Source: Newsforge
With proper setup and administration, viruses in Linux are the least of your worries, but you still need to worry about Windows clients that connect to your Linux servers. I have been looking at anti-virus programs, designed to run on Linux servers, that can keep viruses from infecting Windows clients on the networks I administer.
Source: Linux Planet
L33tdawg: I must say this does sound fairly interesting... Wouldn't mind building a system like this just for the heck of it! *grin*
With the increased hassles of traveling in these times, businesses are constantly searching for alternative methods of getting their far-flung employees, partners, and clients all working together at once. Conference calls are okay, but these virtual meetings can be time-consuming and confusing, as you try to figure out who said what.
This tutorial prepares you for the Linux Professional Institute's 102 exam. In this first tutorial in a series of four, you will learn how to compile programs from sources, how to manage shared libraries, and how to use the Red Hat and Debian package management systems.
Source: The Register
People have been wondering why a conservative company like SuSE would go with two x.0 versions, theirs and KDE's, to form the core of their latest distro; and I must say that on the basis of my experience with x.0's I was ready for some comic frustration when I installed SuSE 8.0-Pro the other day.
By now everyone knows, or should know, about Linux. But while the freeware operating system continues to make inroads powering servers all over the world, the personal computer market has been tougher to crack. Now, however, there’s a Linux that’s as mindless to install as Microsoft’s Windows.LINUX FOR THE MASSES comes courtesy of Lycoris, which, like a certain other software company, is based in Redmond, Wash. In fact, Lycoris used to be called Redmond Linux and that name survives in what pops up on your screen when its operating system, Desktop/LX, begins booting.
Source: The Register
SuSE Linux aims to make its open source distribution more user friendly with version 8.0 of its Professional Edition, launched today.
Version 8.0 is based on version 2.4.18 of the Linux kernel and includes an improved desktop interface, KDE 3.0, which is closer to the Windows desktop environment most users are familiar with.
A linux server is capable of functioning as an assortment of different network devices. For example, it can act as a router, a switch, or even a network bridge. In the latter case, two or more ethernet networks are linked, or bridged together logically and transparently to make one larger network. Learn more about bridges in this faq.
Starting with an inside look at the Tcl-based Expect language capable of far more than most programmers and administrators realize. Expect is so apt for the general-purpose work needed to keep servers healthy, in fact, it can serve as an (almost) universal programming language.
Source: CNet News
Hewlett-Packard announced a high-profile contract Tuesday to build a Linux-powered supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Energy.
The $24.5 million supercomputer will be capable of processing 8.3 trillion calculations per second (8.3 teraflops), according to HP. That would place the system among the current top 10 of the world's fastest supercomputers, if it were operating today.
This paper presents the results of a benchmark test conducted on a 58-node Linux Cluster system, simultaneously running eight instances of e-Business Trade 2 benchmark tests on Redhat Linux. This solution mounted in only three racks supported 800,000 users, serving an unprecedented 12,547 requests/sec with an average response time of 0.27 sec/request.
