In this final installment of the series, I present examples based on actual cases I’ve encountered where these tools were utilized to solve the problem. In the first example, a small network with a ...

I went to a friend's house the other day. Booted up and didn't automatically get on his home wireless network. He insisted I would have to reboot (windows reaction), instead I used some of these tools ...

Network World’s product testing gurus recently tested several products that could help users interested in deploying open source technology in a number of ways. Our recent test of the Linux-based ...

Every Linux enthusiast or administrator, at some point, encounters the need to configure or troubleshoot network settings. While the process can appear intimidating, with the right knowledge and tools ...

In today's open source roundup: Six GUI firewall management applications in Linux. Plus: Linux Lite 2.2 released, and the story of how Kali Linux was created The command line is a powerful tool for ...

Data compression works so well that popular backup and networking tools have some built in. Linux offers more than a dozen compression tools to choose from, and most of them let you pick a compression ...

You may have seen an EMA research report issued in late February entitled “Get the Truth on Linux Management” (if not, you can download it for free) in which we ...

One of the big advantages of using Linux is that its security tends to be so much better than that of the competing alternatives. That’s due in large part to the way Linux assigns permissions, but ...

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 ...