Samba's new registry-based configuration system conserves resources and lets the administrator configure entire clusters with a single command.

Developers of the free Samba server have packed the newest version 4 into the 3.4 tarball to form Franky.

Charly's candidate today is the HAProxy load balancer, which not only distributes the load between servers, but also helps admins overcome their fears of lengthy configuration files.

Automate admin tasks with the powerful Cfengine framework.

From March 25 to March 27 the official conference of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), ApacheCon Europe 2009 will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Some of the talks will be available here on Linux Magazine for free.

A market study by the International Data Group (IDC) has come to the conclusion that the worldwide financial crisis is a growth opportunity for Linux, both on servers and desktops. Novell was the sponsor for the survey and whitepaper.

Two French developers have introduced a configuration software for Intellon-based Power Line Communication devices (PLC) at the 25c3 in Berlin. Simultaneously, the developers declared the software, called Faifa, as Open Source.

Bazaar, the open source distributed version control system software has been released in version 1.10.