Linux

Source: Linux Journal

Source: SUSE

Package: openssh

Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2002:024

Date: Tuesday, Jul 2nd 2002 22:00 MEST

Source: TechWeb

Source: PC WORLD

Looking for an inexpensive, simple-to-use alternative to the Windows operating system? Linux may leap to mind, but since Corel abandoned its effort, no vendor has concentrated strictly on making Linux friendly enough for newbies. Now, the $30 Desktop/LX distribution from upstart Lycoris demonstrates that Microsoft's monopoly on friendly operating systems for the PC could be coming to a close.

An article and guidance at the same time about the kernel of linux, but the article it is more likely to be funny and awesome at the same time because just by the title:

"For Kernel_Newbies By a Kernel_Newbie"

This article or manual(guidance) it is intended for people to learn more about the kernel of linux in an easy way... This is the site, because if I put the information in here, that will be too much for reading....

http://www.freeos.com/articles/4536/.

User authentication for logins is generally a no brainer. You setup users on the local system and off you go... nothing to it. However, if you're on a LAN and you want to have a centralized "repository" of users, you will likely be looking at some method of distributing user information across the LAN. This has a few distinct advantages, the primary being all user authentication is centralized. This means that users have the same password on each system in the LAN, and if they change their password, the password is seamlessly changed everywhere.

This article it is from a crew that has many ideas and it has many users that their servers always go down every time a new user comes in... but what it is cool it has many articles about linux and security that can teach how to protect yourself from malicious hackers...

This is the site to download the manual or article:

">http://hackers.com/new/viewarticle.php?aid=83

Register today to have the August 2002 issue of the printed journal mailed to you for free. You will find articles to help you develop and navigate the open Linux frontier, from porting your MFC apps to Linux to mastering Linux debugging techniques. In addition, you will learn new strategies for developing with hot technologies like wireless, XML, and Java technologies, as well as with products like WebSphere and DB2. Check it out today at developerWorks!

A small technology school in the frozen reaches of upstate New York was the big IBM Linux Scholar Challenge winner. Four out of the six students in the Advanced Operating Systems class last year won big. How did they do it? To tell you how, Dr. Jeanna Matthews shares her classroom experiences and illustrates the teaching environment at Clarkson. In the rest of our series, the students give you the details on their winning entries.

How well does your operating system juggle 200 threads at once? Performance expert Ed Bradford tests Linux, Windows 2000, and Windows XP in a thread-management bake-off. Ed continues his discussion of threads, this time putting his systems to the test using a program that exercises a machine's ability to process multiple threads.