Getting your modem to work in Linux is sometimes a bit tricky, especially for internal modems. With DSL, Cable and other types of broadband access, modems lose more and more of their usefullness due to their limited speed, yet it can still be handy if you're underway or if you simply can't have access to anything faster. This guide will help you fix the most common problems encountered when trying to handle Mac modems in Linux.

One of the major complaints I have seen from members of the (non linux) press and tech savvy/advisory websites about linux for enterprise is the 'poor or missing' backup tools available. I have a single rebuttal for this quip, and it's rsync. Rsync is the modern 'swiss army knife' of moving and managing large amounts of data in Linux. This utility is an essential part of my Linux backup strategy and hopefully in this article I will show you how to make it part of yours as well.

Setting up a basic mail server can be a hard task at times. Especially when you want it to handle mail for multiple domains and multiple accounts on a single machine. In most of the cases, if you want it to do mail delivery (incoming and outgoing) as well as handle POP3 mail accounts, this may require the use of multiple software packages. Choosing the packages that can interoperate is not obvious either. However, there are a couple of complete Mail server packages which can come in handy and present many advantages. One of them is XMail.

Although sound support may appear as a side matter on a Linux install, rare are the people that do not care about it. Sound support for PPC machines has improved a lot during the past years and distribution installers usually do their job fine and configure everything correctly. Nonetheless, a lot of people still are facing mute computer speakers. This Troubleshooting Guide will show you through the common steps to fix your sound up.

While many Linux users wouldn't think a second about playing music on a Linux box, others can't live without it. While there are a lot of console or GUI music players, the most popular without doubt is the WinAmp clone XMMS. This guide will show you a bit through the possibilities of XMMS and why it has become the "standard" Linux music player.

Let's face it, FTP servers are insecure by nature. The plain FTP protocol does not include any encryption for password. This means that passwords are sent in plain text from the client to the server. Any halfway skilled person with a sniffer will be able to catch those passwords on their way and use them against you.

Ogg Vorbis is a free (as in speech) alternative to Mp3 which is subject to various royalty fees. Ogg Vorbis supports most of the features Mp3 does and is a very flexible audio format, especially for streaming.

This howto will try to introduce you to the world of Ogg Vorbis, by explaining how to install it and how to make use of it to store and play your audio data.

Newworld PowerMacs (iBook, PowerMac G4, iMac, etc.) should be booted using the yaboot booter for best results. This guide explains how to setup yaboot and create a boot menu between Mac OS and Linux. This guide assumes you have Linux already installed, and want to install yaboot.

Using Java in your PPC Linux browser (Mozilla or Konqueror) is not very difficult, yet one has to know how to do it and unfortunately, documentation on the subject is sparse. That's why I hope this small HowTo will be able to help people get it working.