In Linux, there’s no place like ~/, or $HOME or just home. That’s right, three ways to say the same thing. For new Linux users, this can get confusing. First off ...

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How to ensure all new user home directories are created without world-readable permissions in Linux Your email has been sent Out of the box, standard users can view other user's home directory. Here's ...

I keep my life in a CVS repository. For the past two years, every file I've created and worked on, every e-mail I've sent or received and every config file I've tweaked have all been checked into my ...

Logs, databases, and caches grow under /var. Learn why Linux admins monitor the /var directory to prevent disk issues and ...

UPDATE: These notes below have also worked with Lubuntu on an old Samsung NC10 netbook. Lubuntu would not let me make files in the ‘Home’ directory, so I put the Microchip directory in ‘Samsung’, ...

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