Linux Best Practices and Tips

2017-03-06 26 min read GuestPost Uncategorized

Linux is powerful, flexible, and can be adapted to a broad range of uses. While best practices for administrating Linux servers are not hard to find due the popularity of the operating system, there is always a need for up-to-date Linux advice, along with the best tips, from our experienced Toptal Linux administrators.

How to Avoid Frustration After Forgetting To Use Sudo Command

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  Have you ever typed a command in your terminal, only to find out you forgot to prefix it with the
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  command? You have to retype the whole command again just to add the
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  in front of it. Frustrating!
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  Well, you can add this simple alias to your
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  to help you reduce the frustration:
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How To Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

2010-07-23 1 min read Fedora Linux

For those of you who don’t know about ailurus:

Ailurus is cross-<a class="zem_slink" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux-distribution <a class="zem_slink" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPL <a class="zem_slink" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers.

And the features include:

Ailurus can …

display Linux skills
install popular software
change <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME settings
display <a class="zem_slink" title="Hardware" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware">hardware information
enable some third party repositories#
clean apt/yum cache#
backup and recover apt/yum status#

the features marked with ”#” support Ubuntu/Fedora only