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Looking for a new desktop? Ubuntu’s spiffy progeny includes several worth checking out, including Linux Mint, Freespire, and gOS.

Mitigate attacks with this simple to setup and deploy desktop firewall.

Using the root account for day-to-day work is a bad idea. It’s better to use sudo to act like root when you need to do a little system administration. Ken Hess shows you how.

Connecting to your home computer from work, a friend’s house, or while on vacation in another country is very simple — if you know how to use a small handful of tools. Ken Hess shows you how to connect securely and tunnel traffic using SSH.

If you need a staging environment for a new network service, don’t run out and buy new hardware — even a new virtual machine may be unnecessary. Instead, create another instance of the service with just a few simple steps.

A number of old-fashioned tools can prevent very
modern problems