What just happened? For all the native apps and tools available on platforms like Chrome OS, sometimes you just need a good old Linux program to get things done, especially if you are a developer.

I installed Debian on a crappy old box I had laying around so that I could relive my glory days of CMSC1 with gcc. But I can't figure out how to get my little "Hello World" programs to run from the ...

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Embracing the terminal.

Is it possible to run (well open) apps from the termainal window.<BR><BR>Since Max OS X is based on Linux, I was wondering if its possible to say from the shell execute <BR><BR>%safari <BR><BR>to get ...

Hardcore Linux users will think I'm committing the ultimate blasphemy when I say the Linux terminal doesn't have to be a part of the equation. Have to, being the operative term. When I first started ...