Articles about Operating Systems

File Systems: NTFS vs. EXT4 vs. ZFS - 10

File Systems: NTFS vs. EXT4 vs. ZFS

The file system is the technical structure that defines how data is organized, stored, and retrieved on a phys...
Virtualization and Hypervisors: Type 1 vs. Type 2 - 9

Virtualization and Hypervisors: Type 1 vs. Type 2

Virtualization is the technology that allows abstracting physical hardware to run multiple independent operati...
Memory Management in macOS: Compression and Darwin - 8

Memory Management in macOS: Compression and Darwin

macOS implements highly sophisticated memory management based on the Darwin kernel and the Mach microkernel, p...
Windows NT Architecture and the Registry - 7

Windows NT Architecture and the Registry

The Windows NT architecture is based on a hybrid kernel design that strictly separates user mode from kernel m...
Linux Kernel Optimization: Critical Parameters - 6

Linux Kernel Optimization: Critical Parameters

Technical Note: Always back up /etc/sysctl.conf before applying changes to the kernel parameters.