Life was simpler when everything your computer did was text-based. It is easy enough to shove data into one end of a pipe and take it out of the other. Sure, if the pipe extends across the network, ...

Those rare animals at Sun Microsystems using rival Microsoft’s Windows operating system have edged closer to extinction, as the company’s head of operating systems has decided the time is right to ...

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 ...

However, if you put a portable Linux installation on a flash drive, you can carry your own operating system with you wherever ...

Hardcore Linux users will think I'm committing the ultimate blasphemy when I say the Linux terminal doesn't have to be a part of the equation. Have to, being the operative term. When I first started ...

Linux is powerful, flexible, and can do just about anything. However, to really get the most out of Linux and your computer(s), there are certain skills and habits you need to bolster; otherwise, ...