It’s very useful to be able to view/edit files on your server out of a command-line environment, and the chances are that you have a Windows machine somewhere which you may use on a more daily bases, the difference in operating systems doesn’t have to act as a barrier between everything though, the 2 (or […]

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Yes, you are reading correctly, it is possible to install a web browser onto a text-based operating system, albeit a limited one. You won’t get all the fancy features of Firefox; but it is a very quick, small, and efficient browser called Lynx. Like many other things, installation is simple, just one command required:
sudo apt-get […]

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OpenSSH is a free application that allows you to remotely connect into your server, and it will act as if you are logged in locally. It is very similar to telnet, although much greater in the fact that it encrypts data sent over the connection.
The SSH server application, which you will be installing, can easily […]

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Possibly one of the most useful features of Ubuntu Server is the apt-get command, it allows you to install software without having to compile or mess around with too many configuration files.Apt-Get installs software from a database maintained by Ubuntu, and then automatically configures most software.
It knows where to look from a list of “sources” […]

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