Netcat was written to allow users to make network connections between machines without any programming. Netcat can be used as a tcp/ip client program, allowing you to connect to a remote server, send a request, and pass off the response to some other program. It can also be used as a server.

Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik, who said he wasn't really the right person to respond to Linus' charges, also said that Red Hat has been expecting a denunciation like this. The rumbling has been going on for months and in many corners.

Global Linux Partners, a company that funds startups utilizing the free, Internet-based operating system, has signed a letter of intent to pay US$5-million for Corel's Linux line of products, according to sources close to the negotiations. In exchange, Corel will take a 20% stake in the newly formed company.

Linux comes with lots of great tools for recording and storing information about system operations on an ongoing basis. This is accomplished via the syslog facility, a central system message logging facility standard on all modern Unix systems.

So, you want to run your own radio station? This guide will assist you in becoming your own DJ.

FreeS/WAN was started 4 years ago by John Gilmore with the goal of encrypting 5% of all Internet traffic by distributing and installing low-cost encryption devices in businesses and homes running Linux and FreeS/WAN software. While this ambitious goal was not met, the project did result in a handy tool for cheaply building a VPN using Linux and commodity PC hardware and network components.

The days of $100,000 proprietary telecom switches is long over. So are voice-only networks. The future belongs to voice over Internet (VoIP) systems. And the glue that's going to hold them together "almost has to be open source- based."

"This is very dramatic ... We weren't doing any Linux one year ago. Now 90 percent of the Web hosting and Web serving we are doing is on Linux. The stability and total cost of the solution is really appealing."

Most of you would have heard of mutt. Mutt is an MUA, a Mail User Agent,

which is the program that you would use to send and receive mail. So, why

use mutt when there are so many other mail programs available? A bunch of

free and not so free mail readers exist, and each one has its pros and

cons. However, apart from pgp which has add-ons for pgp/gpg support, almost

no other client supports gpg natively. I could be wrong though.

So far, mutt is the best email client I've come across. I quote the Debian

package description for mutt here:

"I don't know why RH decided to do their idiotic gcc-2.96 release (it certainly wasn't approved by any technical gcc people - the gcc people were upset about it too), and I find it even more surprising that they apparently KNEW that the compiler they were using was completely broken."