Operating System
How to install a NetBSD server?

In the world of free operating systems, GNU/Linux is the best known and most used, but there are also other operating systems that are very robust, very stable and have excellent performance, such as the BSD family, within the BSD family there are 3 well-known operating systems: FreeBSD, OpenBSD y NetBSD.
Which distribution to choose from the RHEL family?
In today’s post we are going to recommend which distro use, from the RHEL family, for office environments and which one for a business environment.
Is Linux an Operating System?
Long Answer: An operating system is a set of tools or software that you install on your computer or device and create a base system that allows you to extend its functionality by installing additional applications. In other words, an operating system is the minimum environment necessary to make your computer or device usable.
How to schedule tasks in GNU/Linux
cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems, cron is used to schedule jobs at fixed times, dates, or intervals; cron runs every minute and detects if there is a new command or task (reading the files /etc/crontab
, /etc/cron.d/*
and /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*
) to run.
CentOS or Fedora?
Short answer: CentOS.
Long answer…
How to install Debian, expert mode
Debian is a highly recommended distribution for server environments due to:
- His version release philosophy. Debian does not have a fixed cycle to release new versions, but each version is released once the development team considers it stable enough (released when it is ready).
- Packages inclusion policy: only stable and well-tested packages are included.
- Its robustness and stability.
How to read/write NTFS partitions on GNU/Linux
NTFS-3G is a stable, full-featured, read-write NTFS driver for Linux, Android, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, QNX, Haiku, and other operating systems.
- It provides safe handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 NTFS file systems.
- It allows to create, delete, move and rename files, directories, hard links and streams
- It allows to read and modify files and streams
- It allows to handle special files such us: symlinks, devices and FIFOs
How to know the installed version of Debian/Ubuntu?
We can know the version of Debian / Ubuntu we have installed by running the following command:
$ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS"