Look at messages generated during kernel boot and explore the internals of the more interesting ones.

The" new" Web is all shiny and collaborative, but" old school" Usenet is still chugging along. Here, Randal Schwartz connects some of the new with some of the old, scraping CPAN for news of novel Perl modules.

A hard to swallow conclusion from the table of cluster.

A whirlwind tour of my history in computing.

Don’t put off backups. Here’s how to plan a Linux backup strategy.

Understand and control your data with information_schema and strict mode in MySQL 5.

ImageMagick is a package of tools for creating and editing images that’s not easy to get started with, but is well worth the effort. Here’s an introduction, just in time for processing those summer photos.

Two prior Linux Magazine articles, “How To Git It” and “Embrace the Git Index”, cover basic concepts about git and explain some of the details about the git index. This article introduces many new git concepts and techniques that can be used for collaborative development, including the use and manipulation of topic and tracking branches, cloning a remote repository, details on installing a server for git repositories using HTTP and git- native protocols, and publishing a public repository via the Web.