Perhaps the most notable of all the wearables currently on the market are smartwatches. Several companies now sell these devices and their accompanying apps. The problem I have with wearables such as smartwatches is that they require tethering to a smartphone via an app, via Bluetooth connectivity, or likely via both. This means that your watch and your phone can never be more than a few meters apart for full functionality.

Warning: Fedora 22 Server is not a Live distribution. Please run in a virtual environment for test purposes.

The Fedora community unveils Fedora 22 Server, an operating system designed with various data center technologies to assist you in controlling your infrastructure and services. Server roles allow deployment and management of prepared roles with the Rolekit tool. DNF (Dandified Yum) replaces Yum as the default packaging tool. The web-based Cockpit server manager lets you access various subsystems across multiple servers from a single interface. Cockpit features include:

• systemd service management
• Journal log viewer
• Storage configuration, including LVM
• Docker container management
• Basic network configuration
• local user management

News for system administrators around the world.

A Linux kernel contributor has filed a lawsuit against VMware, claiming the company is using Linux kernel code in a proprietary product.

The Fault Tolerant Router daemon uses multipath routing among multiple Internet connections to keep you connected, even when some connections go down.

If you use your Linux laptop for public presentations – or other tasks that require an external display – you are probably familiar with the problem of making your computer's display resolution fit the external device. This homegrown script offers an easy, automated solution.

Debian's ReproducibleBuilds project helps you determine whether a binary package was actually built from the associated source code.

The OpenStack project has released the latest version of its software, code-named Kilo. We take a closer look.

The JasperReports report generator uses data from a variety of sources and outputs the results to a printer, a screen, or a file in several export formats.

To ensure your servers and workstations are well protected against attacks on your network, you need a professional security scanner. In version 6, Tenable has substantially expanded its Nessus vulnerability scanner. We pointed the software at a number of test computers.