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Interested in having your Fedora installation support more than ext2/3?
JFS - boot with ‘linux jfs’
Reiserfs - boot with ‘linux reiserfs’
NTFS - RPMs available at http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/index.html.

If you’re sick of advertising on the websites, then try Privoxy, available on OS X, Linux and Windows platforms. Privoxy is a free, open source software package which runs as a proxy server on your computer, automatically filtering out advertisements, unwanted cookies and more.
Privoxy is a proxy that is solely focused on privacy protection [...]

DEAR SIR/MADAM:
I AM MR. DARL MCBRIDE CURRENTLY SERVING AS THE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE SCO GROUP, FORMERLY KNOWN AS CALDERA SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, IN LINDON, UTAH, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I KNOW THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOUR BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD NO PREVIOUS COMMUNICATIONS OR BUSINESS DEALINGS BEFORE NOW.
MY ASSOCIATES HAVE RECENTLY MADE [...]

Introduction
Apache is easily the most popular web server on the Internet, estimated to power 62% of all websites1, and is the most visible and successful project of the Open Source movement. The second most popular web server, Microsoft’s IIS, is estimated to hold a 28% market share.
Apache originated in the early 1990s from the National [...]

The Economist magazine is running an article on the series of SCO versus IBM / Red Hat / Linux court battles. It’s rather brief, but I do like the description of “buttoned-down types clinging to proprietary and closed computer systems”. Fairly appropriate in more ways than one - SCO CEO Darl McBride is [...]

Most open source supporters will be aware of the Halloween Documents; a series of documents relating primarily to Microsoft’s efforts to destroy Linux and the open source development model.
As one of Microsoft’s minions in the fight against open source, SCO is now featured in Halloween IX: It Ain’t Necessarily SCO. In Halloween IX, open [...]

For anyone using Samba to provide Windows file sharing, the following directives will help stop the spread of network share viruses.

# Don’t allow access to any of the following files.
# Useful for preventing the spread of virus infections on your server
# should a Windows-connected client become infected.
# The last match bit prevents accessing files with [...]

Are you a Linux user feeling left out because your operating system doesn’t support the Mblaster trojan? Fear not, as you too can enjoy the Mblaster experience*.
Simply compile the following code, run as root (required to bind to port 135), and enjoy…
* Random rebooting and DDOSing of Windows Update features will be only available [...]

One of the differences many new Linux users notice is the lack of familiar fonts. X11 includes support for True Type fonts, however Linux distributions do not include fonts that OS X and Windows users are used to.
Thanks to the Core Fonts project at SourceForge it is now easy (and legal) to create an [...]