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Performance Tuning for Linux Servers by Chris Miles — last modified 2005-09-21 15:16

Slashdot reviews a new book, "Performance Tuning for Linux Servers", giving it a rating of 8. The book is 547 pages long and covers both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.

Gentoo Linux 2005.1 Released by Chris Miles — last modified 2005-09-21 15:16

The Gentoo Foundation has released Gentoo Linux 2005.1 (Codename: 'El Nino').

SuSE Linux 9.3 FTP Review by Chris Miles — last modified 2005-09-21 15:16

Here is a review of SuSE 9.3 from a Gentoo/Kubuntu user. It is mainly focussed at desktop use.

Open source high-availability clustering for Linux by Chris Miles — last modified 2005-09-21 15:16

Red Hat is offering an interesting high-availability clustering product for Linux, the Redhat Cluster Manager. In its newest form, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, the cluster software can support up to 300 nodes and does not required a shared raw disk device anymore.

Linux Kernel 2.6.13 Released by Chris Miles — last modified 2005-09-21 15:16

Linus Torvalds announced the release of the 2.6.13 Linux kernel. "The most painful part of 2.6.13 is likely to be the fact that we made x86 use the generic PCI bus setup code for assigning unassigned resources," Linus began. "That uncovered rather a lot of nasty small details, but should also mean that a lot of laptops in particular should be able to discover PCI devices behind bridges that the BIOS hasn't set up."

TLSboot - boot a Linux kernel loaded over HTTPS by Chris Miles — last modified 2005-09-21 10:59

TLSboot is a Linux-based "bootloader" designed to download a kernel and an initrd image over HTTPS and then execute them. It offers similar functionality as traditional TFTP bootloaders, eg. Grub, but with the added security of X.509 certificates to verify the integrity of the downloaded data.

Linux alternatives to Exchange by Chris Miles — last modified 2005-09-21 10:59

eWeek has done a roundup of the (commercial) Linux alternatives to corporate groupware services usually dominated by Exchange. The review includes Bynari Inc.'s Insight Server 4.2, CommuniGate Systems' CommuniGate Pro Real-Time Collaboration 4.2, Gordano Ltd.'s Gordano Messaging Suite 11 and Scalix Inc.'s Scalix Server 9.2.1.

Linux wireless freedom with OpenWrt by Chris Miles — last modified 2005-09-21 10:59

You can turn your blue Linksys router into a Linux box with OpenWrt, an embedded Linux distribution for Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS routers. This tiny distribution exceeds the default firmware functionality in many useful ways. Instead of having only a Web-controlled wireless access point, OpenWrt provides you with a fully interactive Linux system. Some notable features are the ability to telnet/SSH to your router, install software such as Snort, Mini-Sendmail, and Asterisk, and create and control VLANs for every Ethernet port on the device.

Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger released and reviewed by Chris Miles — last modified 2005-10-14 17:01

The latest Ubuntu release, 5.10 aka Breezy Badger, has been reviewed by Linux.com.

Explore the Linux memory model by Chris Miles — last modified 2006-01-25 14:00

Want to know more about the workings of the Linux memory model? This article will give you a good introduction to the segment control unit and the paging models as well as a detailed look at the physical memory zone.