Though not everyone is happy with this release of RedHat, it does contain some useful upgrades from the earlier 6.2 version. We can report on a number of significant changes, some pertinent warnings, and a few items that are not quite ready-for-prime-time.

Lets use the most commonly available proxy server for Linux and the most

stable one around, Squid. Installing and configuring it is a breeze as

you'll soon find out. To make things simpler I would suggest that you get

the Squid RPM from any of the download on the net for your distro.The

latest Stable release of Squid is squid-2.3.STABLE1-5.i386.rpm. If you are

not able to find it on your distro's CD then i would suggest you try out

www.rpmfind.net. After having downloaded the RPM install it with the

following command.

Wine allows you to run Windows applications on a Linux system. After seven years as alpha code, Wine's developers expect to have a 1.0 release of the software ready some time in the next six to twelve months.

Linux continues its march to the desktop, strengthened by the arrival of Open Office and other non-hacker applications, but what good are these apps to you if they don't speak your language? Localization is important if you want Linux to be an alternative for the non-English-speaking world.

Whether your aim is to expel the evil operating system Zurg from your computer, or find a way to peacefully co-exist with it, you'll find that the current stable release of Debian, aka Potato, is the easiest Debian to work with yet.

Linux Standard Base has not met its own stated goals with LDPS 1.0, as ncurses incompatibilities demonstrate. Furthermore, the inadequacy of the standard doesn't seem influenced by the distributors.

Apart from firewalls, which aim at protecting internal networks against attacks from the internet, web servers are the second important field requiring a high degree of security. This article shows how this can be done on a Linux system within just 45 minutes. The article uses SuSE 6.4.

I have 30G of Hard disk space with 5Gb for Windows, 2Gb for BeOS and 4Gb for /home. So I decided to leave the other 19Gb available (I deleted my SuSE 6.4) for SuSE and install everything (except sources). After about 7 hours it was installed. Out of the 19Gb I had about 5 or 6Gb free.

Linux is Microsoft's primary concern. The company is seeing more and more Linux in the low-end Intel space. However Linux is still focused on cool technology rather than customer needs. And customer needs come first with Microsoft and Windows 2000.

IBM is now able to demonstrate a commitment to Linux across the range, which no other hardware vendor can currently match or even comes close to. Linux runs on every box in IBM's rebranded eServer range. They've even got it running on a wrist watch.