If you are looking for an easy to install, configure, and use systems monitor, look no further. The Munin is a network/systems monitor that presents all its data is easy to read graphs. Munin is setup as a server/client (or node) which makes this system very flexible. Munin also offers an extensive plugins library that [...]

Tags: Network Monitoring, system monitoring, ubuntu, web monitoring
Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Basic, software

There are plenty of times when you may want to add a new service to start when your Linux machine boots. Or you may want to stop a service from starting upon boot. And, like nearly every aspect of Linux, there are many ways to deal with this scenario. And different distributions handle this in [...]

Tags: boot services, init, linux boot, rc.local, runlevels, sysV
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, software

I have written a few articles on Samba here on Ghacks. And most people know how to connect to Samba shares via Windows. Generally speaking (when all is set up correctly) it’s just a matter of opening up Explorer and entering \\ADDRESS_OF_SAMBA_SERVER\SHARENAME to get to your Samba shares. But what about in Linux? How do [...]

Tags: GNOME, samba, samba shares, smb.conf, smbclient
Categories: Advice, Linux, Server, Tutorials Advanced, Windows, software

CentOS has not received much attention here on Ghacks, so I thought I would remedy that by introducing this outstanding flavor of Linux not by way of a Live CD (CentOS does have a Live CD, but you can not install from that CD), but by way of traditional means. Because of this you will [...]

Tags: CentOS, enterprise linux, KDE, Red Hat Linux, RHEL
Categories: Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Tutorials Basic, software

If you are one of those that depends upon a scanner for your daily work, and you want to handle this task using the Linux operating system, you are in luck. In the past, Linux has had some serious issues with scanning tools. When USB scanners replaced the old parallel port scanners it seemed nothing [...]

Tags: Espon, flatbed scanners, linux scanning, scanning, usb scanners
Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

When Gmail first came out I wasn’t a fan. But after a year of use I have found Google Mail to be a very valuable tool. Because I use Gmail mostly for work-related issues, I do not always like to check it within a browser. Instead I use various applications that enable me to have [...]

Tags: desktop email, gmail, gmail applets, prism
Categories: Email, Google, Linux, Online Services, software

You may remember my mention of the Ubuntu Software Center in my article “Ubuntu Karmic Koala preview“. Well, Karmic Koala is now officially Ubuntu 9.10 and is on the streets. I have installed the release and am as pleased as I expected I would be. One aspect of 9.10 that I was most interested in [...]

Tags: add/remove software, gdebi, installing software, Karmic Koala, Synaptic, ubuntu 9.10
Categories: Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software