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OK, so the commercial version of Solaris strictly speaking isn't free software/open source (although quite a lot of the code is now open, thanks to the OpenSolaris project). But still, since we do quite a lot of Linux and other Unix stuff here on FOSSwire, I thought I might take a quick excursion into Sun's Unix.

I'm pretty sure we will also be taking a look at some OpenSolaris distributions …

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Beryl 0.2.0 has just been released:

Beryl 0.2.0 is a complete overhaul of Beryl. The last stable release 0.1, featured a very fun, and eye-candy based compositing window manager. However, since it’s release, many parts of beryl have been rewritten, replaced, or simply dropped. The Beryl team has put in numerous hours to bring you this release. It’s filled with fun, eye-candy, better user support, new features, and most of …

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When you want to run a particular task repeatedly, or run it at a scheduled time, Linux and other Unix-like operating systems offer you an easy way to do this and plenty more. It's called cron and it's a multi-purpose task scheduler on steroids. It's installed and enabled on virtually every Unix-like OS out there by default.

In this tutorial, I'm going to walk you through a couple of ways …

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When you're running a command that's going to take a long time in your bash shell, but then you suddenly decide you don't want to run it any more, CLI newbies can often be stuck as to how they should terminate a running command (aside from closing the terminal window). There are also other occasions when you want to control the process that's running inside your terminal.

This post is …

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