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ZDNET's key takeaways There are certain Linux commands I consider essential.They range from networking, troubleshooting, and ...

On Linux, the umask defines how new files and directories inherit access rights. Linux uses your current umask value to ...

The Swedish company Axis Communications AB introduced a new concept several years ago, when it launched its line of camera servers. Perhaps recognizing that its line of network cameras (one of which ...

We have a UPS that will send a shutdown script to a machine if there isn't enough battery life left in the UPS to support the machines. The problem is that this will only shutdown one ...

Our birthday tribute to Linux might have been a little lacking. So we turned the mic over to a custom-written Linux script running on Ubuntu to let the OS to talk a ...