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Manuals or other information for system users detailing software features and functionality.

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I want to provide information to users. For example, it would be helpful to provide curated lists of recommended programs tailored to users’ needs-such as a Disk Usage Analyzer for those managing ...
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Even though bash -n is a valid and widely used option, some manpages don't clearly document it in the bash options section, even though it is implemented. It's also not in the GNU Bash Reference ...
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I am trying to comprehend some man7.org documentation about the User Namespace and the /bin/unshare command. I started by reading this page: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/user_namespaces.7....
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I am working on understanding of how cgroups memory resource controller is enabled on Ubuntu 20.04. I have several Ubuntu machines that make up a Slurm 23.02.7 cluster. In cgroup.conf, SchedMD ...
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Is there any documentation for the default permissions of the /tmp folder on *nix, in particular Linux? (Or perhaps /tmp doesn't have specified default permissions?) Background: I'm trying to ensure ...
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The Fedora documentation on updating to a new Fedora release recommends that, after we update, we should update the GRUB bootloader. They provide the following suggested advice on how to update: $ ...
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In the official documentation of Samba, the smb.conf(5) page has an "Explanation Of Each Parameter" section. For some parameters, two possible values (either (G) or (S)) are shown at the end ...
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I've used rsync for a while, and it's always performed very well. However, trying to rsync my macOS (source, APFS file system) with my Synology NAS (dest, btrfs filesystem) seems to always present &...
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Is there a vimtutor eqvivalent to ansible? I know I can read up on the syntax of a particular module using ansible-doc <module> - but what if I can't recall the module name? If I find myself ...
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This in reference to this question. Many thanks to user Marcus Müller for providing the silver bullet for getting Emacs 29 from Debian backports. I've done this already, and profited. However, one ...
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While researching the answer for this question, I noticed there is a documentation page for man 5 btrfs that I see online. But I don't see that on Debian 12. Did this get shipped at all? How can I ...
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Why, unlike Bash, almost all Zsh executable's option of '--help' cannot work, what'd be its counterpart to help user doing on it ?
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I want to construct a program utility synopsis for optional comma separated keywords. utility [KEYWORD[,KEYWORD]...] I worder where I should put the repeating pattern .... I want to allow the ...
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Trying to understand why does the grep manual state the character classes with one square bracket. https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/html_node/Character-Classes-and-Bracket-Expressions.html For ...
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I am not new to Linux but I am new to Linux Mint since I switched from Ubuntu due to reasons out of scope of this question (snapd, update borked my computer) I selected for FDE (Full Disk Encryption) ...
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For systemd's system units (the units you operate with systemctl --system (default)), it's possible to specify DynamicUser=yes to make systemd dynamically allocate a user and group for the service to ...
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I am working on the installation for Maxima, a computer algebra system. The reference manual is written as a collection of Texinfo files. The primary documentation is English, but there are several ...
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In vim, there is both a function and a variable called complete. If you do help complete, you get the function's help. How do you get the help for the variable?
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The file -b <path> command seems useful for scripting (filtering file types, not necessarily by extension). But for that you have to know the actual string output for your target filetype(s) If ...
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For applications installed via system package manager, binaries, man pages, and docs go in /usr/bin/, /usr/share/man/man<n>/, and /usr/share/doc/<app-name>/ respectively. For example: ...
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I use kernel.org docs to read about kernel functions. Now I am trying to make possible reading manuals for kernel-mode functions, such as printk with man 9 printk. The section 9 is used for this ...
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i wanted to find a website to download linux kernel documents offline in eother pdf or html or any kind but i dont know where to find and where to download any help would be appreciated the link i ...
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I'm looking for textual explanation of Linux exit codes (like 124 for timeout, 130 for SIGINT received, etc). I thought errno from moreutils does this but it seems it is for looking for error numbers? ...
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Many VPN software use the TUN or TAP kernel driver to create a virtual network interface (mainly for Linux and FreeBSD systems). I know how they work and the differences, this is purely a ...
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https://stackexchange.com/users/9328287/telcom I found a very useful and meaningful answer of yours about this error: E: The repository 'http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian n/a ...
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