If you’re in the market for a Linux distribution that offers advanced package and system management, NixOS is a platform that might catch your interest. It stands out with its unique approach to ...

It's not hard to look up configuration details on your Linux system. The hard thing is wrapping your brain around how many are available and what they can tell you. Linux systems can report on a lot ...

The way the Linux file system is laid out makes perfect sense. I've been using Linux for so many years that I can't imagine another file system making more sense. When I consider how the Windows file ...

One amazing thing about Linux is that the same code base is used for a different range of computing systems, from supercomputers to very tiny embedded devices. If you stop for a second and think about ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

Whatever else you do to secure a Linux system, it must have comprehensive, accurate and carefully watched logs. Logs serve several purposes. First, they help us troubleshoot virtually all kinds of ...

It has been some time since I have written about installing Linux on systems with UEFI firmware, and I have recently gotten several questions about how to do this. So I think this is a good time for a ...

Alpine Linux is a minimal Linux distribution, originally built with Gentoo, but now independent and self-hosting. In some respects Alpine Linux is conceptually similar to NanoBSD, in that technical ...