In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

Note that the command output displays user, system and idle time along with other stats like disk read and write activity, interrupts and context switches. The following command displays the top ...

My digital camera probably works well with GPhoto, but I've never tried it. I find it more convenient to use a Flash card reader. The SanDisk ImageMate Dual Readers are a line of external USB Flash ...

Windows only: Dual-booters have long been able to get at their Windows-formatted files, but Windows certainly doesn't make it easy to go the other way 'round. Enter Linux Reader, a free Windows ...

Logs, databases, and caches grow under /var. Learn why Linux admins monitor the /var directory to prevent disk issues and service failures.