Top 10 July must-reads: Killer tools and practical guides for admins, Skype alternatives, Slackware turns 25, and more

Our sysadmin guides were a few of our hottest reads in July.

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Opensource.com brought in 776,198 unique visitors who generated 1,253,209 page views in July, a 22% year over year increase.

We published 85 articles in July, and welcomed 14 new authors. More than 56% of our content was contributed by members of the open source community, and our community moderators contributed 22 articles.

In honor of System Administrator Appreciation Day in July, we ran a series of articles for admins. We also wrapped up our OSCON speaker series.

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Top 10 articles published in July

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Rikki Endsley is the Developer Program managing editor at Red Hat, and a former community architect and editor for Opensource.com.

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