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.

As the quantity and quality of this year's entries will attest, Gentoo is alive, well, and taking no prisoners!

Cobbler is a Linux  installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. It glues together and automates many associated Linux  tasks so you do not have to hop between lots of various commands and applications when rolling out new systems, and, in some cases, changing existing ones.

If all goes according to plan, X.Org Server 1.9 will be released in about two weeks, but after that there still is the X.Org 7.6 release "katamari" to be done.

NetBeans Platform 6.9 Developer's Guide is a new book that helps developers build a robust Swing applications using the features of the powerful NetBeans Platform 6.9 along with example code and screenshots. Users will Visualize their data quickly via the NetBeans Visual Library API and create applications that can be easily deployed to Windows, Linux, and Mac.

I've been using the open source editor Vim for an alarming number of years now, but I only very recently encountered its scripting capabilities. Here I'll look at writing a quick script in Vim's built-in scripting language

Is using desktop Linux better for the environment than say, running Microsoft Windows or Apple's OS X?