Fedora’s defaults make it safer and easier to maintain. Here’s why more distros should adopt them.

Many hands make light work.

You probably have documents on your desktop operating system that contain sensitive information. So what do you do to protect that data? You could hide the document in an obscure folder -- but that's ...

Exploiting a catalog of 20,000 misconfigurations to infect Linux servers, the cryptomining malware has gone largely undetected through use of process masquerading but appears capable of more. Security ...

RAR files are a popular format on Windows, allowing you to efficiently manage large files and share them across platforms. On Linux, though the TAR format is more commonly used, handling RAR files is ...

The way the Linux file system is laid out makes perfect sense. I've been using Linux for so many years that I can't imagine another file system making more sense. When I consider how the Windows file ...

Profiling is a crucial step in optimizing the performance of C programs, allowing developers to identify and improve the most time-consuming parts of their code. GNU Gprof is a powerful profiling tool ...

Running Linux software on a Mac can be a powerful way to leverage the strengths of both operating systems. Here are six methods to achieve this, each with detailed steps and considerations. MacPorts ...

File sharing is a fundamental aspect of networked computing, and in Linux environments, two of the most prevalent protocols facilitating this are NFS (Network File System) and Samba. This article aims ...

In this TechRepublic How to Make Tech Work video, Jack Wallen shows you the step-by-step process of compiling a C++ program on Linux, using Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 for his demo. I am going to show you ...

In the world of Unix-based operating systems like Linux, file packaging and compression utilities play a pivotal role. One such utility is the zip command, an effective tool for compressing files to ...