This article illustrates how to port and package a well-formed GNU source distribution into a QNX package. Assumptions are that you have installed the development packages and the new package builder.

This article demonstrates how to upgrade an existing Linux system to use the 2.4 kernel.

So, you've just got your fast Cable or DSL connection and now you need a firewall to protect you? No problem.

"Are you normally a Microsoft Windows user who now is using Linux as a second or alternative computer operating system? Or, are you making the switch from Microsoft (MS) Windows to Linux? If so, then chances are that you want your Linux installation to look and to feel as much like MS Windows as possible."

"With more and more script kiddies being born, we all need to learn a few basic rules of protecting ourselves. This guide will outline
the basics of FreeBSD security, and works best with FreeBSD version 4.x."

The first part of this article was about setting up DSL on your NetBSD machine. This part looks at some considerations that should be made when going online, utilizing the connection and also preparing for the less friendly side of "The Net".

With monthly security patches, feature enhancements, and bug fixes, how do you keep up to date? This article looks at various package management programs that can automate this process and allow you to sync your OS to the latest patches automatically or manually, and also offer ways of keeping a whole network up to date.

The question is "What's the Debian equivalent of rc.local" or "Where can I put startup commands in Debian?" Here's a quick step-by-step guide to one way to do this.

"As of 2.4, ipchains is a thing of the past. The replacement for ipchains is Netfilter's iptables. What does this mean to the end user? Typically it means little beyond the fact that suddenly their ipmasq script doesn't work. So, for starters let's get into setting up ipmasq under 2.4.x kernels."

Automount and autofs are powerful tools and ease file systems management. They allow all the users of one machine to mount different file systems automatically the very moment they are needed.