When an application doesn't respond, it's usually accompanied by it gobbling up system resources. Should that application consume all your remaining CPU or RAM, your system could become unresponsive, ...

On Linux, the umask defines how new files and directories inherit access rights. Linux uses your current umask value to ...

If you need to scan your network, nmap is the tool to use. Nmap can be installed on any Linux distribution. Nmap has several very handy commands. The nmap command (short for network mapper) is a ...

I began opening up to the Terminal when I gave Arch Linux a try. I wanted to download apps for it, but I was a bit stuck, as some apps didn't have a native Arch Linux version on their download page.

Unix permissions control who can read, write or execute a file. You can limit it to the owner of the file, the group that owns it or the entire world. For security reasons, files and directories ...

Done With Windows? This Linux Distro Makes It Easy to Switch If you can't upgrade to Windows 11, or don't like what you've seen of it, install Linux Mint instead. Here's how to make the switch to an ...