Keeping Software Up to Date
In this section, we'll cover a very important issue, one that's often overlooked in security discussions: keeping software up to date. Malicious hackers are constantly finding exploits in software, so one way to stay ahead of them is to keep your software current.
Installing Programs
Installing a program on a Unix-like system is a bit more complicated than simply clicking (or executing) a setup or install program.
Packages and Ports vs. Building by Hand
Modern Linux (and Berkeley Software Distributions [BSD]) distributions typically offer third-party software in the form of either packages, which are precompiled binaries, or ports, which are recipes for downloading, patching, compiling, and installing the program from ...
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