COMMENTARY--If you're a columnist for ZDNet and you put the words Linux and mainframe in the same sentence (which I've done), all sorts of people will come out of the woodwork to give you their ...

The Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide has a great list of essential Linux keyboard shortcuts. These are the Linux command quickies that are most conducive to quick Linux computing; anything from ...

A few simple keyboard shortcuts can make your work in Linux far more efficient. Jack Wallen runs through 10 of his favorites, for both desktop environments and window managers. Many Linux users are ...

If you come from the world of Windows, you undoubtedly understand the concept of a shortcut. In the Linux world, shortcuts do exist, but they're generally referred to as symbolic links, or symlinks.

Nearly everything can be edited somehow in a Linux system, and that includes what each key press does. The gHacks blog shows us how to create global application shortcuts that fire up Firefox, a text ...

It's easy to add a few lines of text to files on Linux, but there are tools that make it easier to add many lines. There are a number of ways to add text to files on Linux systems without having to ...

If you're a columnist for ZDNet and you put the words Linux and mainframe in the same sentence (which I've done), all sorts of people will come out of the woodwork to give you their opinion. I've been ...