"Over the past few months, readers have asked me for instructions on installing the new KDE 2.1 into Linux. This weekend, I did a new install of LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 on a Wallstreet Powerbook and used the opportunity to document the steps needed to upgrade to KDE 2.1."

The book is nicely categorized into seven parts, each further simplified into different chapters and further sub topics. Though it is advisable to read the book from 'Part I to Part VII' in tandem don't let the rules bully you. Every chapter is interlinked with the previous topic. It can however be read in any manner, provided you know what it is about and have a rough idea of the past. All the 18 chapters are comprehensively explained keeping the 'lame' user in mind.

"... install Linux, realize that Windows will screw up the boot record, delete the Linuxp artition, try to install Windows first... OOPS. The Windows setup runs into a problem and stops. The reason for all of the above is that they forgot to uninstall LILO"

"Microsoft says open-source software is un-American. Has the company completely lost its mind?"

"The goal of this Perl script is to just delete all partitions, create one partition that takes up the whole hard drive, and then fill up the hard drive with garbage data (including some random encrypted data just to ruin a hacker's day trying to find out what the data is)."

This article goes through the different features of Ximian GNOME and teaches you how to customize the desktop to suit your specific needs. Also reviewed are some of the applications that come with Ximian GNOME.

As a diagnostic resource the network diagram, describing the topology and providing detailed information of hardware, is essential. This article takes a quick look at some useful open-source tools available for Linux that will allow you to create and maintain useful network diagrams.

This article is the first one in a series about the main security holes that can usually to appear within an application. These articles show the ways to avoid them by changing the development habits.

Waiting for a fsck to complete on a server system can tax your patience more than it should. Fortunately, a new breed of filesystem is coming to your Linux machine soon. One of the most-anticipated of recent Linux developments is the availability of journaling filesystems.

"In my opinion X is a dog. It is a hefty chunk of software which sits under the desktop software and slows the system down quite a lot. X does have many advantages such as network transparency, but I ask the question "does the featureset of X warrant its weight on the system?"