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Before You Format: ext4, XFS, and btrfs Differences Explained (And Which One You Should Pick)

raindog308

Aug 29, 2025

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Like every other subsystem, Linux can't decide on just one filesystem. Which one (ext4, XFS, btrfs) is best for you?

Before You Format: ext4, XFS, and btrfs Differences Explained (And Which One You Should Pick)

The Mother of All Supply Chain Attacks! Is 1Password Safe?!? (UPDATED)

raindog308

Mar 30, 2024

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A backdoor was slipped into xz, a widely used compression library. Is a 1Password employee somewhere in the mix?

The Mother of All Supply Chain Attacks! Is 1Password Safe?!? (UPDATED)

Fedora Gives Up on DeltaRPMs

raindog308

Mar 16, 2023

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14 years ago, Fedora had a cool idea: why send an entire RPM when the client only needs a delta from the RPM it already has? Why not just send them deltas? Alas, this idea didn't quite work out.

OpenSSH Suffered a "Near Miss" But is Now Post-Quantum

raindog308

Apr 23, 2022

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According to the change log, OpenSSH 9.0 suffered a "near miss" - a potential vulnerability that was found and fixed before anyone could attempt to exploit it: "Near miss in sshd(8): fix an integer ov...

LowEndBoxTV: Ranking the VPS Operating System Choices into Tiers!

raindog308

May 01, 2021

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Which Linux distros and operating systems we use on our cheap VPSes are Legend, which are Hipster Only, and which are Get Outta Here? We sort Alma, Alpine, Arch, CentOS (classic and stream), Debian, F...

LowEndBoxTV: Ranking the VPS Operating System Choices into Tiers!

Serveria - Cloud VPS Hosting, Dedicated servers and more! Offers starting at $1.99/mo!

Frank

Dec 16, 2019

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Serveria has contacted us with a lot of offers recently! Cloud VPS Hosting, Dedicated servers and more! And they are offering a few free things with these offers: free setup and free Windows licenses....

Serveria - Cloud VPS Hosting, Dedicated servers and more! Offers starting at $1.99/mo!

Package Management Walkthrough: apt, yum, dnf, pkg

Kaylee

Jun 29, 2019

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In this tutorial, we will give you an overview of package management utilities on Ubuntu and Debian, Centos, Fedora, and FreeBSD. Once you install, say, Apache and Nginx, PHP, a MySQL database, all th...