"In this article, I'll argue that the open content movement--a movement to release written documents with a license similar to the GNU General Public License (GPL)--is due to the realization that a for-profit industry was about to lock up indispensable public knowledge and, in so doing, pose a grave threat to the advancement of knowledge and human welfare. The stakes are very high."

While the technical arguments against Linux and Open Source are being gradually silenced, several unrefuted myths about the economics of Open Source continue to float about, confusing and scaring off people considering these alternative products. Worse, the Open Source community is itself divided on such issues, and is unable to provide a cogent rebuttal. This article is an attempt to set the record straight.

This updated howto covers selecting, connecting, configuring, troubleshooting, and understanding modems for a PC running Linux.

SuSE Linux has announced the release of SuSE Linux 7.1 for the Sparc architecture of Sun Microsystems. It comes with the proven Linux Kernel 2.2.18 as well as the latest Kernel 2.4.2 as a special bonus for technophile users. this version is based on the program library glibc 2.2 and the popular SBUS graphics cards are supported by XFree86 4.0.2.

ASPN delivers tools and knowledge to enable programming with open source technologies. ASPN, launched in multiple levels, empowers a broader class of programmers with open source and boosts programmer productivity. Programmers can develop in the language and platform that maps best to their coding task.

Compaq/Check Point SolutionPaq is a `secured by Check Point(TM) Appliance' integrating Compaq ProLiant servers with Check Point's VPN-1/FireWall-1 software and enabled with firewall high availability software from Rainfinity. The platform is optimized for security applications, running on a hardened Red Hat Linux operating system with all software pre-installed, pre-configured, tested and OPSEC-certified.

There are tools available that can resize your partition, but what do you do if there is no free space left on your hard drive? One option is that you delete and re-create your partitions. Add another hard drive, create a bigger partition there and move our data there. Although possible, such methods are temporary and in all probability, you will run out of space again. The need of the hour therefore, is not a static and temporary solution, but a more dynamic one that’s also easy to administer and maintain. And LVM fulfills that need.

Under most flavors of Unix, the most commonly used software package is Berkley Internet Name Domain, (BIND). This article will serve as an introduction to obtaining, installing and configuring BIND under Linux, and will include some pointers on where to go for more in-depth information.

Since Microsoft's office productivity line is a major revenue stream, IBM would be netscaping Microsoft, just like Microsoft netscaped Netscape half a decade before. So there's a certain delicious irony in that. And if the bad investment in Corel finances the purchase of the WordPerfect assets by IBM, that is poetic justice and the world is again just.

The three new servers, the VA Linux 2231, the VA Linux 2241, and the VA Linux 2251, offer advanced remote management capabilities using VACM(pronounced vacuum), VA Linux's open source cluster management software, and augment the vendor's line of ultradense 1U and 2U rack-optimized Linux servers.