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How 2 Legal Cases May Decide the Future of Open Source Software

The open source universe may soon be less collaborative and more litigious. Two cases now in the courts could open the legal floodgates.

Mar 6, 2015 6 mins

Legal Open Source Operating Systems

Cisco might ONIE up

Company says, then doesn't, that Nexus 9K supports open source boot loader

Mar 4, 2015 3 mins

Cisco Systems Network Switches Open Source

How to make your Unix prompts more useful and interesting

By Sandra Henry Stocker

Mar 1, 2015 6 mins

Data Center Open Source Operating Systems

Learn R for beginners with our PDF

By Sharon Machlis

Feb 20, 2015 2 mins

Enterprise Applications IT Skills and Training Software Development

Keeping the bad guys out with fail2ban

By Sandra Henry Stocker

Feb 14, 2015 4 mins

Data Center Open Source Operating Systems

Developer of Snow Day Calculator weathers the storm … again … and again … and again

By Paul McNamara

Feb 12, 2015 4 mins

Careers Enterprise Applications Internet

Facebook super-sizes its open networking switch

By Stephen Lawson

Feb 11, 2015 3 mins

Facebook Network Switches Open Source

Google’s new open-source PerfKit framework watches cloud application performance

Apache-licensed cloud performance kit aims to make cross-platform comparisons easier.

Feb 11, 2015 2 mins

Google Network Management Software Open Source

How network admins can survive SDN

Prove the doomsayers wrong by maintaining the physical infrastructure, learning software building blocks

Feb 9, 2015 7 mins

Network Management Software SDN Servers

4 open-source monitoring tools that deserve a look

By Susan Perschke

Feb 9, 2015 19 mins

Enterprise Applications Network Management Software Open Source