Packt Publishing, the publishers of paper and electronic books, including Learning FreeNAS, has announced that it has made donations now totalling over $300,000 to open source projects. Since starting to make such donations in 2004, the company has helped support over 70 different open source projects. via Packt Publishing’s open source donations top $300,000
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Getting to grips with the ‘top’ command [TUTORIAL]
When ever I am called to perform system administration on a Linux server there are several command line tools I use to familiarise myself with the machine (like df -h to see the disks). And invariably one of the commands I will use early on is the top command. top displays real-time live view of the running [...]
READ MORE »Executive director of the Linux Foundation Jim Zemlin talks Linux
Jim Zemlin, former executive director of the Free Standards Group, is the executive director of the Linux Foundation, and earlier this month he sat down with the Google’s / Samba’s Jeremy Allison for a chat about the future of Linux.
READ MORE »PC-BSD 8.2 (Hubble Edition) Out – Uses FreeBSD 8.2 & KDE 4.5.5
Version 8.2 of PC-BSD, the desktop orientated FreeBAS varient, has been released with a number of enhancements and improvements including: Based on FreeBSD 8.2-Release KDE 4.5.5 Added ability to select file-system type and encryption during auto-partitioning Able to toggle between MBR/GPT partitioning Various bug fixes to the wireless / network managers Minimum system requirements: Pentium [...]
READ MORE »FreeBSD 8.2 Released
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the availability of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE with improved functionality and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: Xen HVM support in FreeBSD/amd64 and Xen PV support in FreeBSD/i386 improved ZFS on-disk format updated to version 15 aesni(4) driver for Intel AESNI crypto instruction set BIND and OpenSSL updates Gnome updated to 2.32.1 [...]
READ MORE »FreeBSD 7.4 Available – Last Release for 7.x
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the availability of FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE for the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. This will be the last release from the 7-STABLE branch. Some of the highlights: Gnome updated to 2.32.1 KDE updated to 4.5.5 Many misc. improvements and bugfixes For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see [...]
READ MORE »What is Open Source?
Open Source is a concept and license for publishing software along with it’s sourcecode. Under Open Source, software is licensed in a certain way which allows anyone to redistributable it at will and without cost. The source code is freely available, and it is modifiable by anyone sufficiently experienced in programming. An example of a [...]
READ MORE »What is Linux?
All computers (including desktops, servers, smart-phones and super computers) needs a core piece of software which is called an “Operating System”. Many computers today use Microsoft Windows as their operating system or if you are using an Apple machine, Mac OS X. Linux is an operating system for Personal Computers (including Apple Macs), servers, super computers, [...]
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