Running processes in the background can be convenient when you want to use your terminal window for something else while you wait for the first task to complete. Running commands in the Linux terminal ...

One of the simplest ways to run a command in the background is by appending an ampersand (&) at the end of the command. This method instructs the shell to execute the command as a separate background ...

The Linux operating system is powerful and flexible, able to run in several different modes of operation called run levels. When a Linux system starts, a function called "init" is used to configure ...

No matter your Linux system, be it desktop or server, there will be numerous processes running at any given time. Hopefully those processes are all running as expected. But if not, this article, ...

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The ps command that we all use to list processes has some interesting options that many of us never take advantage of. While the commonly used ps -ef provides a complete listing of running processes, ...

I've used Windows for decades, but I tried Linux to see if it's truly 'easy' now - and one thing surprised me ...