Operating Systems

Linux dominates supercomputing

The Linux operating system runs all 500 of the world’s fastest supercomputers, which help to advance artificial intelligence, machine learning and even COVID-19 research.

Digging for DNS answers on Linux

Dig is a powerful and flexible tool for interrogating domain name system (DNS) servers. In this post, we’ll take a deep dive into how it works and what it can tell you.

Summarizing your command usage on Linux

With a modest string of commands, you can get a quick look at what commands you're using on your Linux system and how often.

Some easy choices for encrypting files on Linux

How to decipher Linux release info

Displaying and interpreting information about Linux releases is a bit more complicated than it might seem.

A trick to enable painless file extraction on Linux

Extracting files from archives isn't difficult, but it can be tedious, especially with all the archive naming conventions in use today. But you can make the task a little easier by putting everything you know about the process into a clever little sc