Reports

Unisys Makes Big Play for Linux in 2004
Unisys has not-so-quietly entered the Linux enterprise arena this year, after a rather cold relationship with the open source operating system. Now that the Blue Bell, PA-based company has come in from the cold, what Linux products and services will it now offer?
Monday, November 29, 2004 10:22:34 AM EST

Oracle on Linux Gets One Firm Great E-Commerce Seats
As what is known as a "secondary ticketer," StubHub.com specializes in helping its customers to get good deals on sporting events, concerts, and live theater. But from the perspective of Shawn Kernes, VP of technology, StubHub itself is now getting great value out of running the company's Oracle database on Linux.
Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:42:12 AM EST

PGA Tour Is On Par With Linux
The PGA is probably more well-known for Tiger Woods, mulligans, and the occasional hole-in-one rather than for IT systems. But the real-time demands of an information-hungry audience has brought PGA Tour organizers driving down the information age fairway. And guess which flightless fowl is holding the No. 3 Wood?
Monday, June 9, 2003 12:25:19 PM EST

Net Returns: Linux and Netware
Linking Linux and Netware systems used to be one of the most eagerly anticipated trends in the server field. But, as William Wong writes, suddenly Linux and Netware are on separate paths, as Caldera quietly drops support for Netware and the Open Source community fails to develop any cross-system tools.
Friday, December 22, 2000 10:00:55 AM EST

Linux and Oracle: NetLedger's Real-World Solution Detailed
When NetLedger needed a robust data center to fuel its new accounting ASP, it put Linux, Windows NT, and Solaris though a rigorous evaluation process. Linux not only shone on the technical side, but also offered the best performance for the price. Kevin Reichard details how Linux triumphed when compared to other operating systems in a real-world evaluation, leading to the world's largest Oracle/Linux deployment.
Thursday, March 30, 2000 11:50:44 AM EST

Do-It-Yourself Caching: Squid 2.3
This open-source solution is a great low-cost way to get into caching. However, a stable Squid installation calls for some fairly hefty hardware--not to mention considerable tuning effort. Lisa Phifer explains.
Tuesday, February 29, 2000 12:19:06 AM EST

Reviews

Finding China, Crystal, and Tableware With Linux
Seven million customers. Over 11 million items in an inventory with more than 250,000 patterns. Find out how one company in the business of replacing lost items found its way to a better IT solution with Linux.
Tuesday, October 3, 2006 10:54:25 AM EST

Rackspace's Red Label Blows Away Linux Support Myth
"If you use Linux, you will have no support." This accusation is still smouldering, despite the presence of top-line support programs from Red Hat, Novell, and Mandriva, among others. Today, a third-party vendor is throwing more water on this particular bit of FUD with the announcement of a new managed host offering.
Monday, July 18, 2005 12:29:10 PM EST

StaQWare: High Availability for Cobalt RaQ3i Servers
If your business relies heavily on Cobalt RaQ servers, this modestly priced software add-on can offer peace of mind. Mediating for a matched pair of RaQ3i's, it handles monitoring, fail-over, and data synchronization, ensuring as much as 99.9 percent uptime.
Tuesday, September 19, 2000 10:26:45 AM EST

PHP 4.0: Dynamic Content for the Web Warrior
PHP 4.0 makes its debut. Paul Ferris puts PHP 4 through its paces on one of the busiest Web sites around--Linux Today--and what his benchmarking shows will amaze you: PHP 4.0 is an amazingly fast tool that can optimize any Web site.
Thursday, May 25, 2000 02:28:29 PM EST

Vision for Apache: Put on a Happy Face
Critics of Apache complain that the world's most popular Web server lacks a graphical interface, rendering it difficult to use. Vision for Apache, a Java-based graphical front end, should quiet some of those critics with its clean design and high level of usability. Jim Jagielski reviews.
Thursday, February 17, 2000 09:19:40 AM EST

Tutorials

Building a Linux Network Appliance, Part 3
You probably already know that a firewall is an essential component in your network border security. But you may not know that a Linux-based iptables firewall is especially robust and configurable. Today we'll set up system administration using Webmin, and in our next installment we'll create a good stout Internet-connection sharing firewall.
Thursday, July 6, 2006 10:23:20 AM EST

WiFi PDA Meets Linux--Part 4
An avalanche of content will soon appear in the palm of your hand. Tiny screens are showing up everywhere in PDAs and cell phones. Many are equipped with some form of network device and a browser, so it's not hard to see what's coming down the pike. Rob Reilly shows how LAMP can be configured to deliver the best content for handheld browsers.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005 09:40:05 PM EST

Get More Out of Your Pipe with Apache and mod_gzip
"Webmasters who are serious about running high-performance Web servers, and who want pleased and delighted visitors, have a great tool in Apache 1.3's mod_gzip. mod_gzip compresses pages on the fly, reducing their size considerably..."
Thursday, June 24, 2004 12:24:33 PM EST

Linux Networking, Part 6: Securing Your Network
Now that you've mastered the basics of setting up a small-office/home-office Linux network, it's time to tackle an incredibly important issue: securing your network. In this installment, William Wong describes the steps you can take to secure your Linux network.
Wednesday, November 8, 2000 09:28:42 AM EST

Linux Home Networking, Part 5
It's one thing to set up a home network connection using Linux, but it's another to set up a dial-up connection for your home Linux network. In Part 5 of his series on Linux home networking, William Wong describes using the pppd daemon and ipchains to connect to the Internet on demand.
Tuesday, October 10, 2000 08:54:54 AM EST

Setting Up a MySQL Based Website - Part I
Setting up a database backend is one of the important and sometimes difficult things to do with your web site. Lucky for you, we have this series of tutorials that will guide you through the basics of building a database backend using MySQL. In part one of this series on MySQL and its use as a web backend, we look at basic installation and coding a Perl / MySQL guestbook.
Friday, October 1, 1999 05:28:32 PM EST