Linux Web Hosting allows a company to build its web sites by using the Linux Operating System. Unix hosting and Linux hosting are generally the most cost-effective web hosting options. Unix/Linux are open source products and virtually free, and
Unix web hosting and Linux web hosting are known to be stable, safe and compatible with other open-source techonologies such as PHP, MySQL, Apache, Python and more.
Unix security is a big world including Software and hardware, there is no guaranties to make your Unix system safe, but you can make it very difficult for the Crackers en Hackers; in this quick guide will show you some simple steps to protect your system.
Recently, CLI is mostly used by Linux/Unix administrators since most popular linux distros come with a complete set of GUI applications that make the user use less and less the command line. In our previous post, we saw 11 useful commands for Linux/Unix administrators, in this post we will see a list of useful commands useful for both administrators and normal Linux users.
Command line is more powerful because you can do lot with them, you can tell your computer exactly what you want and get the appropriate answer, while GUI application can only tell your computer what the GUI programmer has defined. Recently, CLI is mostly used by Linux/Unix administrators since most popular linux distros come with a complete set of GUI applications that make the user use less and less the command line.
“OpenIndiana oi_151a has been released, this release comes exactly one year after the first release, oi_147. This build brings a wide variety of enhancements,
including being the first build based on Illumos. Notable changes to the kernel and core userland since OpenIndiana’s oi_148 release includes KVM, the open source kernel-based Virtual Machine, as a basic virtualization solution along with the QEMU package. This KVM port includes virtualization extensions for Intel VT. Using KVM, a user or sys
whowatch is a interactive, ncurses-based, process and users monitoring tool, which updates information in real time. This is a perfect tool for local and remote servers. It displays information about the users currently logged on to the machine, in real-time. Besides standard information (login name, tty, host, user’s process), the type of the connection (ie. telnet or ssh) is shown. Display of users command line can be switch to tty idle time.
Puppet is a tool to manage the configuration of Unix-like systems declaratively. The developer provides Puppet templates to describe parts of the system, and, when these templates are deployed, the runtime puts the managed systems into the declared state.
PCBSD 8.2 has been released!, the PC-BSD 8.2 (Hubble edition), running FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and KDE 4.5.5. Version 8.2 contains a number of enhancements and improvements, some of the notable changes are: added 
ability to select file-system type and encryption during auto-partitioning; able to toggle between MBR/GPT partitioning; arious bug fixes to the wireless network managers; updated the display wizard with many new supported resolutions; added ‘extractonly’ option to pc-sysinstall for installing to a pre-mounted disk; fixed some disk install errors from loading incorrect geom_ modules.
Nagios is a popular open source computer system and network monitoring software application. It watches hosts and services, alerting users
when things go wrong and again when they get better.
Nagios was originally designed to run under Linux, but also runs well on other Unix variants. It is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
OpenIndiana project was launched officially the 14th of September, this project is a brand new distribution of OpenSolaris, constructed by the community, for the community. The primary goal is to be a binary and package compatible drop in replacement for the official OpenSolaris and forthcoming Solaris 11 and Solaris 11 Express releases.”
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