Article submitted by Olivier Schwander. Guess what? We still need you to submit good articles about software you like! There are lots of different tools for managing your time: Mozilla has a standalone solution: Sunbird and another one based on Thunderbird: Lighting, KDE has Korganizer, and Gnome ha...

Article submitted by Cameron Dale. Guess what? We still need you to submit good articles about software you like! Do you want to help out the Debian (or Ubuntu) project with some mirror bandwidth but don’t know how? Do you want to contribute somehow to Debian’s infrastructure, but you...

Article submitted by Carlos López González. Guess what? We still need you to submit good articles about software you like! For a long time 2D animation software has been dominated by proprietary software. Other common multimedia tasks such as video playing, editing, raster and vector 2D graphics a...

Storage is becoming cheaper and cheaper: you can find hard drives that cost less than a dollar per GiB. Buying an external hard drive to make backups (or even having a backup server) is a must if you value your work and what you have stored in your computer. However, doing backups should be easy [.....

Article submitted by Todd Troxell. Guess what? We still need you to submit good articles about software you like! This tool lets you discover what libraries and programs are using up memory. It is very simple to use. Here is an example of its output (the -w makes memstat not truncate lines at 80 [...

Article submitted by Noel David Torres Taño. Guess what? We still need you to submit good articles about software you like! One of the packages I manually install in every new installation is smartmontools. I’ve some expertise in managing computers and networks, and it is a fact that pirate h...

Article submitted by Andrew Caudwell Logstalgia (inspired by glTail) is a website traffic visualization tool that replays or streams Apache access logs as a pong-like battle between the web server and an unrelenting army of requesting hosts. It is rendered using OpenGL, so you’ll need a 3D acc...

Article submitted by Toni Zimmer. There will be a day when you need access to your Debian box from another place than home, for example to get files from your home server with scp or if you’re running a webserver, an irc proxy, a ftp server, a mail server… Most likely your ISP gives you ...

Article submitted by Anton Kavalenka. Firebird SQL server is popular because it is free, open, lightweight and secure. Firebird is based on the Interbase SQL server, and can be accessed by the same client libraries. FlameRobin is a X-platform GUI application that makes the life of Firebird/Interb...

Article submitted by Karl Erlandson. Do you think there are better alternatives to the packages posted here? Help us! Submit good articles about software you like! No one likes to sit at home and wait for their favorite show to come on anymore and many have turned to buying hardware to record them f...

Article submitted by Hugo Carrer. As any other Debian user I love writing obscure commands on my terminal. I love too having so many open terminals that I have to come up with a special system to find the one where my favorite obscure command is running on. To be able to enjoy this I need a [...]

Article submitted by Raman Pandarinathan. DevTodo is a simple command-line-based package to keep todo lists. Lists are prioritized and hierarchical. Each task in the list has a priority (very high, low, medium etc.) and a given task can be linked to another todo database, making the list hierarchica...

Article submitted by Dominique Cimafranca. EasyTag is a graphical utility to edit the descriptive ID3 tags for your music files. One will think primarily of MP3 files, but it also does other formats, such as Ogg, FLAC, MP4/AAC, MusePack, Monkey’s Audio files and WavPack files (APE tag). EasyTa...