About a dozen projects are now underway to produce high-availability versions of Linux, from classic open-source community efforts to proprietary ports of existing applications on other operating systems. For now the best advice is to carefully separate what actually exists from what is promised and to examine the details of each offering carefully in light of your specific needs.

It was a cold morning in New York City, early 1996 when I entered the office

and rushed to the kitchen for that hot mug of coffee to warm myself. I met

with my boss to discuss the tasks for the day, one of which was, "Install and

configure Apache".

Hmmm, I thought to myself. What is this Apache? I had heard about the Native

American tribe, the Indian who sings ragamuffin reggae and the 1957 Chevrolet

classic truck but I did not know that it was something that could be installed

and configured on my Solaris 2.5.1 box.

Here's a interesting article that goes through the history of how the early OSes were and what they needed to worry about and then goes through some of the current OSes.

After the unprecedented hype behind company launches such as VA Linux Systems and Red Hat, share prices plummeted, leaving companies desperate to reorganize. Now, it seems that the shareholders were not the only victims but that Linux's chances on the desktop also became something of a casualty of share dividends.

This is the second part of a series that looks at open source software development. This part discusses and focuses on successful open source projects and tries to understand what makes them so successful.

If you've ever used GNU/Linux, chances are good that you've used bash. Some people hold the belief that using a GUI is faster than using a CLI. These people have obviously never seen someone who uses a shell proficiently. This tutorial shows you a few of the amazing features bash provides to increase your productivity.

Xinetd - extended Internet services daemon - provides a good security against intrusion and reduces the risks of Deny of Services (DoS) attacks. Like the well known couple (inetd+tcpd), it allows to fix the access rights for a given machine, but it can do much more. In this article we will take you through its many features.

Streaming is more analogous to listening to a radio station. You "tune in" and listen. There are a handful of servers you can use under Linux. This article will explain how to set-up an IceCast server together with two different ways of connecting a "source" LiveIce & XMMS-LiveIce.

Win4Lin allows you to install Windows 95 or Windows 98 as an application that runs on Linux. When you start up Windows, it appears in a window on your desktop; you can then install and run almost any Windows application. You can't run most games because Win4Lin doesn't support DirectX.

Even on a device just slightly larger than a credit card and powered by a pair of AAA batteries, a handheld running Linux can deliver the real-time multitasking desktop power that developers crave and users will hopefully demand.