When I write my column, I try to stick to specific hacks or tips you can use to make life with Linux a little easier. Usually, I describe with pretty specific detail how to accomplish a particular ...

Configuration is the first step in building a kernel. There are many ways and various options to choose from. The kernel will generate a .config file at the end of the process and generate a series of ...

Rocky Linux has become one of the de facto standard replacements for CentOS. Not only is it a drop-in replacement for RHEL, but the maintainer Gregory Kurtzer has made it clear Rocky Linux will always ...

In recent years, hardware virtualization has become commonplace in the computing industry and more available to end users. The idea behind it is a noble one. Why invest in allocating more server ...

Fifteen years ago, you weren’t a participant in the digital age unless you had your own homepage. Even in the late 1990s, services abounded to make personal pages easy to build and deploy—the most ...

We list the best Linux server distros, to make it simple and easy to choose what you need for your hosting. Usually bundled along with Apache, MySQL, and PHP - and frequently referred to as a LAMP ...

Linux isn't nearly as hard as you think it is. In fact, Linux has become one of the easiest desktop and server operating systems on the planet. How is that possible? For one thing, modern Linux ...

This article is part three of a five-part series in which I discuss various aspects and functions of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). In my first article, I demonstrated how WSL can be installed ...