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LinuxPlanet: "John Gilmore, one of the founders of Electronic Frontier Foundation and all-around awesome geek and activist, is often quoted as saying "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." But does it?

The Internet is under the control of the companies who own the wires, which ain't us peons out here in the world."

LinuxPlanet: "There is one other major point that goes hand-in-hand with free as in freedom, and that is that ethics matter.

All decisions have an ethical basis. We hear "leave the zealotry and politics out of it, and just make a purely technical decision." There is no such thing, and if you don't make a consciously ethical decision then it will be made for you."

LinuxPlanet: "As so many wise persons say, migrating from Windows on your computer desktop to Linux is all about having the right applications.

Eric Geier introduces KompoZer as a good option for users wanting to find a Microsoft FrontPage replacement."

LinuxPlanet: "Firefox is cram-full of hidden treasures, as we have learned in this series. Today Akkana Peck exposes Firefox's expertise at handling those ridiculously long URLs that plague the Web-- email clients mangle them, copy and paste is a nightmare-- but Firefox has some special tricks that make them easy."

LinuxPlanet: "What gives you a firewall, load-balancing, QoS, 3G support, RADIUS, wireless access point, HTTP proxy, VPN, VLAN, PPPoE, captive portal, and a host of other useful security, authentication, and network applications, all in a hundred megabytes?

Zeroshell, the built-from-scratch Linux network appliance."

LinuxPlanet: "If you're used to Windows Vista or Mac OS X Leopard, you may be disappointed in the parental controls, or the lack there of, in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.

But don't give up on open source for your youngsters yet-- Eric Geier shows how to create a safer computing environment on Linux."

LinuxPlanet: "Charlie Schluting guides us through the Border Gateway Protocol, which is the routing protocol of the Internet.

BGP itself isnt too complex, but the concepts behind autonomous-system-based routing can be strange to newcomers.

In this article we are given a short overview of how BGP works, along with the problems it solves and causes."

LinuxPlanet: "What exactly is the Internet? This article will explain the concepts required to understand BGP, our next Networking 101 topic.

Shipping packets around the Internet requires the cooperation of separate organizations, so it isn't as straightforward as learning about an IGP routing mechanism."

LinuxPlanet: "LinuxPlanet Classics: This was originally published on LinuxPlanet Dec. 18, 2000, though it could be brand-new, as these same old anti-Linux arguments are being recycled yet one more time.

And just in time for the holidays! Read on to learn how Brian Proffitt artfully demolishes the "It's not even an operating system, it's just old technology cobbled together" nonsense."

This was originally published on LinuxPlanet Dec. 18, 2000, though it could be brand-new, as these same old anti-Linux arguments are being recycled yet one more time.

And just in time for the holidays! Read on to learn how Brian Proffitt artfully demolishes the "It's not even an operating system, it's just old technology cobbled together" nonsense.