How to install Microsoft SQL Server on Linux
During the past few years, Microsoft has been investing resources in Linux-related projects. Today you can install Microsoft SQL Server on Linux. All of it began with .NET being open-sourced.
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Linux: what is fstab and how do I use it?
When learning Linux system administration one of the basic concept is the fstab file. Many people say you don’t have to touch it, many other say that you should only if things don’t work, but what...
How to install and configure SSH server on Ubuntu 16.04
SSH is easily one of the first and most useful tools that gets installed on a server to perform remote system administration. Let’s learn how to install and configure it on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus.
Swap partitions: what are they? Do I need them?
One of the most asked question by Linux beginners is: “What is this swap partition?” usually followed by “Do I need it?”. In this article I try to explain what these partitions are and if you...
How to install ESXi nested inside ProxMox VE
So, one of the tasks I had to complete this past week was: Install an ESXi hypervisor in a virtual machine, on top of a Proxmox VE 4 infrastructure. This post documents the process (since I...
Ubuntu: how to remove older kernels automatically
Today, for the first time I encountered a strange behaviour on a machine with Ubuntu 15.10 . The problem itself was quite strange and rendered the machine unusable with default boot settings.
OpenStack can’t attach cinder volume
Yesterday I was setting up a few things at my home OpenStack server and ran into an ugly problem that took me a while to resolve. I couldn’t attach any volume from the backends I had...
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