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Free Software Stickers (GNU)

Filled with hundreds of creative sticker design, the Free Software Stickers lets you announce to the world that you are using Free Software operated computer.

The book is a must-have for all Linux and Free Software geeks around the world. It has a collection of distro related stickers including Debian, SUSE, Slackware, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Fedora, kubuntu, Red Hat and various other non-Linux Free Software.

This book includes a set of stickers related to free software projects. Now you may remove the Microsoft sticker from your computer and choose a sticker from this book with which to replace it. If you want to participate in Sticker Book Project, you can send your sticker/s to jalbusac (at) gmail.com.

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Visual diff/merge tool - Meld

Meld is a powerful visual diff and merge tool. It displays colour-coded two- and three-way diffs and enables you to merge or edit the compared files. It can work with version control systems (cvs, svn, hg) and can diff directories. The GTK-based interface is clean and features tabs and a toolbar.

Meld does a great job of simplifying edit and merge tasks; when comparing files, for example, you can simply click on the arrows in the middle column to merge text from one side to the other (see screenshot). Holding down Ctrl reveals insert-before/insert-after options, and holding down Shift enables one-click block deletion.

Installing from the command line: yum install meld
Menu location after installation: Applications > Programming > Meld Diff Viewer
Command: /usr/bin/meld
Upstream website: http://meld.sourceforge.net/

Enable support for iPods in Ubuntu

Thanks to the good folks in the Ubuntu community, there is a mind-blowingly easy solution to add support for all iPods to the system. Programs like Gtkpod and Rhytmbox call on the gpod library to interact with your iPod, so all you have to do is get the latest version. Simply download this deb package, and run it with Gdebi, which should be the default choice in Firefox. Then, if you don't have it already, use the Synaptic package manager to download Gtkpod, which we found to be the more reliable choice for working with new iPods.

A free penetration testing toolkit - Inguma

Inguma is a free penetration testing and vulnerability discovery toolkit entirely written in python. Framework includes modules to discover hosts, gather information about, fuzz targets, brute force usernames and passwords, exploits, and a disassembler.

Inguma comes with 2 GUIs: text based and PyQT based. The most tested one and the only one that will surely work is the text based. The PyQT one is _only_ the first version of it.

Download here

Software installation made easy for users and developers

Autopackage aims to do for GNU/Linux what “Install Shield” does for Windows. It uses a completely new package format, which includes a pointer to where required library files can be found. From a user’s perspective it just works, but in the background Autopackage checks dependencies and resolves them automatically.

For users: it makes software installation on Linux easier. If a project provides an autopackage, you know it can work on your distribution. You know it'll integrate nicely with your desktop and you know it'll be up to date, because it's provided by the software developers themselves. You don't have to choose which distro you run based on how many packages are available.

For developers: it's software that lets you create binary packages for Linux that will install on any distribution, can automatically resolve dependencies and can be installed using multiple front ends, for instance from the command line or from a graphical interface. It lets you get your software to your users quicker, easier and more reliably. It immediately increases your user base by allowing people with no native package to run your software within seconds.

Here is the FAQ