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Install Rocky Linux 9 in VirtualBox

Rocky Linux 9 is a long term support OS, so you can safely use it for another 10 years. Most cloud providers offer it already, where you don't need to install it. But if you are testing or even hosting an app on your local machine, you can install Rocky Linux 9 in a VirtualBox to do so.

August 1, 2022

Resource monitoring terminal tools in Linux

Monitoring your system resources is quite common in tech world. But if you are a Linux or terminal person, then you know there is nothing stopping you from having tools at your disposal. I am going to show you a few of resource monitoring terminal tools in Linux today.

July 30, 2022

Extend XFS partition on LVM on Linux

There are times when you need to extend a partition either root or home to have more space on your virtual server. The end result should be a smooth process without data loss and issues. If your server or virtual machine is on Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux etc), read on how to extend/grow XFS partition based on LVM.

July 7, 2022

Recover InnoDB MySQL or MariaDB database from raw files

So you have raw files of your database and don't have a dump or backup at hand. Worry not, it's easy to recover an InnoDB MySQL or MariaDB database from raw files.

June 25, 2022

Alternatives to Thunderbird on Linux

Thunderbird is an old horse on Linux and most will agree with that. Now if you like it or not UI wise, but it has almost everything one would need in an email client. Here in this article I am going to discuss another two alternatives to Thunderbird if you are on any Linux distribution.