Monit is an open source utility that provides several system monitoring functionality that are extremely helpful to sysadmins. This article provides a jumpstart guide on monit installation and configuration. We also discuss a specific example related to processes monitoring.
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Earlier we discussed about Linux Directory Structure. This article is similar, but for Solaris.
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These are the best portable GPS for your vehicle. All of these are text-to-speech supported, which will speak the street names and directions while you are driving, helping you to keep your eyes on the road.

If you have an older model, holiday season is the best time to upgrade. Some of these have live traffic update, which will help you avoid traffic and plan a new route.

GPS market is pretty much dominated by Garmin with some competition from TomTom and Magellan.

What portable GPS device do you have? Leave a comment and let us know.
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vsftpd is lightweight, highly stable, secure, and fast FTP server for Linux environment. vsftpd powers lot of heavily used FTP service in the internet (including ftp.redhat.com).

vsftpd also supports virtual ip, virtual users, bandwidth throttling, IPv6, encryption etc.,

This article provides step-by-step instructions on how to setup vsftpd on your server from source.
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Question: I have a *.deb file that I like to install on Red Hat. Is it possible to convert a *.deb to *.rpm package (and vice versa)?

Answer: You can use alien command to convert *.deb to *.rpm file. Also, if you have a *.rpm file that you want to install on a Debian or Ubuntu, you can convert the *.rpm to *.deb file using alien command as explained in this article.
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These are the best digital camcorders. All these are light weight, HD, and with image stabilization. Any one of these can be a great gift for your family members.

Did we miss any of your favorite digital camcorders? Please leave a comment and let us know.
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Inside the /proc directory, you’ll see two types of content — numbered directories, and system information files.

/proc is not a real file system, it is a virtual file system. For example, if you do ls -l /proc/stat, you’ll notice that it has a size of 0 bytes, but if you do “cat /proc/stat”, you’ll see some content inside the file.

Several Linux commands access the information from /proc, and displays in a certain format.
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