Your Guide To Linux!
Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash This is an old page from Jonathan McPherson’s website (now long offline), and it contains a lot of useful information about customizing vim (vi) with .vimrc. This is aimed mostly towards folks who use a flavor of UNIX (a discussion topic about vi/vim on FreeBSD is where this customization … Read more
Photo by regularguy.eth on Unsplash When it comes to user accounts, the passwd utility is one that will see a lot of use. As you can guess from the name, it helps you manage account passwords on the system. It also gives you easy access to managing your own password and passwords for other users … Read more
Featured image by Travis Saylor via Pexels. What is a soft link? What is a hard link? If you’re new to Linux and coming from Windows, you can think of these as what Windows calls “shortcuts” (although they are a little bit different and I’ll get into that). Here’s a way to think about it: … Read more
Featured image by Karolina Grabowska via Pexels. One of my favorite tools on *NIX systems is dd (which stands for copy and convert – “cc” is already taken by the C Compiler). This is a handy utility that allows you to do all sorts of things with drives. When I need to securely erase it, … Read more
Installing AlmaLinux 9 is like installing any other RHEL-based distro. But if you haven’t installed it manually before, it’s actually pretty easy and I’ll walk you though the installation process. I’m going to be doing this on a Proxmox VE host, which I got from NodeSpace Hosting and their new Proxmox private cloud offering. Installing … Read more