Quick: If someone says "cool new technology," what do you think of? Odds are pretty good that NetWare and NDS won't come to mind first. Chances are, you're thinking of Java, Lindows, or some new ...

Linux Administration: A Beginner’s Guide by Wale Soyinka is a hands-on manual for IT staffers who must dance with Windows and Linux. It is a practical guide for network admins who deploy and maintain ...

If you’re considering adding Linux to your data center, or your company is looking at promoting you to become their first (or next) Linux admin, you probably understand there are lots of commands to ...

10 Things to Learn If You Want to Become a Linux Admin Your email has been sent Get up to speed with this list of 10 skills you’re going to need to learn to ...

Last week in InfoWorld’s New Tech Forum, Dinesh Dutt outlined the thinking behind Cumulus Networks’ Linux-based networking solution. The whole piece is a great read, but to distill his point, he makes ...

The problem: you have a large team of admins, with a substantial turnover rate. Maybe contractors come and go. Maybe you have tiers of access, due to restrictions based on geography, admin level or ...

A sysadmin has developed 48 characters of code that he claims can crash most popular Linux distributions. Andrew Ayer, a Linux administrator and founder of SSLMate, explains his code works by crashing ...

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 and ...

Back in the early days of Linux, things were exponentially more complicated. The distributions were far less mature and required a particular system account to get things done. That account was root - ...

On the School Forge Web site, you can read the statement that led others to consider building a similarly styled "forge" for government. The statement reads: There are several kinds of software needed ...