System & Network Admin

Test or monitor web site HTTP redirects on the command line with cURL

Download zone for official sourcecode and binaries releases published by the Dyne.org foundation

Tomb is a free open-source, small, powerful tool for creating and managing encrypted files storage or backup of personal secret files on GNU/Linux.

This article is tailored for middle-level users and covers topics such as customizing search, understanding processes, and how to terminate them.

Using nix, the functional package manager on the Windows Subsystem for Linux is fairly easy, however a couple of additional steps need to be done. We will be using Ubuntu from the Microsoft Store, apply some workarounds, and install nix. Nix is also the basis of NixOS a purely functional linux distribution.

IPFS × Nix Guide. Contribute to obsidiansystems/ipfs-nix-guide development by creating an account on GitHub.

IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) is a peer-to-peer distributed file system that stores and retrieves files in a BitTorrent-like way. The…

IPFS × Nix Guide. Contribute to obsidiansystems/ipfs-nix-guide development by creating an account on GitHub.

nixbuild.net provides Nix builds as a cloud service. It takes away the effort of managing and scaling build clusters and integrates with any setup using Nix.

(I wanted to split this thread from #296 (comment) .) Let's discuss relations with IPFS here. As I see it, mainly a decentralized way to distribute nix-stored data would be appreciated. What we...

You can use the stat command to view dates and times associated with Linux files, and the date command can do some handy conversions if you’d like to display the current time in the epoch format.

Our topic today is configuring desktop Linux DNS settings. It’s simple in principle and can yield privacy, security, and availability benefits. Yet despite how straightforward it is in theory and historically was in practice, customizing your device’s DNS is no longer an intuitive matter.

I’ve been using Nix for a few months now, and one of my largest outstanding pain points is that any time I’m in a nix-shell, none of my stuff works the way I want it to. On a scale from “uses the stock PS1” to “wrote their own shell,” I’m prettttty far to the right. I haven’t actually written my own shell, but, you know, I’ve started writing my own shell, and I have lots of aliases and a fancy custom fzf-based autocomplete thing and weird tmux integrations and strong feelings about how my shell should behave. And I cannot tell you the number of times I have seen this error message:

Discover what key factors you should know before planning an outdoor PoE installation.

Learn to verify files and directories in Bash with our concise guide: How to Check if a File or Directory Exists in Bash.

Our proof-of-concept minimal CI System that builds an Elixir release and deploys it as a systemd service on NixOS, which itself presents an attractive value proposition: reproducible, declarative, reliable Linux system configuration.

Shufflecake is an innovative tool for creating an encrypted and hidden filesystem in Linux. Learn how to setup your own in Ubuntu today.

The message isolation approach offers a scalable, cost-effective solution for testing Kafka-based asynchronous workflows.

Containers, processes, namespaces, security, troubleshooting

If you’re reading this article, you’ve most likely used SSH to connect to a remote server and SCP (Secure copy protocol) to copy files…

In popularizing Linux containers, Docker brought about a new era of systems design based on these lightweight platforms, rather than heavy virtual machines. However, now that Docker is slowly declining, it’s time to learn about the next generation of Linux container tools.

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