This week in the ongoing town-hall debate that is the Linux.com forums, the participants were asked about troubleshooting file permissions, testing Web pages on multiple browsers, and deciding what counts as a low-resource machine. All that, plus your chance at a one-on-one session with unanswered questions.

Q: Can my company's accounts department, which uses the Windows platform, migrate to Linux?
A: Your company's accounts department can migrate to the Linux platform, however let us take a look at findings of our survey of a typical accounting SMB, and then see the solutions offered by Linux.

Rootkits are programs placed on your server so once it is cracked the attacker can return and use your server anyway they choose. This turtorial will show you how to check for rootkits with rootkit Hunter.

As I walked through the war zone that is Wall Street yesterday on my way to a Red Hat meeting, I assumed the worst.

With Linux hyped as a very secure and stable operating system as compared to Windows, you might be wondering why would anyone need security tools for Linux.

Following the recent releases of two popular Linux distributions, Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, we are looking at a couple of additional pieces of software you might want to install onto a fresh installation of either.

Something new will emerge from this recession but open source enters it on a fairly mature level. The legal framework and values of it are established. There are serious open source players.

"The Green Penguin" is a new blog devoted to ‘green’ IT related to Linux (though at times loosely). This week´s topic is about Google and General Electric´s recently announced plan to promote a ‘smart’ electric power grid and thus encourage greater use of renewable energy.