The first thing I install after booting up Linux is Midnight Commander (or mc). It’s a feature-rich, full-screen, text-mode file manager that lets you copy, move, and delete files and entire directory ...

With Windows 8 pushing a “touch-first” desktop interface—Microsoft’s words, not ours—and with Valve’s Steam on Linux beginning to bring much-needed games and popular attention to the oft-overlooked ...

Click the "Dash" icon. Type "terminal" (without quotes) in the search box. Click the "Terminal" application icon. Navigate to the folder containing the RAR archive you want to extract files from using ...

Want to hide files and folders from your Linux desktop file manager? Jack Wallen shows you one handy method. You probably already know the traditional method of hiding files on the Linux command line.

Read an adapted version of chapter 3 from the book The Official Ubuntu Book By Benjamin Mako Hill, Matthew Helmke, Corey Burger. With Ubuntu installed and ready to go, it’s time to get started using ...