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With Linux, it’s fairy easy to find the large files on your system by doing
something like this:

du -ahx / | sort -rh | head -20

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At last abandoning WINE and launching native Linux support, TeamViewer announced
the availability of a new preview version of its Linux Host with native Linux
support. more>>

This is the second in a series of articles on systems administrator
fundamentals. These days, DevOps has made even the job title “systems
administrator” seem a bit archaic, much like the “systems
analyst” title it
replaced. These DevOps positions are rather different from sysadmin jobs in
the past. more>>

In a previous article, “Provisioning Docker with Puppet”, in the December
2016 issue, I covered one of the ways
you can install the Docker service onto a new system with Puppet. By
contrast, this article focuses on how to manage Docker images and
containers with Puppet.
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The contemporary data center is typified by an ever-increasing amount of traffic
occurring between servers, observes Applied Expert Systems, Inc. (AES), sagely.
Fulfilling the logical need to facilitate improved server-to-server
communications, AES created CleverView for TCP/IP on Linux, now at v2.7.
CleverView provides IT staff access to current and more>>

This is the first in a series of articles on system administrator
fundamentals. These days, DevOps has made even the job title “system
administrator” seem a bit archaic, much like the “systems
analyst” title it
replaced. more>>

In my last article, I introduced how MCollective could be used for general
orchestration tasks. more>>

Slack is an incredible communication tool
for groups of any size (see my
recent piece on it). At the company I work for during the day,
Slack has become more widely used than email or instant messaging. It
truly has become the hub of company communication. more>>

Until now, says ioSafe, true zero-recovery-point server solutions have
been available only to the biggest of companies. However, with the arrival of
ioSafe’s Server 5, SMEs have access to “the industry’s first fire
and waterproof server” designed to eliminate data loss and minimize
downtime.
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I originally got into systems administration because I loved learning about computers, and I
figured that was a career that always would offer me something new to learn. Now many years
later that prediction has turned out to be true, and it seems like there are new things to learn
all the time. more>>