The Disks app takes over some more challenging commands, such as fsck, mount, parted, chown, and dd. This app is a handy GUI that also prevents you from having to edit the fstab configuration file ...

He called himself "MSP," and he appeared out of nowhere, launching a one-man flame war against a sacred cow of hardcore computing: the command line. The venue was TuxRadar, a news and reviews site ...

I cannot tell you how many times I've had to manage user passwords in Linux without the help of a GUI app. Whether it's on a server or because I'm using SSH to access a remote machine, knowing the ...

Here's the thing about ImageMagick: it looks complicated because it's built for power users who need flexibility. When you ...

Let's start with a key aspect to this situation; I am not a programmer. However, as a Mac user I'm relatively comfortable creating simple AppleScripts and have used it with some success in the past to ...

The IT infrastructure that powers an organization’s business strategy has become increasingly more dynamic and distributed. The introduction of new technologies to increase IT agility has made it ...

If you run Show-Command at a prompt without specifying a command name, the graphical display will list cmdlets and functions from all modules, regardless of whether or not they are loaded into the ...

There's no shortage of text editors on Linux, but Helix Editor may just be the best one out there. Here's why.

If you immerse yourself in Microsoft history for long enough, you’ll come across more than one story about staff trying to add more command-line features to its operating systems. The plans go up the ...

Love Arduino but hate the GUI? Try arduino-cli. In this article, I explore a new tool released by the Arduino team that can free you from the existing Java-based Arduino graphical user interface. This ...