In the last installment of this series I showed how to quickly (and temporarily) mount a shared folder on a Windows Vista machine from a Linux PC in read-only mode. But what if you want the Vista ...

Did you know that Linux makes it easy to create and use hidden files, which means you can easily tuck important documents away from plain sight? Here's how to manage those files.

One reason a lot of people get started with the Linux terminal is to use ImageMagick and FFmpeg. These are popular tools for converting image and video files. One reason you might want to do this is ...

What is an alias? An alias is a kind of text-base short-cut when using terminal (Linux/Unix/Mac's command-line interface). For example, in terminal we could access a folder by a commands such as: cd ...

Did you know that you can manage all of your files and folders right from the command line, using applications like Gnome Terminal? Here are some of the basic commands that we use to manage ...

I started by typing in nano, which was one of the first Linux terminal commands I learned almost two decades ago. Nano is a terminal-based text editor that can create, read, and edit text files on ...

Jack Wallen offers up a Linux desktop tip that can help make just about any Linux workflow considerably easier.