Linux Journal Contents #168, April 2008

by Staff

on April 1, 2008

Linux Journal Issue #168/April 2008

The April 2008 issue of Linux Journal focuses on system administration. In this month's cover story, James Gray explains how to green up your system (and save lots of green) using Linux's tickless kernel and other power-saving strategies. For more practical skill sharpening, dig into this issue's feature articles—Scott Lackey discusses configuration file management with cfengine, Kyle Rankin does network booting with PXE and Frederico Kereki introduces server administration with Webmin.

Keeping with the administration theme, check out the myriad other skill-building articles in the April issue, such as Jeramiah Bowling's on tapeless backups, Jes Hall's on VMware Server Beta 2.0 and Francis Lachapelle and Ludovic Marcotte's on Scalable OpenGroupware.org.

There is also much to enjoy from the lighter side. While Shawn Powers illustrates how to replace your iPod's firmware with the richer (and open-source) Rockbox, Jes Hall shows how to hack your Eee PC to your heart's content. Finally, Marcel Gagné, king of the lighter side, celebrates his 100th Cooking with Linux column, demonstrating the joys of desktop administration with a Pinot Noir in hand.

Features

Go Green, Save Green with Linux by James Gray
Linux offers you ways to go green and save some green at the same time.
Cfengine for Configuration Management by Scott Lackey
How to use cfengine to manage configuration files across large numbers of machines.
PXE Magic: Flexible Network Booting with Menus by Kyle Rankin
What if you never had to carry around an install or rescue CD again? Set up a PXE boot server with menus and put them all on the network.
Graphic Administration with Webmin by Federico Kereki
New to Linux administration? Webmin can help you out.

Indepth

Backups to the Future: Eliminate Tape Backups with FreeNAS and Bacula by Jeramiah Bowling
Lose the tapes. Embrace the disk.
Scalable OpenGroupware.org by Francis Lachapelle and Ludovic Marcotte
Looking for an advanced Web interface, native clients or access through mobiles devices to your groupware platform? SOGo has it all.
Hacking the Eee PC by Jes Hall
Several ideas for tweaking your Eee PC.
Puppy Linux by Louis Iacona
Check out this lightweight distro.

Columns

Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge Social Google Gadgets
Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux Happy 100th!
Dave Taylor's Work the Shell Twittering from the Command Line
Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin Security Features in Ubuntu Server
Kyle Rankin's Hack and / Mutt Tweaks for System Administrators
Doc Searls' EOF Getting Real about the Ideal

Reviews

VMware Server 2 Beta by Jes Hall
iPod + Rockbox = Entertainment Extravaganza by Shawn Powers

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