Ask the Experts

Ask the Experts

• Compiling OpenSSH on Feisty Fawn

  An Ubuntu expert describes where in the process of compiling OpenSSH on Feisty Fawn a reader missed a step.  Continue Reading

• Uniform standards for the Linux/OSS community

  An open source software and applications expert describes his observations about the progress the Linux Foundation has been making towards creating uniform standards for Linux/OSS.  Continue Reading

• Incorporating multi-master support in MySQL

  A MySQL expert describes two ways that the multi-master support can be used.  Continue Reading

• Open standards and the community

  An open source issues and strategies expert explains the most recent progress being made with open standards and describes work being done by the newly-formed Linux Foundation.  Continue Reading

• RHEL 5's KVM vs. Feisty Fawn's KVM

  A user asks what the difference is between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5's (RHEL 5) kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) and Ubuntu Feisty Fawn's KVM.  Continue Reading

• Red Hat, Canonical and marketplace presence

  Find out why one open source software and applications expert doesn't think that Red Hat's and Canonical's refusals to partner with Microsoft will hurt them.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft, Xandros and Linspire market impact

  Find out why this open source software and applications expert doesn't think there will be signficant market impact from Microsoft's deals with Xandros and Linspire.  Continue Reading

• OpenOffice 2.0 use with ODBC

  An office suite expert describes how to use ODBC with OpenOffice 2.0.  Continue Reading

• OpenOffice 2.0 market share

  An office suite expert describes where to find information on OpenOffice 2.0's use in the enterprise worldwide.  Continue Reading

• Mounting external drives on Dapper Drake

  An Ubuntu expert describes two possible solutions, one with a command line solution, to a user's issue with mounting external drives onto Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.  Continue Reading

• Detection deadlock algorithms in MySQL

  An expert describes where to find information on detection deadlock algorithms in MySQL.  Continue Reading

• Xandros, Linspire and Microsoft

  An open source issues and strategies expert discusses the impact of patents, licensing and the partnerships between Xandros, Linspire and Microsoft.  Continue Reading

• Preserving templates in Oxygen Office Professional 2.0.4 and OpenOffice 2.0

  An office suite expert tells how to save office templates in one office suite, Oxygen Office Professional 2.0.4., for a user considering an upgrade to OpenOffice 2.0.  Continue Reading

• MySQL query cache

  An expert defines MySQL's query cache and describes when to use it and when to avoid it.  Continue Reading

• Comparing functions in Excel vs. Base

  An OpenOffice expert describes how to perform the Excel tasks, like math functions and the "insert merge field" command, in OpenOffice's database program, Base.  Continue Reading