Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has warned contributors that the rhythm of the project’s development cycle will clash with Christmas, so developers need to make sure they ready their work before the holiday season. The warning came in Torvalds’s weekly kernel development update in which he announced release candidate 7 […]
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Reliable and reproducible Linux installation with NixOS
When using an operating system, upgrading packages or installing new ones are common tasks that introduce the risk of affecting the stability of the system. NixOS is a Linux distribution that ensures the reliability of the operating system and allows easy reproducibility of the system current and previous states. This […]
Desacralizing the Linux overlay filesystem in Docker
Overlay filesystems (also called union filesystems) is a fundamental technology in Docker to create images and containers. They allow creating a union of directories to create a filesystem. Multiple filesystems, which are just directories, are superposed one on top of another to create a new filesystem. These directories are called […]