Getting started with Linux can be more than a little daunting. In this article we help you learn the commands needed to find your way around and teach you how to find out more on your own.

5 terminal commands every Linux newbie should know Sometimes you'll need to use the terminal, but it's not as scary as you think.

FIGlet is a command you can run in the Linux terminal that allows you to draw 3D-style ASCII text art using a huge library of different font files.

Linux distributions vary widely in how they come configured. For example, Ubuntu doesn't allow you to use the root user out-of-the-box. You can only operate superuser commands using the sudo command.

Linux is the most secure OS on the market for a reason. These are the security-centric commands you should have in your back pocket.

For example, instead of having to first change to the root user with su and then issuing the update/upgrade commands on a Ubuntu-based distribution, a user could issue the following command: ...

Ubuntu’s bash and Linux command line coming to Windows 10 Rising from the ashes of Project Astoria.

Most guides and tutorials for Ubuntu newcomers can help you get commercial DVDs playing on your system, but only through a series of terminal commands ...