Archive for August, 2006

FREE as in FREESPIRE

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 Posted in Books | No Comments »

In the very recent past, I remarked that FREESPIRE should only use that name if it was truly FREE. When I downloaded FREESPIRE I found a nice distro but ... Read more..

Opensource Bandwidth,Network and Servers Monitoring tools with Tutorials

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 Posted in How-Tos, Installation, Ubuntu | No Comments »

This is very good tutorials for bandwidth monitoring,network monitoring and servers monitoring tools with clear step by step installation guides this includes Nagios,MRTG,RTG,Netmrg,Darkstat,monit,munin,mon,oreon,Saidar ,Cacti,Bigsister,ibmonitor,zabbix.This resouce is Very useful for Users ... Read more..

TEXSTAR DOES IT AGAIN!

Friday, August 11th, 2006 Posted in Desktop, Installation | No Comments »

About a year ago (November 2005) I received an E-mail from Ken Starks aka Helios. He told me about his web site Lobby4Linux and about a new Linux distro ... Read more..

Nagios 2.5 and Oreon 1.3 (Nagios web front end) installation with screenshots

Friday, August 11th, 2006 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

Oreon© is an Open Source monitoring solution based on Nagios. It offers to this monitoring standard a new front end and brings it a panel of new functionalities. Read Full article ... Read more..

FREESPIRE’S EARLY DELIVERY

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 Posted in Desktop, How-Tos, Installation | No Comments »

Just a week before LinuxWorld in San Francisco, Linspire delivered their free, Debian based desktop FREESPIRE. The release was almost a month ahead of schedule, something we haven't seen ... Read more..

Easy SNMP Server and Client Configuration Steps

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a widely used protocol for monitoring the health and welfare of network equipment (eg. routers), computer equipment and even devices like UPSs. Net-SNMP is ... Read more..