With ``e-commerce'' becoming an important part of many businesses, it's useful to know how to set up your server to run SSL for secure transfer of sensitive information.

Intel confirms that only Red Hat and TurboLinux will install on the P4. It seems that rival distributions also got the technical information, but didn't reckon the P4 was worth catering for from a commercial perspective, right now.

Great set of documentation describing SCSI and RAID.

Why you should use them and how to go about optimizing

them for your IO needs. Also contains numerous links to

other high performance computing resources.

For developers building tiny Linux applications BusyBox is a great place to start. Busybox, originally created by Bruce Perens (now maintained by Erik Andersen and sponsored by Lineo), bills itself as "the Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux."

Slackware, one of the older Linux distributions, has gained a deserved reputation as a stable, well-designed system. It is not recommended for new users since it doesn't have a package system as is the case with Debian and Red Hat, but for a moderately advanced user, Slackware may be what you have been missing about Linux.

This article looks at a pair of GUI-based firewalling solutions for Linux: one a commercial offering from Stormix Technologies (Storm Firewall), and the other a free software project that integrates with the GNOME desktop (Firestarter). Both provide graphical front-ends to ipchains, taking some of the pain out of building tailor-made firewalls for home networks.

This article shows you how to customize the prompt for a BASH shell. The article works with BASH since it's the shell that most users use and is the shell that every distribution picks as its default shell.

This a step-by-step tutorial on converting your old Eudora, Netscape, and Outlook messages into Balsa and kmail files.

In the up-and-coming Linux 2.4 release: not only does Linux now offer much faster networking, it also offers the ability to run a kernel-level Web server.

Helix GNOME 1.2 is the latest and greatest version of GNOME available, bar none. What's so special about it? It's got everything the standard GNU version of GNOME has, but it also has just about every updated version of the leading and bleeding edge utilities, applications and enhancements for GNOME that have been put out by third parties.