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Protecting networks with SmoothWall Express

Author: Joseph R. Baxter Corporations and home users alike need firewall protection. Many choices abound, including some expensive, commercial options that only run on specialized...

Linux Comparison: openSUSE

Previous to writing this comparison, I have only ever used Ubuntu and Fedora. Considering Ubuntu's popularity and reputation for being easy to use, I...

PC/OS: Insert CD, use desktop

Author: Preston St. Pierre PC/OS aims to be an easy-to-use Linux distribution right out of the box. Being Ubuntu-based, it has a head start on...

Shred and secure-delete: tools for wiping files, partitions and disks in GNU/Linux

I carry a small, laminated card indicating my subscription to the IUSP (International Union of the Super Paranoid, tin hat division). Well, you can’t...

KNDISwrapper is half-done, but far from half-baked

Author: Bruce Byfield If any process ever cried out for a graphical interface, it is using NDISwrapper to enable wireless devices to run on GNU/Linux...

Linux Kernel Ported to iPhone

Sometimes porting a bit of code to another platform or piece of hardware isn't about the ported code delivering new features to the device....

Three graphical mount managers

Author: Bruce Byfield Mounting and unmounting filesystems used to be straightforward in GNU/Linux. A basic knowledge of the mount command or some editing of /etc/fstab...

Glendix: Bringing the Beauty of Plan 9 to Linux

Linux distributions come and go by the dozens almost every day, and most of them live and die an unknown, irrelevant life, mostly because...

openDesktop.org provides super-portal to free software sites

Author: Bruce Byfield When users want the latest in free and open source software (FOSS), they are likely to think first of sites like freshmeat,...

A Tale of Two Forks

While I was writing last Friday's editor's note, "Linux Should Copy Amiga", I kept thinking what a different story it would have been if...