One of the best instant messengers named Pidgin (previously Gaim) released it’s latest version 2.3.0. According to developers’ description Pidgin is a multiprotocol IM client and it’s goal is to hide protocols from the user as much as possible (users have to know about individual protocols when they create or modify accounts, but in day-to-day communication and usage, the intent is that users don’t have to think about protocols at all).
Pidgin supports the following protocols:
Read full developer’s changelog here and download Pidgin from pidgin.im/download. It’s available as source tarball, as binary packages for Fedora, CentOS/RHEL and other major Linux distributions, plus 2.3.0 version is ready also for Windows users.
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Recently I came across nice article published at Microsoft’s site Port 25 about how to recover crashed Windows using Linux. It’s rather helpful staff written by Chris Travers (who own Metatron Technology Consulting by the way). Here is an introduction quote from the document:
We have all run into cases where Windows refuses to load for one reason or another. The problem may be a hardware or a software failure, and the problem may seem to be irrecoverable. Yet often Linux can be used to help recover data that otherwise might be lost.
In writing this paper, we generally assume that either a Linux workstation is available to accept recovery information or that a USB drive of sufficient size is available to hold the data. Generally in either case, enough free space should be available to store the entire hard drive as a bit-for-bit file and still have at least 2GB of space free. However, if more space is available, the process of organizing the recovered data is a bit easier. If neither of these is available, the utility of Linux in data recovery will be limited.
Download this document in as pdf format here. You can read interesting comments on their site by clicking at this link.
By the way, Port 25 site is copyrighted by Microsoft under the Microsoft Permissive License that is available here.
Date: November 22, 2007. Categories:
linux.
Below is the full list of Windows Software equivalents for Linux. If you can suggest better list you’re welcome to comment here! 
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Date: November 21, 2007. Categories:
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GNU GRUB is a boot loader package from the GNU Project. GRUB is the reference implementation of the Multiboot Specification, which allows a user to have several different operating systems on their computer at once, and to choose which one to run when the computer starts. GRUB can be used to select from different kernel images available on a particular operating system’s partitions, as well as to pass boot-time parameters to such kernels.
Here is the Joydeep Bakshi’s GBUB guide that is distibuted under Open Content License and covers the following fields:
- MBR, boot sector, boot loader
- Backup & Restore boot loader
- Grub stage1, stage2, stage3 and relation among them
- Making Grub Floppy
- Making Grub CD
- Making Grub Pen drive
- stage1 and stage2 on different media
- Grub’s device and device.map file
- Grub Rescue
- Super Grub Disk
- Grub’S GUI configuration
- Manual booting with Grub shell
- Disk investigation with Grub
Read full guide here…
More useful links:
GNU GRUB
GNU GRUB FAQ
GNU GRUB Manual 0.97
The list of command line and menu entry commands
GNU GRUB on Wikipedia
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