How to preconfigure a Linux box that can be used to surf the Web, do e-mail, print, and scan.

Blindly executing commands can also reinforce bad habits, preventing users from learning the reasoning behind each step.

Newcomers to Linux often worry about system stability. Cinnamon has the advantage of being backed by the Linux Mint team, ...

In January 2000, Check Point Software introduced a Linux port of its flagship product, FireWall-1. FireWall-1 is one of the best-selling products in the commercial firewall market. It now runs on ...

Dell said last week it was considering certifying Linux on some of its desktops and notebooks. And then somebody translated that to mean Dell would offer factory-loaded Linux on specific SKUs of PCs.

Red Hat and embedded real-time operating system (RTOS) vendor Wind River Systems made waves in the embedded Linux market last week, announcing a deal whereby Wind River would port Red Hat for ...

Going cloud-native with Azure Linux 3.0 Azure Linux 3.0 arrived in the spring of 2025 and was at once available in AKS, as part of AKS version 1.32 and higher.

In previous articles, I have discussed XML’s value as a data format for Linux users. I have also discussed a wide variety of Linux tools for processing XML. But the data that XML usually represents ...