There are a lot of people out there that say "You don't need an antivirus program for Linux." I believe that you do. Even though there are very few viruses in the wild that affect Linux there is still the looming possibility for more and more viruses to be created. This tutorial will walk you through the main steps of installing and configuring AntiVir on Ubuntu Linux. The setup will also enable AvGuard, the real-time scanning engine for AntiVir.

Having trouble getting .WMV, .WMA, and .ASF files - the Windows-based media formats - to open on your Linux box? Being forced to dual-boot or switch workstations just to listen to or watch audio and video clips is usually more effort than it's worth. But fortunately, if you are using Xine and one of its frontends like Totem, you can add support for these file formats within Linux.

In the previous article, we saw how to set up Subversion and access it through TortoiseSVN on Windows. You may have run into the multiple password prompts. Annoying? I thought they might be. Today you'll see how to make those little annoyances disappear.

If you do any kind of development work, you will benefit from source control. This is something I've only recently discovered myself, literally about a week ago, and I'm reaping the rewards already!

I have seen a few arguments about how porting free Linux applications to Windows is a bad thing. Why?

Have you ever needed to have a copy of a file in more than one location? Perhaps you need copies of the files on your desktop machine on your laptop and persistent remote access isn't an acceptable solution? Maybe you're an administrator and would like to consolidate log files from multiple hosts for your review. rsync is a good solution for both of the above scenarios as well as just about any situation where you would like to keep updated copies of files in multiple locations.

For even the most frugal geek, one computer is just never enough. With new Linux distributions to be installed and new servers to be configured on a weekly basis, it just isn't practical to do it all on one computer. But even if you feel compelled to set up your own lab, maybe you just don't have the cash around to by four or five brand new systems. If that sounds familiar, I have a few solutions for you to consider.