HOWTO that walks you through building a FreeBSD-STABLE firewall with IPFILTER. This is a checklist that walks you through the entire process from beginning to end: installing FreeBSD-stable, recompiling the kernel, OpenSSH security, TCP-wrappers, VESA video modes, and special syslog logging for your firewall.

Partitioning your drive is the first thing you have to do when installing Linux, and one of the scariest things. But don't be overwhelmed by it. Just think of the process as being made from many small parts, instead of one big whole. Here are some helpful tips.

Here are some tips which will help you format Linux partitions using ext2fs on the new disk, format swap partitions, check for bad blocks on the disc, mount the disc, copy files from old to new disc, etc.

Even though many server admins prefer BSD Unix, there’s no denying that Linux is "where it’s at" for third-party software development. So, what’s a BSD admin to do?

"One of the very few things I miss about "that other operating system" is the easy availability of cheap or even free versions of commercial encyclopedias and dictionaries." This article shows you how to install a functional dictionary system either for local or network use.

It is now possible to seamlessly integrate your Palm device with Linux. This article show you how to get the most out of both the command-line tools that are available, as well as the latest GNOME GUI software for integrating Linux with your Palm.

The most annoying thing about NFS is it assumes a user's name and UID on one machine matches exactly the user's name and UID on another machine, which means you either have to have matching password and group files on all your servers or, somehow, anonymous access is sufficient for all your needs. The answer to this problem is NIS.

"When I upgraded to the 2.4 kernel, I lost my sound for no apparent reason. I took this as a personal insult and made it my mission to conquer the computer. The audience for this article is mainly those who have had sound but lost it during a kernel upgrade."

"My last article was all about getting my Yopy and making sure it worked. Now that I had the unit, I needed to figure out what I could do with the unit. I managed to hook the Yopy to the notebook using the serial cable that came with the yopy. The yopy had a getty running at 115200 so I used minicom to test the connection to the yopy. It gave me a login prompt so I logged in as root to take a look around."

"The performance boost varies between traffic trends, but we received an average cache-hit rate of 54% in our labs. Which means our Cache server was off loading half the traffic from our web servers, and Internet connection. So what do you need?"