ZDNET key takeaways Logging in as the root user should never be done on Linux.Using the root account could lead to ...

If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...

The way the Linux file system is laid out makes perfect sense. I've been using Linux for so many years that I can't imagine another file system making more sense. When I consider how the Windows file ...

So you want a corporate directory, but you don't have a corporate budget. You want to reap the benefits of single sign-on, the ease of administration for yourself and the ease of use for your users.

Users of Linux distributions that operate the systemd initialisation framework are advised to patch the networkd-dispatcher connection status change daemon, after Microsoft security researchers ...

Let's start by clearly stating what this post is, and what it isn't. It is a description of how I set up multi-boot for Linux systems, sometimes including Windows, using the GRUB bootloader. It is not ...

A vulnerability in cryptsetup, a utility used to set up encrypted filesystems on Linux distributions, could allow an attacker to retrieve a root rescue shell on some systems. A vulnerability in ...

Evening. I'm messing around with Samba on a machine with Mandrake Linux. I'm going through the examples at samba.org. Right now, I'm at this point under example 2.2 Modified Anonymous Read-Write ...

A new bit of ransomware is now attacking Linux-based machines, specifically the folders associated with serving web pages. Called Linux.Encoder.1 the ransomware will encrypt your MySQL, Apache, and ...