Helix GNOME 1.2 is the latest and greatest version of GNOME available, bar none. What's so special about it? It's got everything the standard GNU version of GNOME has, but it also has just about every updated version of the leading and bleeding edge utilities, applications and enhancements for GNOME that have been put out by third parties.

In a market where technical certifications carry more weight than ever before, more and more vendors are offering certifications of their own. Because of the nature of the RHCE exam, Red Hat Certified Engineers will stay comfortably distanced from the stigma of paper certifications.

DNS has become relevant to many more users as they gain access to high-speed network connections via cable modems and DSL. If you're one of those users and you're thinking about building a home network or a small office LAN to take advantage of that fast network connection, then you've just become an "instant system administrator", and you'll need to work with DNS.

The Debian project has been invited to join the Advisory Board of the recently created Gnome Foundation. The Advisory Board is a forum for organizations and companies that have an interest in Gnome to communicate with the Board of the Foundation and work together to support Gnome.

Derek Burney, CEO of Corel Corporation, has responded to speculation that he has put the company's Linux business up for sale by admitting the division is set for radical change.

Here's the crucial difference between Windows and Linux: if someone puts a backdoor into Linux, someone will eventually find it.

From a basic point of view, NFS and Samba are very similar. Both have a client and server application. Both allow a server to share files with clients. Both have clients and servers on almost every platform.

Ten years ago, most PC users believed that UNIX was the domain of hackers and

caffeine drowsed programmers. UNIX and even Linux machines tend to conjure up

images of reams and reams of green colored text pouring out of an 80x25

resolution text mode! While many newbies unknowingly continue to remain in the

dark ages of the text mode, most Linux users can today confidently setup the

free XFree86 environment to provide a user-friendly graphical interface to the

once arcane world of Linux.

Unfortunately 'user friendly' takes up a new meaning in the world of Linux. If

We may be able to expect a real Linux 2.4.0 before the new year, but major distributions probably won't ship with it by default immediately. Also, different distributions may take different approaches to the new kernel. Features, such as DevFS and the Linux Volume Manager, may not be enabled by default in some distributions.

A Linux-based network backup system for irreplaceable data files on many networked computers is inexpensive, reliable, easy to set up, trivial to expand and extremely practical. With just an hour of time you can potentially save your group or company many thousands of dollars in the case of a hard drive crash.