today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 20, 2023

• Mastering Disk Usage with du Command in Linux: A Beginner’s Guide

  Have you noticed “how can you see the size of directory in Linux?”

• Exploring System Performance with Top Command in Linux: A Comprehensive Guide

  The top command in Linux is one of the most frequently used commands in our daily system administrative jobs.

• How To Install Squid Proxy on Rocky Linux 9

  In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Squid Proxy on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Squid Proxy is an open-source caching and forwarding HTTP proxy server that enables clients to access web resources while hiding their identity and improving browsing speed through content caching.

• How to Open, Extract and Create RAR Files on Linux

  RAR files are a widely used archive format that enables users to compress and package multiple files into a single, space-saving package. As a Linux user, understanding how to efficiently extract and create RAR files is essential for managing your data effectively.

• How To Install WildFly on Debian 12

  In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WildFly on Debian 12. For those of you who didn’t know, WildFly formerly known as JBoss, is a leading open-source Java application server that provides a robust platform for developing and deploying Java-based applications.

• How to Install a Debian 12 (Bookworm) Minimal Server

  This tutorial shows in detail how to install a Debian 12 (Bookworm) minimal server with many screenshots. The purpose of this guide is to provide a minimal setup that can be used as the basis for our other Debian 12 tutorials here at howtoforge.com.

• How to Install LEMP Stack (Nginx, MariaDB, PHP) on Debian 12

  Learn step-by-step: Install LEMP stack (Nginx, MariaDB, PHP) on Debian 12 "Bookworm" for efficient web hosting and blazing-fast performance.

• How to Pass Environment Variables to Docker Containers

  When working with Docker containers, you’ll often want to pass configuration options and other data into containers via environment variables. There are several ways to inject environment variables into Docker containers both at build and run time.

• How to install Visual Studio Code on Debian 12 [Ed: Terrible idea. It is proprietary spyware controlled by a company that's constantly attacking Linux from both inside and outside. Stay away. Try something like Kate.]

  There are several ways to install Visual Studio Code on Debian 12.

  However, in this tutorial you will learn how to install Visual Studio Code on Debian 12 by using the official repository.

• Getting Started with MySQL: Step-by-Step Guide for Installation on Ubuntu

  MySQL is well known and an open-source database management system. It uses a relational database and SQL to manage data.

• How to install Linux Mint on a PC or Mac – Linux Mint 21.2 Edition

  I hope you read all my previous Linux Mint tutorials in the preferred order, so you know now how to download Linux Mint...

• Install Cockpit Flatpak Client on Ubuntu 22.04.3 (Gnome Desktop)

  Cockpit Client provides a graphical interface to your servers, containers, and virtual machines. Connections are made over SSH, using the SSH configuration of the local user (including aliases, known hosts, key files, hardware tokens, etc).

• My mnemonic to remember tar commands on Linux

  The tar command is famous for being hard to use. What flags do you use for creating a tarball? What about extracting one?

  I remember two mnemonics when doing this: create a file and extract a file.

• Get Script Directory Location in Bash

  Here are a couple of ways of getting the directory location of your bash script inside the bash script.