Are you new to the recently launched Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, also known as Resolute Raccoon? It was released on April 23, 2026, and it will restart the 5-year clock for standard maintenance and security updates. Although every Linux distribution comes with default security, it’s never enough; it always requires more. We can make it more
If you have tried running a simple dnf install redis on a fresh AlmaLinux 10 server, you have probably already hit a wall. The package is not there, and older tutorials written for AlmaLinux 8 or 9 will not save you here. This guide explains how to install redis on AlmaLinux 10 exactly why that
Running AlmaLinux 10 inside VirtualBox is one of the easiest ways to learn Linux administration, test server configurations, or build a safe sandbox for development work without touching a physical machine. This guide walks through the full process of installing AlmaLinux 10 on VirtualBox on Windows, macOS, or Linux hosts. You will download the correct
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and PHP) remains the most widely deployed web server stack for hosting WordPress sites, custom PHP applications, and traditional dynamic websites. On AlmaLinux 10, all four components are available directly through the default repositories, meaning you can go from a bare OS to a fully working web server in about 15
After installing AlmaLinux 10, there are a few basic settings to take care of before you start using the server. The first steps are creating a regular user with sudo access, setting a proper hostname, and configuring the firewall with the services you actually need. In this guide, we’ll go through these initial server setup
SSH (Secure Shell) is how you’ll manage your AlmaLinux 10 server for almost everything, installing packages, editing configs, checking logs, and deploying applications. Whether you just spun up a fresh cloud VPS or you’re setting up a home lab server, this guide covers the full process: verifying SSH is running, connecting from your local machine,
AlmaLinux 10 ships lean by design, stable, security-hardened, and limited to a conservative set of packages. That’s great for production reliability, but it means common tools like htop, fail2ban, ffmpeg, or certbot simply aren’t available through the default repositories. That’s what EPEL is for. This guide covers exactly how to install and enable EPEL on
Few things stop an AlmaLinux 10 server faster than a broken package manager. Whether dnf install hangs indefinitely, yum update throws a wall of dependency errors, or you get a flat Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo message, you can’t patch, install, or remove anything until it’s fixed. The good news on AlmaLinux 10
If something breaks on your AlmaLinux 10 server, the logs almost always know why. AlmaLinux 10, built on the RHEL 10 codebase and running systemd 257, uses a dual logging architecture: the structured, binary systemd-journald system accessed through journalctl, and the traditional plain-text logs written by rsyslog into /var/log/. Knowing how to use both is
Apache Maven is the backbone of most Java build pipelines, and if you’ve just moved to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (“Resolute Raccoon”), you’ll want to get it running correctly from day one. This guide walks you through every method of installing Maven on Ubuntu 26.04, from the quick APT method to the manual binary install that