As you are certainly already aware, your files are organized in a hierarchy of directories (the Unix word for folders). When moving around in the Finder, you open folders, which display other folders ...

What do OSX and Linux (Ubuntu for example) use instead of the registry? What is their solution to the issue, and what benefits/problems do these have? Click to expand... The answer here is first: a ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...