Linux, an immensely powerful and versatile operating system, sits at the heart of countless applications, from tiny embedded devices to massive servers. A pivotal aspect for any user, whether a ...

Windows installer is slow, reboot-heavy, ad-filled and forces online accounts and privacy toggles. Linux installs fast, ...

Process accounting is a method of recording and summarizing commands and processes. It’s an option on Linux systems, but you have to enable it and use a particular command to view the details ...

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Creating a lock file (say, in /tmp) is a common approach. On launch, check to see if the file already exists. If it does, exit. Otherwise, create it and continue. This can lead to problems if your app ...

Gaming on Linux has come a long way; PikaOS is one such distro that offers a user-friendly, out-of-the-box experience.

Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the underlying Linux-ness of these machines. In theory this is a good thing; we wouldn’t necessarily ...

We have a single filestore, visible from both Windows and Linux, and our product has both Windows and Linux components. Our QA guy is trying to automate the nightly builds. What he needs to do is have ...

There are several commands for checking up on memory usage in a Linux system. Focusing on which processes and users are consuming the most memory can benefit from a few carefully crafted tools and ...