Veteran Unix admin trait No. 3: We wield regular expressions like weapons To the uninitiated, even the most innocuous regex looks like the result of nauseous keyboard.

Excerpt from Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook: Performance analysis and tuning are often likened to system administration witchcraft. They’re not really witchcraft, but they do ...

Ansible is different. Although a Web UI is available, Ansible plays very well on the Unix admin’s home turf: general scripting and the command line.

Perfect for entry-level Linux system administrators, as well as system administrators familiar with Windows, Mac, NetWare, or other UNIX systems, it's a must-read guide to manage Linux servers.

I've got an extremely high interest in networking and unix in general. im 17 years old and im debating on whether or not i should goto a fancy school like RIT or WPI or just goto UConn and get my ...

From the looks of it, ZFS administration is significantly simpler than administration of other complex file systems such as Solaris Disk Suite and Veritas Volume Manager. You can get a lot more ...

I have been a Linux advocate for about ten years now. The first version of Linux I installed was Red Hat 3.0.3. I had used a UNIX-based system in graduate school, and I was somewhat familiar with how ...

Linux system administration has a place of its own in the hierarchy of information technology specializations. Some people excel in special areas of free software technology but haven't needed to ...

Good projects for getting more experienced with Linux administration? hawkbox Jan 17, 2014 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...

We're not talking about the kind of funny that starts off with three Unix administrators walking into a bar. Were that the case I might be able to explain why Brendan Gregg's collection of ...