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Rethinking the OS
Every hard-core OS aficionado has done it: Laid out a grand scheme for creating the perfect OS. Taking all the best features...
Linux Advisory Watch – December 17, 2004
Author: Preston St. Pierre
This week, advisories were released for zgv, atari800, MyODBC, mikmod,
gstreamer, grep, flim, kdelibs, kdebase, selinux-policy-targeted,
xcdroast, udev, PHProjekt, nfs-utils, ncpfs, vim,...
Why I won’t upgrade my Linux distribution
Author: Nathan Willis
I'm not upgrading my Fedora Core 2 machine to Core 3, even though the new version has been out for a couple...
Feed your funny bone with open source comic strip aggregation software
Author: Sean Michael Kerner
Sure, you could just pick up a newspaper or visit a Web site to read your favourite comic strips. But what...
Site review: Linux Game Tome
Author: Tina Gasperson
The Linux Game Tome (LGT), a.k.a. The Happy Penguin, is an ever-growing compendium of computer games that are either specifically designed to...
Quickbooks: the missing link for small business Linux
Author: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller
Last week I was talking with a small business IT consultant who switches clients' servers to Linux (and Samba) all day...
‘ChineseSpyBoy’ claims to have cracked McAfee sites
Author: Joe Barr
Did he or didn't he? A cracker identifying himself as "ChineseSpyBoy" has been contacting news organizations -- including NewsForge -- the...
SysAdmin to SysAdmin: Parallel I/O for clusters using PVFS
Author: Brian Jones
When you're trying to share files and perform I/O-intensive operations across 100+ nodes of a Beowulf cluster, the old model of a...
Linux consultants find a niche in growing market
Author: Corinne McKay
Once the hallmark of a laid-off dot-commer, the job title "consultant" is now legitimately paired with "Linux." Linux consultants, often called in...
Keeping Linux users informed, solving problems
Author: Preston St. Pierre
One of your primary responsibilities as system administrator is communicating with the system users. You need to make announcements, such as...