A few articles ago, I started a Sysadmin 101 series to pass down some fundamental knowledge about systems administration that the current generation of junior sysadmins, DevOps engineers or "full ...

Network software maker Novell has announced software for handling e-mail, calendars and contacts on Linux systems, as well as an automated patch management tool for Microsoft's Windows. The company ...

Altiris today updated its software to let customers patch Linux systems as well as manage virtual and physical resources side by side. Altiris’ Server Management Suite, which lets users patch Windows ...

Detecting vulnerabilities and managing the associated patching is challenging even in a small-scale Linux environment. Scale things up and the challenge becomes almost unsurmountable. There are ...

The Linux server operating system, used globally to power the internet, along with cloud storage, back-end business operations, embedded systems, and high-performance supercomputers, has a tarnished ...

When it comes to patch management, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to doing a job no one wants to do: update software for new features, or the more troubling task, fixing a security hole before ...

Managing a Linux system can be a complex endeavor, especially for those new to the platform. Linux-Assistant emerges as a comprehensive solution, designed to simplify and enhance the user experience ...

Security patches are a big worry: they come out at odd times, they suck up your bandwidth, and just occasionally they break things. We look at patch management packages to ease the burden. If you ...

If you’re a decision maker for a business, school or organization that’s been tempted to migrate your PCs to Linux now that free support has ended for Windows 7, you’ve probably identified some pain ...