We get it, a lot of the software on a “Linux” distribution came from GNU. We appreciate it, it is good software, but please stop trying to force this horrible “GNU/Linux” brand name on the community.

Because of the way FileVault on OS X works, only a users home folder is encrypted. Anyone who has worked with a complex Unix based system can tell you that sensitive information can be written outside a users home folder. I decided to try and mitigate the problem by using built-in OS X tools and some clever scripting.

A quick but useful tip to make OS X always boot in verbose mode, where startup messages are displayed on the screen instead of the grey apple logo, as well as boot into single user mode first before continuing the boot process to graphical login.

Part 2 of our custom Ubuntu USB stick tutorial

A tutorial on installing a very minimal read-only Ubuntu system to run from a USB drive, with the ability to update it in-place

I’ll install the Linux version of the ZFS-FUSE code as it exists today on an Ubuntu machine and take it for a spin.

A quick look at the state of ZFS on Mac OS X, how to install the current codebase, and how to setup a redundant drive array.

I’ll explore the currently available ZFS implementations on these 2 operating systems and use them to test out the features of this next generation filesystem.