Linux offers a wide range of free programming tools like GCC, GDB, Vim, and Emacs that are preinstalled and useful. You can code on Linux without fully switching the OS using tools like WSL ...

Like Windows, Linux also supports VirtualBox, though the limitations of the Type-2 hypervisor become apparent once you get ...

Exit code numeric range The range of values for exit codes runs from 0 to 255. If you issue an “exit 256” command in a script and then check the exit status, you’ll notice that it’s equal ...

Keep in mind that, while most commands on Linux will work the same from one distribution to the next, some commands – like those used to install manage packages (tools, programming languages ...

It was an effort to enable Linux command-line tools and applications to run on Windows, with a reasonably successful outcome. WSL1 employed a translation layer to operate a full Linux distribution ...

I've been using Linux for a very long time, and from day 1, the terminal window and command-line interface (CLI) have been an integral part of my work. At the same time, I've learned that it's OK ...

Last month, we looked at signals, the rudimentary mechanism that processes on a Linux box can use to communicate events and state changes. We talked about how each of the signals can be sent manually ...