The directory is at the heart of your company. Your corporate directory contains phone numbers, user accounts, vital settings and much, much more. It often acts as the central hub for smaller ...

One of the most crucial pieces of any UNIX-like operating system is the init dæmon process. In Linux, this process is started by the kernel, and it's the first userspace process to spawn and the last ...

On Twitter a few days ago, a tweet from @jwildeboer caught my attention: OATH, OAUTH, OpenID - this is all getting too complicated. We need simple identification for the future. The reason it caught ...

Controlling services in Linux doesn't have to be a confounding experience. Here's how the process works and why it is often seen as an overly complicated task. For advanced Linux users, starting, ...

Learn how to pinpoint and shut down some unnecessary services that could compromise the security of a Linux system. Although the default installation scripts that come with various Linux distribution ...

Novell, also known as Big Red, and Big Blue have been in negotiations for the past several months discussing an expanded commitment by Novell to Linux, said sources close to the Provo, Utah, company.

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Amazon's new directory services offering guns for Azure Active Directory users, but it works best with other Amazon IT replacements Remember when Salesforce went up against Microsoft to offer an ...