Linux Howtos

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.

Linux : Howtos : Quake III Arena for Linux
Posted: ( Sun 31st Dec 2000 09:13:58[PM] UTC )
"This mini-HOWTO will help those of you with Red Hat 6.2 and the Voodoo 3 video card. It also sets a standard so that we can share our FPS results."

Linux : Howtos : LinuxPPC Security Primer, Part I
Posted: ( Sun 31st Dec 2000 09:10:25[PM] UTC )
This article helps you get started with the basic security tools, which will allow you to deal with most basic security vulnerabilities.

Linux : Howtos : Mandrake 7.2 PowerPack Deluxe installation guide
Posted: ( Sun 31st Dec 2000 09:05:09[PM] UTC )
"With the PowerPack Deluxe edition of Mandrake 7.2 you get all the software you could ever wish for. 7 CDs loaded with more than 2300 apps will probably satisfy most people, I'm sure."

Linux : Howtos : Serving up Linux
Posted: ( Sun 31st Dec 2000 08:59:35[PM] UTC )
Long thought of as the free operating system, Linux today boasts heavyweight features that let it take on even enterprise-strength requirements.

Linux : Howtos : Linux intrusion detection
Posted: ( Sun 31st Dec 2000 08:53:28[PM] UTC )
"Although it's important to spend time on prevention, you must also have a backup plan in the event that security is compromised. If one of your systems is cracked, immediate detection and damage control are essential to prevent an intruder from gaining access to other systems and causing irreparable problems."