system maintenance

Updating Your System: GNU/Linux 5, Windows 0

Linux Today  Mon, 10/20/2008 - 22:02

Free Software Magazine: "Here, in no particular order, are five ways that choosing a free operating system will make system maintenance a lot easier and simpler.

In short they are ways that -- when it comes to system updates -- GNU/Linux beats Windows."


 

Updating your system: GNU/Linux 5, Windows 0

Debian-News.net  Fri, 10/17/2008 - 13:30

Here, in no particular order, are five ways that choosing a free operating system will make system maintenance a lot easier and simpler.

In short they are ways that — when it comes to system updates — GNU/Linux beats Windows.


 

Well there goes VoIP's 5 nines (99.999) of reliability

Topix - Unix  Mon, 08/04/2008 - 15:14

Check out this alert on the University of Buffalo's website: UBIT Alert Campus Wide Services Impacted VoIP System Maintenance Effective: 8/6/2008 Expires: 8/6/2008 Posted: 2008-08-04 On Wednesday, 8/6, between ...


 

Redhat retrieve the super user passwords Unix / Linux

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Fri, 08/01/2008 - 18:17

Redhat retrieve the super user passwords Unix / Linux The author of the machine is equipped with Redhat Linux7.2 operating system, installed the KDE and GNOME desktop, the only established at the time of installation in the super-user root, but the super-user privileges too, is only applicable to system maintenance and installation of software us


 

Remote Backups for Linux and BSD

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Mon, 06/02/2008 - 09:37

Backups are an important element of system maintenance on any system, and should be, at least in my opinion, mandatory for all users to perform regularly.

Without doing backups, you could find yourself in a world of hurt.should something bad happen. But there are some things that even the best backup system in the world can't protect you against.


 

Remote Backups for Linux and BSD

Linux Today  Mon, 06/02/2008 - 04:50

Raiden's Realm: "Backups are an important element of system maintenance on any system, and should be, at least in my opinion, mandatory for all users to perform regularly..."


 

Migrating to ext4

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Tue, 05/06/2008 - 21:52

Ext4 is the latest in a long line of Linux file systems, and it's likely to be as important and popular as its predecessors.

This article explains when to adopt ext4, how to adapt traditional file system maintenance tool usage to ext4, and how to get the most out of the file system.