Wi-Fi frees our computers from network cables and enables us to work at coffee shops, airports, and from our own couch. While most of us are familiar with how to use Wi-Fi, having some additional t...

Want to assess your SQL skills? These concise challenges let you stretch your brain and test your talents. Get hands-on practice querying and retrieving data, adding new tables to existing database...

Windows Terminal offers a flexible environment for running your favorite shells. You can run PowerShell, Bash, and more in separate tabs, and customize your profiles to match your style. This short...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is an optional feature of Windows 10 that provides a Linux environment for developers inside of Windows. Rather than managing your own virtual machine or relying o...

VirtualBox—a free software virtualization package from Oracle that allows you to host multiple operating systems on a single physical machine—is an excellent solution for creating your own practice...

Network and system administrators need somewhere to practice their IT administration skills. By building a home lab, IT professionals can experiment and refine their abilities in a dynamic environm...

Tools aren’t the flashiest, most attention-grabbing type of software. But a great tool—one that successfully automates or enhances a repetitive process—gives valuable time back to your colleagues, ...

Software often comes bundled in packages, which makes managing the programs installed on your system a bit easier. When you need to add software to your Linux system, there are several paths you ca...

Master the basics of working with Debian, the popular Linux distribution. Join instructor Scott Simpson as he shows system administrators what makes this distribution unique and where it sits in th...

Based on FreeBSD and OpenZFS, FreeNAS provides a flexible and open-source solution for providing storage services on a network. In this course, Scott Simpson helps system administrators get up and ...