I was surprised to find that the mail command doesn’t work out of the box in Fedora, nor in the minimal installation of CentOS 7. Thankfully there’s an easy way to add it by installing the mailx...
Learn MoreI like the idea of having a shared drive attached to my always-on Linux system, so that all my computers (Windows and Mac) can access those in a central place. It’s like a NAS without having a NAS box...
Learn MoreThe firewall-cmd tool has a neat feature in that it knows what ports are used for certain services. This is handy for things like web server ports which our tired brains may forget from time to time (hint:...
Learn MoreI’ve just installed a LAMP stack on my Nook Tablet using Debian. However I’ve been using CentOS since 2008 and I’m so used to how things are done there that it was a bit of a culture shock...
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