Desktop FreeBSD Part 6: User PPP Connections

By this time, you should have guessed that running KDE takes a large chunk of machine resources. Really old machines will run this latest version of KDE quite slowly. I chose it for the FreeBSD beginner because it's a good safe place to start, with so many built-in tools. One of the most important ones up to now has been KPPP -- the dialup tool. In this lesson we are going to learn how to dialup without KPPP. With that, about the only reason to keep using KDE is simply that you like it.

The 2004 OfB Choice Awards

Today marks Open for Business's third year of informing you on the latest enterprise computing news. It seems very appropriate for this day to also mark the announcement of our third annual OfB Choice Awards. We have spent the last year testing and reporting on the very best open computing offerings and it finally comes down to this time when we must choose the very best of that elite group of products to report to you as our OfB Choices.

RadTech's Tech Makes Good on Promises

Here is a scenario that probably sounds familiar if you have owned a laptop. You buy a sparkling new laptop and, no doubt, you would like to keep it in good shape — this is a machine that will be traveling with you for a long time. But soon, the case becomes marred and, if it is a particularly compact unit (such as an Apple PowerBook), your screen may start to show the impression of the keyboard on it. How could this have happened to your trusty companion? How can you prevent it next time? RadTech seems to offer some of the best solutions we have seen for these problems.

Basic Lesson #4: Can You See It?

In this lesson in the Clueless Computer User series, Ed Hurst will discuss more about stability issues. A popular buzzword these days is "interface". That's just a fancy word implying that two or more people are face to face. In actual practice, it usually means anything but face to face. It's a means of interacting with another. You are said to "interface" by some means. So it is with computers.

The Stealth Desktop: Managing Users, Fonts, and Printers

In the third installment of the Stealth Desktop series, Eduardo Sánchez builds upon the previous steps of Part I and Part II. Continuing where those parts left off, he introduces the subjects of user, font and printer management in Slackware.

Desktop FreeBSD Part 5: Internet Mail Setup

The one thing that really fired up the develpment of the Internet as we know it today was e-mail. The protocols were designed back when the system itself was highly difficult to access, and security wasn't a significant issue. Since then, even your average household pet has heard of Internet security problems.

The MySQL License Question

MySQL AB's namesake database is a package that many would list among the crown jewels of Free Software. The Swedish company's database has been deployed over five million times by the company's own count. Yet, some, quite legitimately wondered if certain wording on the MySQL site might indicate the company is backing away from Free Software, and, more specifically, the GNU General Public License. We wanted to know if this was an actual concern or simply a misunderstanding, so OfB contacted MySQL AB to find out more information.

CodeWeavers Shows Off iTunes Support

We've been working on iTunes support for several months now, and
progress has been steady, but we're plagued by speed and memory
performance problems.

Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 RC 1 Released

Loveland, Colorado — 4 August 2004 — Terra Soft Solutions®, Inc., the leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, is pleased to announce delivery of Yellow Dog Linux™ v4.0 RC1 through YDL.net Enhanced accounts.

Free Corporate Linux Set for Test Phase

A test version of UserLinux, a product intended to give corporate customers the utility of Red Hat Linux but not its price tag, is set for release at the start of September.