With Valve soon to launch its Steam client for Linux, the OS has its first real boon where gaming's concerned. Sure, there have always been games available for Linux if you've known where to look, and ...

On a traditional, mutable Linux operating system, the base system files are writable. Everything goes; you and your apps can ...

Here's the entirety of a note by discussion contributor nhudd responding to my e-mail exchange with "MCSE Mike": On behalf of MCSE Mike's everywhere... Paul, I think that the vast majority of ...

Every month or two, someone asks me how they should go about learning Unix. The short answer is always “use it” or maybe as much as “use it — a lot.” But the detailed answer includes a lot of steps ...

As more and more companies turn to Linux for mission-critical operations, making sure IT staff have the necessary skills is becoming more important than ever. That’s a significant challenge, because ...

An introduction to cloud computing from IaaS and PaaS to hybrid, public and private cloud. This class provides an introduction to managing Linux on Azure. Whether someone is a Linux professional who ...

It’s a testament to how far Linux has come that users today don’t typically have to use the command line if they don’t want to. Such is the quality of the graphical user interfaces in many modern ...

Sometimes a gift just falls in your lap. This month, it came in the form of an e-mail out of the blue from Jared Nielsen, one of two brothers (the other is J.R. Nielsen) who created The Hello World ...

The Linux Foundation today posted their first ever Linux Jobs Report, created in conjunction with tech job site Dice.com. The report examines the current demand for Linux talent, and identifies a few ...