FreeOS Howtos

Linux : Howtos : Using ssh
Posted: ( Sun 7th Jan 2001 05:48:21[PM] UTC )
Ssh (Secure Shell) is a program for logging into a remote machine and executing commands in a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.

Linux : Howtos : Setting up gPhoto: An experiment with a new digital camera
Posted: ( Sun 7th Jan 2001 07:44:11[AM] UTC )
"I'm one of probably thousands of people who came into possession of a digital camera this holiday season, and the vast majority of those cameras come with software designed to make them work with Windows. But there is at least one alternative for Linux and some of the BSDs -- gPhoto, a program that's been packaged with GNOME. I thought I'd try to get it working on my faster, less crashy Linux machine."

Linux : Howtos : Keeping track of what goes on: Part II
Posted: ( Sun 7th Jan 2001 07:41:57[AM] UTC )
This article looks at two additional considerations that come into play where syslog is concerned. Management of all the log files that are created and ensuring that they do not consume too much disk space. Secondly, processing all of the information and discerning what is most important within it.

Linux : Howtos : Using the wireless modem Ricochet
Posted: ( Sun 7th Jan 2001 07:38:28[AM] UTC )
The Ricochet modems are wireless modems that let you connect your computer to the internet through an ISP provider that is hooked up to the wireless network. The modems will connect at 80 Kbps with a serial port and 128 Kbps for a USB connection.

Linux : Howtos : Slackware 7.0 part II: Configuration guide
Posted: ( Sun 7th Jan 2001 02:34:59[AM] UTC )
In this, the second part of this series, the author now describes a couple of basic configuration tasks in his favorite distribution. He talks about the configuration of X, user management, compiling kernels, using LILO, and some basic system security.

Linux : Howtos : Installing and using JFS
Posted: ( Sun 7th Jan 2001 02:33:30[AM] UTC )
JFS is an advanced journalling filesystem. It has been designed to provide excellent performance and high availability for server environments. However, JFS is also well suited for Linux workstations and home machines, since everyone can benefit from a reliable filesystem with high performance.

Linux : Howtos : Using advanced audio coding under Linux
Posted: ( Sun 7th Jan 2001 02:16:08[AM] UTC )
Advanced Audio Coding, an audio coding format, made its debut as a part of MPEG-2, and was revised and included in the MPEG-4 specification. AAC is probably the most advanced audio encoding system in the world. Freeware Advanced Audio Coder is an opensource GPL'd suite of tools which allow a person to use the AAC format.

Linux : Howtos : Order from chaos with Procmail
Posted: ( Sat 6th Jan 2001 01:07:24[AM] UTC )
Procmail, and the cluster of utilities associated with it, can take one or more actions on individual email messages based on the content of the headers or the body, or the size of the message. Once a specified condition is met, Procmail can file the email in a local mailbox (which could be /dev/null, effectively deleting it), forward it to another address, or pipe it as input to another command.

Linux : Howtos : automount and autofs
Posted: ( Sat 6th Jan 2001 12:50:57[AM] UTC )
Automount and autofs are powerful tools and ease file systems management. They allow all the users of a same machine to mount different file systems automatically the very moment they are needed.

Linux : Howtos : Run levels revisited
Posted: ( Fri 5th Jan 2001 08:56:07[PM] UTC )
How does Linux initialize during boot? Many people don't consider the actual process that Linux takes to enter a usable state. This article explains what the various run levels are for and how they fit into the boot process.

Linux : Howtos : Why we should all test the new Linux kernel
Posted: ( Thu 4th Jan 2001 05:47:14[PM] UTC )
The kernel has special needs for testing that require it to be done by a wide variety of people for several reasons including the highly configurable source code, which means that it needs to be tried out with lots of different options to try to find combinations that stimulate bugs, and also the fact that it supports a number of different instruction set architectures and few other reasons.

Linux : Howtos : Apt NHF
Posted: ( Thu 4th Jan 2001 01:45:18[AM] UTC )
"One of the reasons that Debian is such a cool and intuitive distribution is because of it's packaging system (*.deb). The installation uses a program called apt to download and install programs from cds, nfs, ftp, or http. Because of this, you can install an entirely current system from an old installation cd."

Linux : Howtos : Dual-Boot Linux and Windows
Posted: ( Tue 2nd Jan 2001 11:51:40[PM] UTC )
Running both Linux and Windows on the same computer is any easy way to have the best of both operating system worlds. Perhaps the easiest and safest way to do that is to use PowerQuest's Boot Magic and Partition Magic products for boot and partition management.

Linux : Howtos : The PowerPC Penguin, Part 1
Posted: ( Tue 2nd Jan 2001 11:46:55[PM] UTC )
This first part of this two-part series about Linux on the Mac will show you how Mac users can benefit from Linux and what they should expect from Linux on a PowerPC.

Linux : Howtos : The 101 Uses of OpenSSH: Part I
Posted: ( Tue 2nd Jan 2001 01:58:51[AM] UTC )
This article covers ssh's background and architecture, how to build and/or install OpenSSH, how to use ssh as an encrypted replacement for Telnet, how to set some basic ssh configuration options and how to use scp for encrypted file transfers.