The bash shell's history command in Linux makes it easy to review and reuse commands, but there's a lot you do to control how much it remembers and how much forgets. The bash history command on Linux ...

The .history file in Linux – whether ~/.bash_history, ~/.zsh_history or ~/.history – provides ways to track and reuse commands that you have recently run. This post suggests how you might make good ...

Way back in 2008, I had my arm inked with the Linux mascot. Of course, when I look back at the photos of that event, my first thought is, “I’m so young!” That was 13 years ago and (fortunately) Father ...

Having a history of shell commands is a great idea. It is, of course, enormously handy when you have to run something repetitively or you make a simple mistake that needs correction. However, as I’ve ...

While the Foundation has issued several Linux kernel history reports before, this one is unique. That's because, thanks to the work of Dr. Daniel German and his cregit tool, it's now possible to track ...

Happy Birthday, Linux. At 30 years old, you have made quite a reputation for yourself. Having spirited the rise of open-source software, you have turned the world of proprietary computing upside down.

The evolution of computing has been marked by a series of paradigm shifts, from mainframes to personal computers, and now to the cloud. Currently, the common path to deploying web infrastructure is to ...

Linux users have recently been celebrating the arrival of an official Photoshop for Linux— yup, once Adobe’s Photoshop-streaming-via-Creative-Cloud is out of beta for Chrome, Linux users will be able ...