September 25, 2010 · General · 17 comments

Sun Java6 Community PPA

1. “Community Team to provide regular Sun Java Updates” team
2. Sun Java6 Community PPA
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September 25, 2010 · General · 2 comments

XMMS is a multimedia player for unix systems. XMMS stands for X MultiMedia System and can play media files such as MP3, MOD's, WAV and others with the use of Input plugins.

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September 24, 2010 · News · (No comments)

Ubuntu announced its 9.04 release almost 18 months ago, on April 23, 2009. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 9.04 will reach end of life on Friday, October 23, 2010. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 9.04.

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September 24, 2010 · General · 18 comments


The ext3 or third extended filesystem is a journaled file system that is commonly used by the Linux kernel. It is the default file system for many popular Linux distributions.
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September 23, 2010 · General, Monitoring · 3 comments

downtimed is a program for monitoring operating system downtime, uptime, shutdowns and crashes and for keeping record of such events.

downtimed is a daemon process which is intended to be started automatically from system boot scripts every time when the operating system of a server starts. First the daemon logs its findings about the previous downtime to a specified logging destination as well as in a database file which can be displayed with downtimes command.
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