(LinuxWorld) -- Linux doesn't exist in a vacuum. The PC industry remains
driven by Microsoft and the ever-upward hardware requirements of each
successive transmogrification of Windows.
Linux distribution developers recognize this and expend great effort
attempting to ensure each new release of their product installs and
configures more easily than previous versions -- on well-equipped, late-model
PCs.
That's a good thing, but as a result recent Linux converts have never
installed Linux on the sort of minimal hardware that makes Linux
server-centrism so cost effective: Aged 486s and first-generation Pentiums
with little RAM and no CD-ROM drive.
In Part 4, we ripped into the nuts and bolts of post-installation Linux PC X
terminal configuration. For those whose powerful n... (more)
(LinuxWorld) -- A problem inexperienced Linux users (like me) must overcome
is the diversity of Linux distributions that result from free access to
source code. Freedom comes at a price, and part of that price is paid when
one attempts to install software that comes from third party developers.
Their time and resources are limited, and the tendency is to focus on one
Linux distribution, ... (more)
(LinuxWorld) -- The Information Technology (IT) industry serves acronyms for
breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven da... (oops! I meant to write, "24/7
365"). I've searched diligently for the right Linux accounting solution since
Q4 Y2K minus 2, and naturally enough, there's an acronym for the type of
application we are evaluating together here. Nola (as we are deploying it) is
a LAMP appli... (more)
(LinuxWorld) -- I compared network and system administration to cooking in
Part 6, "How to install Red Hat over a network" and, in this installment,
individual Debian X terminals are on the menu. First, let's tidy the kitchen
and clean the stovetop -- because some more readers have reported that their
Red Hat preparations boiled over! (All right, I promise -- no more kitchen
references. ... (more)
(LinuxWorld) -- When we last left our heroic Debian installation, Debian
Linux was hungrily grabbing essential files needed to metamorphose our crusty
old Pentium 75 into a lightning quick Linux X terminal. All "free as in
speech" and "free as in beer" -- and all courtesy of the volunteer Debian
developers who work tirelessly to produce what some regard as the premium
Linux distribution.... (more)
When not buried under his real job in commercial two-way radio system design and sales, Colin Mattoon is a part-time Linux system administrator at Northwest Communications in Lewiston, ID.
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