^Package|cut -d\ -f2-|tr \\n \||xargs -I{} echo apt-cache –names-only search ^\({}\)\$|sort|less Cool , huh 🙂Read the whole thing @ http://dontdothat.livejournal.com

Google become 10 years old

You can see the 10 years history of Google on the specially made 10 years google website!