If you have anything more than a small home network, you need to be monitoring the status of your systems to ensure they are providing the services they were designed to provide. Rihards Olups has created a comprehensive reference and usability guide for the latest version of Zabbix that anyone being tasked with implementing should have by their side.

Colin Ian King, an Ubuntu Kernel Developer, has released Firmware Test Suite (fwts), a tool for automatic testing of a PC's firmware

Linux Foundation heads up new program with wide industry support to improve management of open source licence compliance, including a rapid way for developers to contact corporate compliance officers

This article explains how you can cache your web site contents with Apache's mod_cache on Debian Lenny. If you have a high-traffic dynamic web site that generates lots of database queries on each request, you can decrease the server load dramatically by caching your content for a few minutes or more (that depends on how often you update your content).

If you wanted to write your own software, you’d have already done it yourself or paid someone to do it. But if you find problems with a FOSS app, you can, and should, communicate with the open source project’s developers to ensure that the application performance issues are addressed. Here's the way to get what you want.

Just uploaded to the Ubuntu Lucid repository for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is a new package called canonical-census. Curious about what this package provides, we did some digging and found it's for tracking Ubuntu installations by sending an "I am alive" ping to Canonical on a daily basis.

Ever wanted to set video as your desktop wallpaper a la the quickly-ditched Windows DreamScene? With 'Video Wallpaper' it's easy.

There are so many Linux distributions out there it’s dizzying. Some are simply respins of various base distributions with a different theme or maybe one or two specific applications thrown in for good measure. And then there’s Uberstudent.