Linux

If you spend a lot of time around a linux console, you’re familiar with the vast color emptiness that is BASH. The default color scheme and text layouts for BASH can be pretty lame. Luckily the terminal is pretty customizable and you can do some modding to improve the experience.

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision resources to a VM. When it comes to shrinking or expanding a virtual hard disk things get a little complicated.

Forget abortion and gun control; if you want to get programmers arguing at your next party, bring up tabs versus spaces when indenting code

If you've ever wondered how Unix systems identify files, you might be surprised to learn that file names really aren't an important factor. Unix systems reach into files looking for special codes called "magic numbers" to figure out what your files really are. They also examine other file content to pick out additional details.

Move over screen, a better terminal multiplexer is here.

NASA engineers not only drive the the Curiosity rover, they also write the code used to tell it where to go and what to do each day

Ubuntu for phones raises a lot of questions about what, exactly, the Linux distribution is trying to do. Let's answer some of them.

Using an exclamation point to reference events is frequently more cumbersome to use than fc, but has some useful features.

A new book argues that a computer program is more than a collection of machine commands and has important stories to tell

A review of this week’s goofiest tech stories, involving lederhosen, the International Atomic Energy Agency and (finally!) a cloud-based medical device for your dog

If there's one thing to be learned here, it's that the Fedora folks don't go for all that Ubuntu alliteration.

Today's computer users don't care much about interface bling... just get them to their apps safely. This is something Linux can do every well.