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Using Linux as a Small Business Internet Gateway, Part 2 Internet access is vital to many small businesses. Maintaining a reliable and worry-free connection may seem difficult, but several good monitoring tools exist to simplify the lives of administrators. Alexander Prohorenko explains how to serve DNS and monitor a small network. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Security Alerts Flying the Open Skies with FlightGear Realms of geographic data are entering public use every day. Mappers, hikers, and navigators love it. What's in it for the rest of us? Realistic flight simulators. That's what pilots, aeronautical engineers, and enthusiasts are building with FlightGear, a GPL'd flight sim. Howard Wen talks to the creator and the maintainers. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Security Alerts Using Linux as a Small Business Internet Gateway Internet access is vital to many small businesses. Creating a reliable and worry-free connection used to be difficult. With good software such as the Linux kernel, wvdial, Squid, Postfix, and iptables, it's reasonably easy to set up Linux as an Internet gateway. Alexander Prohorenko explains how. [LinuxDevCenter.com] Using and Customizing Knoppix Several Linux distributions boot directly from CD-ROMs. How many are usable in that state? How many are customizable in that state? Klaus Knopper's Knoppix is perhaps the best known of these distributions. Robert Bernier explains how to use Knoppix and how to customize your own self-booting distribution CD. [LinuxDevCenter.com] BZFlag Sometimes a demo program can spin out of control to take on a life of its own. A ten-year-old project to demonstrate 3D movement has become a simple-yet-clever online tank battle game. Howard Wen talks to the creator and maintainer of BZFlag. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Security Alerts Linux on Pocket PCs While tiny handheld computers may seem like geek toys, they're actually very practical for any environment with mobile data access--hospitals, restaurants, even journalists. They can even run Linux. John Littler explores the Penguin-friendly heavy hitters in this area. [LinuxDevCenter.com] The State of Home-Brew PVRs on Linux A TiVo is basically a Linux box with some extra software (and a nice service). That's something a competent hacker could replicate. Joe Stump explores the state of the home-brew PVR community on Linux as of late 2003. [LinuxDevCenter.com] GBA Programming with DevKit Advance Emulation has opened up game programming to realms of hobbyists. While it's possible to build amazing games on all sorts of obsolete platforms, it's also possible to build them on modern ones, including the GameBoy Advance. Howard Wen explores DevKit Advance and interviews its lead developers. [LinuxDevCenter.com] Animation in SDL: OpenGL SDL, the cross-platform multimedia toolkit, is powerful enough to have brought over 40 commercial games to Linux. While it has its own graphics primitives, it also supports the popular and powerful OpenGL API. In the third of a series of articles, Bob Pendleton introduces OpenGL and demonstrates how to use it in your SDL programs. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Security Alerts Building an Advanced Mail Server, Part 3 While it'd be nice to pretend you never receive spam or viruses, server-side filters are a necessary evil. In the final installment of Building an Advanced Mail Server, Joe Stump demonstrates how to install and configure SpamAssassin and ClamAV. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Security Alerts NeL: The Software Behind the Next Great MMORPG? Several people have theorized that the best mix of open source and gaming is to release the engine's source code while keeping the art, levels, and music restricted. Nevrax is doing just that with their upcoming Ryzom game. NeL, the engine code, is an actively-developed open source project. Howard Wen examines the company and the project and talks with a founder and a lead developer. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Security Alerts Building an Advanced Mail Server, Part 2 A modern mail server just isn't quite complete unless you allow your users to roam; while secure IMAP works for some people, others swear by webmail. In the second installment of "Building an Advanced Mail Server," Joe Stump explains how to install, secure, and extend your mail server with SquirrelMail. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Security Alerts Building an Advanced Mail Server Email is crucial to many businesses. Setting up a mail server doesn't have to be difficult, though. Joe Stump demonstrates how to install and configure qmail with support for virtual domains, IMAP, POP3, and SSL. [LinuxDevCenter.com] Porting Linux to the iPod A new piece of unknown hardware is a challenge; what can it do? To Bernard Leach, Apple's iPod was just waiting for a Linux port. Thanks to his work, you can play music on an iPod running Linux. Howard Wen recently interviewed Leach on the goals and process of porting Linux to the iPod. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Security Alerts Building Unix Tools with Ruby Unix command line tools should follow a few simple rules. They must do one thing well. They should conform to standard option conventions. They must be able to be part of a pipeline. Jacek Artymiak demonstrates a simple Unix CSV-parsing utility built in the Ruby programming language. [LinuxDevCenter.com] Is Linux Annoying? Let's face it, Linux isn't perfect. While people are working night and day to improve things, you have frustrations and, hopefully, workarounds in the meantime. Paul Weinstein gives an example of RPM hell and potential solutions and calls for your Linux Annoyances! [LinuxDevCenter.com] Inside Prelude, an Open Source IDS Keeping the bad guys out is important. Knowing whether, not if, they're in is even more important. Prelude, an open source IDS, takes a hybrid approach to security, collecting information from various sensors. KIVILCIM Hindistan talks to Yoann Vandoorselaere, Prelude's lead developer. [ONLamp.com]
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