An Introduction to Network Booting and Etherboot An advanced article that explains how to bootstrap your computer from a program stored in non-volatile memory without accessing your hard disk.
Bastille Linux Available by the beginning of june,version 1.1 of Bastille-Linux is not a new Linux Distribution but a set of security scripts. The authors have adopted a very pedagogic approach and one can learn a lot simply installing these scripts.
Building Scalable ISPs with opensource softwares In my last article, I introduced you to using LDAP on Linux. In this article, we will build a scalable ISP that can scale from one to any number of backend machines. The backbone of setting up this ISP is LDAP.
How to remove windows This article describes how to remove Windows and give the diskspace to Linux without re-installing it
Introduction to DNS You may have wondered what happens behind the scenes in Netscape after you enter a URL. This article will help you to understand the name-lookup process.
Japanese on Linux Part I This article takes a brief overview at how to make your Linux system Japanese-capable.
Network File System (NFS) Network File System (NFS) is a tool to manage files spread among several computers on a network as if they were on the same local machine. So, the final user does not have to worry of the exact location of its own files in order to access them.
Recycling Ip Addresses with Apache This article demonstrates how to serve multiple virtual web servers using the same Ip address with Apache on Unix/Linux.
Sendmail and Fetchmail: A local mail server. Sendmail is a powerful but complex software. This article explains how to configure sendmail and fetchmail for use on a typical home computer.
Setting up IP-Masquerading IP-Masquerading provides the possibility to connect several computers to the Internet using a computer running Linux with just one public IP address.
Slackware 7.0 part I: Installation Guide The author describes in detail the installation of the Slackware 7.0 Linux distribution. This article is written for beginners.
TCPD and Firewalls using IPFWADM This article describes very briefly how to configure the inetd services in order to improve security on your system. We concentrate in the of the tool IPFWADM to administer and configure inetd services
The X Display Manager The X Display Manager runs as a daemon on a host machine and manages multiple X displays.
xinetd - extented Internet services daemon xinetd - extented Internet services daemon - provides an excellent security against the intrusions, and limit certain risks of attacks by Deny of Services ( DoS ). It allows, just like the most known pair ( inetd + tcpd ), to set access control to a computer, but its capacities extend well beyond. This article proposes you to discover them.