A lot of bad practice has permeated the software development industry, one such practice is to blindly trust code when using third party libraries, frameworks or packages. The reasons why this is taking place is because people want to build stuff quickly in order to save as much money as possible, and they don't want to spend time on security or even performance. But alas, now such companies are beginning to pay the price, a very costly and highly damaging price. https://unixdigest.com/articles/
Distro hopping is a term that refers to the activity of computer users constantly installing and trying out different Linux distributions and/or BSD variants, either on bare metal or in a virtual environment, having a real difficult time choosing what to use. Some people believe that distro hopping is a result of boredom, or because of a lack of satisfaction with current choice, or that it's simply a matter of trying out multiple options, but that is not the case. Rather, it's a kind of psycholo
If you're looking for answers related to Linux or BSD (or anything for that matter), Reddit is often not the right place to search for them. https://unixdigest.com/articles/dont-use-reddit-for-linux-or-bsd-related-questions.html
Even though the technology related news media isn't about inhibiting thinking or controlling the masses, like the regular news media, the technology media is mostly using the same tactics by creating sensational and story-formattet junk. You can spot a bad technology media (or any news media) by the low level of investigative journalism and the high level of sensationalism it contains. https://unixdigest.com/articles/do-you-feel-overwhelmed-trying-to-stay-up-to-date-with-the-latest-tech-news.htm
This is a small introduction to a really great article about how toxic it is to follow the daily news and what to do instead. https://unixdigest.com/articles/why-you-should-avoid-the-news-media-and-what-to-do-instead.html
So, I saw the Hacker News post about h-m-m (hackers mind map) and thought, "We could do something similar with just the terminal and tree". https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/poor-mans-mind-mapping-tool-with-just-the-terminal.html
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 benefits of ZFS snapshots, but we also get the benefits of ZFS' ability to auto repair any corrupted data (from things like bit rot). And in case one of the hard drives fail, we can quickly replace the broken disk with a new disk and have everything up and
Hard drives fail in all kinds of strange ways, when they do, you really appreciate all the hard work the programmers and engineers has put into ZFS because it is truly amazing! https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/drive-failure-and-io-errors-zfs-to-the-rescue.html
In this tutorial I am going to show you how to replace a broken hard drive in a FreeBSD GELI encryptet ZFS mirror root installation. I'll assume that you have installed FreeBSD using the FreeBSD installer and used encryption on a guided (auto) ZFS installation. The installer partitions the two hard drives in an identical partition scheme, in which one of the partitions is fully encryptet using GELI. This is a great setup, but it requires a little knowledge of the internals to replace one of the
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. https://unixdigest.com/articles/understanding-unix-filesystem-timestamps.html
