Updated: November 1999.
RPM is the RPM Package Manager. It is an open packaging
system available for anyone to use. It allows users to take source
code for new software and package it into source and binary form such
that binaries can be easily installed and tracked and source can be
rebuilt easily. It also maintains a database of all packages and their
files that can be used for verifying packages and querying for
information about files and/or packages.
Updated: November 1997.
How to acquire, install and configure a powerful scientific
public-domain Geographic Information System (GIS): the Geographic
Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS).
Updated: February 2002.
A stepping stone to get the most common problems
resolved and to give people the knowledge to begin thinking
intelligently about what is going on with their games.
Updated: January 2001.
How to get the OpenGL/GLX Linux
QuakeWorld client compiled and working on systems with standard
OpenGL hardware acceleration support.
Updated: February 2001.
An introduction to the world of electronic mail (email) under Linux.
Focuses on user-level issues and typical configurations for Linux
home and small-business machines connected to the net via an ISP.
Updated: December 2001.
Investigates "State of Art" Sat connections in a Linux
environment; how to get them faster and how to share them with
many clients.
Updated: February 2002.
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) on Linux is becoming easier.
Several packages are available for users as well as developers.
This document describes the basics of speech recognition and
describes some of the available software.
Updated: December 2001.
Voice Over IP is a new communication means that let you telephone
with Internet at almost null cost. This document covers how this
is done.
Updated: June 2001.
Explicit instructions on installing DB2 Universal Database Version 7.1
for Linux on the following Intel x86-based distributions: Caldera
OpenLinux 2.4, Debian, Red Hat Linux 6.2, SuSE Linux 6.2 and 6.3,
and TurboLinux 6.0.
Updated: June 2000.
A guide to installing and configuring the
Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition for Linux.
PostgreSQL-HOWTO,
Database-SQL-RDBMS HOWTO for Linux
Removed: January 2002.
This HOWTO has been removed for review. Please visit the official
PostgreSQL site
for information on this topic.
Sybase-ASA-HOWTO,
Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere for Linux HOWTO
Updated: April 2001.
Guides you through the installation of SQL
Anywhere Studio 7.0.2 for Linux and the basic
operation and administration of Adaptive Server Anywhere
databases.
Updated: December 2001.
Configuration changes necessary to make sendmail deliver local mail
now; while stashing remote mail in the
queue until "I Say So".
Updated: November 2000.
Intended to guide a user through an installation of the Majordomo
Mailing List Software and MajorCool (utility for managing Majordomo
lists via a CGI script).
Offline-Mailing, Linux off-line mailing method (offline mailaddr with 1 account)
Updated: June 1998.
Use your linux mailing system offline, receive mail for multiple
users with only one email address, and without being 24-24 online.
Updated: March 2002.
Building a mail server that will support virtual domain hosting
and provide smtp, pop3 and imap services, using a powerful
alternative to sendmail.
Updated: May 1998.
How to setup a single machine with no direct access to the
internet to route mail for you via sendmail and UUCP to
a 'smarter host' (eg. your ISP).
Updated: February 2002.
An overview of the Apache webserver and related
projects. It provides pointers for further
information and implementation details.
Updated: March 2002.
Describes how to compile the Apache Webserver with
important modules like mod_perl, mod_dav, mod_auth_ldap,
mod_dynvhost, mod_roaming, mod_jserv, and mod_php.
Updated: April 2000.
Details the installation of an Apache based webserver suite configured
to handle DSO, and various useful modules including mod_perl,
mod_ssl and php.
Updated: July 1998.
About building a multipurpose webserver that will support dynamic
web content via the PHP/FI scripting language, secure transmission of
data based on Netscape's SSL, secure execution of CGI's and
M$Frontpage Server Extensions.
Updated: April 2001.
phhttpd is an HTTP accelerator. It serves fast static HTTP fetches
from a local file-system and passes slower dynamic requests back to a
waiting server.
Updated: November 2001.
How to manage a certificate authority (CA),
and issue or sign certificates to be used for secure web, secure
e-mail, or signing code and other usages.
Updated: February 2001.
Explains how PKI and SSL work together. It is essential
to understand how the SSL protocol works to successfully
deploy a secure server.
Updated: November 2001.
Describes how to set up your Linux server to limit download bandwidth
or incoming traffic, and how to use your internet link
more efficiently.
Updated: January 2002.
Describes the steps and commands you can
use to setup your own CD Server using Linux and some built-in
Unix commands along with other freely available software packages.
Fax-Server, Linux simple fax printer server mini-HOWTO (faxsrv-mini-HOWTO)
Updated: November 1997.
Describes in detail one of the simplest ways to setup a fax
server on your Linux system.
Updated: October 1999.
Provides a guide for setting up a WWW-based kiosk using Linux, X11R6,
FVWM2, Netscape Navigator 4.X, and a customized trackball.
Updated: July 2001.
Information about installing, configuring, running and maintaining a
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) Server on a Linux
machine.
Updated: March 2001.
Describes the technical aspects of storing application data
in a LDAP server. It focuses on the configuration of various
applications to make them LDAP-aware.
Updated: July 2000.
Describes the installation, configuration, and basic
troubleshooting of Pervasive Software's Tango Application Server
on Sun Solaris and various flavours of Linux.
Updated: May 2001.
Describes getting XFree86 4.x running on Intel's
i810 graphics chipset by using special features of the 2.4.0
kernel.
Intkeyb, How to setup international keyboard in X Windows
Updated: December 2001.
This xmodmap and kimap solutions will work for you in setting up any
international keyboard for (Debian, RedHat, Mandrake, Corel)
Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and possibly every Unix that uses
Xfree86 and KDE.
Updated: December 1997.
LBX (Low Bandwidth X) is an X server extension which performs
compression on the X protocol. It is meant to be used in conjunction
with X applications and an X server which are separated by a slow
network connection, to improve display and response time.
Updated: November 2000.
Describes the basic ideas for using XDM to manage X terminals.
It is not meant to be a comprehensive discussion of all the features of XDM,
but a gentle introduction to what XDM can to for X terminals.
Updated: April 2001.
Describes how to build, configure, install, and use a custom
MP3 player box. It lists the necessary hardware and answers
a number of frequently asked questions.
Updated: February 2000.
Describes the hardware, software, and procedures needed to use a
bt8x8 chipset based frame grabber or TV tuner card under Linux.