Your Guide To Linux!
Travis 
Photo by Lukas on Unsplash Linux is a free and open-source operating system that was first created by Linus Torvalds in 1991. It is a Unix-like operating system, meaning that it shares many of the same features and characteristics of the original Unix operating system developed at Bell Labs in the 1970s. What are the … Read more
When you’re working with files on Linux or UNIX systems, you’ll notice that file permissions are a lot different than how they work on Windows. You’ll notice that Linux assigns a number. If you’ve followed instructions for installing web software, you may have seen where you need to change the permissions to “777” or if … Read more
Photo by Taylor Vick on Unsplash Today, I’m going to show you how to get a cheap Linux VPS server. This server can be used for testing, learning, or even hosting your own website and applications later on if you’d like! First, go to NodeSpace Hosting and go to VPS Hosting. Select one of the … Read more
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