Issue #92 / Jul 2008

Answers to letters about the the Virtual Distro Sampler DVD, the Knoppix DVD, and LaTeX on Mandriva.

If you can’t monitor everything yourself, why not let your computers watch your computers? This month we examine some practical techniques for network monitoring.

Open source tools such as Hobbit, Nagios, and monit provide system monitoring for large or small networks.

MRTG generates simple graphs for viewing network performance at a glance.