One of Linux's strengths as an operating system is its ability to be configured and tweaked to suit your tastes. Using the command line allows you to issue powerful commands that are unavailable to ...

I got a tar.gz file and untarred it. It gave me two bat files: build_bt.bat , run_bt.bat<BR><BR>What the heck? I thought we were supposet to do ./configure, make, make install. What do I do with .bat ...

If you haven’t been paying close attention, you might not have noticed a small but significant change in how Linux systems work with respect to runtime data. A re-arrangement of how and where it’s ...

The eval command allows you to run the contents of variables as commands and can be very useful, especially in scripts. There are probably a lot of Linux users who have never encountered the eval ...