Since my article The flaws of distro hopping and asking other people about their OS of choice I have had a number of people writing to me asking for my specific advice regarding their choice of operating system, both for personal usage and for …

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The POSIX standard requires that operating systems maintain filesystem metadata that record when each file was last accessed. Let’s take a look at what all that means.

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In this tutorial I am going to use Void Linux to “replicate” how FreeBSD is utilizing ZFS snapshots for boot environments. I am going to use a MBR based setup with a native ZFS encrypted root mirror. With a ZFS root mirror we not only get the …

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