Linux

The emergence of Linux is the most exciting development in the operating system arena (and possibly the entire software industry) in well over a decade, offering the best chance to break the Microsoft stranglehold on the PC desktop. Linux is an open source operating system (free of charge) that has already captured a significant portion of the server market.

Starfire Research provides onsite technical support for Linux in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota (USA) area. For more information, please email us at info@mnstarfire.com.

Linux comes in many flavors (distributions). We have used several versions of RedHat, Caldera, Corel, Debian, and Mandrake distributions.

Basic Linux Commands - command line Linux commands.

Linux Server Configuration Notes - odds and ends of configuring up a Linux server.

CVS - notes and links for setting up a CVS server

mySQL - notes on using and running mySQL

phpBB - How to set up a phpBB message board

Samba - setting up Samba for file sharing with a Windows network

RedHat 7.2 Guide - notes on using RedHat 7.2

CGI & Java How To - how to make a Java program executable via CGI

SSH - how to secure SSH (written for Fedora)