The file providers implement the IFileProvider interface. There are three implementations of IFileProvider: Physical, Embedded, and Composite. The IFileProvider is the main interface that exposes the ...

Several projects exist that purport to be small, run-in-memory distributions. The most popular probably is Puppy Linux. Puppy has spawned several variations, and I have used it several times myself on ...

OK, this one is a weird one. Have a bunch of files wrapped up in a VHDx with deduplication to make it small enough to copy to external servers (it's a deployment package). The principal being that all ...

Once upon a time operating systems shipped on a stack of 1.4MP floppy disks. These days most come on DVDs because the installer files can’t fit on 640MB CDs. And then there’s Tiny Core Linux. Tiny ...

In the realm of modern data management, few technologies hold as much promise and versatility as the ZFS file system. Originally developed by Sun Microsystems for their Solaris operating system, ZFS ...