“Backupninja is a silent flower blossom death strike to lost data.” That about sums it up. The premise of backupninja is fairly straightforward: allow packages and users to create backup jobs by putting a file in a directory called /etc/backup.d. These jobs rely on a handler script to execute and handler scripts can be customized to handle a particular type of backup job.

Though this information applies to any GNU/Linux kernel I thought it would be helpful to describe some ways in which to uncover information about a system through a terminal. This is especially useful when running Ubuntu Server without any graphical desktop environment but can also be useful for desktop users. Mostly I’ll just reveal some useful locations to find information in the /proc and /dev directories.

I purchased parts for another server recently and thought I would document my choices. I wanted to spend more but that’s not an option at the moment. So here’s what I bought and when I get the parts I can report on my level of satisfaction.

Sometimes you just want to take a break and distract yourself a bit. Here are some games and other amusements I've come across that I would suggest people try if their looking for some light entertainment on their Ubuntu system. Of course, people's tastes vary quite a bit but at least this is a place to start. But some people might find some of these games may take more time then they would like so install with caution.

Virtualization is the future. And in that path many virtualization products have been developed a large number of them either open source, or with open source releases. Before discussing the specifics of using some of these tools I thought it best to lay out some of the basics about the technologies so it becomes clearer what classes of software exist int he virtualization field and what reasons there may be to select one over another. For the purpose of this article I generally restricted myself to software: released under the GPL (excepting VMware), that runs on a GNU/Linux host, can run GNU/Linux as a guest, and is still under active development.