Issue #130 / Sep 2011

SERVICE: September 2011: DVD Inlay

Issue #130
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SERVICE: Comment

Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige, the iconic athlete-philosopher who was probably the greatest baseball pitcher of all time, used to pass around this insightful list of “Rules for Staying Young”:

SERVICE: On the DVD: Mageia 1

With this month’s Linux Magazine DVD, you can test Mageia 1, the first release of a Mandriva fork begun in 2010. With a choice of desktops, such as KDE SC 4.6.3, Gnome 2.32, Xfce 4.8.1, and LXDE, you can tailor Mageia’s look and functionality to suit your needs.

NEWS: Tech Tools

After what seems like years, PuTTY 0.61 finally sees the light of day on July 12. Did I say "seems" like y......

NEWS: Write Access

Letters to the editor
Darktable I want to begin this email by saying I really like reading Linux Magazine. Secondly, I would like to add s......

NEWS: Archipel

Managing hypervisors with the Archipel VM orchestration tool

The innovative Archipel cross-hypervisor management tool uses the Jabber protocol to chat with servers running Xen, KVM, OpenVZ, and VMware.

REVIEWS: Trinity Rescue Kit

Rescuing data on Linux and Windows machines Rescue

Trinity Rescue Kit is driven by the practical requirements of the admin’s daily work, integrating a full set of tools for maintaining and rescuing Linux and Windows PCs.

SYSADMIN: Charly's Column: LUG Camp Tschierv

The sys admin’s daily grind: LUG Camp Tschierv

He nearly missed this year’s LUG Camp, but what was columnist Charly supposed to do instead – celebrate Father’s Day?

SYSADMIN: Security Lessons: cgroups and LXC

Fleet and flexible cgroups and Linux Containers

The big virtualization tools like KVM and Xen can’t compete on a small scale with resource-spare cgroups and Linux Containers.

LINUXUSER: Disk Cleaners

Care and feeding of disk space on Linux

You wouldn’t believe how much of the disk space on your system is wasted, filled with duplicate files, or cruft you don’t need.