Linux provides a number of ways to control who has access to your files and what kind of access they have. Keeping your files private from anyone but those with superuser (root) access is easy on ...

Compressing files is a quick and easy way to archive and group files. There are many occasions where archives are useful, a driver download, file backup or Linux distro download. In this how-to we’ll ...

So I want to compress some ripped DVDs in Linux. Alright, I can just hear (read?) the moral comments right now. Just FYI, these are not videos to be shared on a campus network or Kazaa/Gnutella. I ...

When was the last time you had to create a zip file? Personally, I have to interact with those types of files all the time (either receiving or sending them to various clients, family, and friends).