A collection of system administration hints and tips, tricks and articles for the Linux operating system in all its variants.

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Mounting an Mac OS X install DVD in Ubuntu 14.04

This document describes how to use a Linux computer to extract the BaseSystem.dmg image file from an Mac OS X (10.7+) installation DVD

Mounting DFS on Oracle Linux

A short article on how to mount a DFS (distributed file system) on an Oracle Linux 5.11 system.

systemd replaces upstart and init

Unlike Upstart in Oracle Linux 6, the systemd daemon now replaces Upstart in managing system run levels and services.

openSUSE Quick Reference Guide

This article provides a quick reference guide for the open SuSE operating system

Uninstalling VMware Workstation from a Linux Host

This article provides the simple steps needed to uninstall the VMware workstation from a Linux host. You must run the command from a Linux server.

Tomcat 7 on CentOS 7

This post provides a basic installation and configuration of Tomcat 7 on a CentOS 7 server.

Moving from LAMP to LEMP

LAMP is a popular server stack using apache to deliver dynamic content; LEMP utilises ngnix to achieve the same open source technologies.

RPM cheat sheet

RPM is a command line package management utility used for installing, uninstalling, updating, querying and verifying software packages.