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Although it's difficult for me to look at this piece's title and not think of mutant felines, it doesn't make the statement any less true. If you've ever used the tail command on log files, you'll instantly appreciate multitail. My friend (and LJ reader) Nick Danger introduced me to multitail, and I can't believe how useful it is. multitail will "tail" multiple files, split the screen to display them, notify of log file changes and so on. One of my favorite features is rather than show 100 lines of repeated log, it shows the line only once, and it says, "line repeats 100 times"—simple, but awesome.

The aTunes Team was proud to announce a few days ago the immediate availability for download of the stable aTunes 3.1.0 release of the popular music player and manager application for Linux, Mac and Windows operating systems. aTunes 3.1.0 is now able to store metadata for all kind of files, even unsupported ones, it's able to store ratings both in an external database and in local files, and it is able to download podcasts faster. Moreover, a new option to display a navigation table filter has been added in aTunes 3.1.0, as well as an option to hide the navigation tree and use only the navigation table to select elements.

The first release candidate for Wine 1.6 was announced today, which marks the beginning of the code freeze for the next release. Squeezing in before the code freeze is GLSL support for fixed-function vertex shaders and other changes. The prominent Wine 1.6-rc1 changes also include: New implementation of the typelib creation support; Support for desktop launchers in virtual desktop mode; Fixes for Japanese vertical text; New Croatian translation; and Various bug fixes.

calamariOS is an awesome SuSE Studio appliance designed for everyday computing needs. It has a built in firewall to keep you and your data safe. AppArmor is built in for an extra layer of security. calamariOS automatically checks for software updates and notifies you when an important update is released. calamariOS has a web browser, email application, music player, a special application called PlayOnLinux and more. PlayOnLinux makes it easy to run Windows software on Linux.

Today we're introducing the Ubuntu Touch Manager, a simple, yet intuitive application that will allow Ubuntu users to manage their Ubuntu Touch powered devices.

Recently, the Humble Indie Bundle 8 has been released, which now contains 11 exciting games for Linux. As always, some of the game titles are making a Linux debut and can either be downloaded directly from the HIB website or be redeemed in the Ubuntu Software Center and on Steam.

This week, we look at why developers are cheap bastards, why Windows 8 is failing and how smart developers generate lousy code.

r53dump is a shell script that will connect to AWS Route53 service and dump all zones in Bind format for the specified account. Logging is done to syslog (check /var/log/syslog). Multiple accounts, multiple zones are supported. "cli53" is used for all connectivity with AWS systems. Dumped zones can optionally be sent to s3 automatically.

It's surprisingly easier to do than KDE. Unfortunately, this only works for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" and its derivatives, and not any newer versions, so enjoy this while you can!

In this first installation, I’m just going to look at the GTK based options. I’ll look at QT based Environments, and then some of the standalones in subsequent posts.

Password Less authentication to Linux servers makes the system admin's life easy. To Implement password less or Keys based authentication we have to generate Public and Private keys

A few weeks ago I was able to attend the Mini Maker Faire in Cleveland, Ohio where I got to meet with local makers and discuss a variety of subjects including Raspberry Pi, 3D Printing, and programming. One of the highlights of my trip there was meeting Dave and Lauren Egts. Lauren was there presenting on the Scratch Game she designed: The Great Guinea Pig Escape.

According to our Software Preference Poll, FOSS Force visitors will use commercially developed software, especially if it’s the best software for the job, but would prefer to use community developed, noncommercial software. Absolutely none of our visitors said they’d prefer commercial software.

Toshiba has yet another crack at the Android tablet market. Does it finally have a hit on its hands?

The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post.

So when an email arrived in my Inbox from the developers announcing ROSA Desktop Fresh R1, describing it as a new name distribution “based on the ROSA Fresh platform,” and that it is “targeted at advanced users and enthusiasts who will appreciate rich functionality and freshness of distribution components without serious loss of quality,” I thought, that should be an interesting distribution.

What is the most obvious way to tell other people you use Linux. Talk to them!

But what if there are too many people, and you can’t talk to [all of] them really… But still want to get the message "I am a Linux user" delivered? In this case, put this message on something visible. Computer sticker, mug, pen – the options are there. And, of course, with this summer season asking us to change clothes to something light, T-shirt is a nice way to promote your favourite operating system too!

On May 22, eighteen senior officials from the Singapore Government gathered at the FutureGov lunch briefing Open Source, Open Government—to discuss how open source technology can drive openness and innovation in the public sector. The senior IT decision makers attending the event were from agencies such as the Ministry of Health, Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, Land Transport Authority, Urban Redevelopment Authority, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore Management University, and the Ministry of Communications and Information, among others.

If you have other partitions than just the linux partitions in your computer, you will sometimes need to automount them at startup, for showing up on your conky config, or continuing a torrent download .. etc. With the old releases of Ubuntu and Linux Mint, the common advice you will find is to use pysdm, a GUI tool, to automount the partitions. However, since Ubuntu 12.10, pysdm has been removed from the repositories so I will teach you a trick to automount partitions without installing anything.

How-To configure your MySQL to use PAM and/or Active Directory authentication with percona-pam-authentication plugin, and then use your existent AD or Linux users to connect to MySQL databases.