Archive for September, 2008

Finding a file’s package name offline in Fedora without “yum whatprovides”

One really cool feature of ubuntu is the command-not-found script.  If you try to execute a program, say, nmap — and that dpkg hasn’t been installed, the command-not-found script executes to parse a locally installed database to suggest,  “hey, you should try executing # apt-get install nmap” or something similar. This really makes ubuntu more [...]

The best website ever

Oh my gosh, this is the funniest (and coolest) site I have seen in a LONG LONG time!