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A comparative look at compact sysadmin distributions

Author: Cory Buford Things go wrong. Hard disks fail and whole servers crash. Luckily, many Linux-based distributions are available to help systems administrators handle minor...

Michael Larabel talks about Phoronix

Author: Susan Linton Phoronix.com is the definitive Linux hardware review site, featuring articles on motherboards, processors, memory, power supplies, cases, and other components. While other...

GIMP User Filter allows use of Photoshop filters

Author: Bruce Byfield One brake on the GIMP's popularity is that, while it boasts dozens of filters, a rival like Photoshop boasts thousands. You may...

Red Flag Linux Olympic Edition fails to medal

Author: Preston St. Pierre Red Flag is China's biggest Linux supplier. The Red Flag Linux distribution is based on Red Hat Linux. Red Flag recently...

What UUIDs can do for you

Author: David Pendell If you've ever looked in your /etc/fstab file, you have may have seen an entry that looks like UUID=62fa5eac-3df4-448d-a576-916dd5b432f2 instead of a...

Faster application launching with GNOME-Do and GNOME Deskbar

Author: Tina Gasperson GNOME enthusiasts have a couple of good options when it comes to searching, launching, and otherwise manipulating and accessing files, applications, and...

Linux Wi-Fi Works With wicd

Wireless management on Linux is a bit of a hodge-podge, especially for roaming users. NetworkManager, KWifiManager, and various other utilities that have come and...

Use LatencyTOP to find out where process latency is coming from

Author: Ben Martin The latency of the execution of a particular task can be affected by what tasks a system is running, the condition of...

Power monitoring and logging with Apcupsd and Cacti

Author: Colin Beckingham For some time I have been using the American Power Conversion (APC) uninterruptible power supply (UPS) daemon Apcupsd to interface my desktop...

GNOME Debian Package Finder: Rough and ready package search for the desktop

Author: Bruce Byfield If you do your Debian package management from the command line, you are probably aware of utilities that search the cache of...