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Creating Applications with Amazon EC2 and S3
Publish Date: May. 13, 2008
Cloud computing has become the new hot thing (Web 3.0?) Amazon was one of the first vendors to offer a cloud development environment, the Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2. They followed it up with a storage capability called S3. This tutorial will show you how to set up and get started developing applications on EC2 and S3.
Step by Step: Using Samba to join a Windows Domain
Publish Date: Apr. 1, 2008
Samba has made getting Linux and Windows systems talking to each other much easier than it once was. But there are still some tasks that are more than a little finicky. One of them is definitely joining a Samba client to a domain-based Windows network. Luckily, now you'll have a step by step guide to doing just that.
LILO and GRUB: Boot Loaders Made Simple
Publish Date: Jan. 22, 2008
LILO and Grub are the most popular Linux bootloaders. Usually, your Linux distribution chooses and configures one or the other for you, but this article provides a handy comparison of the two, and offers some troubleshooting and configuration tips if you ever want to do it by hand.
New Desktop Face-Off: Gnome 2.20 vs KDE 3.5
Publish Date: Oct. 25, 2007
Both the Gnome and KDE desktop environments have new versions out. We thought it would be a good time to check out the differences between the two, to help you decide which of the two is most appropriate for you. Judith Myerson has all the details on what you can expect to see, as well as a peek at KDE 4.0.