Before you take the plunge and devote time and hardware to experimenting with Linux, let's cover the basics of this free OS. Though its design varies substantially from what you are used to in the ...

Whether you want to learn Linux command line basics or advanced skills, these Coursera classes have you covered.

This 24-hour course will teach you the basics of running a Linux/Unix system, including scripting, packaging, managing system processes, and more.

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 ...

Linux user admin is fundamental. Yet, even so, often users can run for years without really knowing what tools are doing when they make accounts. Here's the real skinny on it.

Why switch to Linux? More security, more privacy, and freedom from vendor lock-in. And these distributions are as simple to install and use as MacOS or Windows.

Linux has an architectureindependent concept of high memory—physical memory that requiresspecial, architecture-dependent handling, and for a 32-bit Linux/MIPSsystem physical memory above 512 MB is ...

Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution ...

I am trying to get into Linux. What I should say its that I love using Linux(use it at school, have a machine I installed SuSE on as the only OS) but I don't understand how to really run it. The ...

We take a look at ufw - the uncomplicated firewall - on Linux, providing some insights and commands for making changes.