The Linux Operating system has become more and more friendly to the ordinary desktop user. The GUI has made it possible for nearly anyone to be able to install and use Linux comfortably with almost no command line interaction at all. Linux users who are not familiar with the command line though, miss out on [...]

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So. In the last post I covered using IPCop as your router/firewall/IDS and web proxy. This time I’m going to touch on some of the available addons to the IPCop web GUI and also, some of the binary tools for the CLI.
Lets start out with the addons. Addons to IPCop are those which add functionality [...]

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My home network has always been important to me. It serves not only as a major artery of my home business but, also as a ‘lab’ environment for learning and testing purposes. This post was inspired by and is an accompanying post to Mr-Snicks post at isnick.net. My self being a little more geeky than [...]

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Just so you will know, emerge is the package management tool for Gentoo linux. It is “the command-line interface to the portage system” (from emerge man-pages).
On with my top-5:
#1 emerge –sync
This command synchronizes your local collection of packages with the latest sources available from Gentoo. You should sync your portage directory at least weekly. You [...]

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