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.

"Neither achieves the usefulness of the very best desktop interfaces out there (OS/2 Warp with Object Desktop and a couple of freeware utilities, or arguably the MacOS), but they're advancing pretty rapidly and may well overtake those venerable environments within the next year or two. In addition, they both benefit from being very cross-platform (though they're used mainly on Linux and Unix)."

"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."

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.

Nokia is basing its Media Terminal on open standard technologies, including Linux, Mozilla, and HTML, for which there are already a wide range of services and applications available. By giving access to its source code, Nokia provides an environment where developers can easily create new applications for the Media Terminal.

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.

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.

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.

Many of the soon-to-be-junked PCs work just fine. Their only problem? They can't run the most recent versions of Microsoft Windows. And that's where Linux comes in. As you'll learn in this article, you can breathe new life into obsolete computer systems by installing Linux on them and using these "obsolete" PCs for a variety of very useful functions.

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