Linux & Administration¶
System administration, server setup, configuration, and Linux tips from our community.
Topics¶
- Linux Distribution Comparisons
- System Administration Basics
- User & Permission Management
- Package Management & Software Installation
- Networking & Firewall Configuration
- Shell Scripting & Automation
- Performance Monitoring & Troubleshooting
Recent Articles¶
Best-Practicess¶
- Beyond Big Tech: A Pragmatic Path to Digital Sovereignty — A pragmatic, experience-based overview of open-source and non-Big-Tech alternatives across mobile, desktop, cloud, communication, and infrastructure—focused on digital sovereignty, resilience, and real-world trade-offs rather than ideology
- Recovering files from a failing USB drive — Recovering files from a corrupted or possibly failing USB disk under mint using gddrescue, and photorec.
Guides¶
- GRUB and LUKS Screwed My System — Kicking myself out of an encrypted system, and back again.
- Secrets Cleanup: How to Find & Remove Leaked Credentials from Git History — Practical guide to scanning git history for exposed API keys, tokens, and database credentials, with incident response procedures and prevention strategies.