Linux Tutorials
Ubuntu Linux is a popular, user-friendly, and free open-source Linux distribution developed by Canonical. It is based on Debian but focuses on ease of use, making it an excellent choice for both beginners and advanced users. Launched in 2004, Ubuntu is known for its regular release cycle, with long-term support (LTS) versions offering five years of security and maintenance updates, making it ideal for both desktop and server environments. Ubuntu includes a wide range of pre-installed software and supports a vast library of applications, making it suitable for various purposes such as development, cloud computing, and IoT. Its intuitive user interface, stability, and active community support have made Ubuntu one of the most widely used Linux distributions in the world.
Podman is a container runtime that provides features similar to Docker. It’s part of the libpod library and can be used to manage pods, containers, container images, and container volumes.
The Elastic Stack is a combination of four main components Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure Filebeat to forward event logs, SSH authentication events to Logstash on Ubuntu.
Glances is a free, open-source, and cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool written in Python. It is a real-time system monitoring tool that monitors system resources, including CPU, Memory, Load, Disk I/O, Processes, File System space, Network interface and more.
Grafana is a free, open-source, and feature-rich metrics dashboard and data visualizing tool. It is designed for Graphite, Elasticsearch, OpenTSDB, Prometheus, and InfluxDB to monitor metrics from a web-based interface. This tutorial will explain how to install Grafana 8 on Ubuntu 22.04.
Podman is a container runtime that provides features similar to Docker. It’s part of the libpod library and can be used to manage pods (Kubernetes Terminology), containers, container images, and container volumes. In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to install Podman manually from source code on an Ubuntu server.
Calibre is a free and open-source e-book manager. It works as a cross-platform desktop application along with a server component. In this tutorial, you will learn to install the Calibre server on a Ubuntu 22.04 machine.
Mattermost is an open-source messaging platform used for chatting, file-sharing, project management, and workflow orchestration. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Mattermost Team Messaging System on a Ubuntu 22.04 server.
Elgg is a free, open-source, highly customizable web framework and CMS for building an online social environment. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL as a database backend.
This tutorial shows the installation of an Ubuntu 22.04 base server in detail with many screenshots. The purpose of the guide is to show the base installation of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS that can be used as a basis for our other Ubuntu tutorials here at howtoforge like our perfect server guides.
Gitlab Server is an open-source version of the cloud-hosted Gitlab version control. This guide will teach you how to install Gitlab Server using Docker on a Ubuntu 22.04 server.