Linux Alternative Project (formally the Linux Equivalent Project). The goal is to provide an informational website for all linux users. I will be periodically updating the database with Windows software and the Linux equivalents and alternatives.
Deskbar is a Gnome widget you can embed in a panel and can be used for opening applications, opening items from your browser history, doing web searches and all sorts
innotek VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.
Nobody wants to use an operating system. They just want it be able to run the software they need. Therefore, its very important for an OS to have killer apps. Here’s a list of software that make Linux worth using.
Making sure the bios setting has the SATA controller in native mode also tends to help, since combined/emulated ide mode tends to screw up the pata ports under linux when the sata driver loads.
Pure Load Balancer runs in userland, but relies on an asynchronous non forking/non threaded/non blocking architecture. Thanks to Niels Provos' excellent event library, it can also efficiently use the kernel notification mechanisms to never waste CPU time
After the tremendously successful 2000 and 2003 security tools surveys, Insecure.Org is delighted to release this 2006 survey. I (Fyodor) asked users from the nmap-hackers mailing list to share their favorite tools, and 3,243 people responded. This allowe
You MUST have a third server as a managment node but this can be shut down after the cluster starts. Also note that I do not recommend shutting down the managment server (see the extra notes at the bottom of this document for more information). You can no
In this first of five articles, learn what it means for software to be highly available and how to install and set up heartbeat software from the High-Availability Linux project on a two-node system. You'll also learn how to configure the Apache Web serve
You may know about the MySQL Cluster, which is a complex architecture to achieve high availability and performance. One of the advantages of MySQL Cluster is that each node is a peer to the others, whereas in a normal replicating system you have a master