The sudo command lets users elevate their privileges to run admin tasks. But it's far from perfect. These tips can help.

Linux Administration: A Beginner’s Guide by Wale Soyinka is a hands-on manual for IT staffers who must dance with Windows and Linux. It is a practical guide for network admins who deploy and maintain ...

Centralized management is one of the great joys of Linux, according to Jay Abel, vice president of Viata, a Honolulu-based ASP that's invested heavily in the open source operating system. "The tools ...

Essentials of System Administration (code: LFS201) is designed for people who are interested in developing their Linux admin skills.

Jack Wallen demonstrates how to install the latest version of the powerful Webmin web-based admin tool for Linux.

If you’re a new Linux admin, you probably at least know about sudo. Sudo stands for “super user do” and allows standard users to take admin-level actions, such as installing software. Even ...

Trout Creek, Montana hardly seems like a place one would expect to find a center of Linux learning. Please do not tell Mike Weber of SpiderTools that. He spent the last six years developing one of the ...

Sun to reveal administration, Linux plans The computing giant on Thursday will unveil a plan code-named N1 that will make it easier for customers to administer their profusion of computing products.

I have been a Linux advocate for about ten years now. The first version of Linux I installed was Red Hat 3.0.3. I had used a UNIX-based system in graduate school, and I was somewhat familiar with how ...

Howdy all, so I have fairly extensive experience with VMware and Windows Server, but quite limited experience with linux and feel like I should try and remedy that. Unfortunately I'm in that kind of ...