Linux Distributions

Every linux distribution has advantages and disadvantages, depending on the use case they were created for. The most significant differences will come from the bootloader, init system, display rend...

22 Apr 2019

Alpine Linux

There are several different Alpine versions available. Docker images should probably be based on the Mini Root Filesystem version; Minimal servers should probably be based on the standard ISO, but ...

14 Apr 2019

Linux Disk Management Tools

Background info The old standard for managing disk partitions was via the Master Boot Record (MBR). This was replaced by GUID Partition Table (GPT). This is more flexible, more resilient, allows la...

20 Jul 2018

Process Monitoring Tools

Sometimes, when a process goes awry, you’ll want to find the pid with ps aux | grep <processname> so that you can kill it. Sometimes, you’ll need tools that let you do more investigating… Yo...

20 Jul 2017