The use of the Linux operating system is becoming more common throughout the IT industry. Many corporate IT departments are using Linux to complement existing Unix systems using special-purpose Linux ...

You might be asking why can't you just use your system's built-in package manager. While that will work for most apps there might be some problems with others: Some apps might not be on your system's ...

A high-level guide to Unix-like systems, inc. Mac OS X and Ubuntu. Community installation guides are available on the wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb ...

First of all, we need to download the installation media of VirtualBox and then install it on your computer. You can get VirtualBox from virtualbox.org and then run ...

The “What’s the difference between UNIX and Linux?” question can be answered similar to the analogy section that many of us had to complete on the SAT test; UNIX is to DOS as Linux is to Windows. That ...

Chromebooks are one of the most secure devices you can give a non-technical end user, and at a price point few can argue with, but that security comes with a privacy trade off: you have to trust ...

You can use the stat command to view dates and times associated with Linux files, and the date command can do some handy conversions if you’d like to display the current time in the epoch format.

With regard to this thread I posted a while back, I have aquired a tape drive and am ready to prepare the backups. I am currently reading O'Reilly's guide to Unix Backup and Recovery but I am afraid ...

What defines an operating system isn’t a geeky label or a collection of ramblings from the mouths of its community members. Nor is it some empty and pointless certification offered up by an obscure ...