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Juergen's Linux Blog January 2004 Archive

By Juergen Haas, About.com Guide to Linux since 2003

a-Linux

Friday January 30, 2004
a-Linux is an x86 floppy-based mini-distribution, where assembly code meets Linux kernel. It contains only programs written in assembly language. It is extremely small…Read more..

100 Linux Distributions

Friday January 30, 2004
Did you know that "Linux" refers to only the core (kernel) of an operating system. Distributions are developed all the time all over the world based on the Linux kernel, ... Read More

4Suite

Wednesday January 28, 2004
4DOM is animplementation of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) standard DOMAPI for HTML and XML content. More on 4Suite. 4Suite

3dwm

Tuesday January 27, 2004
The 3dwm project is working with the creation of a three-dimensional workspace manager that can run in the 3D Cube as well as on desktop computers. More on 3dwm

8Character Password

Monday January 26, 2004
Did you know that password cracking certain systems is a little easier because these systems limit the user to 8 characters in the password? More.

Mandrake Linux News Digest

Sunday January 18, 2004
Issue # 1 January, 12th 2004 'MandrakeMove' is now available. With MandrakeSoft's newest product, there's no need to install a Linux system to have a full-featured desktop. A USB key is ... Read More

Zed - A Text Editor

Saturday January 17, 2004
Zep is a multipurpose and configurable text editor. See its features here. There are other text editors that are part of the Linux office suites.

Embedded Freedom Linux

Saturday January 17, 2004
It is - a bootable Linux CD OperatingSystem. - downloadable at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freeloaderlinux/FREE.iso?download- developed based on White Dwarf Linux, a modified slackware Embedded distribution. - a system that uses a Tiny-X VESA server and ... Read More

Who is Matthias Ettrich

Friday January 16, 2004
Did you know that he is the founder of the KDE Project....read more.

Who is Brian Behlendorf

Thursday January 15, 2004
What was his role in developing the Apache web server...read moreread more.

Who is Donald Becker

Thursday January 15, 2004
Read about his contribution to the kernel network subsystem....and more

Linux Glossary

Monday January 5, 2004
8,000 More Computing / Linux / Unix Terms starting with A to Z.

The Meaning of ASCII

Monday January 5, 2004
ASCII stands for "American Standard Code for Information Interchange". Want to know what it is made of and how it is useful? Details here.

What is an An Access Control List (ACL)

Thursday January 1, 2004
An Access Control List (ACL) is used to list those accounts that have access to the resource that the list applies to, controlling access not only to the system in ... Read More

Top-Selling High-End UNIX Computer System

Thursday January 1, 2004
The IBM eServer p690 system offers outstanding performance to customers. It is the first pSeries server to integrate industry-leading POWER4™ microprocessors, state of the art processor technology, and the first-ever ... Read More

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