Jack Wallen is an award-winning writer for TechRepublic, The New Stack, and Linux New Media. He's covered a variety of topics for over twenty years and is an avid promoter of open source. For more news about Jack Wallen, visit his website jackwallen.com.
We’ve debated the highlights of IT history. Now it’s time to consider a few good ideas that went wrong – or that may have been ill-advised to begin with.
So long as a personal computer is connected to a network it is vulnerable, so adding a firewall is critical. Firestarter is one of the easiest firewall tools to use for both the Linux desktop and the Linux server.
A dependable backup tool is not a luxury – everyone needs to have one. But that doesn’t mean you need to spend a fortune to get the feature set that meets your needs. Jack Wallen introduces some great Linux backup solutions, including a few that are cross platform.