We take a look at ufw - the uncomplicated firewall - on Linux, providing some insights and commands for making changes.

Linux user admin is fundamental. Yet, even so, often users can run for years without really knowing what tools are doing when they make accounts. Here's the real skinny on it.

Whether your Linux box has hundreds of users or just one account for you and one for your dog it is important to understand how Linux user accounts work. There are GUI tools for this within GNOME ...

Before you take the plunge and devote time and hardware to experimenting with Linux, let's cover the basics of this free OS. Though its design varies substantially from what you are used to in the ...

This 24-hour course will teach you the basics of running a Linux/Unix system, including scripting, packaging, managing system processes, and more.

We’re about to see an influx of people who need good, simple guides and explainers about fundamental Linux basics. At the very least, they need a friendly smile and a welcoming attitude.

$ sh test.sh I love "Linux Journal" you gave me 3 variables and the first is I unprotected parameters: I was given 4 parameters or, more succinctly: I was given 4 parameters but when we put $* in ...

Much of the Linux kernel is written in portable C,and a great deal of it is portable to a clean architecture like MIPSwith no further trouble. In the previous Part 4 we looked at the ...

I am trying to get into Linux. What I should say its that I love using Linux(use it at school, have a machine I installed SuSE on as the only OS) but I don't understand how to really run it. The ...

Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution ...