In a startling revelation, the open-source Mozilla project says that its flagship Firefox browser contains a root certificate authority that doesn’t seem to have a known owner.

Nagios is capable of running commands from external applications. This allows Nagios to expand farther than it could otherwise.

I believe that Virtual Desktops and multi-monitor controls can be merged to make both more flexible and easy to use. I also believe that merging these concepts will simplify the virtual desktop & multi-monitor concepts.

The new version of X.org's X Server does not require HAL and offers a more flexible and less error-prone configuration procedure

I’m not a huge vi/vim fan. I use vim on a daily basis for editing text files and for writing up blog posts, but I have no passion for it one way or another. On the other hand, vifm does have a certain appeal.

Last week, in Part One of this Debian Package Primer, I gave you an introduction to the super cow powers of apt-get, Debian’s package management system. This week, in Part Two, you’ll check out aptitude, which is an easy to use front-end for apt-get. It has menus, shortcuts and a package status dashboard that keeps you aware of your installed packages and how many you have yet to install.

Here I am just trying to figure out 5 of such useful tools which are used by a normal Linux administrator in day to day operations.

Mel Gorman posted the seventh version of his Memory Compaction patches asking, "are there any further obstacles to merging?" The patches, first posted in May of 2007, provide a mechanism for moving GFP_MOVABLE pages into a smaller number of pageblocks, reducing externally fragmented memory.