Linux tutorials

Introduction In a previous tutorial we talked about the installation of Nextcloud on an Ubuntu 16.04 server with Apache. Remember, Nextcloud is a cloud storage...

Having been around computers since my youngest years I have always been curious how they work, so I started playing around with them. I...

Introduction Mattermost is a workplace messaging system for web, PCs and phones. It's an open source alternative to Slack. A complete Mattermost installation consists of three...

Introduction OwnCloud 9.1.4 is an open source software for file sharing and data synchronization that is very useful in the enterprise sector, with an easy...

Introduction EncryptPad is an application for editing symmetrically encrypted text. It provides a tool for encrypting and decrypting binary files, and it uses the format...

Introduction For those who don't know, WordPress is a famous content management system based on PHP and MySQL, distributed under the terms of the GNU...

Introduction Grunt is a JavaScript task runner, which helps in performing repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, and linting. This means that a developer...

Introduction OTRS (Open-Source Ticket Request System) is a web-based ticketing system, widely used by businesses for services like customer support, help desks and call centres....

Introduction For those who don't know, Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) is an infrastructure software program made up of multiple components developed by Elastic. The components include: Beats:...

Introduction Rclone is a command line program developed to sync files and directories to and from various cloud storage services, like Google Drive, Amazon S3,...

FFmpeg is a great multimedia framework that helps you deal with your audio and video files. What do I mean by this? Well, you...

Introduction Drupal is a content-management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU GPL. It can be used for any type of site, from...

Introduction Apache Tomcat is a Java Servlet Container which implements several Java EE specifications including JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java Servlet, WebSocket and Java EL. It  also...

Introduction If you've never heard about HHVM, it's an open-source Virtual Machine designed for executing programs written in Hack and PHP. For performance reasons, it uses...

Introduction Jenkins is an automation server written in Java, as a fork of the Hudson project. It helps to automate part of the software development...

Introduction It was September when, with a post on its blog, Google announced that starting from Chrome 56, its browser will mark non-secure pages containing...

Introduction We've already talked about using tools like rsync for managing backup of your systems, but there's another "problem" which has to be solved if...

Introduction For those who don't know, SSHFS stands for Secure SHell FileSystem. It's a client that enables us to interact with remote directories through SFTP...