The terminal isn’t a black box. These beginner commands help you navigate, find files, manage apps, and undo mistakes with ...

Linux, to me, is like all the girls in college when you’re still dating a girl from back home. Free, good looking, easy to use, and with a lot of cool, unique features and abilities. After a while, ...

The start-up that was going to make Linux dead-easy is dead. Eazel closed its doors this week after 16 months of developing a Linux interface for the consumer market. The company had spent the last ...

You don't need to reinstall your whole operating system just because you forgot your Linux login. It's actually pretty easy ...

You can revive your aging PC with a lightweight Linux distro such as Puppy Linux and Linux Lite. But which one should you choose?

In the January 2011 Computer Power User magazine there is a review of a new Ubuntu derivative designed for novice computer users to run Linux on their desktop, Pinguy OS. The developer of this new ...

For the first time in her life, 62-year old mother Chit Bernardo used her son’s laptop computer to go online and browse Facebook. She even went on to play solitaire and sudoku to pass time. What made ...

Linux Mint isn’t chasing touch interfaces, rethinking the way we use the desktop, or enacting any other grand experiment. It’s just a polished, modern Linux desktop system—and that’s why people love ...

In my ongoing quest to take over the world with Linux as my OS of choice, I've noticed that simply handing someone an install CD doesn't really do the trick. I've also noticed that formatting their ...

Even in a land that had grown accustomed to overnight wealth, the numbers were mind boggling. On one day in December of 1999, VA Linux, a company with just 200 employees, shattered the record for a ...