Linux Journal Contents #168, April 2008
Linux Journal Issue #168/April 2008
The April 2008 issue of Linux Journal focuses on system administration. In this month's cover story, James Gray explains how to green up your system (and save lots of green) using Linux's tickless kernel and other power-saving strategies. For more practical skill sharpening, dig into this issue's feature articles—Scott Lackey discusses configuration file management with cfengine, Kyle Rankin does network booting with PXE and Frederico Kereki introduces server administration with Webmin.
Keeping with the administration theme, check out the myriad other skill-building articles in the April issue, such as Jeramiah Bowling's on tapeless backups, Jes Hall's on VMware Server Beta 2.0 and Francis Lachapelle and Ludovic Marcotte's on Scalable OpenGroupware.org.
There is also much to enjoy from the lighter side. While Shawn Powers illustrates how to replace your iPod's firmware with the richer (and open-source) Rockbox, Jes Hall shows how to hack your Eee PC to your heart's content. Finally, Marcel Gagné, king of the lighter side, celebrates his 100th Cooking with Linux column, demonstrating the joys of desktop administration with a Pinot Noir in hand.
Features
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Go Green, Save Green with Linux
by James Gray
Linux offers you ways to go green and save some green at the same time.
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Cfengine for Configuration Management
by Scott Lackey
How to use cfengine to manage configuration files across large numbers of machines.
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PXE Magic: Flexible Network Booting with Menus
by Kyle Rankin
What if you never had to carry around an install or rescue CD again? Set up a PXE boot server with menus and put them all on the network.
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Graphic Administration with Webmin
by Federico Kereki
New to Linux administration? Webmin can help you out.
Indepth
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Backups to the Future: Eliminate Tape Backups with FreeNAS and Bacula
by Jeramiah Bowling
Lose the tapes. Embrace the disk.
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Scalable OpenGroupware.org
by Francis Lachapelle and Ludovic Marcotte
Looking for an advanced Web interface, native clients or access through mobiles devices to your groupware platform? SOGo has it all.
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Hacking the Eee PC
by Jes Hall
Several ideas for tweaking your Eee PC.
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Puppy Linux
by Louis Iacona
Check out this lightweight distro.
Columns
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Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge
Social Google Gadgets
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Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux
Happy 100th!
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Dave Taylor's Work the Shell
Twittering from the Command Line
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Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin
Security Features in Ubuntu Server
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Kyle Rankin's Hack and /
Mutt Tweaks for System Administrators
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Doc Searls' EOF
Getting Real about the Ideal
Reviews
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VMware Server 2 Beta
by Jes Hall
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iPod + Rockbox = Entertainment Extravaganza
by Shawn Powers
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Comments
problem reading article 10010 (upFRONT)
I cannot read the 10010 article (upFRONT) because file is not found.
Regards,
Oriol
Should be there now
Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
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