I am having a hard time understanding exactly how salting passwords works in linux, and was hoping someone can help me understand it better. I understand the general concept of cryptographic salt, but ...

This goes back to my ability to jump on ideas immediately. I don't want to break up my flow by shutting down Windows, going ...

I'm interested in getting a better knowledge of how all the various kernels, modules, xservers, window managers, etc actually work and tie together to make Linux work. I am NOT referring to a how to ...