An Introduction To The Free Operating System at VarBusiness.

This is Part II of a series covering freely available Linux DBMSes.

Enlightenment is a window manager for the X windowing system. It will run on most unix-based systems, and has been reported to run on Linux 2.x (both glibc2 and libc5), Solaris, FreeBSD, HP/UX, Irix, AIX, and Warp OS/2 (provided they are using the X wind owing system).

This article is mainly for teachers who wish to do some web site construction, though it may be of some interest to others.

Nearly all Linux distributions available today are insecure right out of the box. Many of these security holes can be easily plugged, but tradition and habit have left them wide open.

While it is possible for almost anyone to set up a server, a server will only be successful if it is sufficiently fast to keep players coming back.

Linux achieves its windows file sharing ability with a great piece of GNU software called Samba. Along with SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool), Linux can scale well to even heavily used workgroups.

Apache is the web server software currently used by more than 50% of web sites worldwide. This will help you install and configure your own Apache web server.

Sendmail, Fetchmail, and Mutt are archetypal console based mail programs. Installed by default on most distributions of Linux, these applications are widely regarded for their superb reliability.  This howto assumes that all the above are available for configuration on your box, and that you have a dialup connection to the internet with a single mailbox account.

Some fonts on the Internet look pretty messed up in Linux because most of the web pages out there were written for Windows users and Window's True Type Fonts (TTF) are not included with Linux, Gnome or KDE! Luckily, Redhat 5 and newer has a Font server that will allow you to use any true type fonts on your Linux PC.