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Vyatta is a Linux based distro that ease the set up of VPN, Routers, antivirus.... It has a really small footprint on your system as it only requires something like 800M to be installed and is based on Debian. On the top of that, it offers configuration wrappers to facilitate service settings.

This tutorial will explain how to set up 2 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) boxes to route the traffic from one Autonomous System (AS) to the other using Vyatta.
Vyatta Community Edition 4.1.4 was used during this set up.

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Text completion is quite a nifty feature to have on an interactive software, saves you loads of typing, helps you remember the exact spelling on one's email, lost urls (thanks firefox 3 for the regex based search :-) )....

Gtk+ offers this ability through the use of GtkEntryCompletion that we will hook to the GtkEntry.

This tutorial will explain through a code sample how to set it up.

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Once upon a time, file size was capped to 2G because of 2^31 - 1 = 2G. Has such, open will fail on files bigger than 2G.

this tutorial will show how to get standard C to handle large file.

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Bazaar (bzr) is a distributed version control system (VCS) sponsored by Canonical and thus bzr is widely used by the Ubuntu community.

Like any vcs, bzr will let you track the different version of your code locally and let you push the changes to a remote server.

One cool feature of bzr is that you can maintain a remote copy of your code history without having a bzr server running, nor having a copy of bzr on the remote server running and simply by using ssh to transport the data.

This tutorial will not explain how bzr works, but will show the couple few step to create your local repository, add a few files, commit the changes, push them to a remote server and copy the branch newly created to another machine.

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