"We will build a small device with 2 LEDs and one pushbutton. A green LED will indicate when the pushbutton is active and a slowly blinking yellow LED indicates that the server is working or still in the process of shutting down. To shut down the server you press the pushbutton for 3 seconds."

"PGP has always been a popular choice for public key encryption. K Mail works fine with PGP. I tried a combination of K Mail and PGP 5 on a Linux machine." FreeOS has an article on using Mutt with GPG here.

"With Linux, an old PC, and a PC radio card, you can build a device to hang off your home network which will be simple to operate and let you listen to some Really Cool Stuff for less than $150."

There are several pieces that need to be assembled to getting started on palm development on Linux. Here is a basic list of what is needed: Palm Emulator, ROM Image for POSE, PRC tools (GCC with output for PalmOS), PilRC (Resource Compiler), PalmOS SDK's.

This three-part series on the Linux 2.4 Software RAID introduces the new technology that's used to increase disk performance and reliability by distributing data over multiple disks. This first installment covers Software RAID setup (kernel and tools installation) and shows you how to create linear and RAID-0 volumes.

The last column showed you how to configure a Linux-based monitoring system with dual network interface cards. This one shows you how to install and configure IPtraf, a traffic analysis utility, and how to use GNUplot, an open source plotting package, to graph the data gathered.

"Make has always been described to me as if one were baking a cake. You have a prescribed list of ingredients, each one with its own place in the recipe. The directions are followed and out pops a cake. Make is great for cake. But it really shines when you're baking things like a motorcycle."

A plug-in is a software module that adds new functions or extensions to a host application, without the need to recompile the program. The plug-in functions are stored within a shared object file (*.so in Linux, *.dll in Windows) that may contain one or several plug-ins. The application provides the entry points to dock an object, and the new functions are immediately available. The user accesses the plug-in as a normal part of the host's interface.

"In this article I want to show you a few things you can do with a $50 TV card under Linux. This article expects you to know how to compile the kernel, and how to install general application on Linux."

Why settle for a dual-boot compuer system when with just a little more effort you can have a triple-boot system? This article adds Red Hat 7 as a third boot-option to the existing dual-boot system created in an earlier Dual-Boot article.