ZFS on Linux might get a lot of the latest features, and with a distribution like Arch Linux you have the bleeding edge, but it makes great sense to migrate everything ZFS related to FreeBSD. On FreeBSD ZFS is a first class citizen. This means that you don't have to worry about hostile kernel commits that suddenly breaks ZFS, or kernel modules that has to be re-compiled every time the kernel is updated. Being a first class citizen also means that the entire operating system is tailored to work r
In this tutorial I'll show you a simple way you can manage the configuration of i3 across multiple computers with different setups on each computer. https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/how-you-can-manage-the-i3-window-manager-on-multiple-computers.html
The suckless philosophy is all about keeping things simple, minimal and usable, but some people seem to have misunderstood it completely. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/turning-suckless-into-suckmore.html
Since I wrote my article "Why you should migrate everything from Linux to BSD" I have been wanting to write something about the technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux and while I cannot possibly cover every single reason, I can write about some of the things that I consider worth noting. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/technical-reasons-to-choose-freebsd-over-linux.html
From time to time people email me asking about what kind of work flow I use for this blog. In this article I'll elaborate on the process. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/come-full-circle-back-to-html.html
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Thousands of the worlds best open source projects are still hosting their code repositories on GitHub. Since Microsoft has purchased GitHub this has become a serious problem. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/important-open-source-projects-should-not-use-github.html
Privacy on the Internet is important because privacy risks range from the gathering of statistics on users to more malicious acts such as the spreading of spyware and the exploitation of various forms of bugs (software faults). Many companies, such as Google, track which websites people visit and then use the information, for instance by sending advertising based on one's web browsing history. Sometimes prices on products are changed on the same website, depending on tracking information, and tw
