In the first installment of this series, we looked at the basics of using the Terminal to access Mac OS X’s Unix core. What’s next? Well, when you visit a new place, the first thing you need to learn ...

Lifehacker reader Michael writes in with a nifty tip that was lurking in our comments all along, but deserves to see the bright light of posting. If you're already using the Unix-like Cygwin, it's an ...

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...