Commands that provide help are essential. Here's a look at some of the help you can get from the Linux system itself. Even after you’ve used Linux for a while, you will still find yourself needing ...

If you need help with Linux, try these outlets. You might not get an answer immediately, but one will come. These are all free to join and enjoy (just watch out for trolls). Linux is about community, ...

The Linux Foundation is offering up the best technical talent to help you learn Linux and get a better job. Check out the free Webinar series on the horizon. Dave Rosenberg Co-founder, MuleSource Dave ...

When I first started using Linux back in the late '90s, there wasn't much in the way of help. I remember using ICQ chat in a room geared toward Linux and meeting someone willing to give me a hand. Had ...

Imagine that you want to output multiple lines of text in Bash, or any shell script. Maybe it’s for a help string for a particularly convoluted shell script you’re writing. You could have a separate ...

The 6 Linux distros I expect to rule 2026 - as someone who's tested hundreds (and for decades) ...

Okay so I have Linux Mint 15 installed on an external hard drive that I boot from. It was working fine till one day I couldn't boot up from the external drive and when I booted up to Ubuntu on a USB ...

Do you have a laptop that’s either “pretty old” or “weird in some other way”? Did it ship without Windows from the factory, or did you flash its firmware with coreboot? You could help the Linux kernel ...