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This article was first written in April 2006 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/332).

MIRA is a full-featured Knowledge Management application, where focus has been put on ease of use while entering and retrieving your information. We participated in its development and design, and are quite confident it will help out a lot of people finding their way throughout their documents now and in the near future. Take a look at it, specially on the

This article was first written in March 2006 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/330).

Disclaimer: The purpose of this article is not to explain the purpose of POSIX ACL. To manipulate POSIX ACL on Debian, with a 2.6 kernel (starting from Sarge):

• install package acl
• edit /etc/fstab to add option acl to the mountpoints where you want to use ACL
• play with getfacl and setfacl

See

This article was first written in February 2006 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/328).

Extract from the Linux CIFS Client homepage: The CIFS VFS is a virtual file system for Linux to allow access to servers and storage appliances compliant with the SNIA CIFS Specification version 1.0 or later. Popular servers such as Samba, Windows 2000, Windows XP and many others support CIFS by default.

This article was first written in February 2006 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/327).

Starting from kernel 2.4, Linux has got the kernel oplocks feature.

This article was first written in February 2006 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/326).

Sun Solaris is probably today's most-used UNIX OS around, probably due to its security and high-performance approach. It has been traditionally running mostly on SPARC, a little on Intel platforms, but is now happily running on AMD64 also. Lately, Sun decided to opensource it, and everybody should probably be happy of this move.

This article was first written in February 2006 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/325).

This technology is meant to merge several network links into one logical, providing with higher availability and higher throughput (while it is not absolutely necessary to use both aspects at the same time). Some vendors call it Trunking (ex.: Sun) or Link Aggregation. It's all the same technology, and they communicate together rather well.

This article was first written in January 2006 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/323).

Sometimes, you will find useful not to have to install Arkeia on your machine (a Linux system) to restore an old tape.

This article was first written in January 2006 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/322).

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is meant to be a reference on how to manage a Unix filesystem or directory hierarchy. It enables:

• software to predict the location of installed files and directories, and
• users to predict the location of installed files and directories.

Achieving this by:

• specifying guiding principles for each area of the filesystem,

This article was first written in December 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/320).

In some situation (when using previously devfs, for example), your /dev is empty of static files, and moving to udev or coming back to static /dev is then impossible. In package debootstrap on Debian, there is the file /usr/lib/debootstrap/devices.tar.gz (or /usr/share/debootstrap/devices.tar.gz in newer releases) which only contains standard /dev files. To set them in place is then just:

# cd /mount_point
# tar zxvf /usr/lib/debootstrap/

This article was first written in December 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/319).

Introduction

This article explains how to install the SCIM (Simplified Chinese Input Method) together with enough Japanese resources to enable Japanese input on your desktop (GNOME 2 in this case). SCIM is a software that can run as a daemon in order to enable special, on the fly, character substitution while you type something on a normal keyboard.