DNS is a critical component for PC networking, searching, and security. If you want to learn how to set it up on Ubuntu-based ...

When you need a Linux system to have a static IP address rather than one that is set dynamically by DHCP, all that's required is some configuration changes and a restart. Follow these steps to make ...

Does your family need an extra PC? Educator, Mac expert, and Linux enthusiast Phil Shapiro explains in this YouTube video how, for less than the price of some operating systems, you can configure a ...

The ifconfig command line utility is used to get information about a Linux network interface configuration and to make changes to it. Many Windows administrators are familiar with the ipconfig command ...

VMware has supported Linux desktops running on its VDI platform since VMware Horizon 6.2. In fact, last year I wrote an article on how to use CentOS as a Linux desktop on VMware Horizon 6.2, and ...

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It's not hard to look up configuration details on your Linux system. The hard thing is wrapping your brain around how many are available and what they can tell you. Linux systems can report on a lot ...

It's no surprise that Linux makes a great router and firewall. A lesser-known fact is that you also can use Linux as an Ethernet bridge and VLAN switch, and that these features are similarly powerful, ...

Microsoft recently released a new feature for the Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 (WSL2) that allows you to configure global options that will be used by all WSL2 Linux distributions installed ...