Before you take the plunge and devote time and hardware to experimenting with Linux, let's cover the basics of this free OS. Though its design varies substantially from what you are used to in the ...

Our Linux cheat sheet includes some of the most commonly used commands along with brief explanations and examples of what the commands can do.

Linux Mint 13 will feature an entirely new user interface, called Cinnamon. Earlier this week, the Linux Mint developers released a version of the shell.

Linux user admin is fundamental. Yet, even so, often users can run for years without really knowing what tools are doing when they make accounts. Here's the real skinny on it.

by Adam Harvey When using Linux, you will see words such as 'shell', 'grep', and 'process'. Engineer Carl Riis has learned the meaning and mechanism of such basic Linux terms from various websites ...

Linux has an architectureindependent concept of high memory—physical memory that requiresspecial, architecture-dependent handling, and for a 32-bit Linux/MIPSsystem physical memory above 512 MB is ...

Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution ...