Commandline 101: Extracting Compressed tar Files

Johannes Schlute's Blog: PHP 5.3.1RC2
Johannes Schlute has posted about the release of the latest Release Candidate of the PHP 5.3.x series - PHP 5.3.1RC2. Just a quick heads-up: After quite some time from RC1 PHP 5.3.1RC2 has...

Minor Updates for Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.8.7 Released
Over on the official Ruby news site, Urabe Shyouhei has announced the release of minor updates to both Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.8.7, namely 1.8.6p368 and 1.8.7p160: Updates to already-released Ruby...

Evolution of the Linux kernel source code tarball size
Jerome Pinot:I took some time to make a graph of the evolution of the size of the linux kernel tar.bz2 since version 1.0 till 3.1 (297 releases).