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Enterprise businesses with their own IT staffs may have the knowledge and where-with-all to implement Linux in their organizartions, but what about the small-business owner who has to manage everything from buying pencils to setting up the network? The Ad
The concept of RAID, so often put aside in Linux documentation for all those smart systems administrators, is actually not something that takes a lot of special knowledge to understand. As Alexander Prohorenko explains, all you need is a little common sen
Describes Linux file structure, system files, and lists Linux commands by category.
Not happy with your ISP? Think you can can share information within your organization better? Setting up your own Web server isn't as hard as some may think, thanks to the ease of use of Linux and Apache.
Longtime Perl programmer Mark-Jason Dominus tells us about an unhappy incident involving food and some lawyers. He also finds time tell us how to deal with annoying Email.
This Linux Mini-HOWTO teaches you how to plan and create partitions on IDE and SCSI hard drives. It discusses partitioning terminology and considers size and location issues. Use of the fdisk partitioning utility for creating and recovering of partition t
Spam is a topic that will get most sys admins to start pulling out their hair whenever its mentioned. This deluge of white noise floods e-mail inboxes every day. But is there a way to turn down the volume on some of this noise? In this Admin Digest, Rob
Getting files from one machine to another is a snap, right? Just fire up the old FTP client and upload and download away. Linux has a number of command-line FTP applications, some very good, and some not. Dee-Ann LeBlanc walks readers though the basics of
This document introduces Linux users to the Emacs editor. It assumes minimal familiarity with vi or a similar editor.
This tutorial explains basic commands, file structure, file permissions, how to get help, how to work with file systems, networking, samba, DNS, DHCP, CRON, Apache, IP Masquerading, IPChains, and much more.
Last month, we walked you through the basic tools and techniques in putting a Web page together using open source applications. This month, in part two, lets examine the tools and techniques for transferring your pages to the web server as well as the ap.
This document describes how Linux boots and loads up through user login and more. It is very useful when debugging system problems. It describes how LILO loads the kernel, how the kernel finds the filesystem, and how the shell is loaded.
Web sites for your business don't have to be big and flashy or hard to manage to get your message across. And they certainly don't need to run on Microsoft platforms. In this first part of two articles, Rob Reilly breaks down the open source tools you nee
In this article directed at IT professionals, James Andrews discusses methods for installing Linux quickly onto many machines, by standard methodology and by cloning the hard disk.
One of the biggest challanges that a new Linux user faces when they first install any distro is how to cope with this thing called partitioning. Though many installers will auto-configure the partitions of a hard drive for you, having a good partition str
With all of the hub-bub about Linux in clusters, Linux on supercomputers, and the like, sometimes its nice to reflect on the basics a bit. For instance, what if you just wanted to do something more mundane, like add a hard drive to your Linux PC? Alexand.
A simple Linux vs. Mac comparison review.
Most UNIX-based systems have the concept of a serial console. Linux is no exception to this, and this document by Mark F. Komarinski covers how to set up your hardware to use a serial console.
When done right, these auditory cues provide instant feedback to a user from an application. But getting the right sounds for your app does not have to involve scrounging around for whatever you can find on the Internet. You can professionally edit your o
This updated HOWTO covers selecting, connecting, configuring, troubleshooting, and understanding modems for a PC running Linux.
