Every month or two, someone asks me how they should go about learning Unix. The short answer is always “use it” or maybe as much as “use it — a lot.” But the detailed answer includes a lot of steps ...

Intro to Linux is normally a $2,400 course from the Linux Foundation, but it's being offered for free now on edX. If you've ever wanted to learn how to use the open source operating system, there's no ...

What's great for programming pros is good enough for beginners.

Getting Started with Linux: Pluralsight Linux Fundamentals: Pluralsight CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-004) Exam Prep: Pluralsight Linux is one of the world’s most popular open source operating systems, so if ...

Microsoft, with the release of the Windows 10 anniversary update, gave their users a gift: the ability to run Linux (Ubuntu) on it. In a previous article, I explained how to enable Linux on Windows ...

Linux runs many of the devices we use every day and is an extremely valuable tool for beginner and advanced programmers alike to learn. Many people spend entire lucrative careers working exclusively ...

As more and more companies turn to Linux for mission-critical operations, making sure IT staff have the necessary skills is becoming more important than ever. That’s a significant challenge, because ...

It's not as scary as you think ...

Linux is the leading operating system on mainframes servers and other big systems, but it also runs on all types of embedded systems, which makes it the perfect operating system to rule the Internet ...

It’s a testament to how far Linux has come that users today don’t typically have to use the command line if they don’t want to. Such is the quality of the graphical user interfaces in many modern ...