Jason Binghampton asked: There is some very high competition in the operating system industry these days. As people become more tuned in to technology, they tend to gravitate towards one of three choices. These three, Windows, OS-X, and Linux, are always in stiff competition with each other to...

Clyde E. Boom asked: The Linux Echo CommandThe echo command is used (among other things) to display something on the screen.You can use this command in a Linux script or program to show information about what it is doing. This is useful for putting comments in a program to display its progress...

Clyde E. Boom asked: Regular Ubuntu Linux Users and the (Lack of Use of the) root UserWhen you install Ubuntu Linux, you create a user, which is the “first” user and you can also create more users if you need to. When you create the “first” user, you assign this user...

Kuldeep Kulmii asked: In a LINUX system, any corruption or damage of the file system is dealt with running fsck utility. Though the utility repairs the corrupted file system, in some occasions, especially after an odd shut down, running fsck leads to more disastrous scenarios like data loss or...

Clyde E. Boom asked: The Linux fdisk and parted commands are both used to start “utility” programs that are used to do hard disk partitioning tasks.Understanding Linux Hard Disk Partitions and FilesystemsPrior to installing the Linux operating system on a hard disk, a partition of...