On my PC I have installed, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Sabayon and Debian (my main Linux operating system), but when I turn it on, usually I did not get the grub menu, and I am forwarded directly to Debian, sometimes I have to restart the system to start another Linux flavor.

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an OpenSUSE 11 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Inotify is a Linux® feature that monitors file system operations, such as read, write, and create. Inotify is reactive, surprisingly simple to use, and far more efficient than, say, busy polling from a cron job. Learn how to integrate inotify into your own applications, and discover a set of command-line tools you can use to further automate system administration.

Google Maps opened up a whole new world of mapping on the Web, making it easy for companies and individuals to put their data on a map. But if you want more control over how your maps look, or have data that doesn't really work well with Google Maps, there are other options, including serving your own data with Geoserver.

Just recently, the Linux-based Android phone has been successfully introduced to the public. Google, T-Mobile, and HTC put on a show in New York that attracted huge media interest. Now, it's time to see Android perform, though we'll have to wait before G1 goes on sale starting October 22.

Ziproxy is Web proxy server, but rather than cache content the way Web proxies like Squid do, it's designed to compress the content that it fetches from the Web before forwarding it to the Web client.

Following last month's release of Mesa 7.1, Tungsten Graphics began working on Mesa 7.2, which is a stabilized version of this OpenGL implementation that had picked up 3D support for the ATI Radeon R500 and Intel GMA 4-Series.

There's no doubt that Linux is a secure operating system. However, nothing is perfect.