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Every modern operating system has some sort of startup routine. Even DOS had the old AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS. The startup system defines what is launched on system startup, under what conditions, and in what order. DOS did things the simple way, having a file that was read on every boot that would run commands in whatever order they’re placed in the file.

I was working for Digital Equipment Corporation when I first met Linus and facilitated the port of Linux onto the Alpha processor.

This chapter is all about Report Manager, the frontend for the Report Server backend. The full interaction between the Windows operating system, the Report Server, and the Report Manager is amply illustrated with a large number of hands-on exercises. You also get a full dose of the security aspects, the scheduling, and delivery aspects
of reporting.

Five years after it was first launched, South Africa’s Impi Linux distribution no longer exists.

Kernel rootkits are tough enough to detect, but now a researcher has demonstrated an even sneakier method of hacking Linux.

A Bulgarian open source project has released a Live CD compilation of five popular boot-and-run Linux distributions.

Striking new features are the Compiz Fusion 3D compositing window manager, KDE 4.0, Gnome 2.24 and a redesigned installer, but Mono-haters won't be happy to see the large amount of Microsoft .NET software that ships as standard.