If you read “Jenny’s Daily Drivers” or “Linux Fu” here on Hackaday, you know we like Linux. Jenny’s series, especially, ...

While rooted devices may have security implications for owners themselves, they're also seen as potential threats to one specific class of Android apps: online games. Rooted devices have the potential ...

Right now we use rsync over ssh with pre-shared keys to move files between servers automatically. The catch to this is that some files need to be moved as root either because they're config files or ...

The sudo command lets users elevate their privileges to run admin tasks. But it's far from perfect. These tips can help.

The btrfsck command is a filesystem-check command like fsck, but it works with the btrfs file system. First a little bit about btrfs. As the name implies, btrfs uses a B-tree data structure that is ...

This piece is about some recent news from Nasuni, Kasten, FileShadow and Western Digital about interesting cloud file services, data protection for Kubernetes environments, file publication and ...