Part one of a five part post series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely.

A video tutorial about installing opensuse.

To save money, I cobbled together a computer for my mother out of cast-offs left over from my own upgrades. She doesn't need a cutting-edge computer because she's not a power user, but she does need a reliable machine to run a few basic applications and to access the Internet. I moved my mother from Windows to Ubuntu Linux, and the experience was a surprisingly smooth one.

In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS and MyDNSConfig on Fedora 8. MyDNS is a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example, Bind or djbdns. The advantage is that MyDNS simply reads the records from the database, and it does not have to be restarted/reloaded when DNS records change or zones are created/edited/deleted. A secondary nameserver can be easily set up by installing a second instance of MyDNS that accesses the same database or, to be more redundant, uses the MySQL master / slave replication features to replicate the data to the secondary nameserver.

Midori is a lightweight web browser with the following features: Full integration with GTK+2; Fast rendering with WebKit; Tabs, windows and session management; Bookmarks are stored with XBEL; Searchbox based on OpenSearch; Custom context menu actions; User scripts and user styles support; Extensible via Lua scripts....

Q. I’ve downloaded tar ball software but I don’t know how to compile the same? Can you provide the instructions for compiling a program?

Here's a guide for beginners on how to install applications from the source files.

Even in this day and age you can sometimes still hear the echo of the old FUD: Installing software under Linux is difficult! Really?