By George September 2, 2024 Running commands in the background is a powerful feature in Linux that allows users to execute long-running processes without tying up the terminal.

Many Linux programs are the complete opposite: they require input and produce output. Often, these programs modify their input in some way, and there are plenty of them: cut, head, sort, uniq, etc.

Moving a command or script that you're running on the command line to the background so that you can start another job and managing backgrounded processes requires only a handful of commands.

Purism, the makers of the Linux Librem 5 smartphone and Librem 14 laptop, have released the Lapdock Kit -- a docking station-based laptop with a touchscreen, keyboard, trackpad, lots of ports, but ...

When using a microphone in a video conference or recording a video, your keyboard's clack or other background noise can be very distracting to listeners. The good news is that software exists that ...

Longtime Linux kernel developer Sarah Sharp last week published a blog post detailing her reasons for quitting the Linux kernel community. Sharp maintained the USB 3.0 host controller driver until ...

Proton's success with the entire library has made gaming on Linux much easier and more accessible. For the longest time, gaming on Linux felt like it pretty much ended with Super Tux Cart.

While test-driving the new Gnome 2.28 desktop, I was surprised to see that among the default backgrounds, there was a "Cosmos" slide-show of several cosmic pictures of space that regularly transition ...

Microsoft has announced that Skype background blurring is available in the latest version of its desktop apps, on Mac, Windows and Linux ...

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!