How do you install and configure Oracle on Linux?

The installation methods of distros varies tremendously, so it is not possible to give a comprehensive how-to of installing all of them. Most of them are fairly simple, but some require years of...

If you download the latest 32 bit ubuntu desktop ISO and burn that to a CD, it has a really good interface for installing. It's a pretty good starting Linux Distro.

There are many FTP server packages in Linux, each with different configuration files and syntaxes. A single question trying to answer how to configure them all would be long and unwieldly, and would...

For modern (pretty much anything that doesn't use an ISA slot) LAN cards, there is probably no need to do anything from the Linux side. Most LAN cards are already supported in the Linux kernel, and...

You don't. You can use a general-purpose Jabber client like Psi or Pigdin to communicate using GTalk.