If you've ever toyed around with one of the many Unix-based operating systems, chances are that you've encountered source code that would not compile on your system maybe because your system is missing other programs the compile depends on. The FreeBSD ports/packages system attempts to address all of these issues and make third party application installation a breeze.

Within Linux, as of the Kernel 2.1 series and above, this problem of providing policy routing is solved by replacing the conventional destination-based routing table with the “routing policy database”, or RPDB, which selects the appropriate IP route by executing a set of rules.

Palm Pilots are not intended to be your sole computing platform, but instead are designed to be satellite devices for when you're away from your desk. And if your desk features a Linux box (or any brand of Unix, for that matter), you'll be pleased to know that the Palm Pilots are well supported on this platform.

I have been anxiously awaiting XFree86 4.0 for several months. After reading about it from the initial announcement and reading the updates posted on the XFree86 website and on sites like slashdot.org, I knew that I would be wanting this on my system the minute it became available. This document could lightly be considered a HOW-TO, but I won’t classify it as such. This article details my installation of the new XFree86 4.0 windowing system on my home Linux system, and my impressions of it.

PHP is a great embedded programming language for the Internet. Using PHP you can do a great deal of things.

The purpose of this article is to explain how to create an installation CD-ROM from one of the Linux distributions. We will limit ourselves to IDE CD-ROM writers, any ftp program, the program cdrecord, and the pre-made ISO images from various Linux distributions. We will also be touching the /etc/lilo.conf file.

From downloading to installing to configuring, find out how to make StarOffice work for you on the desktop or across the network.

Have you been trying to install DB2 Universal Database on a Linux-based workstation? Did you run into some troubles? As I scan around the DB2 and Linux newsgroups, I hear from many of users who are getting frustrated when trying to get DB2 running on Linux. How did this problem get so big?

This paper establishes a context for the work of Eric Raymond and his description of the Linux phenomenon, by examining the emerging science of complex adaptive systems pioneered by John Holland, Christopher Langton, Robert Axelrod, among others.

The Linux OS is emerging as a viable alternative to “closed-system” security solutions.