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Why The Shutdown?

Why do we need to shutdown a computer and not simply turn it off? […]

Linux: GUI or CLI?

Many people ask: ” what is best to use in Linux, the graphical interface or the command line?

And, as always, the answer lies in the eye of the beholder.

It actually depends on the kind of user. Regular users, that use the computer for browsing the internet or create some document, found their […]

All My Operating Systems.

My very first computer was a mainframe IBM 360. Well, it wasn’t mine, nobody owned a computer back in the seventies. The 360 was the mainframe available at the university where I studied Electronics Engineering, the University of Palermo, in Italy. It ran under an operating system that was called DOS, an acronym for […]