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Linux Guru's: What Is the GNU Public License?
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Monday, August 11, 2008. What Is the GNU Public License? The most important thing to emerge from the GNU project has been the GNU General Public. License (GPL). This license explicitly states that the software being released is free, and that. No one can ever take away these freedoms. It is acceptable to take the software and resell it,. Even for a profit; however, in this resale, the seller must release the full source code, including. GNU and the GPL can be found at http:/ www.gnu.org. Installing Linux...
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Linux Guru's: August 2008
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Monday, August 25, 2008. Installing Red Hat Linux. This installation guide assumes you will boot off the CD-ROM to start the Red Hat installation. Procedure. If you have an older machine not capable of booting off the CD-ROM, you will. Need to use a boot disk and start the procedure from there. Creating a Boot Disk. Once Windows has started and the CD-ROM is in the appropriate drive, open an MS-DOS. Prompt window (Start Program Menu MS-DOS Prompt), which will give you a command. Installer figure out what...
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Linux Guru's: Installing Linux in a Server Configuration
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Thursday, August 14, 2008. Installing Linux in a Server Configuration. Akey attribute in Linux’s recent success is the remarkable improvement in installation. Tools What once was a mildly frightening process many years back has now become. Almost trivial. Even better, there are many ways to install the software; CD-ROMs are no. Longer the only choice (although they are still the most common). Network installations are. Large number of hosts. Operation in terms of its dedicated functions. 9679; The hardwa...
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Linux Guru's: Exploring Other Linux Resources
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Monday, August 11, 2008. Exploring Other Linux Resources. If you are interested in getting under the hood of the technology revolution (and it’s always. Helpful to know how things work), I recommend the following texts:. 9679; Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William. Aspray (Harper Collins, 1997). 9679; A Quarter Century of Unix by Peter Salus (Addison-Wesley, 1994). Neither of these texts discusses Linux specifically. A Quarter Century of Unix does tell.
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Linux Guru's: Single Users vs. Multiusers vs. Network Users
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Monday, August 11, 2008. Single Users vs. Multiusers vs. Network Users. Windows was designed according to the “one computer, one desk, one user” vision ofMicrosoft’s. Cofounder Bill Gates. For the sake of discussion, I’ll call this philosophy single-user. In this. Arrangement, two people cannot work in parallel running (for example) Microsoft Word on the. Same machine at the same time. Using Terminal Services in Windows 2000 or Windows XP. It has supported the multiuser arrangement. Today, the most commo...
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Linux Guru's: The Network Neighborhood
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Monday, August 11, 2008. The native mechanism for Windows folk to share disks on servers or with each other is. Through the Network Neighborhood. In a typical scenario, users attach to a share and have the. System assign it a drive letter. As a result, the separation between client and server is clear. The only problem is that this method of sharing data is more people-oriented than technologyoriented:. Linux, using the Network File System (NFS), has supported the concept of mounting. Exist on the server.
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Linux Guru's: Domains
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Monday, August 11, 2008. For a group of Windows 2000 systems to work well together, they should exist in a domain. This requires a Windows 2000 Server system configured as a Domain Controller (DC). Domains are the basis of the Windows 2000 security model. The basis of Linux’s network security model is NIS, Network Information Service. NIS is. A simple text file–based database that is shared with client workstations. Each primary NIS. Systems in the network recognize your presence. Thus hold any kind of i...
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Linux Guru's: Describing Linux and Linux Distributions
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Monday, August 11, 2008. Describing Linux and Linux Distributions. Usually people understand Linux to be an entire package of developer tools, editors, GUIs,. Networking tools, and so forth. More formally, such packages are called distributions. You. May have heard of the Linux distributions named Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, and Caldera,. Which have received a great deal of press and have been purchased for thousands of installations. Of popularity as the commercial distributions. Linux itself is the core o...
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Linux Guru's: Active Directory
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Monday, August 11, 2008. So how does NIS stack up to Active Directory? Good question. The answer is “it doesn’t.”. Active Directory was designed to be much more than what NIS was designed for. This really. Places the two into different classes of applications. Active Directory (AD) is designed to be a generic solution to the problem of large sites. That need to have their different departments share administrative control—something that the. New whiz-bang features thrown in for good measure. The world...
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Linux Guru's: Defining Free Software and the GNU License
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Monday, August 11, 2008. Defining Free Software and the GNU License. In the early 1980s, Richard Stallman began a movement within the software industry. He. Preached (and still does) that software should be free. Note that by free, he doesn’t mean in. Terms of price, but rather free in the same sense as freedom. This meant shipping not just a. Product, but the entire source code as well. Stallman’s policy was obviously a wild departure from the early eighties mentality of. Users themselves: Should they n...
