Linux is built to be inherently secure, and has a great track record of having superior security to its proprietary counterpart.However, in the world of server administration, paranoia is an asset. How else could someone get in? How can I

A simple, clean Linux wallpaper to let the world know, but without shouting. If you'd like to see more really nice Linux Wallpapers, take a look at my Wallpaper gallery.

Here is a really cool wallpaper to help you remember CLI commands and what they do. Nice and useful for those times where your brain fails you.

Another migration from Windows to Linux to join my list of nearly 100 Linux Migrations from Around the Globe:INSURANCE giant Allianz Australia expects to save more than $1 million by switching from Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Linux for key

Zonker, you rock, brother. Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier has provided us with a nice explanation of enhancing openSUSE 11.2. He talks about adding repositories and packages. It's a little more user-friendly to new users than my quick summary: OpenSUSE Linux: Quick

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Linux wallpapers can totally change how your machine feels. I saw this one and thought it was rather well-done. Greets and congrats to the person who did it. If you know who did this, tell them thanks for me. If

Coming in from ZDNet, music to my ears... Daryl McBride is canned from SCO. No more President/CEO for SCO. Apparently, some one must have finally taken the red pill.Excerpt:"Remember SCO?Back when I started writing about open source and Linux, in

I finally got my twitter account going and put the tweets into the left navigation here on http://www.suseblog.com/. If you have a good Linux-related contact that you can recommend, shoot 'em on over. Also, should you wish to follow me,

Blatantly stolen from Distrowatch:"Klaus Knopper has released KNOPPIX 6.2, a new version of the popular Debian-based live CD/DVD with LXDE as the default desktop: "The current version 6.2 has been completely updated from Debian 'Lenny', 'Testing' and 'Unstable', and uses

Good old Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols. Excellent article, man. Linux is taking the recordbooks by storm according to his latest article.He says,"Once upon a time, supercomputers used special vector model processors to achieve their remarkable speeds. Then, at the dawn of

When you start up Linux on your box, generally you are taken to a graphical login screen (unless, of course, you have configured things differently). This graphical login screen is called the display manager.Would you like to check out some

Ophcrack is the Linux LiveCD that you reach for when you forget your admin password on your Win32 (incl. XP and Vista) box.From the Ophcrack Sourceforge page:"Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables.

As many know, one of my BIGGEST gripes with Gnome and/or GTK-based apps is their inability to NATIVELY support remote filesystem access, like Konqueror does by default, and Kate does by default, and many of the other applications built for

OpenSUSE Linux provides a command-line method of managing repositories and packages. This tool is called zypper. The following is a basic tutorial by example of how to use zypper.Repository ManagementTo list repositories:[1342][root@dev:/home/scott]$ zypper repos# | Alias | Name [...]

We Linux users are quite the easy-going laid-back bunch. We rarely get religious about our operating systems, and in no way wear them as a part of our very identity. We love everything, and get along with everyone. We are

In the search for a full weight loss program for my window manager (I'm switching from KDE 3.5 to XFCE4), it became clear that another terminal would have to replace Konsole. After 11 full minutes of considerable thought, agonizing contemplation,

For everyone who is an OpenSUSE Linux fan, here's a new wallpaper just for you:Click image for bigger version.Take a look at the rest of the Linux wallpaper gallery.

In OpenSUSE Linux, we have a wonderful thing called One-Click Install. This is a marvelous thing for new users. I love it to death, and care for it as I would my own child. Almost everyone knows that this is

When you are forwarding ports through a tunnel, either locally or remotely (i.e., with the -L or -R switches), you can modify the session real-time. The way that you do this is after you start the session, you press SHIFT