One of the files that the average Unix sysadmin rarely looks at, almost never changes and yet depends on every time he or she reboots a system is the /etc/inittab file. This modest little file ...

Discover the pros and cons of BTRFS and EXT4 NAS file systems, including snapshots, RAID, and performance benchmarks for Linux users.

The sudo command lets users elevate their privileges to run admin tasks. But it's far from perfect. These tips can help.

When Apple was about to introduce Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard, John Siracusa wrote in the summer of 2006 about how a new file system should be coming to Macs (which it did, 11 years later). The ...

In the intricate landscape of operating systems, two prominent players have shaped the digital realm for decades: UNIX and Linux. While these two systems might seem similar at first glance, a deeper ...

Bcachefs is shifting to an external DKMS module in Linux kernel 6.18 after becoming externally maintained. Here's the ...