Author: Travis

I am a Cloud Engineer currently working in the financial and web hosting industry. My passion has been Linux since I first discovered it in 2005. Throughout my career, I have always implemented Linux wherever possible and am an advocate of using open source software over proprietary whenever possible. I strongly believe in the UNIX philosophy of "Do One Thing and Do It Well". I started The Linux Lab as a way for people to discover Linux (and UNIX in general, even macOS users) and to find solutions to problems and learn about Linux.

firewalld is one of the many layers to securing a Linux system. It’s easier to maintain than iptables, especially for users who may not be familiar…

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If you’re looking to get started with Linux, one of the more popular and beginner friendly distributions is Linux Mint. This distro is based on Ubuntu…

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When you work on Linux systems, it’s important to know some Bash scripting. Bash is the command line interpreter on most Linux systems. Bash stands for…

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There are times where you might want to change the hostname of your Linux system. Perhaps you changed your domain name or when you first provisioned…

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