Ease into your comfort zone with these tips for customizing Bash.

License issues prevent the integration of ZFS with the Linux kernel, but Linux users can try the highly praised filesystem in userspace.

If you're starting from scratch, you'll need a lot of users to attract a strong development community.

Although a USB toy such as a polystyrene rocket launcher only includes a Windows CD, it works fine on Linux with a spot of reverse engineering. With libusb, this doesn't even require compiling a device driver – Perl controls the device from userspace.

Far from an anachronism, the command line lives on as an indispensable part of the modern free desktop. Viva the command line!