Unix (and therefore Linux) has it's own terms you might not be familiar with if you've only used graphical operating systems with icons, draggable windows and a mouse pointer. Here's some common ones ...

CRON is a time based scheduling daemon/command line utility found in Unix based operating systems. CRON runs in background and operations scheduled to run by CRON are called as CRON jobs. CRON jobs ...

Microsoft built a Linux subsystem for Windows for Project Astoria, its system for running Android apps on Windows 10 Mobile. But in February the company confirmed that Astoria was dead, as it rather ...

Mark Shuttleworth says his Ubuntu Linux distro has now overtaken arch rival Red Hat when it comes to running the all-important "enterprise workloads" -- i.e., the heavy software lifting done by big ...

If you are one of the people that happens to be running a bleeding-edge 'alpha 1' version of Ubuntu Linux on your main desktop machine (and who isn't?), you may have noticed a particular change in ...