FreeOS Howtos

Linux : Howtos : An introduction to Nessus
Posted: ( Wed 9th May 2001 12:50:25[AM] UTC )
Nessus is an extemely versatile and efficient application that not only identifies nasty vulnerabilities that could be exploited, but tells you how to prevent hackers from taking advantage of your system, and even gives you a risk level for each vulnerability it discovers. There are an infinite number of ways that it can be configured and utilized. Heres a quick and easy step-by-step guide to getting Nessus up and running on your system.

Linux : Howtos : Building a Linux-controlled walking robot
Posted: ( Mon 7th May 2001 12:15:05[AM] UTC )
Robotics enthusiasts are probably familiar with Nitinol: an alloy that "remembers" its shape when heated electrically. It's the basis of the notorious"Stiquito" robots, which weigh mere ounces and get around on their own power. This article shows how to build a Nitonol-based robot which is control with a Linux PC using the parallel port interface.

Linux : Howtos : GNOME 2.0 summary - How to compile GNOME 2.0 from CVS
Posted: ( Wed 2nd May 2001 10:15:01[PM] UTC )
It's now time for a little summary about what's going on with GNOME 2.0 and how you can help with it. As you might already know, we have several new CVS modules for GNOME 2.0. Here's a list of all of them together with a description and in the correct compilation order. Unless otherwise specified, all modules come from CVS HEAD.

Linux : Howtos : New: Plug-and-play
Posted: ( Thu 26th Apr 2001 10:14:32[PM] UTC )
"Plug-and-play (PnP) is a system which automatically detects PC devices such as disks, sound cards, ethernet cards, modems, etc. It also does some low-level configuring of them. To be detected by PnP, the device must be designed for PnP. Non-PnP devices (or PnP devices which have been correctly PnP-configured), can often be detected by non-PnP methods."

Linux : Howtos : Getting started with Linux-Mandrake 7.2
Posted: ( Sun 22nd Apr 2001 08:26:54[PM] UTC )
After talking to coworkers and friends who either had Linux training, or who had used Linux at home, Wayne Bridges decided on the Linux-Mandrake distribution as the most user friendly. He got an off-the-shelf copy of Linux-Mandrake 7.2 and headed home to get started. Here he describes how to install and configure it.

Linux : Howtos : The new modem howto
Posted: ( Fri 13th Apr 2001 12:44:12[AM] UTC )
This updated howto covers selecting, connecting, configuring, troubleshooting, and understanding modems for a PC running Linux.

Linux : Howtos : Setting up DNS services under Linux
Posted: ( Thu 12th Apr 2001 01:31:26[AM] UTC )
Under most flavors of Unix, the most commonly used software package is Berkley Internet Name Domain, (BIND). This article will serve as an introduction to obtaining, installing and configuring BIND under Linux, and will include some pointers on where to go for more in-depth information.

Linux : Howtos : Linux/Unix system monitoring in the Palm of your hand
Posted: ( Mon 9th Apr 2001 11:44:29[PM] UTC )
In this article, Tim Burke runs through all the steps you need to do to get this monitoring capability working on a palmtop device so that you can readily keep track of your Linux Web server.

Linux : Howtos : Tux knows it's nice to share - Part 6
Posted: ( Mon 9th Apr 2001 11:32:33[PM] UTC )
"Another week of exploring Samba. I received a lot of comments on printing using Samba. So, we'll talk about printers to start off. The basics of printer definition and sharing are in a section called, printers. If you installed from source and took the defaults, smb.conf would have been sitting in the /usr/local/samba/lib directory."

Linux : Howtos : Speeding up your Net browsing with PDNSD domain name caching
Posted: ( Mon 9th Apr 2001 11:08:11[PM] UTC )
PDNSD can be configured to speed up Net surfing on a Dial-up connection. Since DNS resolution is referenced from the cached file, time is not wasted on the name to number lookup. This in turn speeds up the name to number translation, which actually accelerates your surfing. Heres how to go about it.

Linux : Howtos : Linux for Microsoft Windows users - Part 4 : Getting started using the Windows-like desktop for Linux
Posted: ( Wed 4th Apr 2001 01:05:06[AM] UTC )
Let's play some easy computer games. The method of this madness is that while we are having a good time playing games we really are learning how to start and run programs from the Linux desktop -- and getting more comfortable using Linux too.

Linux : Howtos : The Linux Kernel howto
Posted: ( Tue 3rd Apr 2001 01:16:27[AM] UTC )
Some of the examples in this document assume that you have GNU tar, find, and xargs. These are quite standard; this should not cause problems. It is also assumed that you know your system's filesystem structure; if you don't, it is critical that you keep a written copy of the mount command's output during normal system operation.

Linux : Howtos : Slackware Linux 101: A look at what happens when you boot your Linux box
Posted: ( Sun 1st Apr 2001 11:12:02[PM] UTC )
Joe Brockmeier examines the Slackware Linux init sequence. He talks about how the system initializes services, what the various runlevels are and how to add or remove services from the default install to customize your system.

Linux : Howtos : Understanding and working with network services
Posted: ( Tue 27th Mar 2001 09:18:56[PM] UTC )
After installing Linux you may want to configure some of your services. This article will be a basic guide to explain and help you understand what services are, how you should go about configuring the most important of them, and how your services are run. Here we shall look at daemons.

Linux : Howtos : Real-time mp3 recording
Posted: ( Sun 18th Mar 2001 11:10:06[PM] UTC )
This articles shows how to record music with Linux. Instead of going the 'expensive' WAV-formatway, the much smaller mp3-format is directly recorded. 24 hour recordings in CD-quality become reality when using this format.