Issue #136 / Mar 2012

SERVICE: March 2012: DVD Inlay

Issue #136
Enterprise-grade stability – without the cost!...

SERVICE: Welcome

Letter from the Editor

Street battles rage in the Middle East, and elsewhere around the planet, movements flash and form through the power and immediacy of the information highway. The ability of the Internet to rally political forces and circumvent censorship has been a major theme in recent years.

SERVICE: On the DVD: CentOS 6.2

This month’s Linux Magazine DVD brings you the latest release of the Community Enterprise Operating System (CentOS).

NEWS: Tech Tools

AMD Launches New Single-GPU Graphics CardNetrunner 4.0 Dryland AnnouncedGentoo Linux 12.0 ReleasedNetBeans IDE 7.1 Re......

COVER STORY: Debugging for Admins

Problem-solving best practices for sys admins

Whether you’re the sys admin of a home network or of a company-wide network of dozens or even hundreds of machines, some basic principles of debugging will come in handy.

SYSADMIN: Charly’s Column: PortSentry

The sys admin’s daily grind: PortSentry

To celebrate 10 years of his column, Charly sets up a sensitive detector that measures the cosmic background radiation of the Internet.

SYSADMIN: Security Lessons: Self-Defense

Separating the wheat from the chaff

Attackers impose a high price on your limited resources. We look at some ways to separate the good from the bad.

COMMUNITY: Doghouse: Independent Means

With the announcement of another export quota, maddog laments the unreadiness of nations who allow themselves to fall prey to national monopolies. 

COMMUNITY: Kernel News

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.