John Kennedy

Welcome to the Admin Corner - covering a different aspect of Linux System Administration every month. Whether you use Linux on your home network or at work, at some point you'll need to do something to administer your machine . . . even if you use Linux at work and have a system administrator, something you read here may help you communicate with the administrator better. I'll start with a review Red Hat 8. I've been using Red Hat, or a variation, off and on for about four years, and I've been playing with the Red Hat Beta for almost two months. So far I like it. In the past, my gripes about Red Hat have been that they chose GNOME as the default Window Manager. Sorry to those who disagree, but I don't like GNOME. Now, I'm not saying those who use GNOME are wrong, we all have our own preferences - mine just isn't GNOME. Red Hat still has GNOME as the default, but it's... (more)

23,000 Reasons a Company Switched to Linux

Welcome to the Linux Advocacy Spotlight - here to show you how Linux advocates get Linux introduced in their companies*. CompanyABC, a personnel placement agency in central New Jersey, has ten offices throughout the U.S. and 75 employees. Each office has a connection to the Internet through dial-up, ISDN, or broadband cable. The workstations are a combination of Windows 95 and Windows 98 computers. The main office has a Novell 3.1 server that provides a Web site and e-mail. CompanyABC decided to upgrade the server to allow for more Web sites (Novell 3.1 allows only one Web site pe... (more)