Linux Journal Contents #50, June 1998
Linux Journal Issue #50/June 1998
Features
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Virtual Domains and qmail
by Mike Thomas
Here's a way to get control of your mail with secure, high performance and freely available software called qmail.
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PPPui: A Friendly GUI for PPP
by Nathan Meyers
Having problems setting up PPP? Mr. Meyers gives us a graphical interface to make it easy.
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Quickly Setting Up PLIP and NFS
by Loris Renggli
Need to transfer files between your desktop and your laptop? Here's the easy way to do it by networking.
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Introducing the Network Information Service for Linux
by Preston Brown
NIS is a system for sharing system information between machines. Mr. Brown tells us how to set up and use it.
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Getting in the Fast Lane
by Michael Hughes
Here's how to set up a broadband connection for your home or office LAN.
News & Articles
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The Coda Distributed File System
by Peter J. Braam
Carnegie Mellon University has developed an exciting file system. Mr. Braam, one of the developers, tells us all about it.
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Magick with Images
by Steve Whitehouse
Mr. Whitehouse gives us an introduction to a free software package for manipulating images—ImageMagick.
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Virtual Interview with Jeremy Allison and Andrew Tridgell
by John Blair
Author John Blair talks to two members of the Samba development team to discover some history and take a look at the future of the project.
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Linux WAN Routers: Musings of a Network Administrator
by Tony Mancill
Another great use for Linux; Mr. Mancill tells us why his company picked Linux routers over the big names.
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Linus Speaks at SVLUG meeting
by Chris DiBona
Reviews
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Caldera OpenLinux Version 1.2
by Sid Wentworth
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Red Hat Linux 5.0
by Michael Taht and Retro
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Linux and the PalmPilot This article contains all the information you need to run Linux on the Palm Pilot personal digital assistant.
by Michael J. Hammel
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Administering Usenet News Servers
by Liam Greenwood
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Samba: Integrating UNIX and Windows
by Dan Wilder
WWWsmith
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At the Forge Server-Side Includes
by Reuven M. Lerner
Don't want to learn CGI but still want dynamic web pages? Mr. Lerner introduces us to server-side includes.
Columns
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Letters to the Editor
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From the Editor
Connectivity
by Marjorie Richardson
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Stop the Presses
Open Source Summit
by Eric Raymond
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Linux Apprentice Understanding /dev
by Preston F. Crow
Understanding /dev This article gives us a basic introduction to device files and their uses.
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Linux Means Business South African Business Uses Linux to Connect
by Paul Daniels
South African Business Uses Linux to Connect The story of a company replacing Windows systems with Linux to obtain better speed and greater reliability.
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New Products
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System Administration
Mtool: Performance Monitoring for Multi-platform Systems
by Andrej Sostaric, Milan Gabor and Andreas Gygi
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Linux Gazette An Intranet Filing System
by Justin Seiferth
An Intranet Filing System Mr. Seiferth offers us a solution for keeping track of shared files on over an Intranet that utilizes several operating systems.
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Best of Technical Support
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- Making Linux and Android Get Along (It's Not as Hard as It Sounds)
- Using Salt Stack and Vagrant for Drupal Development
- New Products
- Validate an E-Mail Address with PHP, the Right Way
- Drupal Is a Framework: Why Everyone Needs to Understand This
- A Topic for Discussion - Open Source Feature-Richness?
- The Secret Password Is...
- RSS Feeds
- New Products
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How to Build an Optimal Hadoop Cluster to Store and Maintain Unlimited Amounts of Data Using Microservers
Realizing the promise of Apache® Hadoop® requires the effective deployment of compute, memory, storage and networking to achieve optimal results. With its flexibility and multitude of options, it is easy to over or under provision the server infrastructure, resulting in poor performance and high TCO. Join us for an in depth, technical discussion with industry experts from leading Hadoop and server companies who will provide insights into the key considerations for designing and deploying an optimal Hadoop cluster.
Some of key questions to be discussed are:
- What is the “typical” Hadoop cluster and what should be installed on the different machine types?
- Why should you consider the typical workload patterns when making your hardware decisions?
- Are all microservers created equal for Hadoop deployments?
- How do I plan for expansion if I require more compute, memory, storage or networking?




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