Red Hat Magazine Archive

The geek gift guide (and giveaway)

by Rebecca Fernandez and the rest of the Magazine staff.

Is your honey a hard-to-buy-for geek? Are you a technologist whose presents are never up to par? If so, this list is for you. Holiday bonus: A prize pack made up of selected gifts from our list.

How to set up a home email server
(without being spammed to death)

by Stuart R. Kirk

Want complete control over your inbox? Send and receive email--and filter spam--yourself.

How to set up a home DNS server

by Shannon Hughes

Customize your domain from the comfort--and security--of your home computer. An experienced RHCE will be your guide.

The road to Tibet

by Paul Jones

When the symposium ended in Delhi, one traveller took the 12-hour drive to meet with Tibetans in exile--innovators he's known for a decade through their work with ibiblio.

Peace in our time

by Mark Webbink

Inspired by brilliant bloggers? We are too. This week, we couldn't help but marvel at one of our own.

Ask Shadowman

Find out what Shadowman thinks of Oracle, Novell, and Sun.

Tips & tricks

Mounting GFS with a cluster, Sockets Direct Protocol, and access controls.

A society that shares: India's tradition of knowledge

by Venkatesh Hariharan

Intellectual property. Who does it help? An Indian man examines his country's history and concludes that shared knowledge benefits everyone. And the economy.

  

The road to Delhi with Eben Moglen and Paul Jones

produced by Kristin Hondros

xkcd: a comic strip for the computer geek

by Rebecca Fernandez

They're stick figures with geek humor. We chat with xkcd creator Randall Munroe about Creative Commons, digital rights management, and his Internet hit comic strip.

Ruby on Rails on Red Hat

by David Berube

Want to run Ruby on Linux? Follow the instructions in this article to write your first application. It couldn't be easier.

  

Why Priceline.com went open source

Tips & tricks

USB without drivers, external USB drives and large files, named errors, and gnome-terminal's LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

  

CitiStreet hits the road running with Red Hat

Introducing Fedora Core 6

by Max Spevack and Rahul Sundaram

Fedora Core is here (and his name is Zod).

Fedora Status Report: Announcing Zod

by Max Spevack

Read the official announcements and be in the know.

Enterprise 2.0: Trendy term, real revolution

by Jonathan Opp

What happened to Web 2.0? See where the internet is going.

Dogtail's object-oriented tree API (and how to use it)

by Len DiMaggio

More Dogtail than you can shake a stick at. Good Dogtail.

Creative Commons comic: A Spectrum of Rights

We like comics. Don't you?

Ask Shadowman

He kneels before Zod. And answers your questions.

Tips and Tricks

updating i386 packages on IA64 with ia32el, multiple RSH connections, changing OS entries in GRUB, pam_mkhomedir

Truth is happening

It's like getting a daily dose of Red Hat Magazine.

Inside Fedora Core 6

by Rahul Sundaram

The new Fedora Core will be here Real Soon Now™. More improvements, more support. Better virtualization, lots of performance boosts. Plus? One snazzy new look.

Squeezebox brings online music into your living room

by Greg DeKoenigsberg

Squeezebox is hot. The ultimate gadget for internet radio lovers--powered by open source. We talk with Dean Blackketter, CTO of Slim Devices.

Commentary: Guitar tablature builds a market around making music

by Jonathan Opp

We recently brought you the story of how music publishers challenged sites that traded guitar tablature. Here we offer an editorial from the author's perspective.

Red Hat Speaks: Jesse Keating on the naming of Fedora

interview by Amy Anselm

Keating, the Fedora Project Release Engineer, reveals the open process used to name Fedora Core 6. Meet the contenders.

How to use Kickstart (Anaconda's remote control)

by Shannon Hughes

You're 500 miles away from the office and need to re-install your server. If you have Anaconda, it's no problem at all. See how kickstart can make a sysadmin's job more simple.

Tips and tricks

lsusb, making audio work, unsupported dictionary types, XDMCP, and remote access to a local display manager.

The Frysk Monitor

by Sami Wagiaalla

Last month, you met Frysk. In part two of this three-part series, get to know the Frysk Monitor as Wagiaalla shows you how to debug on the fly.

Music publishers seek to silence guitar tablature sites

by Jonathan Opp

Online guitar tabs by the community, for the community. Taken offline by charges of copyright infringement. What will it take to get them back?

Making music with Fedora Core 5

by Michael Tiemann

A music workstation on Linux? Turn your Fedora Core box into a sound station with Rosegarden.

Jamendo: Music the way it was meant to be

by Greg DeKoenigsberg

This online archive lets you download songs that are low-cost, DRM-free, and licensed under Creative Commons. If iTunes were open, it might sound this good.

  

Edward Felten debunks DRM

produced by Kristin Hondros

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Duration: 12:39

Introduction to web services

by Rajith Attapattu

SOA, SOAP, HTTP--is it all alphabet soup? Free yourself from misconceptions and object-centric myths and discover the flexibilty of the web services stack.

Ask Shadowman

Shadowman recommends some of his favorite sources for sound--and answers a few questions about Red Hat certifications, rm -rf and chattr.

Tips and tricks

AMD Opteron chip, PCI hardware and the kernel, moving files to NFS mount points, SCSI errors with multipathing.

RSS how-to: Get your feed on

by Amy Anselm and Bascha Harris

Red Hat Magazine's making changes to take advantage of RSS. Not sure what that means or how it can help? We've got some advice for newbies, and some suggestions that even an expert might appreciate.

Take our RSS survey

How RSS-savvy are you? Take five minutes and tell us how you use it, your favorite feeds, and how you prefer to receive them.

  

Edward Felten defends your freedom to tinker

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Duration: 8:48

Frysk: Debugging in real time

by Rick Moseley

Monitor your programs, find your bugs, and do it all in real time. First of a three-part series.

Red Hat Speaks: Aaron Darcy and the application stack

Seen the press? Red Hat + JBoss equals first integrated open source stack. We tracked down the project's team lead.

Fedora status report

Get your Fedora fix with this month's summary. All the news the community sees fit to print.

Tips and tricks

Using proc, deciphering tracebacks from Oracle db, Apache httpd using SSL, kernel-ib package failure with up2date, and LVM for host-based mirroring.