Building a great Web site was never easy, but it seems to be getting more complicated as the Web grows. If you really want to make your Web site stand out in the crowd, you need to check out these Web development toolkits.

The last couple of years have been a wild time for Linux. But, when you peel away all the hype, what progress has Linux really made in the marketplace? And, where is it going from here?

Ransom Love's Caldera Linux Systems became a powerhouse overnight when it acquired traditional Unix vendor SCO. Step two is leveraging SCO's technology to help Linux scale to the enterprise.

Linux has always made a great file server, but now a whole new breed of open source filesystems is taking the file server idea to the next level. We show you what they are and tell you how they work.

Today's Linux installation procedures are pretty slick. Even if you are installing Linux for the first time, you probably won't need to do more than take a quick glance at the installation manual, and you'll be up and running in no time. These days, the hard part is not installing Linux, it's getting Linux to do exactly what you want it to after you have installed it.

OK, I'm a sucker for the melodramatics, and I got goose bumps on August 15, 2000. I was sitting in the most unlikely place for this to occur -- the pressroom at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Jose, CA. At the podium was Sun Microsystems' Marco Boerries. What caused the shiver to run up my spine was the fact that he was talking about how his company was about to dump its venerable CDE in favor of the GNOME desktop.

Why go into the office when you can work from your living room? The Internet has made telecommuting to work from home a more popular option in corporate America. Certainly, if you are a Windows user, there's no lack of remote control applications for doing this, but Linux users may find themselves in a bit of a bind.

One of the great strengths of the Linux operating system is its support for a wide variety of filesystem types. Users now have the choice of using several different production-level filesystems. For example, the recently released Reiser filesystem (reiserfs) has generated considerable interest and excitement among Linux users and system administrators.

One of the most renowned features of Unix is the clear distinction between what occurs in "kernel space" and what occurs in "user space." This column will describe how to invoke kernel system calls from within kernel code. This is a first step towards understanding how to build a kernel-resident application, such as a high-performance Web server.

Ahh, manpages. Some of them are great. But, a few of them are just, well, incomprehensible. So I was sitting back a few days ago, wondering if there was a way to locate the really ugly ones for some sort of award. Then I remembered that I had seen a neat module called Lingua::EN::Fathom that could compute various statistics about a chunk of text or a file, including the relative readability indices, such as the "Fog" index. The "Fog" index is interesting in particular because it was originally calibrated to be an indication of "grade level," with 1.0 being "first grade text" and 12.0 being "high school senior." At least that's the way I remember it.

I have been trying to install Linux, but am unable to boot the machine. Every time I install it from the CD-ROM and then reboot the machine, I get the following output: 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 It continues infinitely. The LILO prompt never comes up. Is there any way to fix this?

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The announcement that Sun Microsystems was purchasing Cobalt Networks for $2 billion dollars caught me completely by surprise. I immediately thought, "What a brilliant move for Sun! Why hadn't I thought of this earlier?"