If you have more than one UNIX box in your care, you know how duplication happens. Every machine needs a common set of settings. Package upgrades need to be deployed. Certain packages need to be on ...

YouTube channel Sock Puppet Parody just parodied a metalhead favorite. The channel tried their hand in (pun intended) System of a Down’s “Chop Suey” and it is absolutely amazing. Read more: This metal ...

The enterprise edition of Puppet, an open source data center orchestration and management tool, has hit its 3.2 revision, and some new pieces ought to be of major use to IT admins — even if they won’t ...

Open-source IT automation software vendor Puppet Labs has acquired Cloudsmith, which provides tools and services that can help administrators and developers more easily use the Puppet software. Puppet ...

At some point, you probably have installed or configured a piece of software on a server or desktop PC. Since you read Linux Journal, you've probably done a lot of this, as well as developed a range ...