The Duke of URL has just posted its Linux Buyer's Guide #12. The guide covers 3 systems, from low-end to high-end and focuses on configuring the hardware for Linux. This is a great guide for anyone looking to build a Linux box and
make sure all of their hardware will work out of the box. In addition to this, the guide covers info on the latest Linux compatible (and incompatible) hardware that has reached the market.
The White House Web site has been moved onto a Linux platform
after its administrators managed to successfully side step an attack
by the Code Red worm.
Netcraft reports that Whitehouse.gov is now being hosted by a
peering firm and that the site uses a Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 Web
server on a Linux platform.
The Duke of URL has just posted its review of EnGarde Secure Linux 1.0.1. EnGarde Secure Linux is a unique brand of Linux with a focus on security, e-commerece, and servers. The review covers installation,
its interface, and more.
Linux prepares for battle
By Matthew Broersma
ZDNet (UK)
July 6, 2001 3:43 PM PT
Linux and the open source software movement have faced a number of intimidating obstacles
over the past months, including the disappearance of the dot-com market enthusiasm and a
propaganda campaign by Microsoft executives branding open source as "viral" or a "cancer".
But the movement has not only survived--it is gearing up for battle.
The Duke of URL has posted its HowTo covering the Promise FastTrak series of cards
under Red Hat 7.1. Up until now users of these cards have been restricted to Red Hat 7.0
and 6.2. The review covers installation of Promise's own drivers, along with the open source Promise FastTrak drivers.
An industry group has released the first version of a standard designed to make it easier to write Linux software by guaranteeing that different versions of Linux work similarly.
Red Hat Linux's web hosting software, Tux, raises the bar for
the future of hosting. Tux's performance of 12,792
Transactions/second is three times faster then Apache's 4,602
TPS, and even doubles Windows 2000 IIS 5.0 (5,137 TPS). Tux
is engineered directly for speed, and directly integrates itself
with the Linux 2.4 Kernel.
Microsoft has been waging a war of words against the open-source community. They have gone as far as to say that it is a cancer that affects everything it touches. MS has decided to bash Linux, rather than trying to improve their own products to overcome the 'cancer' (as they put it). There's more to Microsoft's recent attacks on the open-source movement than mere rhetoric: Linux's popularity could hinder the software giant in its quest to gain control of a server market that's crucial to its long-term goals.
The Duke of URL has just posted its reviews of XFree86 4.1.0. The review takes a look at its performance (2D and 3D), new features, bug fixes, and takes a look at the performance improvements on ATI, NVIDIA, 3dfx, and Matrox drivers.
The Duke of URL has just posted its review of NetBSD 1.5. The review covers everything from installation, to its features, as well as how it ranks up in security and against the other *BSDs.
