It seems like only yesterday that I read Jeff Bonwick's blog entry
"ZFS: The Last Word in Filesystems". It was Halloween of 2005 that
ZFS was fully integrated into Sun Microsystem's Solaris, and the filesystem
was very well received. For the readers not familiar with ZFS, it is a
combined all-purpose filesystem and volume manager.
Things to Do in the Shade
It's summer time here in the northern hemisphere (although it did snow at my house
on May 15, 2016—hopefully Mother Nature is done with that nonsense).
In my Open-Source Classroom column a few months ago, I talked about backups and got some really fascinating
feedback. Here are a few of the ideas from readers worth checking into:
I'm always leery when I hear, Recent studies show.... But the idea that
looking at electronic device screens before bed can cause sleep issues
seems to be fairly accepted. The fascinating part for me is that it isn't
really the screen itself, but the blue part of the color spectrum that
contributes to the sleeplessness.
In this article, I want to cover a more fundamental
aspect of shell scripting: working with command arguments.
I suspect that most shell scripts go through an evolution with their
command flags, a
This is the second in a multipart series on the Qubes operating
system. In my first article, I gave an overall introduction to Qubes and
how it differs from most other desktop Linux distributions, namely in
the way it focuses on compartmentalizing applications within different
VMs to limit what attackers have access to in the event they compromise
a VM.
RapidDisk is an open-source and enhanced Linux RAM drive solution led by BDFL
Petros Koutoupis (who also writes for Linux Journal) that allows users to create, resize a
Free of charge for any use and free of any kind of advertising bundle, PeaZip is
an open-source (LGPL) file archiver, a free alternative to software like WinRar
and WinZip, for Li
