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Become A System Rescue Guru With Linux, Part 1
One of Carla Schroder's favorite Linux features is its endless adaptability as a cross-platform rescue tool, and her favorite rescue Linux of all is the excellent Gentoo-based SystemRescueCD. In this series, you'll learn how to set things right when things on your PC go awry.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:44:01 AM EST

Reflections on Open Source Commerce, Part 1
It has been more than two years since the Yin and Yang article was published on LinuxPlanet. Now, open source expert and author John Terpstra revisits the state of the Linux desktop and server in today's market and highlights the challenges Linux faces to succeed.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 09:58:56 AM EST

Connecting With ISPhone
With open source and proprietary parts, an industry veteran has built a competitive product that offers advantages to even the smallest ISP.
Monday, May 12, 2008 10:12:23 AM EST

GNU/Linux: Source Code and Human Rights
By using Free and Open Source software, you are supporting one of the few initiatives that give developing nations and the poor any hope of participating as equals in the modern world.
Thursday, May 8, 2008 09:56:57 AM EST

GRUB vs. the Inodes: Who Needs a Bootable System, Anyway?
Users of GRUB legacy, which is version 0.97, are getting bitten by an e2fsprogs incompatibility that renders their systems unbootable. e2fsprogs is the utilities package for the Ext3 filesystem, so it doesn't affect other filesystems. Resident expert Carla Schroder explains the problem and details some fixes to get affected systems back up.
Thursday, May 1, 2008 01:21:46 PM EST

The Top 75 Open Source Security Apps
Without much fanfare, the open source security area is growing rapidly. Here are top contenders from anti-virus, firewalls, forensics, intrusion detection, and more.
Monday, April 28, 2008 12:04:01 PM EST

Benchmarking Linux With the Phoronix Test Suite
The Phoronix Test Suite is for testing hardware performance under Linux. It's still very young and incomplete, but it's worth getting acquainted with--it is based on the the scripts developed by the fine folks at Phoronix for hardware testing.
Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:29:29 AM EST

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