There you have it—five apps that can help transform a bare Linux installation into a complete, functional system. Install ...

For decades, desktop Linux distributions primarily used the X Window System (X11) for rendering displays and graphics, but ...

To install Linux Mint on your VMware Workstation, begin by creating a new virtual machine within the software, selecting your ...

After using Linux for nearly 30 years, I've created a list of the best Linux distributions I've used since the beginning. Here they are.

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

When attackers take advantage of an exploit, one of their first goals is to gain superuser (root or administrator) access to the compromised system. If the compromised process is already running with ...

Periodic health checks can help ensure that your Unix systems are going to be available when they’re needed most. In this post, we’re going to look at some aspects of performance that should be ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Linux, the open-source operating system with an outsider mystique, is now proliferating on powerful government computer systems in the United States and abroad with technology giants ...

People who have had bad experiences on Windows disks that performed poorly after they had become very fragmented often wonder if they need to apply some kind of periodic analysis and defragmentation ...

There are many ways to move files between Unix and Windows. In my mind, they fall into three categories — secure copy (let’s not even think about ftp), shared drives, and file synchronization. Each ...