By Ded Ryzing: How much swap space should you set aside? This is a good question and one that seems not to have an answer. You’ll see it debated all over the Internet with many varying opinions on what is correct. How much is a matter of preference and experience, but most [...]

By Ded Ryzing: By the very nature of it’s design, the GNU/Linux OS is a very secure and stable platform. However, there are still things that can be done to make the system almost bullet proof. I say almost because, let’s be honest, nothing designed and built by man is perfect. These are [...]

By Ded Ryzing: MySQL is a great product and may be the #1 database engine on the Internet today.  It’s fast, flexible, powerful and best of all, free.  By default, on Debian and Ubuntu servers, the data directory is located at /var/lib/mysql.  This may be fine, but I like to keep the database files seperated [...]

By Ded Ryzing: It appears there is a known bug with Linux Mint, and possible Ubuntu 7.10 as well, where Grub can’t find message.mint on boot. You will receive a message “/etc/grub/message.mint missing, press a key to continue”. This happens because Grub is not able to access /etc/grub when /boot is setup as [...]

By Ded Ryzing: The other day I got into a somewhat heated discussion about why Linux is a viable alternative desktop OS. Despite my best efforts, I was unable to move the other side past the rhetoric and myths that seem to surround Linux. It is because of this discussion that I am [...]