Did you know you can check the maximum speed of a USB port with one command?

How to limit bandwidth on Linux to better test your applications Your email has been sent The Traffic Control command (tc) is a tool that every network admin should know. What tc does is allow the ...

Notes app in disarray? Try the alternative I found.

How to check drive space on Linux from the command line Your email has been sent Is your Linux server running out of storage space? If you're not sure how to find that out, these three commands are ...

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...

Complete tload command guide for Linux. Monitor CPU load average with live ASCII graphs. Installation, usage examples, and comparison with top/uptime.

Wan to give Linux a try but don't have the spare hardware or aren't familiar enough with virtual machines to give it a go? DistroSea uses a distribution ISO and a script from the Quickemu project to ...

Last month we started out easy, with a discussion of file redirection. This month I continue to talk about the basic building blocks of shell script programming by exploring pipes, then we jump into ...

Linux offers a couple of easy ways to record commands you type so that you can review or rerun them. Recording the commands that you run on the Linux command line can be useful for two important ...

I've been using Linux for what seems like forever. Over the years, I've noticed that I use the command line less and less, because the GUIs have just gotten so much better. Even still, there are ...