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Category: Item Reviews

  • Joseph D Sloan, High Performance Linux Clusters

    Getting the best performance today relies on deploying high performance clusters, rather than single unit supercomputers. But building clusters can be expensive, but using Linux can be both a cheaper alternative and make it easy to develop and dep…

  • Interview with Tom Jackiewicz, author of Deploying OpenLDAP

    My first article for LinuxPlanet is an interview with the author of Deploying OpenLDAP, Tom Jackiewicz. The book is an excellent guide to using and abusing the OpenLDAP platform. As well as the contents of the book, I talked with Tom about the use…

  • Tom Jackiewicz, Deploying OpenLDAP

    OpenLDAP is the directory server of choice if you want a completely free and open source solution to the directory server problem. Tom Jackiewicz is the author of Deploying OpenLDAP, a title that aims to dissolve many of the myths and cover the me…

  • Patrick Koetter, Ralf Hildebrandt, The Book of Postfix

    Postfix is fast becoming a popular alternative to sendmail. Although it can be complex to configure, it’s easier to use Postfix with additional filtering applications, for example Spam and virus filters, than with some other mail transfer agents. …

  • Cristian Darie, Mihai Bucica; Beginning PHP 5 and Mysql E-Commerce

    PHP and MySQL are common solutions in many web development situations. However, when using them for e-commerce sites some different techniques should be employed to get the best out of the platforms. I talked to Cristian Darie and Mihai Bucica abo…

  • Garrett Rooney, Practical Subversion

    Subversion is having what can only be described as a subversive effect on the versioning software environment. CVS has long been the standard amongst programmers, but it has it’s faults and Subversion (read Sub-version) addresses those known and p…

  • Kyle Rankin, Knoppix Hacks

    Knoppix is not just another Linux distribution. Unlike many Linux alternatives, Knoppix doesn???t need to be installed; everything runs from a CD (called a ???Live CD??? distribution). While Live CDs aren???t unique to Knoppix, it is the way the Knoppix C…

  • New Book Review Blog

    I have a new blog totally dedicated to hosting book reviews and interviews. It takes the place of the books blog I had at LinuxWorld, which is obviously now defunct. The new site, The Writers Perspective will host all the reviews and interviews th…

  • David Sklar, Essential PHP Tools: Modules, Extensions, and Accelerators

    PHP is a popular web development/deployment platform and you can get even more out of the platform by using the extensions and tools available on the web to extend PHP???s capabilities. I talk to David Sklar, author of Essential PHP, about his new b…

  • Tony Mobily, Hardening Apache

    It is the administration task we love to hate: securing a website. Apache forms the backbone of most websites so it makes sense to start there. In Hardening Apache, Tony Mobily does just that, starting with the basics of creating of a secure Apach…