If you read my article “Get to know Linux: File permissions” you know that it’s possible, out of the box, to control who can access a file and what they can do with it. This helps to make Linux a fairly secure system. But did you know you can take even further control of that [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Security

You have your Ubuntu Server up and running (with the help of “Installing Ubuntu Server 9.04“) but you’re afraid you’ll run out of room on your drive. To solve this problem you have installed a new hard drive, but because this is a GUI-less server you do not have access to the user-friendly GUI tools [...]

Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Server, Software, Tutorials Advanced

If you’ve installed VirtualBox as instructed in my tutorial “Install and configure VirtualBox for virtual OSes” you most likely have discovered that the open source edition of VirtualBox does not have USB support. In fact there are a few other features the open source edition does not offer that the closed-source edition does (such as [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Advanced

So you have that Samba server up and running and you can connect to it from Windows and Mac with ease. But when you turn to another Linux box that doesn’t have Konqueror, Nautilus, or Dolphin you can’t figure out the riddle of connecting. Or maybe you want to have this share mounted at boot [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic

The fstab file has a very key mission for your Linux system. What it does is map devices to directories so those devices can be used. If you plug in an external drive or a device like such as an iPod you are going to have to take advantage of fstab. In this article you [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Advanced