Security - We will get there

To be honest, I am not  a desktop guy and that's why I stick with Windows desktop for a very long time. I always think Linux lacks support for some of my favorite hobby applications. :-)  You know I am a server guy so I don't really need that much from desktop for my work. But this time I decide to make some serious change as once again my WinXP totally screwed up on my old home pc.

1. How to extract files in rpm packages without installing them for file in `ls -1 ../*.rpm` ; do rpm2cpio $file | cpio -ivmud ; done
2. Files inside multiple rpm packages for file in `ls -1 ../*.rpm`; do echo The Files in $file >>filelist.txt; rpm -ql -p $file >>filelist.txt; echo >>filelist.txt ; echo >>filelist.txt; done

   

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Here is a list applications I am using on my Linux desktop.

My open source initiatives started 10 years ago when I was asked to build up a all in one financial inquiry system. I chose Linux+Apache+Postgresql+PHP and got the whole thing up and running in a fairly amount of time. It had 16 serial ports for dial in access and customers from all levels of government were able to use their windows machine to dial in with PPP connection and query stuff from IE browser. All the data were exported from the bank's mainframe and imported into Postgresql everyday.