Linux Basics

How to Add and Delete Users on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Add and Delete Users on Ubuntu 16.04

Learning how to manage users effectively is an essential skill for any Linux system administrator. In this guide, we will discuss how to add and delete users and assign sudo privileges on an Ubuntu 16.04 server.

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How To Add Swap Space on Debian 10 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Add Swap Space on Debian 10

One of the easiest way of guarding against out-of-memory errors in applications is to add some swap space to your server. In this guide, we will cover how to add a swap file to a Debian 10 server. <$>[warning] Warning: Although swap is generally recommended for systems…

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How To Set Up a Remote Desktop with X2Go on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up a Remote Desktop with X2Go on Ubuntu 18.04

X2Go provides a working “cloud desktop,” complete with all the advantages of an always-online, remotely-accessible, easily-scalable computing system with a very fast network. It is also more responsive and more secure than many VNC solutions. In this tutorial, you’ll use X2Go to create an XFCE desktop environment that you can access remotely. This “cloud desktop” will include the exact same utilities that you would obtain had you installed Ubuntu 20.04 and XFCE on your local machine.

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How To Set Filesystem Quotas on Debian 10 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Filesystem Quotas on Debian 10

Quotas are used to limit the amount of disk space a user or group can use on a filesystem. Without such limits, a user could fill up the machine’s disk and cause problems for other users and services. In this tutorial we will install command line tools to create and inspect disk quotas, then set a quota for an example user.

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An Introduction to Linux Basics — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

An Introduction to Linux Basics

Linux may be daunting to learn about at first, but familiarising yourself with the operating system is easy. The basics are simple, and you’ll learn skills to arm yourself with knowledge in the future.

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Как настроить виртуальные хосты в Apache на Ubuntu 14.04 LTS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Как настроить виртуальные хосты в Apache на Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Веб-сервер Apache является самым популярным средством размещения веб-контента в интернете. На его счету более половины всех действующих веб-сайтов. Это очень мощный и гибкий инструмент. Apache разделяет свои функциональные возможности и компоненты на отдельные части, которые…

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An Introduction To Regular Expressions — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

An Introduction To Regular Expressions

This tutorial will give an insight to regular expressions without going into particularities of any language. We will simply use egrep to explain the concepts. Regular expressions are templates to match patterns (or sometimes not to match patterns). They provide a way to describe and parse text.

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Initial Setup of a Fedora 22 Server — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Initial Setup of a Fedora 22 Server

When you first log into a fresh Fedora 22 server, it’s not ready for use as a production system. There are a number of recommended steps to take in order to customize and secure it, e.g. enabling a firewall. This tutorial will show you how to give a fresh installation of a Fedora 22 server a better security profile and be ready for use.

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