One of the most confusing things when starting with Linux is the terminology. Some people will use terms interchangeably, ...

On the rare occasion that my Linux desktop freezes, I have a few tricks up my sleeve that keep me from having to do a hard reboot on my machine.

The three major bootloaders in popular use on Linux systems are GRUB, LILO and SYSLINUX (used on boot floppies); all of them support serial consoles. Next, the Linux kernel needs to be told to use a ...

Linux is a multi-user environment, which means more than one user can use the system at one time. Granted, that mostly takes the form of console access (via SSH), because you can't easily have two ...