Top 5 mistakes every new Linux terminal user makes
Avoid these comman mistakes, and find out how to become an expert in the terminal.
The impact of the Linux philosophy
The philosophy of an operating system matters. The Linux philosophy matters to the operating system and to the community.
Project Browser: Finding And Installing Drupal Modules In A Few Clicks
Project Browser Initiative is aimed at providing an easy process of discovering and installing contributed modules directly from the Drupal admin UI.
How I use cron in Linux
Scheduling tasks with cron means programs can run but you don’t have to stay up late.
How I configure Vim as my default editor on Linux
Vim is my favorite editor. These changes to my system make Vim available as the default in programs that use a different editor by default.
Arming Open Source Software for the Future
Future to bring more ARM servers in the data center and cloud than X64 systems.
Monitoring Linux and Windows hosts with Glances
The Glances tool offers more information about system performance than other sysadmin monitoring tools.
Cinnamon: A Tale of Forks and Familiarity in the Linux Desktop Landscape
Cinnamon is a familiar interface to welcome newcomers transitioning from Windows or macOS.
SysAdmin careers: Curiosity is an asset
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it helps the sysadmin grow and thrive.
A user’s guide to links in the Linux filesystem
Learn how to use links, which make tasks easier by providing access to files from multiple locations in the Linux filesystem directory tree.
Liquid Cooling Failure
Modern motherboards make a cooling failure less catastrophic than it could have been.
Linux Boot and Startup
Understanding the boot and Linux startup processes is important to being able to both configure Linux and to resolving startup issues.
Everything is a file
When everything is a file Difficult things are easy and impossible things are merely hard.
Creating a universal live Linux USB drive
Image by Don Watkins. CC-by-SA 4.0 Use them for troubleshooting problems and to demonstrate the beauty and utility of using Linux I frequently create USB...
Working with data streams on the Linux command line
Learn to connect data streams from one utility to another using STDIO. Everything in Linux revolves around streams of data—particularly text streams. Data streams are...