Never shy about stirring up the Linux vs. Windows hornets nest, IT research firm the Yankee Group last week issued yet another report putting the value of Linux against Windows. The study’s findings ...

Poorly implemented monitoring systems can drive an administrator crazy. At best, they are distracting. At worst, they'll keep whoever is on pager duty up for nights at a time. This article discusses ...

Linux systems provide a number of commands that make it easy to report on system activity. In this post, we’re going to look at several commands that are especially helpful. The watch command is one ...

Ksplice fulfills the dream of eternal uptime by making it possible to seamlessly apply Linux kernel updates without rebooting. The company behind the technology has ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Unix, the leading Linux distributions from Novell and Red Hat as well as open source Ubuntu were the clear winners in the Yankee Group 2007-2008 Global Server Operating System ...