Though installing the Gimp-Print software was not a trivial undertaking, the results were impressive. Come along as Joe prepares his Linux box to use an Epson Stylus Color 880 printer.

Linux may be cheap, but you can't simply mix, measure and pour. Just like any great recipe, it takes time, effort and mistakes.

The CUPS software provides a way for Unix/Linux users to manage printing in an efficient and reliable manner. It natively supports IPP and has interfaces for LPD, SMB, and JetDirect. With CUPS you can run a printer on a Linux machine as easily as they can on a Windows machine, but with the power of Linux.

Virtual PC is a PC emulator. It emulates the behavior of a fairly standard PC, including text mode video, graphics, and sound. It's totally software based, but it acts like a computer similar to a PC. This article's author shares his experiences with using the Virtual PC to run NetBSD.

There are a number of avenues and methods through which security of a network can be breached. Attacks from the Internet through the firewall are the ones that this article concentrates on.

Several basic servers are common throughout the Internet. This article briefly cover three of the more common: http, ftp and telnet.

This year's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo boasted a whole new crop of clustering products. Commercial clustering solutions are finally ready for harvest. No longer are we stuck in a relative wilderness of Beowulf-only clustering -- the focus of attention for most academic institutions and scientific applications.

Project management and engineering is a largely neglected aspect of free source development. Monty R. Manley addressed this issue in a recent article, but I have reservations about his particular recommendations. Nevertheless, it's an issue we need to tackle.

Microsoft's software profits have been in decline, and its bottom line is being propped up only by impressive returns on its investments. Multiple trends have converged to obsolete the MS business model, but future historians are likely to credit Linux with being the catalyst that undid the MS money machine.

Ipchains is so called because it deals with IP packets at the Network Layer, and the rules defined in it are based on three inbuilt chains called input chain,output chain and forward chain. Packets arriving at the machine running Ipchains are compared against rules defined in the input chain. This article will show you how to configure a packet-filtering firewall in Linux.