Updated: Nov 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: Nov 1997.
How to acquire, install and configure a powerful scientific
public-domain Geographic Information System (GIS): the Geographic
Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS).
Updated: Nov 2004.
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: Jan 2001.
How to get the OpenGL/GLX Linux
QuakeWorld client compiled and working on systems with standard
OpenGL hardware acceleration support.
Updated: Feb 2003.
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: Jan 2003.
How to make configuration and source level
customizations of Mozilla to make it more suitable as a primary
browser for Linux and X Windows.
Updated: Apr 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: Aug 2002.
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: May 2003.
If you are using a Linux box connected to a Windows-based ISA server,
this article will help you in set things up so you can browse the web
from your Linux machine.
Updated: Oct 1999.
How to use escape sequences to dynamically change window
and icon titles of an xterm.
4.5.3. Server Applications
4.5.3.1. DBMS / Databases
DB2-HOWTO,
DB2 Universal Database Version 8.2 for Linux HOWTO
Updated: Jan 2006.
Intended for anyone interested in installing and
using 32-bit IBM DB2® Universal Database on Linux®. If you're
interested in 64–bit or other architectures, we refer you to the
official documentation sources (see the Resources section of the
HOWTO for a link).
Updated: Jun 2006.
Describes the installation of the MMBase content management
system on a Red Hat Linux distribution, using the Tomcat application
server, and integrating it with MySQL and Apache.
Updated: Jul 2002.
Following this HOWTO you should be able to get "Oracle 8i, version
8.1.7, Enterprise Edition for Linux" installed on a RedHat 7.X
distribution.
Updated: May 2003.
A definitive document on PHP-Nuke (Content Managment System).
PostgreSQL-HOWTO,
Database-SQL-RDBMS HOWTO for Linux
Removed: Jan 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: Apr 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.
Sybase-ASE-HOWTO,
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise / SQL Server HOWTO
Updated: Sep 2003.
Describes installation and configuration of Sybase Adaptive
Server Enterprise (formerly known as SQL Server) relational
database server on the Linux platform, together with basic usage.
Updated: Nov 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: Jun 1998.
Use your linux mailing system offline, receive mail for multiple
users with only one email address, and without being 24-24 online.
Updated: Sep 2004.
Describes how to integrate ClamAV, an anti-virus attachment
scanner and Qmail-Scanner, an anti-virus message content scanner,
with an existing installation of a qmail email server.
Updated: Mar 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: Feb 2004.
Describes how to set up and use several different Windows Usenet newsreaders
under the Linux operating system using the Wine "emulator."
Updated: Feb 2003.
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: Apr 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: Jul 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: Oct 2003.
A HOWTO on implementing WebDAV services using Apache - with LDAP for
authentication and SSL for ensuring security of the DAV stores.
Updated: Apr 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: Oct 2002.
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: Feb 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: Nov 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: Jan 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: Nov 1997.
Describes in detail one of the simplest ways to setup a fax
server on your Linux system.
Updated: Mar 2004.
Information about installing, configuring, running and maintaining a
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) Server on a Linux
machine.
Updated: Jan 2003.
Instructions on installing Lotus
Domino R5 for Linux on the Intel x86-based distributions of Mandrake
Linux 8.1 and SuSE 7.3 Professional.
Updated: Jul 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: Nov 2002.
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: Dec 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: May 2002.
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: Mar 2006.
How to get various proprietary and restricted multimedia Damned
Things (Flash, MP3, Java, mpeg, avi, Real Media, Windows Media)
working under Fedora.
Updated: Jan 1998.
How to install and configure a Sound Blaster 32 (SB AWE 32, SB
AWE 64) card from Creative Labs in a Linux System using the AWE Sound
Driver Extension written by Takashi Iwai. It also covers some special
tools and players for the SB AWE series.
Updated: Apr 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: Jan 2005.
Assists the reader in the steps necessary to configure and use
a video tuner card based on the popular Bt848 and Bt878 chipsets
within the Linux operating system.
