Category Archives: Linux

ArchLinux – Bleeding Edge Distro

Posted on January 31, 2013 by mahavirj

Fed up with crappy and bulky desktop environments that recent Linux distributions (like Fedora, Ubuntu) provides then ArchLinux is the way to go! If you appreciate freedom of selection of what you want in your system, if you want to stay … Continue reading →

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VIM Essential Plug-ins

Posted on January 29, 2013 by mahavirj

Plugins Being one of the favourite editors, I did some analysis to make it effective while dealing with large code base. Here are some outcomes in the form of external plug-ins: FuzzyFinder – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1984 Helps in quick file search, file … Continue reading →

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Cygwin Package Manager

Posted on January 27, 2013 by mahavirj

I was looking for command line package manager (like apt, yum or pacman) for Cygwin developement environment on Windows, and found one — apt-cyg! wget http://apt-cyg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/apt-cyg chmod +x apt-cyg mv apt-cyg /usr/local/bin/ apt-cyg install bc This helps in a great … Continue reading →

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Speeding up Compilation

Posted on January 8, 2013 by mahavirj

Ccache Or rather recompilation to be specific! Install ccache package http://ccache.samba.org/ using, $ sudo yum install ccache or $ sudo apt-get install ccache This should create a soft link to ccache for gcc (and cc as well) in /usr/lib/ccache directory. If you … Continue reading →

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