[ad_1] Writing about collaborative, peer-to-peer teamwork in The Open Organization, Jim Whitehurst stresses the importance of: Encouraging team members to speak freely and honestly Encouraging team members be courageous enough to differ Selecting team members committed to achievement Selecting team members with the willingness to be accountable for a group’s decisions Those are four critical…

[ad_1] Upgrading any operating system to a new release version can be time-consuming and fraught with problems. In fact, the term “upgrade” may not even be applicable. Many times in the past it has been necessary for me to perform a complete reinstall because the alleged upgrade path would fail. Having to perform a reinstall…

[ad_1] Once upon a time, there was no Linux. No, really! It did not exist. It was not like today, with Linux everywhere. There were multiple flavors of Unix, there was Apple, and there was Microsoft Windows. When it comes to Windows, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Despite adding 20+…

[ad_1] Remotely-distributed system administration teams provide around-the-clock coverage without anyone losing sleep, and have the benefit of drawing from a global talent pool. The OpenStack global infrastructure team relies on these five open source tools to communicate, and to coordinate our work. We also add in a few more provisos: we must do our work…

[ad_1] Friends, I have sad news. This week the editors of Opensource.com decided to make a small—yet painful, at least to me—change to our official style guide. Going forward, we will treat “sys admin” as “sysadmin.” I’ll admit that a little piece of me died as I updated our style guide, reluctantly removing the space…

[ad_1] Metrics. Measures. How high? How low? How fast? How slow? Ever since the dawn of humankind, we’ve had an innate and insatiable desire to measure and compare. We started with the Egyptian cubit and the Mediterranean traders’ grain in the 3rd millennium BC. Today we have clicks per second, likes, app downloads, stars, and…

[ad_1] Did you know that Perl is a great programming language for system administrators? Perl is platform-independent so you can do things on different operating systems without rewriting your scripts. Scripting in Perl is quick and easy, and its portability makes your scripts amazingly useful. Here are a few examples, just to get your creative…

[ad_1] Tucked into a corner of the Salt Lake Valley among the Rocky Mountains hides the largest community-organized free/open source technology conference you’ve never heard of. Weighing in at an impressive 1500 attendees, OpenWest is perhaps the third largest conference of its type in the United States, coming in behind SCaLE and LinuxFest Northwest. This…

[ad_1] The open organization community at Opensource.com welcomed the second half of 2016 with a Twitter chat discussing “open organizations and non-profits.” Voices old and new participated, and our chat was (as always) compelling. Read the recap below as you prepare for the next #OpenOrgChat. Q1: What makes a union between OpenOrg thinking and non-profit…

[ad_1] Sanoid helps to recover from what I like to call “Humpty Level Events.” In other words, it can help you put Humpty Dumpty back together again, on ZFS filesystems. Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the King’s horses and all the King’s menCouldn’t put Humpty together again. As a…