Articles

W. Michael Petullo. Building Custom Firmware with OpenWrt. Linux Journal. Issue 196:56-61, August 2010.: Introduces the reader to the OpenWrt project. Documents how to use the project's build system to create a firmware that provides Kerberos, LDAP, NFS and other network services.

W. Michael Petullo. Open source telephony: a Fedora-based VoIP server with Asterisk. Red Hat Magazine. 24 Jul 2008. http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/07/24/open-source-telephony-a-fedora-based-voip-server-with-asterisk/: Describes an Open Source VoIP solution. Covers configuring the Asterisk PBX and Ekiga client.
W. Michael Petullo. From camera to website: Building an open source video streamer. Red Hat Magazine. 25 Apr 2008. http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/04/24/from-camera-to-website-building-an-open-source-video-streamer/: Describes an Open Source video streaming solution that can be used to publish video content from a website.
W. Michael Petullo. Serving Apples: Integrating Mac OS X clients into a Fedora network. Red Hat Magazine. 17 Jan 2008. http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/01/17/serving-apples-integrating-mac-os-x-clients-into-a-fedora-network/: Demonstrates how to integrate a Mac OS X client into a Fedora network. This article will teach you how to configure Kerberos, LDAP and NFS on the client and server.
W. Michael Petullo. Disk Encryption in Fedora: Past, Present and Future. Red Hat Magazine. 19 Jan 2007. http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/01/18/disk-encryption-in-fedora-past-present-and-future/: An article documenting the work done within the Fedora Project with regards to encrypted disks. Also discusses some of the upcoming encryption efforts within Fedora.
W. Michael Petullo. Adding Encryption Support to HAL: A User's Experience with Fedora Development. Red Hat Magazine. 20 Oct 2005. http://www.redhat.com/magazine/012oct05/features/hal/: The experiences of a non-Red Hat employee working on software within the Fedora Project. Discusses partnering with David Zeuthen of Red Hat to add support for encrypted filesystems to HAL.
W. Michael Petullo. Developing GNOME Applications with Java. Linux Journal. Issue 135:72-78, July 2005.: A demonstration of the Java bindings for the GNOME platform. All work is done using free tools, including GNU GCC's GCJ.
W. Michael Petullo. Encrypt Your Root Filesystem. Linux Journal. Linux Journal. Issue 129:62-67, January 2005.: Talks about how to encrypt all of the data on a hard disk. Describes the process an iBook G4 follows to boot and how to use an encrypted disk to do so.
W. Michael Petullo. Implementing Encrypted Home Directories. Linux Journal, Issue 112:62-68, August 2003.: Instructions about how to encrypt portions of a filesystem and use pam_mount to streamline unlocking the filesystem's data. Also discusses several issues related to encrypted filesystems.
W. Michael Petullo. Amateur Video Production Using Free Software and Linux. Linux Journal. 21 May 2002. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5817: A discussion of free software video production tools and how to use them.