With so many Linux distributions out there to choose from, there’s nothing like a good survey to offer fresh insight as to who’s using which ones. Focusing on the server realm, I already reported ...

File sharing is a fundamental aspect of networked computing, and in Linux environments, two of the most prevalent protocols facilitating this are NFS (Network File System) and Samba. This article aims ...

Linux is a very powerful operating system that is also one of the most flexible in the marketplace. That flexibility has always been a big selling point of the OS. Any user that doesn’t like the way ...

Any Linux systems administrator needs to be proficient with a wide range of commands for user management, file handling, system monitoring, networking, security and more. This article covers a range ...

Root (aka “/”) is where all other directories are found. If you issue the command ls /, the output will include directories like bin, boot, dev, home, etc, media, mnt, opt, sbin, srv, and var. The ...

More and more networking pros need to familiarize themselves with Linux because the operating system underpins so many enterprise tools and platforms including software-defined networking and SD-WANs, ...

Ask any Linux enthusiast, and they’ll tell you how awesome an operating system Linux can be. (Well, except Bryan Lunduke, who will say it sucks before he says it’s awesome.) For the desktop user, the ...