BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 70 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, etc.
HomePage: http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/

Changelog:

The following changes have been made since 0.8.1:

* Securely wipe filenames when deleting individual files and directories
* More securely wipe filenames when wiping free disk space
* Expand and fix vacuuming Google Chrome 7
* Specific to Linux bonus pack (separate download)
o Fix bonus pack not installing on Ubuntu 10.10
o Clean Xfce xfrun4 command history (thanks to nodiscc)
o Clean Battle for Wesnoth (thanks to Thibault Févry)
* Specific to Windows
o Fix bug starting on Windows XP with language set to non-English
o Delete form history in Internet Explorer 7 and 8
o Delete user assist history: it is included in Windows Explorer - Most Recently Used.
o Clean WinZip (thanks to Jack Williams)
o Clean TortoiseSVN (thanks to Jack Williams )
* Specific to web
o New documentation: Shred files and wipe disks
read more about how to install..

sorry for my rudeness but I don't see any use for it on Mandriva ?
what does it do?
if i wanted to delete cookies the browser its self can do it easy enough from preferences or options my systems been running that long I have to reinstall just to have the latest version but its working fine so i still haven't got around to it

If you click the link for installation instruction, then click read more on the WordPress page it takes you to a Mandriva Backport site.

Though as this is not Mandriva specific, I have moved this thread to Linux-News.

Besides, can't you move /tmp and /var/tmp to RAM disks anyway? This will make sure that *ALL* temporary files are deleted upon computer shutdown.

BleachBit is a central, organized system to clean almost 100 applications from a single place. BleachBit even does things the original applications cannot do such

1. clean from the command line (or crontab)

2. secure shredding

3. vacuuming (to improve performance and free disk space without deleting data)

4. delete localizations better than localepurge

5. Delete certain data that the application won't let you delete such as Firefox session restore and Firefox DOM Storage "HTML 5 cookies" (?)

See the BleachBit features page for more

Yes

No, run a preview in BleachBit and you will see 99% of the files it finds are not in /tmp or /var/tmp.

For /tmp, that's a good practice but having /var/tmp backed by ram or anything non persistent would break Unix / Linux standards. /var/tmp must not be (blindly) cleared when the OS is rebooted.

Thanks XavieP, nice spotting.

With mandy we have sweeper, that is supposed to be a cleaner for the file system, but mostly,

~/.thumbnails

cache

I apologise, I've just found that ....it's a KDE program. Nice for me, but....

http://utils.kde.org/projects/sweeper
ref. http://userbase.kde.org/Sweeper

Regards Glenn