Well it's been a few months, and a new release of OpenBSD is out (since December 1st 1999 actually) and I thought it was high time I covered some of the new features and improvements. For those of you unfamiliar with OpenBSD it is a flavor of UNIX based on BSD, with one main goal in mind. Security. The entire purpose of OpenBSD is to provide a fast, stable, and above all, secure computing platform.

Linux is a Unix like operating system, originally developed and conceived by Linus Torvalds. Developers around the world are now developing Linux under the GNU (General Public License).

There has been some hype about Mandrake being a more user-friendly Linux distribution when compared to it’s contemporaries, Red Hat Linux being the most oft-cited.

If you maintain a UNIXish system of any sort, you will invariably have to add and/or delete user accounts, even if you have a home system. In extremely large organizations, you may employ tools such as NIS+ for network based user management, however, in smaller scale systems, accounts are most likely controlled at each system.

These alternatives to KDE and GNOME prove that the Linux desktop arena is anything but small. The author looks at more obscure alternative desktops for Linux, including CTWM, IceWM, LWM, Scwm, Sawmill, and TkDesk.

If you think printers are fun, try wandering by your tech support people's cubicles (assuming you are not one yourself), and waiting for a printer call to come through. You shouldn't have to wait too long. Next, note the look on their faces when they're told it's a printer problem.

The sendmail 8.10 release, now out in beta, makes it clear that even after two decades, sendmail is still plenty young enough to be learning new tricks. One of these is sendmail 8.10's integration with LDAP, the lightweight directory access protocol.

This paper examines the performance of the Linux kernel when the system is running a Java program using the IBM Developer Kit for Linux, Java Technology Edition, Version 1.1.8. The Java program is the VolanoMark benchmark, a communication-intensive benchmark that creates a large number of Java threads.

Everybody's heard of this awesome sound card! And now there are Linux drivers for it to. With this article I'll explain how to get the SBLive! working on your Linux distribution.

I have found from my own personal experience that ATAPI CD Recorders were not that difficult to get up and running, thanks to X-CD-Roast and Red Hat Linux.