Commands that provide help are essential. Here's a look at some of the help you can get from the Linux system itself. Even after you’ve used Linux for a while, you will still find yourself needing ...

You have thousands of commands at your disposal as a Unix administrator. However, even the most advanced administrators only use a finite number of tools and utilities on an ongoing basis. The ...

This chapter excerpt on Linux Administration (download PDF) is taken from the book The Accidental Administrator: Linux Server Step-by-Step Configuration Guide. Among the topics covered in this book ...

In the 1980s, there was a microcomputer boy who longed for an operating system called UNIX.More than 40 years have passed ...

Fink is one of several projects that brings easy management of open source Unix programs to OS X. Thanks to the “Darwin” underpinnings in OS X, Mac users can compile and run many useful open source ...