Linux kernel developers issue a statement signed by about 100 developers that they find non-free kernel modules to be undesirable and harmful. As they say “Such modules negate the openness, stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux community. Vendors that provide closed-source […]

Linux kernel developers issue a statement signed by about 100 developers that they find non-free kernel modules to be undesirable and harmful. As they say “Such modules negate the openness, stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux community. Vendors that provide closed-source […]

Postfix is an attempt to provide an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer,and hopefully secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not upset your users.This tutorial will explain how to setup mail server with Postfix + Dovecot + SASL + Squirrel Mail. Full […]

If all application would use sound-systems like Arts things could be so much easier. But since some tools insist on going directly to Alsa or OSS there is a problem when you want to record what you’re playing. Especially when it’s two-way-communication as it is with Ekiga. After trying to record a conversation with Audacity […]

rdiff-backup is a commandline utility to backup one directory in another. Both the source and destination directory may be on other computers than the one on which the command is issued, but of course don’t need to be. The backup will consist of a copy of the latest versions of the backed-up files (so retrieving […]

FreeNX is a system that allows you to access your desktop from another machine over the internet. You can use this to login graphically to your desktop from a remote location. One example of its use would be to have a FreeNX server set up on your home computer, and graphically logging in to the […]

I have tried Ubuntu many times before and I even recommended it to people (even my sister who has now converted over to the FOSS side of computing and loves it). But for myself, I have tried Ubuntu since Dapper Drake and it seemed like every version was just more and more painful for me […]

Well, it’s actually not a real nightmare, I just thought this would be a cool title. As some of you might know I really favor SELinux over AppArmor, although it’s quite hard to use. Now that EasyLFS is mostly done I am working on it’s SELinux-policy, which is based on the Reference Policy by Tresys. […]

Some people say that there are too many GNU/Linux distributions, too many people just doing their own instead of joining an existing effort. In essence their criticism is towards the fact that so many people in the Free Software community actually take their freedom and pursue their dreams instead of finding their place in somebody […]

Before I could already save around 100MB by removing the kernel-sources from the Live-system. Now I have decided to remove GCC 3.4 and 4.0, and could save another 50 to 60MB. If I would give out funky codenames for the EasyLFS-releases I guess 0.4 would probably get the name “Shrinkhead”. The current test-CD is about […]