When I write my column, I try to stick to specific hacks or tips you can use to make life with Linux a little easier. Usually, I describe with pretty specific detail how to accomplish a particular ...

Fifteen years ago, you weren’t a participant in the digital age unless you had your own homepage. Even in the late 1990s, services abounded to make personal pages easy to build and deploy—the most ...

Jack Wallen shows you how simple it is to get a powerful, reliable backup solution installed on your Linux servers. Image: ribkhan/Adobe Stock Do you have a reliable backup solution running on your ...

In recent years, hardware virtualization has become commonplace in the computing industry and more available to end users. The idea behind it is a noble one. Why invest in allocating more server ...

Rocky Linux has become one of the de facto standard replacements for CentOS. Not only is it a drop-in replacement for RHEL, but the maintainer Gregory Kurtzer has made it clear Rocky Linux will always ...

Linux isn't nearly as hard as you think it is. In fact, Linux has become one of the easiest desktop and server operating systems on the planet. How is that possible? For one thing, modern Linux ...

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, ...

Debian Linux is one of the oldest Linux distributions still kicking, and it comes recommended with good reason. Its stable releases are designed to be totally reliable and run just as you'd expect. It ...