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WP-CLI is the command-line interface for WordPress. The WP-CLI is a tool that enables you to interact with your WordPress site directly by using commands in a text-based interface. It’s also very comprehensive, featuring a wide variety of potential commands. Almost anything you can do on the back end of your site, you can do much faster using the WP-CLI. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install WP-CLI on any Linux server.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install qBittorrent on Ubuntu 20.04 and 21.04.

qBittorrent is a cross-platform free and open-source BitTorrent client. qBittorrent is a native application written in C++ which uses Boost, Qt 5 toolkit, and libtorrent-rasterbar library and is extremely lightweight and fast. qBittorrent is very popular amongst torrent users as the main alternative to UTorrent.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Swift on Ubuntu 20.04 and 21.04.

Swift, often referred to as “Objective-C, without the C,” is an open-source programming language developed and maintained by Apple. Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns. The Swift project aims to create the best available language for uses ranging from systems programming to mobile and desktop apps, scaling up to cloud services.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Sysdig on Ubuntu 20.04 and 21.04.

Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux-based system such as Ubuntu 20.04, then save, filter, and analyze that is particularly useful for system analysis, inspection, and debugging, amongst other uses. Sysdig is scriptable in Lua and includes a command-line interface and a powerful interactive UI using the command csysdig that runs in your terminal.

MariaDB is one of the most popular open-source databases next to its originator MySQL. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install MariaDB 10.6 on Rocky Linux 8.

Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open-source full-text search and analytics engine. The software supports RESTful operations that allow you to store, search, and analyze big volumes of data quickly and in near real-time. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Elastic Search on Debian 11 Bullseye.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to upgrade Debian 10 Buster to Debian 11 successfully.

The new upcoming release of Debian 11 codenamed Bullseye is scheduled to be released on August 14, 2021. The upgrade that has been in testing for the past few years brings updates to many well-known packages such as LibreOffice being upgraded to version 7.0, GNUcash is upgraded to 4.4 and the introduction of new driverless scanning and printing amongst a range of many new features.

LEMP is a collection of open-source software that is commonly used together to serve web applications. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install LEMP (Nginx, MariaDB, PHP 8.0) on Rocky Linux 8.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install PHP 8.0 on Rocky Linux 8 from Remi repository.

PHP 8.0 is a major update of the PHP language released on November 26, 2020, a giant leap forward from the existing PHP 7.4 release. The new PHP contains many new features and optimizations, including named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expression, null safe operators, JIT and improvements in the type system, error handling, and consistency.

ClamAV is an open-source and free antivirus software toolkit able to detect many types of malicious software, including viruses, trojans, malware, adware, rootkits and other malicious threats. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to configure ClamAV on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The same principle will work for the newer version Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo).

Linux Malware Detect (LMD), also known as Maldet, is a malware scanner for Linux released under the GNU GPLv2 license. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to configure Maldet on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The same principle will work for the newer version Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo).

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install the latest stable release of MariaDB 10.5 on Ubuntu 20.04. You can also use the same guide to upgrade to the newer 10.6 if you prefer however for stability we recommend staying on 10.5 until the newer version matures a bit more.

MariaDB is one of the most popular open-source databases next to its originator MySQL. The original creators of MySQL developed MariaDB in response to fears that MySQL will suddenly become a paid service due to Oracle acquiring it in 2010. With its history of doing similar tactics, the developers behind MariaDB have promised to keep it open source and free from such fears as what has happened to MySQL.

In the following tutorial you will learn how to install fail2ban on Ubuntu 20.04 with example configurations to learn how to deploy as an effective means of protection for your website and servers.

NGINX is the fastest and most prominent platform for powering web servers. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Nginx mainline by compiling from source and optional using PPAs with complete steps.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Syncthing on Ubuntu 20.04 and or 21.04 Hirsute with complete steps and screenshots. Also included is an example of making a NGINX reverse proxy for those wanting to use domains to access to your syncthing servers.

Syncthing is a free, open-source, peer-to-peer file synchronization application. Syncthing can sync files between devices on a local network or between remote devices over the Internet, with all data transmitted between multiple devices are encrypted with TLS. Whenever you create, modify or delete data on one peering node, the application will automatically replicate the changes to other servers. Another popular feature is Syncthing being cross-platform available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Solaris, Darwin, and BSD making it possible to sync across multiple devices.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install unattended upgrades on Ubuntu 20.04 and 21.04.

Ubuntu has a convenient feature for installing unattended updates to security and upgrades to software if you so choose it. The set-up is quite good, and you have multiple options to fine-tune the automatic process compared to coming from a Windows environment.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Chrome on Desktop and with Terminal option on Ubuntu 20.04 and the newest 21.04 Hirsute in a complete guide with screenshots.

Linux based systems come with Firefox naturally for most. However, what about Google Chrome? Is it available for Linux based systems? The answer is yes. It certainly is. Google Chrome is the most widely used web browser in the world at the moment. In April 2021, Chome has 64.47% of the current market, with the next major competitor being Safari at 18.69%, then Firefox at 3.59%. Chrome has been on Linux for a while but is facing some more competition with Microsoft Edge Beta being on the market recently; however, Chrome is the go-to choice for many Linux users not happy with Firefox native install.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to use this great disk usage utility on Ubuntu 20.04 and the newer version Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute.

No, it is no Duff beer if that rings a bell. Today, we are talking about Duf disk utility, an open-source, free “Disk Usage Free Utility” written in Goland and released under MIT license. The disk utility supports multi-platforms such as BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows operating systems.

Duf is a command-line utility to find disk usage in Linux and Unix-like systems terminals. One of the excellent features of Duf is its ability to display the disk usage details in a beautiful, user-friendly layout in tab form. Some extra features with Duf include disk usage out in JSON output.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Rust programming language on Ubuntu 20.04 along with how to update and remove the software. A bonus of how to create a test application is also included.

Rust is an open-source systems programming language that focuses on speed, memory safety and parallelism. Developers use Rust to create a wide range of new software applications, such as game engines, operating systems, file systems, browser components and simulation engines for virtual reality. Rust is syntactically similar to C++ but can guarantee memory safety by using a borrow checker for validating references.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to easily install the Microsoft Edge beta that is close to full stable release.

A stable launch is not too far away in the future, but I suspect it will be in the next few months to the end of the year. I doubt Microsoft will want to waste time, given how much work has already gone on it. With Linux getting ever so popular as a new alternative to Windows and Mac OSX, Microsoft needs to capitalize on the Linux market to stay relevant.