Automated penetration testing tools are a two edged sword: Learn how to run Metasploit-based Fast-Track on your own network before the black hats do.
Tags: Linux, Metasploit, Security Software, Fast-Track, penetration testing

Chip vendor Cavium now owns MontaVista Linux. What does it mean for the embedded Linux pioneer?
Tags: Intel, Linux, Wind River, MontaVista, Cavium

New MRG release boasts up to 50 percent speed improvement for technology used by the financial services, telcos and the military.
Tags: Linux, Red Hat, real-time, operating system

NIC bonding with Linux is simple, once you understand all your choices and their limitations.
Tags: Linux, networking, MAC address

New Red Hat community Linux release pushes the bleeding edge with a host of new features and improvements.
Tags: virtualization, Linux, Red Hat, Fedora, network

For smaller setups and times when you don't need server-to-server tunnels, OpenVPN may do the trick. But where do you turn when you need cross-platform security without any performance compromises?
Tags: Linux, Windows, Unix, IPSec, OpenVPN

Scaling IT systems either breeds high levels of automation to make the infrastructure manageable, or it ends up breeding a huge mess. Here are five signs that you need to mend your ways.
Tags: VMWare, Linux, server, Unix, configuration management

Still dithering about Sun's high-performance filesystem? Here are ten reasons to give it a look today.
Tags: Linux, Storage, Unix, OpenSolaris, ZFS

LinuxCon 2009 represented the Linux Foundation's first big-tent technical conference. Did it deliver on its promise to innovate, or will OSCON remain at the top of the open source conference heap?
Tags: Linux, open source, Linux Foundation, conference

The Linux vendor is doing well in hard times, cautioning observers to remember the difference between useless add-ons and useful features.
Tags: Linux, Red Hat, business

A panel at LinuxCon says interest in open source software at large enterprises is at an all-time high, with cost driving a lot of the uptake.
Tags: Linux, open source, software, Cost Cutting

While it can't make you an instant Asterisk expert, Digium's Asterisk Fast Start training course will give you a grounding in this popular open source PBX running on Linux.
Tags: Linux, VoIP, PBX, open source, Asterisk

Have your storage needs gone beyond a few lines of rsync scripting? With a combination of Amazon's cloud services, DRDB and Linux you can craft a resilient storage solution.
Tags: Linux, open source, Storage, Cloud Storage, DRDB

Going direct might have worked for Dell, yet for Red Hat, it's all about the channel.
Tags: Linux, Red Hat, business

It's Free Software, it runs on Linux, and it's the most widely used RADIUS server on the planet. Here's how to deploy FreeRADIUS for Wi-Fi authentication on your network using CentOS.
Tags: wireless, Linux, open source, security, FreeRADIUS

Ease of use is the name of the game for eBox, which repackages Ubuntu as an admin-friendly, easy-to-configure suite of common network services.
Tags: services, Linux, open source

Linux users have a notoriously hard time with Cisco's VPN client. With vpnc, a little effort up front yields easy connections via GNOME NetworkManager or the command line.
Tags: Linux, Cisco, Gnome, VPN

Understanding why GNOME's network manager works the way it does will help you decide whether it's something you want running on your laptop fleet.
Tags: wireless, Linux, Gnome, Ubuntu

Ethernet may be the dominant player in networking, but InfiniBand is enjoying some success in corners of the world where scalability matters.
Tags: Linux, networking, InfiniBand

Configuration management has meant everything from a custom script executed over a remote shell to increasingly sophisticated applications like Puppet and cfengine. What's next? And what about your network gear?
Tags: Linux, Windows, Unix, configuration management