Puppet Labs Acquires the Mcollective
Oct 07, 2010Open source Marionette Project becomes part of Puppet.
more »Charly's Column: GestióIP The sys admin’s daily grind: GestióIP
Sep 29, 2010A tidy house, a tidy mind they say, and I’ll leave it up to you to consider what being disorganized might mean. Anybody who has tried to manage hundreds of IP addresses using just a sheet of paper or a spreadsheet will probably appreciate some help.
more »Beginners: File Control Getting to grips with Linux Permissions
Sep 27, 2010From the vault:This article first appeared in issue #1 (October 2000). You'll also find this article on our 10-year anniversary Archive DVD included in issue #120 (November 2010).
With any operating system it is important to ensure that users remain in control of their files and directories and are prevented from tampering with those belonging to other users, or the system. This is what the Linux permissions system is all about, as Jono Bacon explains.
more »Wordpress Becomes Default Blogging Platform in Windows Live
Sep 27, 2010Move replaces Windows Live Spaces, adds 7 million users to WordPress.
more »FCC to Rebuild Its Site in Drupal
Sep 24, 2010Federal Communications Commission follows The White House's lead.
more »(Yet Another) Drupal 7.0 Alpha Released
Sep 16, 2010Drupal announces what they hope to be the final alpha build of version 7.x.
more »Charly's Column: My Traceroute Sysadmin's daily grind
Aug 31, 2010Charly takes the name of the “My Traceroute” tool very literally. The journey is the reward for this alternative TTL-measuring utility.
more »Twitter opens MySQL migration tool
Jul 06, 2010'Crane' allows MySQL data integration in Hadoop.
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Google and NASA Partner in Quantum Computing Project
Vendor D-Wave scores big with a sale to NASA's Quantum Intelligence Lab.
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Mageia Project Announces Mageia 3 Linux
Many package updates and Steam integration highlight the latest from the Mandriva-based community Linux.
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FSF Outs the World Wide Web Consortium over DRM Proposal
Richard Stallman calls for the W3C to remain independent of vendor interests.
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Debian 7.0 Debuts
The new release supports nine architectures, 73 human languages, and zero non-Free components.
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Alpha Version of Fedora 19 Released
Fedora developers release the first alpha version of Fedora 19, known as Schrödinger’s Cat, for general testing. The final release is expected in July 2013.
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ack 2.0 Released
ack is a grep-like, command-line tool that has been optimized for programmers to search large trees of source code.
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SUSE Studio 1.3 Released
New features in SUSE Studio 1.3 include enhanced cloud integration, VM platform support, and lifecycle management.
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Xen To Become Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
The Linux Foundation recently announced that the Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
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RunRev Releases Open Source Version of LiveCode
Open source version of LiveCode is now available for developing apps, games, and utilities for all major platforms.
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OpenDaylight Project Formed
OpenDaylight is an open source software-defined networking project committed to furthering adoption of SDN and accelerating innovation in a vendor-neutral and open environment.

