Puppet (configuration management)

Puppet is an open source systems management tool for centralizing and automating configuration management.
Optimize system performance with Linux cgroups

The Linux cgroups feature lets you make a profile to manage resources to keep your system under control.
Search and replace on steroids: Do more with sed

These tips can help administrators help themselves through advanced text editing with the UNIX Stream Editor (sed) utility.
British ISP deploys open source virtualization

JT Global is marching to the beat of its own drummer with open source software, including Ubuntu virtual machines, ConVirt virtualization management software, and a unique approach to VM clustering.

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Testing Local Resources, chapter 7 of 'Nagios: System and Network Monitoring'

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