When using the command line interface, you are given a simple prompt at which you type in your command. Even with a GUI, you sometimes need to execute commands on a command line. The Terminal window is no longer available on the GNOME desktop menu. You now have to access it from the Applications | [...]
For the command line interface, you are initially given a login prompt. The system is now running and waiting for a user to log in and use it. You can enter your username and password to use the system. The login prompt is preceded by the hostname you gave your system. When you finish using [...]
In UNIX, which is the parent operating system of Linux and the origin of many of the ideas and of the philosophy of the operating system, a variety of different shell programs are available. The most common on commercial versions of UNIX is probably the Korn shell, but there are many others. So why use [...]