In the Linux environment, the file system acts as a backbone, orchestrating the systematic storage and retrieval of data. It is a hierarchical structure that outlines how data is organized, stored, ...

Windows 11 slowed my hardware to a crawl. Linux runs lighter with rolling updates, and keeps older PCs fast for years instead ...

File sharing is a fundamental aspect of networked computing, and in Linux environments, two of the most prevalent protocols facilitating this are NFS (Network File System) and Samba. This article aims ...

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 ...

These are some lesser-known ways of sharing files on Linux. The methods here range from the very simple to the very complicated. Each of these tools is free, and some are pre-installed. Back in 2024, ...

Running out of disk space on Linux can cause many issues. Discover simple, safe ways to clean files, logs, and unused packages, and free up disk space.

There are gentle migration strategies that can delay the move away from Windows 10, which Microsoft will stop supporting in October 2025. Technically (and maybe even psychologically), the easiest step ...

If you’ve ever used a drive formatted with Linux and tried to access it on a Windows system, you’re likely to have problems, especially if the drive uses the NTFS file system. Even though NTFS is ...

If the “big three” industrial-strength versions of Unix had personalities, Hewlett-Packard Co.’s HP-UX would be the engineer, manipulating wireframe CAD files while crunching numbers from a lab ...