Linux

  • Cockpit ubuntu

    Cockpit Ubuntu Install Configuration and Apps

    Working with the oVirt Node install recently re-familiarized me with the Cockpit utility and made me want to play around with it a bit more on vanilla Ubuntu Server installations. Let’s look at installing Cockpit on Ubuntu and see the…

  • Almalinux vs rocky linux

    Almalinux vs Rocky Linux: Best CentOS replacement in 2024

    If you are looking to replace RHEL with another distribution, there are two that comes to mind. These are Almalinux and Rocky Linux. Both were designed for 1-to-1 compatibility with RHEL. However, which one is the best choice? In this…

  • Wubuntu ubuntu operating system that looks like windows 11

    Wubuntu: Ubuntu operating system that looks like Windows 11

    It seems like if you like Windows or Linux, you have to choose one or the other. Most will say they like the “look” of Windows but they want the underlying features of Linux. There have been many Linux distros…

  • Fedora silverblue

    Fedora Silverblue Linux: Install Immutable Desktop Operating System

    When it comes to Linux desktop operating systems, there is one that is quite interesting, Fedora Silverblue. It provides many great features, including that it is an “immutable os.” It is a variant of the Fedora Linux distribution that protects…

  • Neofetch Linux System Information

    Neofetch: Displaying Beautiful System Information in Your Terminal

    Welcome to a deep dive into the world of Neofetch. If you have not heard about it before, it is a system information tool that has made quite a name for itself in the tech community. This CLI system information…

  • Simulating a failure and running the check monitoring script

    Create a Linux Service Monitoring Script

    You may have mission-critical workloads running on Linux Server such as Nginx that you want to monitor to ensure the service is healthy. Using a Bash script, we can easily create a piece of script code that can monitor a…

  • Ubuntu server cli cheat sheet

    Ubuntu Server CLI Cheat Sheet

    One of the beautiful things about Linux is the power of the Linux CLI. This is what draws many to Linux to begin with. Granted, Windows has come a long way since the introduction of PowerShell, and now especially with…

  • Choosing-the-type-of-installation-when-installing-and-configuring-Ubuntu-Server-18.04-LTS

    Installing and Configuring Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS

    I have been starting to spin up a few new little Linux appliances for the home lab to service a few one off services and utilities. Typically for these types of purposes, I have utilized Ubuntu Server as my “go…

  • ubuntuupdates

    Install all updates besides select few Ubuntu Server

    Recently, in working on updating an Ubuntu server for a client that was running a customized version of Nginx compiled with Google Pagespeed and other mods, we wanted to install all the updates besides any that touched Nginx as we…

  • redirect1

    Linux redirected output not showing in file

    Recently, when working with Nginx, I wanted to export out the details of my Nginx build so I could see all modules the webserver was compiled with. ย However, each time I tried to redirect the output of theย nginx -Vย command, the…