TechRepublic Senior Editor and Linux novice, Selena Frye recounts her adventures installing Ubuntu 8.04 on Virtual PC. She compiled the wisdom of the open source "village," from which she learned the fixes for the Unrecoverable Process Error and the screen resolution bug.
Installing Ubuntu 8.04 on Virtual PC: It takes a village
- Date: May 16th, 2008
- Author: Selena Frye
- Category: Ubuntu, open source
- Tags: Ubuntu, Screen, PC, Microsoft Virtual PC, Kernel, VPC, InputDevice, Monitors & Displays, Video Cards, Networking
Check your rootkits at the door with rkhunter
- Date: May 12th, 2008
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Category: General, Ubuntu, Get Jacked, Networking, Fedora, command line
- Tags: Rootkits, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Jack Wallen
Jack Wallen highlights an application that he uses to inspect systems for rootkits called rkhunter.
Log Linux services with runit
- Date: May 12th, 2008
- Author: Vincent Danen
- Category: Networking, open source
- Tags: Service, Svlogd, Logger Logger, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Vincent Danen
- Special Reports » See more posts on: Linux Tips
Vincent Danen explains how to configure logging for supervised services with the runit program.
Linux Journal Readers’ Choice Awards
- Date: May 6th, 2008
- Author: Selena Frye
- Category: open source
- Tags: Winner, Linux Journal, Productivity, Marketing Research, Marketing, Selena Frye
The Linux Journal published the winners of its annual Readers' Choice Awards. The categories include favorite distribution, office tools, graphic tools, Web browsers, and more.
How do I… Wrap text around an image in Scribus?
- Date: May 6th, 2008
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Category: Scribus, open source
- Tags: Image, Scribus, Jack Wallen
- Special Reports » See more posts on: How do I
Scribus is an open source desktop publishing tool that is powerful, flexible, and corporate-ready. And it wraps text quickly and easily (once you know the trick). Jack Wallen shows you how.
Use runit to supervise Linux services
- Date: May 5th, 2008
- Author: Vincent Danen
- Category: General, Networking, command line
- Tags: Service, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Vincent Danen
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Gerrit Pape's runit is similar to djb's daemontools and allows you to run supervised services, like daemontools, and also allows you to replace SysV init completely if you so desire. Vincent Danen tells you how to get started with runit.
Iron Man vs. Open Source
- Date: May 4th, 2008
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Category: General, Get Jacked, open source
- Tags: Movie, Tony Stark, Open Source, Jack Wallen
First, I must apologize. I know this is old news. But today I saw the Iron Man movie (quite awesome, I must say) and was inspired when I came home and did a search, “Iron Man open source” on Google. I was surprised that I actually had a lot of hits. One hit, in particular, [...]
Learn to use the openssl command-line program
- Date: April 28th, 2008
- Author: Vincent Danen
- Category: data protection, command line
- Tags: Password, SSL, Ssl/Tls, Authentication/Encryption, Network Security, Security, Networking, Vincent Danen
- Special Reports » See more posts on: Linux Tips
OpenSSL can be used to create, request, sign, and revoke certificates and can also be used to perform other cryptographic operations such as creating hashes for files, testing SSL connections, and more.
Watching the watchers of the GPL
- Date: April 26th, 2008
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Category: General, Gpl, Get Jacked, open source
- Tags: GPL, Groklaw, Open Source, Jack Wallen
Ah, the GPL. The GNU Public License. It’s probably one of the most controversial topics in all of the IT world. What is it and how is it enforced? Who backs it and who defends it? And who watches the watchers? Now there’s the real rub. We all know that there are numerous groups [...]
Try IRC with Irssi to communicate via chat
- Date: April 21st, 2008
- Author: Vincent Danen
- Category: General, Networking, open source
- Tags: IRC, Vincent Danen, Irssi, Vincent Danen
- Special Reports » See more posts on: Linux Tips
Vincent Danen recommends the command-line based Irssi client as an extensible and powerful tool for communicating with peers via IRC. He tells you how to set it up.
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