Apache (HTTPD) is the most popular web server on the web right now.  It is from the Apache Software Foundation.  A web server serves conten...

 Linux Mint has made installing new software a lot easier in Linux.  It actually allows you to install more software out of the box with Fla...

 If you've installed an operating system in VirtualBox before you've probably noticed the screen is really small even when you switc...

 It is useful in Linux to create cached shared Linux libraries especially is you are developing something.  To do that you first have to cre...

 As a Linux administrator you will eventually have to deal with libraries.  Libraries are the building blocks of applications and most appli...

 In Linux there's a great reporting tool that can look in the past for performance issues, it's an activity reporter call sar, it...

 In this post we are going to go over the steps to install the Ssysstat tool in Linux. Log in as root or su then run the command yum install...

 vmstat is used to report virtual memory stats on your Linux system.  It is helpful to see how much free memory you have left on your system...

 The top command is an essential tool in any Linux administrator's toolbelt.  Let's take a deeper look at the command. First thing y...

 In the previous post we created an EC2 instance in AWS in this post we are going to connect to that instance on a Linux workstation or serv...

 In this post we are going to look at another performance related command, which is the uptime command. First let's look at the uptime c...

 In this post we are going to look at the procps-ng package commands to get some performance related information on our Linux system. The fi...

 In Linux you can control the priority of a process with the commands nice and renice.  There are limitations if you are a non-root user. Th...

 Linux allows you to run jobs in the background and in the foreground.  It accomplish this by identifying the processes as jobs and assignin...

 Since searching for a process and killing process is such a common task there's are shortcut commands available for these tasks in form...

 The kill command in Linux is a powerful command to kill a process. You usually see the kill command accompanied by the process ID however t...

 In Linux managing processes is an essential part of keeping your system running in an efficient state.  In this post we are going to look a...

 GRUB2 is a wonderful tool, and one of the cool thing you can do is create a custom entry on the boot menu.  Let's say you built a syste...

 From the past few posts you can see that GRUB2 is a very powerful utility in Linux.  It's so powerful that you can create and change th...