I have not forgotten the Subversion Clients Review series.  This time, I’ll take a look at Cascade from Conifer Systems. Cascade in not a simple subversion client.  The main part of it is the Cascade File System (CFS), which is used to interact with a either a Perforce, Subversion, or Alienbrain repository.  On top of [...]

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Last week, Linux Journal published a nice article about Sabayon Linux.  I’ve already used Gentoo in past, and Sabayon looks like a really good upgrade from Gentoo.  At least, the article made me want to try it.  But more than that, it made me wonder about all the “unusual” or special Linux distributions that exists, [...]

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From time to time, an event happens and shows you what not to do… On openSUSE 11, the mailx utility available is from the Heirloom project.  Among the features of that mailx version, there’s the automatic attachment of content (instead of putting it in the e-mail’s body) if it contains invalid characters (RFC 2046).  But [...]

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I’ve just discovered an amazing SSH feature today.  If you’ve already been in the same situation, this trick will interest you. The problem was : How can I SSH into boxA and automatically SSH into boxB from there?  This is a situation where you can’t connect directly to boxB, which is only accessible from boxA.  [...]

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