iTWire reports of the largest open-source deal ever with the deployment of Open-Xchange by internet service provider 1&1. In what they claim is the largest-ever open source deal, collaboration...

Keith Winston of Linux.com provides a tutorial on filtering web content using open source tools like squid and squidGuard. Content filtering for the Web can be a messy proposition. A business may...

Normally, these tools are often taught at basic linux server administration courses. However, for those who do not want to go through the rigors of a formal training, this basic introduction on how...

Whilst Apple's Mac OS X comes with Spotlight, Beagle pretty much does it for Linux. With the next version of Spotlight supporting searching across the network for resources, e.g. document files,...

Linux wouldn't look so cool without the graphical user interface engine that runs underneath it. That engine is called X11 Window System. X.org Foundation, keeper of the X11 scroll, just released...

Xandros announces a new product named Bridgeways, which is aimed at simplifying the complexities of managing servers in a mixed environment setting. This soon-to-be-released product "provides...

Finally! Somebody managed to write down the very same tasks that I have been doing when I was still managing servers for my department. Whilst it is easier to back-up a partition, the how-to provides...

Not too long ago, I wrote about FreeNAS, a FreeBSD-based network-attached storage device. Today, I found a similar utility but is based on Linux. Openfiler is a powerful, intuitive browser-based...

I know that you will all agree with me that we just cannot have enough storage to store our files. The thing is, our computers, whether portable or desktop, can only support a limited number of hard...

If you are managing a network connected to the internet with limited bandwidth, sometimes it makes sense to block unwanted traffic. To corporate or academic networks, blocking audio and video files...

I predict that virtualization will be big this year. In line with this, I point you to a good tutorial on virtualization technologies available for Linux. IBM discusses the different types of...

I am going bonkers over server, process and network monitoring tools today. I guess it is because I often find it frustrating when services go down during the holidays. I have experienced a couple of...

I wrote about monitoring your bandwidth using the Multi Router Traffic Grapher. Today, I present another monitoring tool that provides you with more features, allowing you to not only monitor the...

I wrote about virtualization technology being added to the kernel before. I mentioned KVM being added to the kernel but today, Howtoforge presents a guide on how to setup OpenVZ, another...