Systems Management

So you think you can open source

Monday, 23 August 2010 19:00 OpenSource.com

The seventh season of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance crowned its latest champion last week and, for the first time since the show debuted in 2005, I did not care. The first six seasons were a fantastically guilty pleasure — like a hip flask of whiskey at a dry wedding—that...

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How to kill a dinosaur in 3 easy steps

Thursday, 05 August 2010 21:42 OpenSource.com

In 2000 the punk rock band NOFX released an album called Pump Up The Valuum. When I first heard the CD, I immediately took to the song "Dinosaurs Will Die." (Warning--contains explicit lyrics) Shortly thereafter I got into the open source movement, and I cannot count how many times the...

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VMware Updates Hyperic System Management

Thursday, 05 August 2010 10:48 internetnews.com

Fresh out of VMware's SpringSource unit, Hyperic 4.4 delivers tighter control over virtualized environments.

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Open Source Toolchains for Linux Systems Administrators

Friday, 30 July 2010 07:10 Mark Hinkle

Two of the most notable trends in systems management are DevOps and the related and partially redundant Agile Operations movement. These initiatives are popular in many Web 2.0 and cloud computing oriented companies like Twitter, Google, Yahoo! and Facebook where the companies’ products...

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