Linux commands often have long lists of options they support, many of which are single-letter mnemonics. These can be tricky to learn and remember, but their redeeming feature is their reusability: ...

In 2022 the SLOB allocator was deprecated and removed with Linux 6.4 a year later. SLOB was popular with embedded systems ...

Believe it or not, the mitigations for the Spectre-class of CPU vulnerabilities are now some of the biggest enemies of system administrators. Despite being security-focused patches, these mitigations ...

Budgeting apps come in all sizes and shapes. Budget apps for Linux are part of a software category that has been all but abandoned. But take heart. Several Web-based solutions will more than meet your ...

The Linux NetworkManager is sadly limited when it comes to VPN connections. Jack Wallen walks you through the process of adding an L2TP option, so you can connect to your company VPN. If you work with ...

If a Linux server isn't performing well, it is often related to the storage channel. A few decades ago, this was relatively easy to analyze: the server had a RAID array, there were partitions on top ...