When Lotus placed their Sneak Preview (SPI) of Domino for Linux on Notes.Net in August of this year, I'm sure even they were surprised that 50,000 people chose to download it -- considering each download was a non-trivial 130MB.

This month, we start a new series of articles on Linux internals. We will travel the innards of the Linux kernels of the 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and the new 2.4.x series.

We're going to change direction in midstream. In this part, I'll cover non-performance-related topics. In the next and final part, I'll cover with benchmarking and then close with the final conclusion.

There are a number of different theories amongst the larger Linux distributors regarding the number of CDs that their distribution should contain. Caldera have obviously had a recent change of mind in this area - OpenLinux, which previously shipped with 2 CDs, has acquired a third friend - a new 'Windows Tools & Commercial Packages' CD-ROM has joined the fold.

The following article details the process I used to install Slackware 7.0 onto my laptop.

OK, this really won't be a total review. Essentially I'll describe the install process in an abbreviated manner. For those of you who want to install Linux for the first time, or if you've used other distributions before and want to know what to expect, this page tries to lay that out.

I decided to get samba working between my linux box (`Edge') and my Windows 98 carcass (`Caffeine').

In the previous installments of this article, there have been some inaccuracies, workarounds, ugly hacks, and other code which should never have been written. Fortunately, some readers have pointed this out to me, so I can learn, as can you.

In this article I will picture a case study of a small company migrating from a Windows NT Server network to a Linux one.

VMware's system emulator lets you run up to five OSs on one box simultaneously. Rawn Shah checks out VMware's latest system emulator, version 1.1. It promises to let you run a Linux host OS, then switch -- without rebooting -- among up to four other guest OSs that operate inside virtual hardware created by VMware.