NEW: Update: March 23, 2000

Added an article on ways to build firewall rules using Mason.

Last month, Mason was introduced to you, giving you the ability to produce a packet filtering firewall. With the help of that article, you were able to begin securing your machine while allowing everyone who uses it to be able to do what they need to do. Now let's see if we can't make it so that you do not have to take as long to do this task on another machine with the same or even one with a little different needs.

Update: March 20, 2000

Added this week's tip. This week's tip covers some of the common usage of the rpm tool.

Update: March 16, 2000

Added a bonus tip for this week. Benjamin Kahn shows more user friendly ways to add shortcuts to your desktop.

Update: March 13, 2000

This week's tip is added. This week's tip talks about adding a shortcut to your Desktop using GNOME and Enlightenment. Enjoy.

If you like to submit a tip and have your five minutes of fame please mail to contributor@www.linuxmonth.com

Update: March 10, 2000

The poll question has been updated with SuSE and TurboLinux as possible answers. The only fair thing was to reset all the votes and start again. I like to thank all of the readers who voted and encourage you to vote again for your favorite distribution. Thank you.

Update: March 9, 2000

We have received a lot of E-Mails regarding this month's poll question missing SUSE and TurboLinux. (four in the morning, no coffee, you do the math *smile* ) We like to apologize for excluding these two fine distributions. We will update the poll question with the inclusion of SUSE and TurboLinux shortly. It was an oversight on our part and we like to apologize to both SUSE, TurboLinux and to all the readers that were kind enough to point out the oversight. Thank you very much.

Baiju Thakkar

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