Linux

Linux is the best-known and most-used open source operating system. As an operating system, Linux is software that sits underneath all of the other software on a computer, receiving requests from those programs and relaying these requests to the computer’s hardware. Learn more on our what is Linux resource page.

Linux doesn't get in my way

My earliest computer experiences were in computer science at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1974-75. At that time, UBC was one of a small group of institutions…

Everything is a file

Here's a trick question for you: Which of the following are files? Directories Shell scripts LibreOffice documents Serial ports Kernel data structures Kernel tuning parameters…

A great time to be a Linux person

It's 2015, and there are no computers in my house that run anything but Linux. Yep, I'm one of those people. My name is Jim Salter, and I'm a professional Linux sysadmin and…

My dad's Linux story begins in textiles

Early on my dad was very familiar with Linux as a operating system, which is a story in itself. However, this story is more about why he left the Microsoft environment. Brent…

Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for the Unix shell

As a command line person myself, I was very intrigued when I saw Klaatu's talk, HIG for the Unix Shell, on the upcoming All Things Open schedule. While I have always been…

Wikimedia contributor shares his Linux story

Computers have fascinated me since childhood, but my first encounter—like many others—was not with Linux. For me, it was with Microsoft Paint. Then, many years later in 2011…

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