Sudo is one of the most powerful and dangerous tools in the Unix or Linux system administrator's toolbox. With it, an ordinary user can run commands just as if he or she were the superuser or any ...

Installing and updating the OS, managing user accounts, and looking after security are just a few of the primary responsibilities of a Linux systems administrator. While I don’t imagine that I’ll ever ...

A few articles ago, I started a Sysadmin 101 series to pass down some fundamental knowledge about systems administration that the current generation of junior sysadmins, DevOps engineers or "full ...

I'm not exactly new to linux, but I've had a very long run where I haven't had much contact with it. My first was setting up smb to run a fileserver. I also learned either ipchains or iptables (can't ...

As Dice, the leading technology job site, and The Linux Foundation recently found in their latest Open Source Jobs Survey and Report, there's an abundance of open-source jobs. Here's how you land one ...

All Linux sysadmin books tell about the awesomeness of LVM. But is actually anyone using it? On a desktop it adds needless complexity - you only need boot, (efi ...

The Linux Foundation today posted their first ever Linux Jobs Report, created in conjunction with tech job site Dice.com. The report examines the current demand for Linux talent, and identifies a few ...