When you work on Linux systems, it’s important to know some Bash scripting. Bash is the command line interpreter on most Linux systems. Bash stands for…
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Travis
I am a Cloud Engineer currently working in the financial and web hosting industry. My passion has been Linux since I first discovered it in 2005. Throughout my career, I have always implemented Linux wherever possible and am an advocate of using open source software over proprietary whenever possible. I strongly believe in the UNIX philosophy of "Do One Thing and Do It Well". I started The Linux Lab as a way for people to discover Linux (and UNIX in general, even macOS users) and to find solutions to problems and learn about Linux.
There are times where you might want to change the hostname of your Linux system. Perhaps you changed your domain name or when you first provisioned…
When you install AlmaLinux, you have two options when it comes to networking – use DHCP or set a static IP. In some cases, you may…
In case you missed it, CentOS 8 is reaching EOL (End of Life) on December 31, 2021. As of this publishing, that’s only two weeks away!…
On May 1st, Rocky Linux released its first release candidate to the public. This version was due out at the end of March. Thankfully, Rocky Linux…
Today, AlmaLinux officially launched as stable! There was a full livestream launch party which you can watch right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmjQInMOQbM Some highlights are: The project is…
The first stable version of AlmaLinux is launching on March 30, 2021 at 10 AM EDT. There is going to be a live stream which you…
When you’re working with systems, you’re going to end up needing to transfer files between your system and a remote system or even two remote systems.…
Today is the day! The team over at CloudLinux has provided the first beta of AlmaLinux 8.3 and the first fork of RHEL 8. If you…
Back in December, Red Hat announced that CentOS was shifting directions – instead of being a bug-for-bug compatible release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, they decided…