Two weeks ago, in this column, we looked at some macros and DOS commands that can make your time at the DOS command prompt more like the Unix environment that most of us know and love. In this week’s ...

Lifehacker reader Michael writes in with a nifty tip that was lurking in our comments all along, but deserves to see the bright light of posting. If you're already using the Unix-like Cygwin, it's an ...

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...

Getting started with Linux can be more than a little daunting. In this article we help you learn the commands needed to find your way around and teach you how to find out more on your own. Share on ...

Click for a PDF with this and four other essential Linux articles. And, if you’ve ever heard anyone say that for Unix, everything is a file, you might not be too surprised to learn that lsof works ...