Out of the box, Linux is a highly secure operating system, but does that mean you can get by without a bit of help? Let's find out.

Setting up aliases on Linux systems can save you a lot of time and trouble on the command line. This post shows how to set up and manage aliases and provides a number of examples on how and why to ...

$ host router router has address 192.168.0.1 These commands were run on my home network, and they only show a small part of the information that the host command can retrieve.

IPFire is a Linux-based stateful firewall distro that’s built on top of Netfilter. It began as a fork of the IPCop project, ...

I currently run pfSense for the past couple years or so and was planning to migrate to a Linux distro for my home network (I've seen the Ars guide to build a Linux router: https://arstechnica.com ...

To do this, I set up Microsoft's DOS Network client on her computer and then started Samba on my Linux system. New problem: when I told my wife that I had used MS software to get her system connected, ...

Whether it's for the home or home office, a Linux server can provide an array of digital services for the family or a budding business.

This software also enforces AD password policies across Linux systems. Likewise isn’t the only company that tries to get Linux and Windows servers to coordinate with each other.

Tor has announced Oniux, a new command-line tool for routing any Linux application securely through the Tor network for anonymized network connections.