Reports

Hot Rodding Your Slightly Dated Laptop For Fun and Profit
Are you skittish about putting Linux on your laptop because the installation will be hard and it will be tough to find the right drivers? Are you worried that you're going to be limited to command-line based applications, especially on that old corporate laptop that moves like molasses under the weight of XP? Try revving up your beat up old laptop, using Linux to get some serious performance from something that was once obsolete.
Monday, November 18, 2002 10:42:26 AM EST

Using the InterMezzo Distributed Filesystem
Getting connected is one of the more vital goals of any IT shop. But what happens when users can't get connected to the network right away? Are they just cut off altogether from their files? Not necessarily, writes Bill von Hagen, especially if you are using the InterMezzo distributed filesystem. In this next installment of the Distributed Filesystems series, von Hagen examines InterMezzo in detail and shows how to install, configure, and implement this DFS.
Monday, August 12, 2002 11:53:57 AM EST

Modern Distributed Filesystems For Linux: An Introduction
Data and information has become the lifeblood of many organizations of late, and storing that information safely has led to inventive data management. Once known as networked filesystems, distributed filesystems are now one of the best ways of storing your data across multiple machines on your network. Bill von Hagen begins a series of articles on distributed filesystems with an introduction to the technology and what it can do for your organization.
Wednesday, August 7, 2002 11:42:51 AM EST

ext3 or ReiserFS? Hans Reiser Says Red Hat's Move Is Understandable
Interest in journaling file systems is high right now: Linux enjoys a sudden embarrassment of riches in this area, and Red Hat -- which abstained from the rush to ReiserFS in which several other distros indulged-- has finally committed to ext3. Dennis Powell offers a quick guide to what's so important about journaling filesystems anyhow, and a brief chat with Hans Reiser... who says Red Hat's choice of ext3 makes good sense.
Friday, August 24, 2001 02:28:44 AM EST

Reviews

SuSE Linux Demonstrates Old PCs Still Have Use
When most reviewers look at a new version of a distro, they install and work with the software on the latest cutting edge hardware. Rob Reilly likes to take a different approach: as Linux distros evolve, do they still do well on the older platforms? Is Linux still a viable option to recycle old PCs and potentially save businesses thousands of dollars in hardware costs?
Monday, May 12, 2003 11:26:53 AM EST

Tutorials

Using RAID in Linux
The concept of RAID, so often put aside in Linux documentation for all those smart systems administrators, is actually not something that takes a lot of special knowledge to understand. As Alexander Prohorenko explains, all you need is a little common sense and a good plan to implement RAID on your systems
Thursday, August 1, 2002 01:52:49 PM EST

Linux Partitions: A Primer
One of the biggest challanges that a new Linux user faces when they first install any distro is how to cope with this thing called partitioning. Though many installers will auto-configure the partitions of a hard drive for you, having a good partition strategy can save you a lot of time and effort in the long run. Dee-Ann LeBlanc delivers this tutorial on partitioning basics.
Thursday, June 20, 2002 11:19:09 AM EST