To get started as a Linux (or Unix) user, you need to have a good perspective on how Linux works and a handle on some of the most basic commands. This first post in a “getting started” series examines ...

It’s a beautiful, sunny day and you’re cruising down the highway with the top down, taking directions from your phone’s ...

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...

Sure, using the Linux command line is optional. But these are commands I depend on every day. See what you think.

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows.

Homebrew is the best source for open source software yet, and makes installation easy. Here's what Homebrew is, how it works, ...

Matisse.net hosts a list of Unix commands unique to Mac OS X/Darwin. You'll find a lot of good stuff in that list that you might not have been aware of. These are ...

Use these Linux commands to quickly search and find anything from the Linux terminal, without digging through folders in a GUI file manager.