Docker is one of the most popular software for running containers. With Docker, developers can build, deliver, and run their code in containers. The host where Docker is installed and containers are running is called the Docker Engine. In this article, we’ll walk you through how to install Docker Engine (Community Edition) and Docker Compose on Linux (CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu).
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The MySQLB package is not included in the Debian 11 Bullseye repositories. The developers suggest using MariaDB instead. For some projects you need to use the original MySQL, not its fork. In that case you can manually add the MySQL repository and install the package in Debian. In my case, after upgrading the release from Debian 10 (Buster) to Debian 11 (Bullseye), I needed to install the original MySQL 8.0 on my Linux host.
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In this article, we will look at how to install and configure a Squid proxy server with HTTPS filtering support on Linux (Ubuntu 20.04 in this example).
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Webmin is an open-source web interface service for managing Linux. You can use Webmin to perform typical Linux administration tasks from a graphical web interface instead of a command-line shell. In this article, we’ll look at how to install and configure Webmin in CentOS and Ubuntu.
After installing Windows guest in a virtual machine on a KVM host, you must install the correct device drivers for virtual hardware (KVM VirtIO drivers). Without these drivers, guest Windows won’t be able to recognize virtual network adapters and a number of other virtual hardware.
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Let’s look at how to send an email notification when logging into a Linux server remotely via SSH. We’ll use postfix to send email alerts and the Gmail SMTP server as a relay host.
In this article, we’ll show you how to clone (copy/migrate) an installed Linux operating system to another (new) drive. The article shows the process of cloning Debian or Ubuntu, but it also applies to Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora Linux distros.
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Most modern computers and laptops released after 2016 already have a built-in TPM chip. TPM (Trusted Platform Module) is a special chip used as secure storage for encryption keys, passwords, and certificates. TPM can be used for various security apps such as key vault, secure boot, random number generation, etc. Let’s see how to check if a device has a TPM chip in Linux.
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In this article, we’ll look at how to check for Bluetooth adapters on a Linux computer or laptop, and how to find out the Bluetooth version.
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Let’s see how to fix the “MySQL server has gone away” error that appears when accessing MySQL Server.
The most common causes of the MySQL server has gone away error are:
