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: January 2001.
How to get the OpenGL/GLX Linux
QuakeWorld client compiled and working on systems with standard
OpenGL hardware acceleration support.
Updated: December 2000.
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: November 2000.
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: November 2000.
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: September 1997.
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: April 2000.
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: September 2000.
An overview of the Apache webserver and related
projects. It provides pointers for further
information and implementation details.
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: January 2000.
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: 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: September 2000.
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: September 2000.
Information about installing, configuring, running and maintaining a
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) Server on a Linux
machine.
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: January 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: February 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: September 1999.
Information on configuring the X Window environment for the Linux
user, as well as for the beginning system administrator attempting to
sort through the many configuration options and details of X Window.
Updated: February 2000.
Describes the hardware, software, and procedures needed to use a
bt8x8 chipset based frame grabber or TV tuner card under Linux.