Since the announcement by RedHat to shift focus from CentOS project to CentOS Stream, the opensource community has been working round the clock to come up with alternatives that will take over from CentOS 8. One such alternative is Rocky Linux, which is a Community Enterprise system from the Rocky Linux Foundation and a fork […]

We have covered quite a number of monitoring tools in the past such as Bashtop which is a command-line monitoring tool that provides a real-time analysis of your system metrics. Another equally robust and intuitive tool is Glances. Written in Python, Glances is an open-source cross-platform, command-line tool used for real-time monitoring of system metrics. […]

Duf is a useful disk monitoring terminal tool written in Golang. It’s a free and open-source cross-platform tool designed to be a replacement for the df command. It allows you to easily check your disk usage and present it in a much more organized and presentable manner.  In this guide, you will learn how to […]

Wget is a free Linux command-line utility tool that helps us retrieve or download files from the internet. It retrieves files using FTP, HTTP, and  HTTPS protocols. The command can sustain unstable and slow network connections. If a network interruption occurs during a download, wget can resume the download from where it halted. Wget is […]

Sometimes, you might need to know for how long your system has been running. In this guide, you will learn how to check uptime for a Linux server. There are various ways of accomplishing this using various tools. Without much further ado, let’s begin. Prerequisites To get started, you need to have an instance of […]

Netdata is a distributed, scalable, real-time performance and health monitoring solution for Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS. It is a free and Open Source tool that is helpful for troubleshooting real-time issues. It monitors processes such as memory, CPU utilization, disk input/output, network bandwidth, system applications, MySQL database among other system real-time metrics. The metrics are […]

In a  previous article, we highlighted the consternation that gripped the FOSS community,  more particularly CentOS enthusiasts regarding the shift from CentOS project to the rolling release CentOS Stream.  As you already know by now, CentOS 8 is being retired in favor of CentOS Stream which is going to be the upstream distribution of Red […]

On December 8, 2020, CentOS made a controversial announcement that sparked outrage among the opensource community. CentOS project is making a shift to CentOS Stream, a rolling release branch of CentOS. Simply put, CentOS Stream takes over from CentOS 8 and there won’t be CentOS 9 or any subsequent releases going forward. In fact, CentOS […]

LEMP, an acronym for Linux Nginx ( Pronounced and Engine-X) MySQL and PHP is a popular web development stack used by developers to test and launch websites. LEMP is a close cousin to the LAMP server which ships with Apache webserver instead of Nginx. In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to install LEMP server on […]

LAMP is a popular opensource stack that stands for Linux Apache MySQL/MariaDB and PHP. It’s mostly used by front-end and back-end developers to test and host a website. The stack comprises of 3 components. First, we have  Apache, which is a web server. Then we have Mariadb, which is a fork of MySQL and PHP […]