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Amsn is a clone of the original MSN Messenger, having the same look and feel.

This project is a modified and multilanguage version of Compu's Messenger (CCMSN).It's a Tcl/Tk script as was CCMSN and Tcl/Tk must be installed to run it. This means it is multiplatform and can run on any OS having Tcl/Tk installed (Linux, Windows, Macintosh).

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It is currently fairly complete with features such as :

# Sound for Events
# Look and Feel similar to original MSN Messenger
# Multilanguage (Around 40 languages currently supported)

Partitioning Drive

In order to prepare the drive for a dual boot system install Windows first and then Redhat Fedora. Below is what my drive looks like when partitioned:

Output of the "fdisk -l" command showing the partitions.

#fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1      1567  12586896    7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/hda2          1568      1580    104422+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3          1581      2885  10482412+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4          2886      4864  15896317+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5          2886      3407   4192933+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda6          3408      3538   1052226   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda7          3539      4864  10651063+  83  Linux

Output of the "df" command showing the mount points.

INSERT is a complete, bootable linux system. It comes with a graphical user interface running the fluxbox window manager while still being sufficiently small to fit on a credit card-sized CD-ROM.

INSERT contains a multitude of useful tools to be at your hand in a variety of situations:

• full read-write support for NTFS-partitions using captive
• support for various file system types: EXT2,EXT3,MINIX,REISERFS,JFS,XFS,NTFS,FAT,MSDOS,NFS,SMBFS,NCPFS,UDF,UFS,HFS,HFS+
• support for linux software RAID and LVM
• network analysis (e.g. nmap, tcpdump)
• disaster recovery (e.g. gpart, partimage, testdisk)
• virus scanning (Clam Antivirus)
• computer forensics (e.g. chkrootkit)
• surf the internet (e.g. links-hacked, AxY FTP)

AntiExploit is a small Perl script that scans for well known exploit files. It currently recognizes over 1700 suspicious files, and the database is updated weekly.

Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use by Michael Stutz. This free book presents "recipes" for preparing or accomplishing a particular, specific thing. The author has selected what he considers to be the easiest and most effective methods for accomplishing particular tasks, and have arranged these recipes in general sections according to subject matter.

The layout is very simple and the book is an excellent resource for daily linux use.

Advanced Bash Scripting Guide - The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is both a reference and a tutorial on shell scripting. This comprehensive book (the equivalent of about 556 print pages) covers almost every aspect of shell scripting. It contains 293 profusely commented illustrative examples, and a number of tables. Not just a shell scripting tutorial, this book also provides an introduction to basic programming techniques, such as sorting and recursion. It is well suited for either individual study or classroom use.

Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for *nix. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use with your own software. Most importantly, the virus database is kept up to date.

• command-line scanner
• fast, multi-threaded daemon
• milter interface for sendmail

Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine. For instance, it allows one to freely run Linux on Windows 2000/XP, without using a commercial PC virtualization software...

This product is a single floppy distribution of Linux that is designed for the sole purpose of sharing an Internet connection. The floppy can be created using either a Microsoft Windows wizard, or by using a set of Linux shell scripts. In addition to being designed to have very low hardware requirements, the floppy release of Coyote Linux is able to provide the performance and uptime that is expected from any Linux based system. This release is available free of charge.

IPT SysRq is a Linux iptables target that allows to do the same that the magic SysRq key does on a keyboard, but over the network. It includes syncing disks, remounting them read-only, rebooting the machine, etc...

Got to check this one out!!