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IBM DeveloperWorks has an article about setting up a wireless ISP on Linux.

IBM DeveloperWorks has an article that answers the question: “Why FreeBSD?”

Worth a read. Which reminds me - I hope I did post the research I did in May or June about BSD, as I’ve already forgotten which distro fits me best. If I did, this place is definitely useful, because I honestly don’t remember how I went about researching BSD.

Part III of the KernelTrap’s OpenBSD Hacakathon coverage describes how OpenBSD addresses ICMP flaws, and that no other operating system has come even close to implementing that many failsafes. Their preview article, part I, and part II are still available.

IBM DeveloperWorks has an article Grid in action: Harvesting and reusing idle compute cycles.

I’ve always liked to compile apache and all its related objects from source, since it’s the only type that I can successfully manage to do. (It also gives a good excuse to say that you work with source-compile stuff other than the linux kernel.) Now that I have access to lines that I don’t specifically need bandwidth limiting (so I don’t have to mourn over the loss of mod_bandwidth that only supports Apache1 and have to deal with QOS/tc stuff), it’s probably a good time to get used to Apache2.

The following sites have relatively up-to-date information on how to do it.

• Apache 2 and PHP (mod_php) on Linux
• Jacob’s Blog: How I Compile Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL
• Apache2-SSL-PHP5-Howto (+ Zend Optimizer And IonCube Loader)
• How to install/compile Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL 4.1 on Linux, forum style
• Apache 2 and PHP 4 and 5 Installation Guide
• How To: Setup a Development Webserver, a Ubuntu (and apparently Debian/dpkg) newbie documents his efforts
• Setting up a PHP 5 with Apache 2 and MySQL 4.1.3
• Installation/PHP5, Wiki form
• Linux installation – setting up the environment, MySQL and Apache2
• And, of course, PHP.net’s version of all this

Side note - this is interesting; a gentoo apache2/php/mysql tutorial.

What’s upsetting is that there are SO MANY tutorials on how to do this on Windows, with the Apache installer. (This one goes so far to even do it step-by-step with screenshots. I know, I know, I shouldn’t be advertising it.) In the last year, I’ve seen more student-run win-based Apache dorm installations that I want to. It’s not true web programming or hosting until you go to a Unix based operating system, especially with Apache and PHP/Perl/Ruby/CGI/MySQL/PostgreSQL using emacs. Those people better not confuse this and brag that they got their own development platform.

MiniTutorials is a Win32 site that describes how to set up Apache2, Perl, Mysql, PHP5 and AWStats.

http://minitutorials.com/index.php

Mark me crazy, but I found this greek page on how to set up Apache2 with Tomcat and php and mysql. Works for me.

http://www.debian.gr/?q=node/205

Decided to figure out what was the difference between FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.

• forums.devshed.com/t73907/s.html, a forum post collecting some useful and comprehensive links about BSD. Link #2, Explaining BSD, was especially helpful since it was written as a historical account of BSD.
• www.inner-smile.com/bsd.phtml, a small collection of (mainly broken) links about BSD.
• The NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD FAQ, parts 1-10
• www.greasydaemon.com, a guide to BSD Unix, with installation and other useful tutorials.

In the end, I’ll choose to try FreeBSD first, then OpenBSD. I might actually try installing FreeBSD on my T43p, though that seems to be a very unwise decision.

Side thought: I wonder if FreeBSD supports USB2.0 speeds. This tutorial describes how to connect a USB mass storage device to a FreeBSD computer, but doesn’t tell us if it’s capable of 480mbits/sec (it doesn’t seem to be able to, given the “da0: 1.000MB/s transfers” debug output upon insertion).

Picked this up from lkml - an article on IBM DeveloperWorks about inline assembly for x86 in linux.