Outsourcing authentication services gives you access to more services – at a price. Kurt examines the pros and cons of distributed authentication.

Charly doesn’t relish the idea of searching through the logfiles of a dozen proxy servers when page requests fail. Now that he has deployed Cluster SSH, he can pull the strings on many machines at the same time.

libguestfs 1.8.0, a library and tool set for virtual machine (VM) disk image management.

Google announced that Chrome is ready for business and the wait to deploy Chrome and Google Apps for Business is over.

To celebrate the new look of and solicit user feedback on their commercially offered Ubuntu Advantage Program, Canonical is offering a free 30-day trial version of Landscape.

Linux Livelihood

Dear Rikki Kite: I picked up a copy of Linux Magazine the other day and read your most current, interesting article. Since you welcomed ideas for topics, I have a topic that never seems to be addressed.

Centrify Express now available through the Ubuntu Software Partner Repository.

Open source Marionette Project becomes part of Puppet.