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The Kingston 8GB Class 4 Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Memory Card offers larger-volume data storage and optimized recording performance with support for FAT 32 file formats. In addition, this card complies with Kingston’s Class 4 speed rating, which means that the card provides a minimum data transfer rate of 4MB/sec. for optimum performance in […]

Linux For Non-Geeks author returns with guide to Xandros; includes Xandros Open Circulation on CD, plus SkypeOut coupon.
Sick of rebooting Windows and fighting
bugs
and viruses? Interested in trying Linux, but too intimidated to go it
alone? For Linux newbies, Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users (No Starch Press) takes the uncertainty […]

Linux For Non-Geeks author returns with guide to Xandros; includes Xandros Open Circulation on CD, plus SkypeOut coupon.
Sick of rebooting Windows and fighting
bugs
and viruses? Interested in trying Linux, but too intimidated to go it
alone? For Linux newbies, Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users (No Starch Press) takes the uncertainty […]

Linux Geek: Book review: Beginning SUSE Linux
Just this week I installed SUSE 9.3 Pro on both my desktop and laptop. I was particularly pleased with the way SUSE recognized my Orinoco-based wireless PCMCIA card without requiring tedious and often disasterous configuration. As soon as the installation was complete, I was on-line with my […]

Tips for Linux Explorers
One of the great things about the World Wide Web is the plethora of sites you can find on almost any subject. The more interest in a subject, the more sites you’ll find.
Web sites devoted to operating systems are among the most numerous. One can only imagine how many sites […]

Lockegnome has written about Linuxchix before - but it was a while ago. They offer online courses through mailing lists, webpages, and IRC.
For details about a specific course, click on the links below.
Many of the courses are taught on the courses mailing list….
If you go to the list options page and enter your email […]

Whether you’re new to Linux or experienced, every so often you’ll stumble across a task that you just don’t know how to do. Man pages and Google are often your best friend in this case, but you may want to add BrunoLinux.com and its list of Tips for Linux Explorers to your bookmarks.

Due to a dispute over the inclusion of binary modules with the kernel code, the previous maintainer of the Philips USB webcam drivers (pwc modules) ceased his development efforts. It boiled down to a difference in ideologies; the kernel maintainers want to keep all the code completely open, while the developer felt the binary module […]

I recently wrote an article for Ping! Zine Webhosting Magazine about configuring the Exim mail server to block spam and viruses. While FreeBSD is the focus of the article, the Exim configuration is portable across multiple platforms (such as Linux, of course), and I encourage anyone out there running a mail server to give it […]

Brian Hatch of Hacking Linux Exposed has been running a series of articles about SSH over at Security Focus, and they’ve been great reading. One of these articles is “SSH User Identities”.

Brian Hatch returns to Security Focus today with his second SSH article, this time teaching us how to use ssh-agent to more easily handle SSH logins.

About a month ago, I talked about my experience with the K3b burning software for KDE, and its effectiveness vs. Nautilus. Today I found a more indepth introduction to K3b that I hope you’ll find useful.

There’s an article coming in the December issue of Linux Journal which will feature the Kino movie program, but the authors have contributed a companion article for the LJ web site that has information on installing Kino and exporting MPEG videos.

I am always on the prowl for new and informative Linux links to add to my growing arsenal. Newsforge highlights what has become my latest resource Tinyminds.org. What can you expect to find at Tinyminds.org? The article answers

The other day I went to install Evolution for email, only to find Novell doesn’t offer it as a download. Instead, you have to go through their Red Carpet installer. I didn’t have a problem with this, as I’ve used it before on my Fedora system. There’s just one problem: it wouldn’t work on Slackware.

This article shows how to access a non-booting Linux system with a Knoppix CD, get read-write permissions on configuration files, create and manage partitions and filesystems, and copy files to various storage media and over the network. You can use Knoppix for hardware and system configuration detection and for creating and managing partitions and filesystems. […]

Looking to show off a little bit of Linux but don’t have a Knoppix CD handy? No problem! Surf to Workspot’s online Linux demo and go to work.

You have to wonder. With Linux gaining so much ground lately, one has to ask themselves why hasn’t the X Window System received any real press for its part in Linux’s success?
My answer to this is that the X Window System is sort of behind the scenes a bit. Since it is not really in […]

Here is another use for those really neat USB pens: install a Linux distro on one of them. Why? Hey, because you can. Seriously, think about it - this actually makes the ideal troubleshooting tool or even data recovery tool. There are many versions that offer this as an option but as the author discovered […]

While SSH is definitely the best (from a security standpoint) way to connect to a remote system, there are times that this isn’t possible. For example, maybe an application is not SSH-aware and must use telnet. Also, if you are using the same password to collect POP3/IMAP mail as you do to log in to […]