Parted Magic: Now with added ZFS goodness Parted Magic has been around a good long time now, and it’s something that every computer troubleshooter should have in his or her…
Top 10 Text Editors for Linux Desktop
I needs me a good text editor, what to do? The following blog article from LinuxTechi provides a pretty decent review of text editors for Linux today. Of course, what…
How to create a bootable Windows 10 usb stick in Ubuntu
Need to install Windows 10 on a machine, but need to put the Windows 10 ISO on a USB stick on nothing but a Linux box? Sure! During the recording…
Linux Lab: SysAdmin 101
So you wanna be a Linux Systems Administrator? Every now and again, I am asked to provide a bit of training for budding systems admins or people on the career…
Debian 9 ( Stretch ) is here. Finally!
Debian Stable is Stretching out Debian was my gamechanger for Linux. It is and always has been the motherload of Linux (in my humble opinion). Everything good in the world…
Your Raspberry Pi as a Zombie Bitcoin Harvesting Beast
But mommy, I just wanted to play with my Pi… Straight from the bowels of all things unholy on the Interwebs, it now turns out that some ‘so called’ malware…
Using sed to find and replace text files in Linux
nixCraft have a good tutorial for the new Linux user/admin. In this example, the tutorial is to answer the question “how do I find the text called ‘foo’ and replaced…
SSHPass: How to SSH into a server using a script with no password (non-interactively)
Ever asked yourself: How do I use ssh in a shell script? How do I login non-interactively performing password authentication with SSH and shell scripts? How do I login over…
Ubuntu, SuSE and Fedora now in the Windows store!
Did you say Linux? In the Windows Store? Like, OMG! Did we just enter some weird hallucination, or parallel universe? Nope! Microsoft have announced that they continue their partnership with Ubuntu/Canonical.…
Hello nftables, Goodbye iptables
Firewalling under Linux gets revamped. Yep, you read it right. The firewalling tool that has been either hated or loved, ever since Kernel 2.4 is being phased out from kernel…