"It seems that there are more people out there using Promise FastTrak cards than I could have ever imagined. Luckily, shortly after all my distraught users informed me of their problems they were having on Red Hat 7.1, Promise e-mailed me looking to solve this problem. Armed with your anger (well, maybe not) and problems, I'm hoping I've taken the first step to tackling this problem."

With the recent release of Samba 2.2, the Samba team has made major improvements to their server software, including support for Windows 2000 and NT 4.0 clients. Here's a series of tips showing you how to get started using Samba 2.2.

"The last couple of articles in this series should have given you an idea that a fair bit is happening on your network. Now that you're getting a good picture of the kind of traffic flying across your network, the next piece of information you might want to get concerns what that traffic is costing you in terms of performance and, that most precious of resources, bandwidth."

This documentation is designed to serve as a brief introduction to the Red Hat Package Management system, or RPM. Part 1 will cover installation of RPM packages, while part 2 will cover building your own RPM packages for distribution.

"An X terminal is a great way to expand the computing presence in a home or office. (We're talking about a PC that functions as an X terminal, not NEC's dedicated X-Terminal device.) They're fast, cool, a great demonstration of a Unix system's power, and, most importantly, dirt cheap."

DRI accel, FMV playback, dualhead consoles and X, AA fonts, playing DVDs, DivX ;-) encoding anyone? This article focuses on getting all that running on your debian box, but it should work across all distributions. Good article to refer to.

Now that all the hype has died down from DeCSS, it's finally time to get going with DVD video on Linux. There's a couple ways to get DVD done on Linux -- either software or hardware decoding. So, let's get you up and going with DVD on Linux.

This is a fairly comprehensive article on using the java ssh client MindTerm along with SSH as a quick, reliable, and secure VPN-like setup.

An introduction to Linux for newbies with detailed, step by step instructions to partitioning a hard disk and installing Caldera e-desktop 2.4 along with Windows.

Here are bare bones guides to administering the common services that your a likely to have in your system. Samba, DNS, mail and NIS are some of the services covered here.