Linux Freely Available

Many new Linux users are confused by the terms bantered around – Free, Freely Available, Commercial Distributions and Shareware. The confusion comes primarily from the description and terms “Freely Available “and “Free’ and their distinctions. Linux is open source software which means any software developer can add on to change the product’s basic source code. This is diametrically opposed... [Click here to Read more]

File Permissions in Linux

Linux operating system uses a permissions schema to define user rights for each file. These permissions establish: -who can read the file. If the file is a directory, read means list the contents of the directory. -who can write/modify the file. If the file is a directory, this permission defines if you can make any changes to the directory contents, for example create or delete files. -who can execute... [Click here to Read more]

All About Linux

What is Linux? Linux is an operating system created by Linus Torvalds during his days as a student at the University of Helsinki.  Linux was created and meant to be used as an option or substitute to the other operating systems being used by computer users, like MS-DOS, Windows, Mac OSX, etc.  Linux is not a program or a set of programs like a word processor of an office suite. A Brief History While... [Click here to Read more]