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 ...

Turns out freedom and flexibility are great for coding.

I prefer choice over integration when it comes to coding.

Columnist Dave Taylor reminisces about the early days of UNIX and how Linux evolved and grew from that seed. Twenty five years of Linux Journal. This also marks my 161st column with the magazine too, ...

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 ...

UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, Fifth Edition, is today’s guide to installing, configuring, and maintaining any UNIX or Linux system, including systems that supply core Internet and ...

PHOENIX, November 29, 2016 – BeyondTrust, the leading cyber security company dedicated to preventing privilege misuse and stopping unauthorized access, today announced PowerBroker for Unix & Linux 9.4 ...

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 ...

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

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 ...

FreeBSD is one of the most stable OSes on the planet. FreeBSD is also more challenging than Linux. You can download and install FreeBSD for free. I'm not gonna lie: I ...

The Unix operating system is one of computing's most significant technologies, providing the framework that the familiar Linux and Mac OS X operating systems were developed on. Unix can be a viable ...