FreeOS Howtos

Linux : Howtos : Software RAID in the new Linux 2.4 kernel
Posted: ( Fri 9th Feb 2001 08:10:40[PM] UTC )
This three-part series on the Linux 2.4 Software RAID introduces the new technology that's used to increase disk performance and reliability by distributing data over multiple disks. This first installment covers Software RAID setup (kernel and tools installation) and shows you how to create linear and RAID-0 volumes.

Linux : Howtos : Traffic analysis almost for free, part 2
Posted: ( Thu 8th Feb 2001 08:05:15[PM] UTC )
The last column showed you how to configure a Linux-based monitoring system with dual network interface cards. This one shows you how to install and configure IPtraf, a traffic analysis utility, and how to use GNUplot, an open source plotting package, to graph the data gathered.

FreeOS : Howtos : What are you gonna do? 'Make' me?
Posted: ( Thu 8th Feb 2001 03:52:03[PM] UTC )
"Make has always been described to me as if one were baking a cake. You have a prescribed list of ingredients, each one with its own place in the recipe. The directions are followed and out pops a cake. Make is great for cake. But it really shines when you're baking things like a motorcycle."

Linux : Howtos : Linux audio plug-ins: A look into LADSPA
Posted: ( Wed 7th Feb 2001 04:37:12[PM] UTC )
A plug-in is a software module that adds new functions or extensions to a host application, without the need to recompile the program. The plug-in functions are stored within a shared object file (*.so in Linux, *.dll in Windows) that may contain one or several plug-ins. The application provides the entry points to dock an object, and the new functions are immediately available. The user accesses the plug-in as a normal part of the host's interface.

Linux : Howtos : Video applications on your Linux box
Posted: ( Tue 6th Feb 2001 07:48:17[AM] UTC )
"In this article I want to show you a few things you can do with a $50 TV card under Linux. This article expects you to know how to compile the kernel, and how to install general application on Linux."

Linux : Howtos : Triple-Boot Caldera OpenLinux, Red Hat Linux & MS Windows
Posted: ( Mon 5th Feb 2001 12:43:42[AM] UTC )
Why settle for a dual-boot compuer system when with just a little more effort you can have a triple-boot system? This article adds Red Hat 7 as a third boot-option to the existing dual-boot system created in an earlier Dual-Boot article.

Linux : Howtos : Configuring kHTTPd NHF
Posted: ( Wed 24th Jan 2001 08:01:51[AM] UTC )
kHTTPd is a webserver that handles only static (file based, non-cgi/php) webpages, and passes all requests for non-static (dynamic) information to a regular userspace-webserver such as Apache or Zeus. This is benificial because it offloads the delivery of static webpages to the kernel, allowing the userspace-webserver program (such as apache) to do what it does best: deliver dynamic content (cgi-bin, php).

Linux : Howtos : Mutt: An e-mail users best friend
Posted: ( Tue 23rd Jan 2001 05:43:37[PM] UTC )
"With all the choices of graphical e-mail clients available to Linux users, the reader may wonder why I would spend time on a terminal based e-mail program. Like other debates on GUI vs. terminal base applications, the answer to this question is "it depends". Let me start with why I use Mutt and then why you might like it too."

Linux : Howtos : Linux-Windows file access
Posted: ( Tue 23rd Jan 2001 05:31:01[PM] UTC )
This article explains how to access the various Windows filesystems from Linux, and how to access ext2fs from Windows. Find tips on mounting partitions and using Samba, and take a look into the future of Linux-Windows cross-file access.

Linux : Howtos : Hotkeys!
Posted: ( Tue 23rd Jan 2001 05:26:45[PM] UTC )
This list is not a complete list of all the hotkeys available, we could spend days on some of the more obscure and/or mundane ones. Instead, this list covers the more useful and generic ones trying not to be application specific.

Linux : Howtos : Multiple local XFree users under Linux
Posted: ( Tue 23rd Jan 2001 05:16:31[PM] UTC )
"My idea is to have two instances of XFree86. The first will be using a normal XFree86 server, it will initialize the main video card and attach it to a VT. It will also use the standard system AT keyboard and something (PS/2, serial, USB emulated as PS/2, whatever you want) as a mouse. The second instance of XFree will be my modified X server."

Linux : Howtos : An in-depth look at Reiserfs
Posted: ( Mon 22nd Jan 2001 07:57:11[PM] UTC )
Reiserfs will soon become the first journaled file system to be bundled as part of the standard Linux kernel tree. What is a journaled file system, how does Reiserfs fit into that category, and why should you care that it's about to become part of the Linux core?

Linux : Howtos : My steps to building and installing the 2.4 kernel in Redhat 7
Posted: ( Mon 22nd Jan 2001 07:50:22[PM] UTC )
"I got together all of my resources in one place, sat down with the README and CHANGES docs that come with the kernel, and decided to document, step by step, the process I went through. This was done on a *fresh* install of Redhat 7 on an AMD 700MHz, with a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI, and 128MB RAM."

Linux : Howtos : Securing DNS with Transaction Signatures
Posted: ( Sun 21st Jan 2001 08:20:53[AM] UTC )
The DNS works on a question-answer model. If a client needs information from the DNS it sends a question to a DNS server and the server returns an answer. Until recently it was only possible for a server to examine a question and determine whether or not to answer it based on the IP address the question originated from.

Linux : Howtos : Tux knows it's nice to share, part 1; NFS
Posted: ( Sun 21st Jan 2001 08:16:49[AM] UTC )
This child of Sun Microsystems is ubiquitous on just about every Linux or UNIX distribution you can think of. NFS stands for "Network File System", and you can even get it for that other OS, which makes it an ideal first choice for exploration of file sharing.