FreeOS Howtos

Linux : Howtos : Playing DVDs with Xine
Posted: ( Fri 23rd Feb 2001 04:10:01[AM] UTC )
"How could I even imagine that I'd be able to play my DVDs on anything other than the commercial software that came with my video card? To my surprise, not only was DVD playback possible, it was much easier then I expected."

Linux : Howtos : Hard drive benchmarking with iozone
Posted: ( Thu 22nd Feb 2001 07:53:58[AM] UTC )
"If you're in a position where you need or want to maximize your computer's speed, all but the most compute-bound tasks will likely benefit from a faster disk drive system. Which raises the question: Aside from reading specs (which are really just a first cousin to statistics in terms of veracity), how do you evaluate the performance of a disk drive?"

Linux : Howtos : Setting up a Local Area Network
Posted: ( Thu 22nd Feb 2001 07:36:34[AM] UTC )
This article describes how to build a LAN using Red Hat. The article begins with the basics: an overview of the TCP/IP suite, and an explanation of assigning IP addresses in a LAN. Then the article covers the LAN hardware and configuration using a tool called LinuxConf. Lastly, the article walks you through the critical steps of testing and troubleshooting your LAN.

Linux : Howtos : Fiddling with USB audio and Linux
Posted: ( Thu 22nd Feb 2001 07:34:20[AM] UTC )
"As far as hardware installations go, USB Audio is one of the most painless Linux experiences I've ever had. My Microsoft speakers worked the first time they were plugged in (louder than planned, but functional)."

FreeOS : Howtos : CVS mixed-tagging for massive open source project management
Posted: ( Thu 22nd Feb 2001 07:32:49[AM] UTC )
"This article is of interest to people who use cvs, are working on a massive open source project - thousands or millions of lines, with several inter-dependent components, several developers and tens of man-years of development effort. You think this isn't a problem? That's because your project is too small. Wait a few years, you'll find out what i'm talking about."

Linux : Howtos : Installing the latest KDE
Posted: ( Tue 20th Feb 2001 05:46:42[AM] UTC )
"Over the past few months, readers have asked me for instructions on installing the new KDE 2.1 into Linux. This weekend, I did a new install of LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 on a Wallstreet Powerbook and used the opportunity to document the steps needed to upgrade to KDE 2.1."

FreeOS : Howtos : Setting up DNS servers
Posted: ( Mon 19th Feb 2001 11:32:14[PM] UTC )
"Originally, all domain name resolution occurred on one computer, which contained a text file called HOSTS.TXT. However, as time went on, the HOSTS.TXT file required update after update. The computer containing this file was also being overrun with name resolution requests. Managing millions of constantly changing sets of name became a serious problem, so each domain that is registered now has its own DNS file."

Linux : Howtos : Clearing out the Master Boot Record (MBR)
Posted: ( Mon 19th Feb 2001 09:22:16[PM] UTC )
"... install Linux, realize that Windows will screw up the boot record, delete the Linuxp artition, try to install Windows first... OOPS. The Windows setup runs into a problem and stops. The reason for all of the above is that they forgot to uninstall LILO"

Linux : Howtos : Securely erasing a hard drive with Perl
Posted: ( Sun 18th Feb 2001 07:16:18[PM] UTC )
"The goal of this Perl script is to just delete all partitions, create one partition that takes up the whole hard drive, and then fill up the hard drive with garbage data (including some random encrypted data just to ruin a hacker's day trying to find out what the data is)."

Linux : Howtos : Ximian GNOME: Welcome to your desktop!
Posted: ( Sun 18th Feb 2001 07:14:35[PM] UTC )
This article goes through the different features of Ximian GNOME and teaches you how to customize the desktop to suit your specific needs. Also reviewed are some of the applications that come with Ximian GNOME.

Linux : Howtos : Creating network diagrams
Posted: ( Sun 18th Feb 2001 07:12:49[PM] UTC )
As a diagnostic resource the network diagram, describing the topology and providing detailed information of hardware, is essential. This article takes a quick look at some useful open-source tools available for Linux that will allow you to create and maintain useful network diagrams.

Linux : Howtos : Avoiding security holes when developing an application - Part 1
Posted: ( Sun 18th Feb 2001 07:09:58[PM] UTC )
This article is the first one in a series about the main security holes that can usually to appear within an application. These articles show the ways to avoid them by changing the development habits.

Linux : Howtos : The Linux Logical Volume Manager
Posted: ( Sat 17th Feb 2001 08:11:21[PM] UTC )
Conceptually, the LVM allows you to combine and divide physical disk partitions in a completely flexible manner. The resulting filesystems are dynamically resizable, and their maximum size can exceed 1,000 terabytes.

Linux : Howtos : Compiling the Linux kernel
Posted: ( Sat 17th Feb 2001 08:07:52[PM] UTC )
This tutorial shows how to rebuild your Linux kernel step by step to get the right configuration for your machine. The articles starts with a introduction of the kernel, and then walks you through locating and downloading sources, configuring the kernel, compiling and installing the kernel, and boot configuration.

FreeOS : Howtos : PHP on speed!
Posted: ( Sat 17th Feb 2001 07:58:18[PM] UTC )
"This is a down and dirty guide to compiling Apache with PHP, MySQL and SSL support, as well as how to install SGI's 10xpatch for apache_1.3 series and the ZendOptimizer."