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SOGo—Open-Source Groupware

By Ludovic Marcotte 
The current state of SOGo and its integration capabilities with desktop and mobile clients. more>>
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Quickie Conference Report: Day One - SCALE 9x

By Bill Childers 

Yesterday marked the opening of the Southern California Linux Expo, otherwise known as SCALE. SCALE's venue this year is the Los Angeles Airport Hilton, just a stone's throw from LAX Airport. SCALE opened strong with lots of technical content, much of it about the "DevOps" movement and how you can bring its benefits to your place of business. more>>

Hacking, Old-School

By Joey Bernard 

When you mention hacking in the general public, the image most people think of is a nerdy guy breaking into a computer system from his bedroom. This month, I take a look at some of the tools available to do exactly that. Of course, this is for information purposes only, so please don't do anything nasty. Remember, with great power comes great responsibility. more>>

Using rdiff-backup and rdiffWeb to Back Up and Restore

By Adrian Klaver 
rdiff-backup combines the best features of a mirror and incremental backups. more>>
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Large-Scale Web Site Infrastructure and Drupal

By Jerad Bitner 
Setting up a Drupal Web site is pretty simple these days, until it gets popular, then you need to bring out the big guns and start finding and fixing the performance bottlenecks. In this article, we show some of the techniques that can allow your Drupal Web site to scale to the grandiose levels you originally hoped for. more>>
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Readers' Choice Awards 2010

By James Gray 

The votes are in! Read on to find out how your favorites fared in this year's awards. more>>

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It's Patch Tuesday...Again...

By David Lane 

Overnight I received an email from a friend, forwarding me an article from Redmond Magazine. The topic of the magazine was the huge Patch Tuesday dump that our friends in Redmond have sent down. There was also some discussion about the patch bundles dropped by Adobe and Oracle as well. more>>

Manuals

Creating Custom Man Pages

By Pete Vargas Mas 

Man pages have been the primary source for UN*x documentation for a long time. Whenever I create a script that's going to be around for a while, I create documentation in the form of a section 1 man page. This stops my cell phone from ringing on the weekends when the junior sysadmins are looking for my notes. more>>

Open Source in the Enterprise

The Challenges of Open Source in the Enterprise

By Avi Deitcher 
Enterprise and open source—are they peanut butter and jelly, working well together for a better world, or are they oil and water, meeting but never coming together? In this article, I explore the challenges of adopting open source in the enterprise. I look at the technical issues, the business challenges and the political hurdles. more>>
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Server Monitoring with Zabbix

By Paul Tader 
Think implementing a large monitoring service is tedious? Not so with Zabbix. Start monitoring several-dozen critical hardware and services quickly. more>>
MySQL

MySQL Replication

By Michael Nugent 
MySQL has been running on Linux in the data center for many years, but MySQL replication still is not widely understood. Whether you're setting up a multinational asynchronous solution or a local cluster, there is a type of replication for your application. more>>
NoSQL

SQL vs. NoSQL

By Daniel Bartholomew 
NoSQL databases are all the rage, but the case to switch from SQL databases is not always as clear cut as you might have been led to believe. Know what's what, and then decide. more>>
Comparing Linux and Microsoft Windows for Enterprise Usage

Comparing Linux and Microsoft Windows for Enterprise Usage

By Jeramiah Bowling 
Selling Linux in the Enterprise often is a tough job, but with the right information, you can start making the case for Linux. more>>
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Centralized Logging with a Web Interface

By Gene Liverman 

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a web interface to the logs on your central log server? Well, dream no more because this one is a reality thanks to LogAnalyzer (aka phplogcon). Let's take a look at how to setup both it and its suggested syslog variant, rsyslog, on a central log server. more>>

Resetting Gnome's Settings in Ubuntu

By Zach Schneider 

One of the great things about Linux is how easy it is to customize. Now unfortunately if you don't know what you're doing and sometimes even if you do know what you're doing, you can get into trouble. more>>

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