The Linux hype this time was precipitated by Valve's Linux-based operating system, SteamOS, opening up for use on other ...

After using Linux for nearly 30 years, I've created a list of the best Linux distributions I've used since the beginning. Here they are.

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

Some time ago, Linus Torvalds made a throwaway comment that sent ripples through the Linux world. Was it perhaps time to abandon support for the now-ancient Intel 486? Developers had already abandoned ...

Ferdium is a free web app manager for Linux desktops. In case you don't know, web apps are essentially websites you're ...

The "time" command in Linux is a process timer and does not display the system time. Though counterintuitive, the Linux "date" command displays the time, as well as the date, on a Linux box. You can ...

Why it’s great: Ubuntu is one of the most recognizable Linux distributions, and for good reason. It offers a polished ...

Linux marks time in the number of seconds since the start of the Linux epoch. Here's a script for using that information to figure how many days separate two dates expressed in traditional calendar ...

Sometimes, a somewhat obscure Linux distribution might be just what you're looking for. Is either CachyOS or Nobara the one?

The new year rolled in at 1262304000, Unix time that is. It’s a little hard to imagine that Unix is now more than 1.2 billion seconds old. Seems only yesterday that I was trying my first pipes and ...