It's really annoying when a disk suddenly dies on you or a typo in a command deletes important data. The free Parted Magic Live distro offers help.

Columnist Charly gives Apache a slick coat of Varnish for better performance.

The extended filesystem has been part of the Linux kernel since 0.96c – a faithful companion of the free operating system. With its developments – or, rather, rebirths – through ext2, ext3, and ext4, it is one of the oldest Linux-specific software projects.

OpenShift and other PaaS products can help take some of the work out of deploying and managing systems.

The Debian Goodies collection offers a variety of time-tested scripts to help you manage Debian packages.

Just because you have two solutions for using exFAT doesn't necessarily mean you should use either one of them. We examine some of the issues – legal and technical – surrounding this Microsoft filesystem.

If you're looking for a secure and portable backup technique, try combining the trusty command-line utility Duplicity with an available cloud account.

Splunk has mastered the art of finding truly relevant messages in huge amounts of log data. Perlmeister Mike Schilli throws his system messages at the feet of a proprietary analysis tool and teaches the free version an enterprise feature.

The Scalpel file carver helps users restore what they thought were lost files.

The Smart Package Manager makes everyday tasks of handling RPM and DEB packages simple but has a full set of controls for experts.