PXE lets you start your computer by downloading a boot image from the network. We’ll show you how to use PXE to install Linux.

Sun Microsystems provides its own solution for identity management called OpenSSO. The software is available free as Open Source and becomes a Sun product with added support and services.

Unison is offering the first commercial version of it's software product combining telephony, e-mail, address book, calendar and instant messaging.

Journalists at the Olympic Games 2008 in Peking report that they do not have unrestricted Internet access. The GPL'd OpenVPN software can easily work around censorship of this kind.

NX provides fast terminal services, even over slow connections.

Once you only needed a command line to access remote computers, but today’s networks sometimes require a graphical connection. The VNC protocol provides a practical cross-platform screen sharing solution. We’ll take a close look at VNC and show you some leading no-cost VNC applications.

If you can’t monitor everything yourself, why not let your computers watch your computers? This month we examine some practical techniques for network monitoring.