Which websites should a system administrator read? [closed]

Since every modern System Administrator should be using a feed reader, here's my selections from Google Reader [NOTE: These are RSS feeds, not the standard viewable sites themselves!]:

System Administration and Storage:

  • Boiling Linux and Windows - http://feeds.feedburner.com/BoilingLinuxAndWindows
  • Everything Sysadmin - http://www.everythingsysadmin.com/atom.xml
  • High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites. - http://highscalability.com/rss.xml
  • Kevin Closson's Oracle Blog: Platform, Storage & Clustering Topics - http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/feed/
  • Last In - First Out - http://lastinfirstout.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
  • Observations from a Tech Architect: Enterprise Implementation Issues - http://rss.ittoolbox.com/rss/eai-implementation.xml
  • Services for UNIX - Interoperability - http://blogs.msdn.com/sfu/atom.xml
  • Standalone Sysadmin - http://feeds.feedburner.com/standalone-sysadmin/rWoU
  • StorageMojo - http://storagemojo.com/?feed=rss
  • The Lone Sysadmin - http://feeds.feedburner.com/lonesysadmin/mkpe
  • Planet CentOS - http://planet.centos.org/atom.xml

Security:

  • Red Hat Errata - https://rhn.redhat.com/rpc/recent-errata.pxt
  • Debian Security - http://www.debian.org/security/dsa-long
  • Schneier on Security - http://www.schneier.com/blog/index.rdf

Tech/IT News:

  • Techdirt - http://feeds.techdirt.com/techdirt/feed
  • LWN.net - http://lwn.net/headlines/newrss
  • Slashdot Firehose Stories - http://slashdot.org/firehose_stories.rss
  • TechCrunch - http://feedproxy.google.com/TechCrunch

Others that are important and popular among sysadmins:

  • Cool Tools - http://feeds.feedburner.com/CoolTools
  • xkcd.com - http://xkcd.com/rss.xml
  • ThinkGeek :: What's New - http://www.thinkgeek.com/thinkgeek.rss
  • The Daily WTF - http://syndication.thedailywtf.com/TheDailyWtf
  • Official Gmail Blog - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml
  • The official update feed from the Google Apps team - http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoogleAppsUpdates
  • What Would Tyler Durden Do - http://www.wwtdd.com/feed/atom/

I'm subscribed to the following in my feed reader:

  • The Blog of Ben Rockwood - excellent Solaris blog
  • Commandlinefu - subscribe to one of the 3 or 10 vote feeds for useful command line tips.
  • Unix admin corner
  • Sun Bigadmin updated feed - occasionally has some useful links, but there is a lot of noise
  • Daily Vim - Learn your editor and learn it well

There are a few others I have in my sysadmin category, but they may not be generally applicable. I'd also suggest reading a lot of sites that would be considered 'sites programmers should read' - hacker news, programming.reddit etc., but then I tend to have an interest in both programming and systems administration.


On a regular basis? None.

In the end, most sites just end up being a time suck (like Server Fault?)


For some light reading you can't beat BOFH ;->