So you’re working with Ubuntu 8.04 or Fedora 10 and you’re jonesing over the new release of your distribution. You have always kept up with the most recent releases, but time is critical and your machine is working well. How do you know if you should upgrade? Is it worth it? What would stop you [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems

Do you use Fedora? Do you have Fedora tweaked to the point you would like to either share your vision of this distribution? Or would you like to have an image of your tweaks so that the next time you need to install you won’t have to go back, after the basic install is done, [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Advanced

Fedora Linux is a popular Linux distribution. It can be installed on a computer system or started from a Live CD or USB stick. The Fedora Live USB Creator aids users in the creation of the Fedora operating system on an USB stick. The tool will setup Fedora on the USB stick giving the user [...]

Categories: Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Windows

If you are an Apache user for the hosting of either internal or external web sites then you know how flexible this web server can be. But did you know you can host more than one site on that server? You can thanks to Virtual sites. You can host virtual sites based on either IP [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, The Web, Tutorials Advanced, Web Development

Those of you who are thinking of giving Linux a try, but are worried that you won’t know how to do simple tasks such as controlling network devices, can let out a sigh of relief. Believe it or not, managing network devices is easier in Linux than it is in Windows.? With the help of [...]

Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

I have mentioned, many times, various Live CDs to use for giving Linux a try or installing Linux. I have had some feedback asking to explain just what a Live CD is. Some users are hesitent to use a Live CD for fear of deleting their data or damaging their hard drive. My hope is [...]

Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software

In my recent article I illustrated how to connect your iPod to the Linux application gtkpod. Gtkpod is fairly straightforward, but there can be issues. One of the issues is playback of files. And what good is a multimedia application if it can not play back the files it manages?  Configuring gtkpod is actually quite [...]

Categories: Hardware, iPod, Linux, Music and Video, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic