Best Lightweight Linux Distros for Home Server
Linux is one of the best choices for self-hosting applications. It is generally very fast, lightweight, and lacks the bloat of other operating systems like Windows Server OS when it…
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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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…