Sys admin columnist Charly Kühnast has an electronic note box in which he collects ideas and small snippets of code. He calls it his "quarry" and is taking this opportunity to offer up some collectors' items to regular readers.

The name of the tool that columnist Charly Kühnast recommends this month may sound like the Teletubbies, but it is but far from infantile when it comes to functionality. In fact, inxi provides detailed and precisely controllable hardware and system usage information for the host computer.

Stacer is a handy graphical tool for cleaning up your Linux system.

One false click can quickly delete important data, or even an entire partition. If a backup tool is missing, only a rescue specialist can help.

Diff and merge: They're not just for developers.

Having a good backup is a matter of course for sys admin columnist Charly Kühnast, but devices could still fall victim to fire or theft some day. Because he has enough free space on Google Drive, he doesn't need to search long for a solution. The only thing missing is the right tool.

Stop fiddling around with the mouse or trackpad – do your file management in the terminal, with vi-like key bindings.

If you just need to encrypt a file or two, a descendant of crypt can do the job. Which one you choose depends on your objective.

Whether you are writing code or text, vim-abolish can help you customize search and replace functions in Vim.

Debian discourages the use of pinning to set preferences for package repositories, because the practice can have disastrous results. We take a closer look.