Administration News and Articles

Even though your computer does not come with its own GPS, you can hack one onto it using a mobile phone. Although, it does take quite a bit of fiddling.

In Star Trek, the Borg adds individuals to its collective consciousness, an apt metaphor for any backup application that stores individual files in an archive. BorgBackup creates folder repositories for multiple archives, making it an especially befitting description of assimilation.

LFTP is an alternative to the FTP command set, which supports many protocols and offers countless parameters.

Stacer is a handy graphical tool for cleaning up your Linux system.

One false click can quickly delete important data, or even an entire partition. If a backup tool is missing, only a rescue specialist can help.

Stop fiddling around with the mouse or trackpad – do your file management in the terminal, with vi-like key bindings.

Paperwork was developed to manage the paperless office – a dream as old as desktop PCs.

The new networkd component of the systemd project supports basic network configuration. Despite its early stage of development, one thing is clear: This is a daemon with brains.

Recently, sys admin Charly was faced with the task of synchronizing a directory on a server with two NFS-mounted clients. He wanted the whole thing to happen quickly and to be easily manageable, which ruled out DRBD and GlusterFS.

Sunflower is a highly configurable graphical file manager with two windows that implement an unusual concept by trying to integrate the command line with the file manager.