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Sandra Henry-Stocker has been administering Unix systems for more than 30 years. She describes herself as "USL" (Unix as a second language) but remembers enough English to write books and buy groceries. She lives in the mountains in Virginia where, when not working with or writing about Unix, she's chasing the bears away from her bird feeders.
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Linux commands for measuring disk activity
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Open-source containers move toward high-performance computing
Thanks to the efforts of Sylabs, open-source containers are starting to focus on high-performance computing—providing new ways of working for enterprise IT organizations.
Working with tarballs on Linux
Learn how to create tarballs on Linux systems to back up and manage group files on Linux system.
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