Various Linux user groups took booths at the Linux Expo this week, staking out their territory in the manner of Monty Python's Judean People's Front and the People's Front of Judea. Only in the Linux ...

Linux is a multi-user environment, which means more than one user can use the system at one time. Granted, that mostly takes the form of console access (via SSH), because you can't easily have two ...

The original idea of user groups was to help professional and/or people of common interest in some area or product e.g. Linux, MySQL, PHP etc. This was because the people held the knowledge and it was ...

On Linux, the umask defines how new files and directories inherit access rights. Linux uses your current umask value to ...

In Linux, groups play a central role in managing user permissions and access control. Whether you're an experienced system administrator or a curious new user, understanding how to list and analyze ...

Khang Tran, Brian Kiralyfalvi and Minh Tran try out Linux games Saturday at Exploration Place. The computers were run by WuLUG, the Wichita State University Linux Users Group, which is trying to spur ...

As a system administrator, one of your jobs is managing users and groups. Without the proper care and feeding of this particular task, your company would have a hard time functioning properly and ...

For the past several years, Microsoft has been watching, and reacting, as open-source advocates around the world have encouraged the adoption of the Linux operating system. Now the uprising has ...

Red Hat, Canonical and the Linux Foundation have laid out a set of recommendations for hardware vendors in hopes of preserving the ability to install Linux on Windows 8 machines. Windows 8 machines ...