With recent advances in network bandwidth, resources and facilities are becoming centralized once again. The trend of departmental computers and services is fading as larger, more centralized services ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...

Linux is a powerful and flexible operating system, widely used in servers, embedded systems, and even personal computers. However, even the best-configured systems can face performance bottlenecks ...