Recently, Nagios, an open source application for network, server and application monitoring, has been the subject of a dispute. The operators of the French Nagios site nagios-fr.org claimed that Nagios Enterprises was forcing them to give up the domain. The H talked to Ethan Galstad CEO of Nagios Enterprises about what had happened and asked how he plans to take the Nagios community forward

After nine months of development version 1.8 of the open source JavaScript user interface framework JQueryUI has been released, with new button and autocomplete widgets

The new release of the Magnolia CMS introduces a number of architectural changes to the Java based content management system in preparation for the transition to version 5.0, and gets support for Groovy

Version 11g Release 2, which is to become available at the end of the month, will provide Oracle's embedded Berkeley DB database with an SQL interface that offers the same functionality as free SQLite

The first public release of the BIND 10 open source DNS server is now out. But don't rush to update your servers just yet -- it's still years away from being ready for production use

eMount is a free system administrator tool for Linux which can mount, encrypt and manage disk image files and physical disk drives. It relies on cryptsetup which implements the LUKS disk encryption

Skipfish is an active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. The resulting map is then annotated with the output from a number of active (but hopefully non-disruptive) security checks.

Perhaps the title should have been; ‘the lack of a suitable compressed file system on linux’. A compressed file system in this case refers to a setup where the files are saved on the disk in a predefined compressed format (such as gzip or bzip2). When you read from those files they will be automatically decompressed by the file system.