Quick tip: How to install Maven on Linux

Apache Maven is a software project management based on concept of a project object model (POM).

Get Maven from http://maven.apache.org/download.html, unarchive it and add maven binary path to system path.

$ cd /usr/local
$ tar -xzf maven-2.2.1.tar.gz
$ ln -s maven-2.2.1 maven
$export PATH=/usr/local/maven/bin:${PATH}

Now you are ready to run maven commands like

$ mvn assembly:assembly
$ mvn site assembly:assembly
$ mvn install

I’m using Debian Lenny 5.0 and java 1.6.0_16, but should work on every Linux disitribution.

MSE – a Free antivirus with no performance impact ?

Microsoft launched Microsoft Security Essentials (code name MORRO) which is a free real-time antivirus. It seems MSE is just another antivirus against viruses, spam, spyware, and other malicious software without any other feature. On Vincent Bellet MSDN blog I found a very interesting information:

Now, we offer a free, reliable with no performance impact product for your PC!

I’m very interested how good is an antivirus with no performance impact on a computer … I think you cannot cut from performance impact without removing from antivirus features …

Anyway, Vincent Bellet, is also talking about Avast:

… even if Avast is quite good, not free antivirus often a huge program with performance impact….

I really want to see a comparison between MSE and Avast Home edition.

You will find more about MSE here: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/