7 Best Free/Open-source Backup Software for Linux

A computer application utilized to perform a complete backup by duplicating the original source of data is called backup software. Obviously, the main purpose of backup software is to create order out of chaos by recovering essential files in the event of a disaster.
If you are using Linux, there are plenty of backup software to [...]

Measuring Corporate Contributions to an Open Source Project

Open source is looking more attractive to software development managers who need to make their budgets stretch farther, as the enterprise can benefit from FOSS community’s contributions. Here’s how to participate in open-source projects and measure developers’ success.
January 08, 2009 — CIO —
If 2008 had a buzzword, it was probably “community.” [...]

The smallest threat to open source in 2009

How much of a problem is security updating for open source software going to be in 2009?
On the first of the month — also the first of the year — Dana Blankenhorn published the sensationally titled The biggest threat to open source in 2009. His thesis is simple: that, because open source software usually lacks [...]

Create an Encrypted Samba Share

Here is a scenario where you have Windows users who need to log into an encrypted directory that is mounted on a Linux Samba share. This provides an interesting option for security.
The Linux user, who has sudo access logs in and when they do are asked to mount the truecrypt volume and also [...]

Seven Reasons Why Linux Will Succeed in 2009

Linux will continue its soaring success in 2009. Yes, Linux is free and free is good but what about its other advantages over commercial Unix flavors and Windows? Here are the top seven reasons why Linux will continue to smash the competition in the face of the economy, the Cloud, and the smart administrator.
1. [...]

How to – Monitor Bandwidth with Tomato Firmware

By Aaron Weiss at wi-fiplanet
Looking to track your bandwidth to scope out malware, conform to metering policies from your ISP, better utilize limited resources–or just because you’re curious? Our Wi-Fi Guru walks you through Tomato’s sophisticated bandwidth monitoring tools.
In the early days of the Internet, dial-up users were charged based on how many hours per [...]

DTrace gets guernsey in new FreeBSD

05 January 2009
The FreeBSD Project has released a new stable version of its popular Unix operating system, officially incorporating for the first time Sun Microsystems’ flagship DTrace performance analysis and debugging tool.
DTrace, which was introduced for Sun’s Solaris operating system in late 2003, allows programmers and systems administrators to trace kernel and application problems on [...]

Kernel Developers Tracking Down New Year’s Eve Leap Second Issue

Jan 05, 2009

Mathias Huber: A few server admins had reported Linux crashes right at the New Year’s Eve countdown. Linux developers are currently investigating if they had anything to do with the leap second phenomenon.
The Linux admins who experienced the crashes started a thread to that effect on the slashdot.org community [...]