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 ...

There's a lot to learn about image files on the command line, from verifying file format to finding out where and when photos were taken and maybe even getting an unusual view of what they look like.

Linux-Windows dual boot systems don't have an easy way to access Linux files while booted into Windows. Some tools exist, but they don't offer perfect solutions. I've found using a shared partition ...

This is a bit of a departure for me in the Linux distribution review area because Redox OS isn't exactly a new Linux distribution. It's an experimental, UNIX-like, general-purpose, microkernel-based ...

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 ...