Today’s networking grab-bag contains iftop, ApacheTop, and sysctl. iftop is a nice realtime bandwidth monitor, ApacheTop is an almost real-time Apache monitor, and sysctl is used to control hundreds of kernel parameters in a most elite fashion. sysctl comes with all Linux distributions, and iftop and ApacheTop are just a Yum install or apt-get install away.

 

Technorati tags: Linux, Security

Source: Tips and Tricks for Linux Admins: Keep an Eye On Your Servers

Ubuntu developers are finalising preparations for the release of the next version — dubbed Feisty Fawn — of the popular Linux distribution in mid-April.

Overnight, Ubuntu developer Tollef Fog Heen announced Ubuntu’s main software repository had been frozen — with no changes allowed to the code — as developers got ready to issue a fifth major test version (“Herd 5″) of the next version of Ubuntu.

Source: ZDNet

If the Firefox browser were a car, it would be in the garage right now being souped up by an anxious group of gearheads. When Firefox 3.0 is released later this year, the open-source browser is likely to contain a host of new features, including offline support for Web applications and new bookmark and search features. Mozilla released the second alpha version of Firefox 3.0 earlier this month.

 

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Source: Early word: Firefox 3.0 to open door to Web apps

Dell’s new IdeaStorm Web site, which invites the public to post ideas and product suggestions to Dell, has exploded with interest in desktop Linux. Thousands of site community members have asked Dell to preinstall several different versions of Linux on desktop and laptop computers, prompting Dell to take steps toward definitive action. The company, however, stopped short of promising to deliver Linux preinstalled on desktops and laptops.

Still short of what the users really want not just a Novell system afterall there are other distros out there, Baldy

Technorati tags: Linux, News

Source: Dell Puts Preinstalled Linux on the Table

Along with health, wealth and happiness, freedom seems to be the most cherished human commodity, yet there are still corners of the software world that insist on denying it to their customers. Despite open source technology outshining the proprietary world of Microsoft for more than a decade, it seems that some customers still like to be controlled by their suppliers. Maybe it’s a sadomasochistic thing, or the warm glow of reassurance that monolithic suppliers like Microsoft know what’s best for us, allowing us to relinquish control for an easy life.

Source: Open Source: The Only Software One Really Owns

Now that the U.S. has changed the way it handles electronic documents in a court of law, vendors are responding with products to automate retention policies. Experts discuss how long you should hold onto those messages

E-mail archiving experts say recent changes to the rules that govern how digital documents are used in U.S. courts will drive demand for their products and force enterprises to develop more sophisticated retention policies.

Source: itbusiness.ca

This tutorial shows how to set up a fileserver for small and medium enterprises with SME Server 7.1. SME Server is an open-source Linux server distribution (released under the GPL) based on CentOS that can turn a computer into a gateway, firewall, fileserver, printserver, mailserver (including webmail), etc. In this article we will focus on the fileserver aspect of SME Server.

Source: How To Forge