If you spend a lot of time at the command line, you probably have either a very basic prompt or a complex, information-dense prompt. If you are in the former camp, or you just want to improve your ...

The Linux terminal isn't nearly as hard as you think. Understanding the fundamentals will help get you started. These concepts apply to all Linux distributions. When many think about Linux, they think ...

Getting started on the Linux command line might seem overwhelming at first, but the many commands you need to use will fall into place more quickly than you might imagine. If you are just getting ...

It’s a testament to how far Linux has come that users today don’t typically have to use the command line if they don’t want to. Such is the quality of the graphical user interfaces in many modern ...

Linux is a multi-user operating system. What does that mean? Like all good operating systems, you can have multiple user accounts on one machine. You can also have more than one user logged in at once ...

One of the things that makes Linux and Unix-like systems both powerful and frustrating is that there are many ways to accomplish any particular goal. Take something simple like running a bunch of ...

File Transfer Protocol client applications let you to transfer files back and forth between your computer and another computer running an FTP server application. The ...