ShareThisRsync is a great open source utility. I've been using it for several years to redundantly backup our Lotus Domino server. I have a script that shuts down Domino, backs up the Notes including the notes.ini to a tar.gz file and then brings Domino back up. Later in the early morning hours another script runs in cron that uses Rsync to move the tar.gz file from the Domino server to another Linux server that's on our local area network.

ShareThisToday I deployed a Dell GX260 with Ubuntu 8.04 installed on it. My customer, a small municipal government, had the need for a department level file server. I created a "shared" folder on this server using Samba. As many of you know Samba is a great way to deploy a file server in a Windows workgroup or domain without the mess and fuss of using Windows 2003 Server.

ShareThisFor this test, the reviewers examined power consumption as a way to judge whether Windows Server 2008 or Linux is, in fact, the 'greener' operating system. The test points to Linux as the winner of the green flag by margins that topped out at 12%. read more | digg story

ShareThisGoogle has announced the availability of Desktop Gadgets support for Linux and has released the full source code. We tested it on Ubuntu 8.04 to see how well it works. read more | digg story