Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. After you've done this, check out my guide to updating your ...

The tree command is perfect for viewing your entire directory structure at a glance. It shows folders and files in a clear, ...

If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...

One of the great Linux desktop myths is that it's hard to use. People still think that you need to be some kind of mad computer wizard to use Linux. What nonsense. Desktop Linux has been as easy to ...

Sure the Motorola XOOM is the first tablet to ship with Android 3.0 Honeycomb — Google’s first attempt at a truly tablet-friendly operating system. But if Honeycomb isn’t enough OS for you, how about ...

Installing Ubuntu on a Windows computer is no different from dual-booting any operating system. In fact, it's easier than most, because Ubuntu is designed to be one of the most straight forward of ...

Wine is not an emulator like Qemu or a virtualization environment like Virtualbox, but a runtime environment that aims to emulate the Windows API on Linux. This API mapping is not complete, but it is ...

There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to StatCounter, only 71 percent of them run Windows. Among the rest, about 4 percent run Linux. That's tens of millions of people with Ubuntu, ...

Configuring login messages on Linux servers is more complex and dynamic. Let's look at the message of the day setup on an Ubuntu server to decipher how the process works. It seems only decades ago ...

Soon, Ubuntu 18.04, aka the Bionic Beaver, and Canonical's next long-term support version of its popular Linux distribution will be out. That means it's about time to consider how to upgrade to the ...

How to benchmark your Ubuntu Linux servers with the Phoronix Test Suite Your email has been sent If you're curious as to how your servers are performing, you should ...