#Linux

Installing and configuring the Uncomplicated Firewall

Snapcraft is a tool to install containerized software packages.

Now Firefox is available!

I have a brand new VPS server from OVH with Debian Stretch. Let’s configure it with some basic security and Docker. The server will be used as a test machine for my experiments. This machine is not for production.

ncdu

Ncdu is a disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. It is designed to find space hogs on a remote server where you don’t have an entire graphical setup available, but it is a useful tool even on regular desktop systems. Ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in any minimal POSIX-like environment with ncurses installed.

To free up some space I removed LibreOffice and obtained about 720M of space.

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

Installation of netcore 2.1.0 preview on debian. Creation of a simple WebApi. Packing and installing the api as service using nginx.

If you’re feeling especially paranoid there are various things you could do to reduce logging on linux.