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If you’re in the market for a new browser, you’re in luck: Linux offers many to choose from. But which is best? We surfed with a bunch, and here’s our report.

Recently ratified by the IETF, the iSCSI standard is about to make storage area networks (SANs) much more attractive to small- and mid-sized businesses.

If you haven’t built a local area network lately, you may have forgotten just how painful a project it can be. But what if your users could just plug in, power on, and connect, building their own ad-hoc network? Zeroconf, the basis of Apple’s Rendezvous product and an emerging networking standard, puts the play back into ‘plug-and-play.’ Here’s how Zeroconf works.

The X Window System is fast approaching its 20th birthday. Is it time to celebrate or time to reevaluate the aging technology?

InfiniBand’s future is becoming more certain as researchers find a home for the once-floundering I/O architecture among Linux clusters.