Ansible: the Automation Framework That Thinks Like a Sysadmin
I've written about and trained folks on various DevOps tools through the years, and although they're awesome, it's obvious that most of them are designed from the mind of a developer. There's nothing wrong with that, because approaching configuration management programmatically is the whole point.

Now What?

By Doc Searls 

Linux Journal was a print magazine for 17+ years, then a digital one for the next 7+. What shall we be now? That's the Big Question, and there are many answers, some of which are already settled. more>>

Linux Journal is back!

Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0!

By Carlie Fairchild 
Talk about a Happy New Year. The reason: it turns out we're not dead. In fact, we're more alive than ever, thanks to a rescue by readers—specifically, by the hackers who run Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN, a London Trust Media company. more>>

Linux Journal Ceases Publication

By Carlie Fairchild 
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It looks like we’re at the end, folks. If all goes according to a plan we’d rather not have, the November issue of Linux Journal was our last.

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Kyle Rankin

So Long, and Thanks for All the Bash

By Kyle Rankin 
It was the summer of 2007 and I was at Linux World Expo in San Francisco. I had just finished updating the second edition of Knoppix Hacks and in addition to attending the conference I was there to promote it and my other books at the O'Reilly booth. Somehow I got word that Linux Journal was looking for new authors and was holding an event at a nearby bar later that day. more>>

Banana Backups

By Kyle Rankin 

In the September 2016 issue, I wrote an article called "Papa's Got a Brand New NAS" where I described how I replaced my rackmounted gear with a small, low-powered ARM device—the Odroid XU4. more>>

Zentera Systems, Inc.'s CoIP Security Enclave

By James Gray 

On the heels of being crowned "Cool Vendor in Cloud Security" by Gartner, Zentera Systems, Inc., announced an upgrade to its flagship CoIP Security Enclave solution. more>>

Sysadmin 101: Patch Management

By Kyle Rankin 

A few articles ago, I started a Sysadmin 101 series to pass down some fundamental knowledge about systems administration that the current generation of junior sysadmins, DevOps engineers or "full stack" developers might not learn otherwise. I had thought that I was done with the series, but then the WannaCry malware came out and exposed some of the poor patch management practices still more>>

pfSense: Not Linux, Not Bad

By Shawn Powers 

Through the years, I've used all sorts of router and firewall solutions at home and at work. For home networks, I usually recommend something like DD-WRT, OpenWRT or Tomato on an off-the-shelf router. For business, my recommendations typically are something like a Ubiquiti router or a router/firewall solution like Untangled or ClearOS. more>>

NETGEAR 48-Port Gigabit Smart Managed Plus Switch (GS750E)

By James Gray 

More than ever, small to mid-sized businesses demand and rely on their networks to carry out mission-critical business activities. As always, however, budgets and expertise constrain these companies from using complex managed switches to run their networks. more>>

New Hope for Digital Identity

By Doc Searls 

Identity is personal. You need to start there.

In the natural world where we live and breathe, personal identity can get complicated, but it's not broken. If an Inuit family from Qikiqtaaluk wants to name their kid Anuun or Issorartuyok, they do, and the world copes. If the same kid later wants to call himself Steve, he does. Again, the world copes. So does Steve. more>>

DivvyCloud Platform for VMware Cloud on AWS

By James Gray 

DivvyCloud's unique niche in the IT ecosystem is helping organizations automate and manage their multi-cloud infrastructure at scale. more>>

Slicing Scientific Data

By Joey Bernard 

I've covered scientific software in previous articles that either analyzes image information or actually generates image data for further analysis. In this article, I introduce a tool that you can use to analyze images generated as part of medical diagnostic work. more>>

Linux Journal November 2017

By Shawn Powers 
Arrogance, the Biggest Linux Security Problem

Linux is no longer an obscure platform avoided by those with malicious intent. more>>

PoE, PoE+ and Passive POE

By Shawn Powers 

I've been installing a lot of POE devices recently, and the different methods for providing power over Ethernet cables can be very confusing. There are a few standards in place, and then there's a method that isn't a standard, but is widely used.

802.3af or Active PoE: more>>

Galit Shmueli et al.'s Data Mining for Business Analytics (Wiley)

By James Gray 

The updated 5th edition of the book Data Mining for Business Analytics from Galit Shmueli and collaborators and published by Wiley is a standard guide to data mining and analytics that adds two new co-authors and a trove of new material vis-á-vis its predecessor. more>>

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