While the most common PC benchmarks are specific to Windows, there are a number of benchmarks available to Linux systems, and most of them are free.

If you're not sure you're ready to install Linux, there are still several ways you can test it out without affecting your Windows computer.

If you need to share or transfer files between Linux machines, you have plenty of options. Here are some you might not have considered.

If you're curious as to how your servers are performing, you should give the Phoronix Test Suite a run. Jack Wallen shows you how to install and use this suite of tests.

If you need to check the contents of a compressed text file on Linux, you don’t have to uncompress it first. Instead, you can use a zcat or bzcat command to extract and display file contents ...

Jack Wallen shows you what might be the easiest method of transferring files between Linux desktops on the market.