Recently I had compiled a paper on the topic "Open Source Impacting Current Business Scenario". This has been compiled from various sources on the web, same are listed in references. I am attaching the paper here for others to refer.

Few know that WinSCP can be used at command line to automate file transfer. This article discusses the methodology to do so from a windows machine to a Linux/Solaris server running SSH server. You would need the following tools at the Windows client before you go ahead:Read more »

I have tried many torrent clients on Linux, but none as good as rtorrent. Why rTorrent? Because its light-weight. Very Very Light-weight. Some applications tend to be real memory hoggers. Azureus was one of them (when i had last used it that is). The other option i had in Linux was KTorrent. However KTorrent requires that you have the KDE window manager installed... if not the window manager, then atleast the libraries that are required for KDE. But after having moved away from KDE to XFCE window manager, ktorrent was also ruled out.Read more »