Tag «open source»

Rescuezilla: open source backup, restore and recovery environment?

From Ghacks.net: Rescuezilla is a free open source disk imaging solution that supports data backups, restores and recovery actions. The application is operating system agnostic, as it needs to be put on an optical disc or an USB drive; one of the benefits that comes out of that, is that may access the application at …

XBMC – Open Source Media Centre

Today I just heard about XBMC, an open source media centre. It looks pretty cool. I’ll have to check it out! XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with …

“Nagios Is The Industry Standard In IT Infrastructure Monitoring”

I managed a small IT department for my full-time job. We have more than a few servers, but not enough to pay for some of the expensive management suites that are out there. I just recently learned about Nagios, an IT monitoring package. There is a paid version, and an open source version. Looks like …

Google Reader alternatives

I, like many people, still use RSS feeds a lot. I have a Google Account and use Google Reader several times a day. As you’ve no doubt heard, Google Reader will be discontinued as of July 1, 2013. To put it mildy, this sucks! I don’t understand why Google doesn’t just leave it up. They …