Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades.

Linux: Many Linux users love to accomplish as much as they can utilizing only the command line structure in Terminal. CenterIM lets you chat with your friends on GTalk, Jabber, Windows Live ...

Shells like KornShell, Bash, Zsh, and Fish offer command-line editing; Emacs-style editing is recommended. Have ...

There are many ways to remove duplicate lines from a text file on Linux, but here are two that involve the awk and uniq commands and that offer slightly different results.. Remove duplicate lines ...

Linux 6.13 was released early in January 2025, with 39,819,522 lines, and with the recent release of Linux 6.14 rc1 sources ...

Linux – soon to weigh 40 million lines of code Linux adds around four hundred thousand lines of code every two months. A slowdown or even an end to growth is not in sight – on the contrary!

If you've been around the Linux and UNIX world as long as I have (is it really going on 30 years? How could that be?), you'll be familiar with the various attempts at multiperson chat that have come ...

The anonymizing Linux for the USB stick Tails comes with an anonymous chat option in version 6.7. There are also tips on secure boot problems.

As the carnage erupted on stage, those watching online had to deal with a bombardment of tomfoolery wrought by prospective Steam Deck giveaway winners spamming !steamdeck and /claim into the chat ...

Sending messages to other users on the Linux command line can be very easy, but there are a number of commands that you might want to consider. In this post, we’ll look at four commands and see ...

Excited by our recent interview with Zulip founder Tim Abbott, we install the Slack-beating chat system for ourselves, as Jonni Bidwell reports. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

There is no dearth of chat apps out there. From WhatsApp to Viber to Skype, you can't walk a mile in Palo Alto without tripping over an emoji. That said, ChatCenter, a new service from TechCrunch ...