Linux Journal Issue #198/October 2010

Features

Command-Line Application Roundup  by Jes Fraser
A quick overview of some popular command-line tools.
DirB, Directory Bookmarks for Bash  by Ira Chayut
Making the command line go faster.
sc: the Venerable Spreadsheet Calculator  by Serge Hallyn
A spreadsheet you can run in a terminal.
Using rdiff-backup and rdiffWeb to Back Up and Restore  by Adrian Klaver
Are you backed up?

Indepth

Introduction to the MeeGo Software Platform  by Ibrahim Haddad
Maemo + Moblin == MeeGo
Virtualization the Linux/OSS Way  by Greg Bledsoe
Manage VirtualBox from the command line.

Columns

Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Cassandra  
Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Function Return Codes and Daylight Calculations  
Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   Take Mutt for a Walk  
Kyle Rankin and Bill Childers' Point/Counterpoint   Sane Defaults vs. Configurability  
Doc Searls' EOF   3G Hell  

Review

A Look at the Ben NanoNote  by Daniel Bartholomew

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