Linux Tutorials
Linux is a free and open-source operating system kernel that serves as the foundation for numerous operating systems, commonly known as Linux distributions. Developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991, Linux is based on Unix principles and has grown into one of the most popular operating systems worldwide, especially in servers, supercomputers, and embedded systems. Its flexibility, security, and community-driven development make it ideal for various environments, from personal computers to large-scale enterprise systems. Distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, and Debian provide different versions of Linux, tailored to various user needs. Linux’s open-source nature allows anyone to modify, distribute, and contribute to its development, fostering a global ecosystem of developers and users.
While Web browsers are the primary medium through which users download stuff from the Internet, there are some Linux commands that also let you do this. In this tutorial, we will discuss one such command – curl – that among other things lets you download stuff from the Web.
iostat, also known as input/output statistics, is a popular Linux system monitoring tool that can be used to collect statistics of input and output devices. It allows users to identify performance issues of local disk, remote disk, and system information. This tutorial will teach us how to install and use iostat on Ubuntu.
WordPress is the most popular blogging platform in the world. This tutorial will teach you how to install WordPress using Docker/Docker Compose. Using Docker, the process of installing the preferred stack becomes a lot easier. You can use the same configuration to install WordPress quickly on multiple servers. We will also install the phpMyAdmin tool for managing databases along with the Nginx proxy server to serve the site via SSL.
JupyterLab is an open-source web-based interactive development environment that extends the classic Jupyter Notebook experience, providing a more flexible and powerful interface for data science and scientific computing tasks.
Cachet is an open-source status page system written in PHP. It allows you to monitor downtime and system failure on your infrastructure. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to install and run Cachet on an Ubuntu 24.04 server with Docker.
Often a Linux computer is used by different users. So there is a possibility that these users access a common group of files. This opens the door to problems like accidental deletion or editing of important files, which you as an administrator definitely don’t want. Fortunately, there is a command called chattr that is designed for just such cases.
This tutorial will show you how to mount an NTFS drive in read/write mode on the RHEL-based Linux operating system Rocky Linux. NTFS-3G is a stable Open Source NTFS driver that supports reading and writing to NTFS drives on Linux and other operating systems.
This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian 12 server (with Apache2, BIND, Dovecot) to install ISPConfig 3.2. The web hosting control panel ISPConfig 3 allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
Grafana is an open-source and multi-platform data visualization platform. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to install Grafana, Prometheus, and node_exporter on Ubuntu 24.04 servers.
Fathom is a privacy-focused web analytics software with GDPR compliance and no cookie banners required. In this article, we’ll show you how to install Fathom Privacy Focused Web Analytics on Ubuntu.