Vi : Guides for Beginners
Vi is an old screen-oriented text editor , the first release of this software is dated back in 1976, originally created for the Unix operating system. What I like of vi is that I can find it in any...
View Article8 favorite Unix admin tricks and time-savers
Probably my all-time favorite is top. Even with commands like prstat and sar on some of the systems I use routinely, top is there with a quick answer and is nearly, if not completely, ubiquitous. A...
View ArticleSome useful command with iproute2
As I wrote more than 2 years ago, the network tools (often referred as net-tools) ifconfig, netstat and route that should be familiar to anyone that has worked with a terminal, have been deprecated in...
View ArticleDebian GNU/Hurd 2013 Reaches %75 Package Compatibility, Maintains Existence
GNU/Hurd — the completely free, Stallman-born kernel — continues to live on through its latest Debian-ized release. And what better delivery mechanism than the most stable and most glacially released...
View ArticleFinal Term: A 2013 Spin on a 1978 Relic
The terminal emulator. Perhaps the most important tool in any one person’s arsenal for accessing systems remotely and locally. Unix and Linux admins would be lost without one; but despite it’s...
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How to set up a free and open source environment on your computer
Previously, I provided several options for organisations wanting to update their current Windows XP environment to a free and open source (FOSS) environment rather than a more recent Microsoft...
View ArticleHow to Setup Ports Collection on FreeBSD 11.0
FreeBSD operating system can use binary packages with pkg utility, but for for some ocassion, like running newest versions of the code, you would want to compile some programs. For that, there is...
View ArticleHow to Setup FreeBSD 11 Webserver with Nginx, Mysql, PHP 7.0 (PHP FPM)
We have been running LEMP stack ie Nginx, MySQL and PHP in Linux based operating system but today we'll be installing FEMP stack on FreeBSD 11. FreeBSD is a free and open source Unix-like operating...
View ArticleHow to Setup OwnCloud 9 with Nginx and OpenSSL on FreeBSD 11
OwnCloud is a PHP and MySQL based free and open source file sharing application platform which allows us to create our very own cloud storage platform. The OwnCloud server which is a free edition is...
View ArticleHow to Install Mate Desktop Environment in FreeBSD 11
Mate is a free and open source desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like operating system which is a fork of the now-unmaintained code base of GNOME 2 desktop environment. It is under active...
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