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Linux
Bookmarks
btop: Beautiful Terminal System Monitor
btop is a beautiful, feature-rich terminal system monitor — a modern successor to top and htop with GPU monitoring, process management, and excellent UI. Cross-platform, low-overhead, and configurable.
YunoHost: Self-Hosted Server for Everyone
YunoHost is an open-source server OS that makes self-hosting web apps as simple as clicking install — Nextcloud, Gitea, Mastodon, and 100+ others available in one catalog. It handles DNS, SSL, user management, and backups automatically, dramatically lowering the barrier to self-hosting.
Best Linux Commands for Advanced Hardware and System Info
A reference list of Linux commands for querying hardware and system information — CPU, memory, disks, PCI devices, USB, BIOS. The kind of cheat sheet you bookmark once and pull up whenever you're debugging a server or setting up a new machine.
Umbrel: Personal Server OS for Self-Hosting
Umbrel is a personal server OS for self-hosting — one-click installs for Bitcoin nodes, Lightning Network nodes, Nextcloud, and dozens of other apps on a Raspberry Pi or home server. The friendliest on-ramp to self-sovereign infrastructure.
Server Setup 2022
TheOrangeOne's 2022 server setup overview — hardware, OS, containerization, monitoring, backup strategy. A well-documented example of a mature home server stack with emphasis on reliability and observability.
Screw It, I'll Host It Myself
A personal account of moving from cloud services to self-hosted alternatives — the motivations, the setup, and the tradeoffs. Captures the early-2022 wave of interest in digital self-sovereignty driven by concerns about SaaS pricing and data privacy.
NixOS: Headless Home Assistant VM
A tutorial on running Home Assistant as a headless VM on NixOS — covering NixOS configuration, declarative VM setup, and integrating Home Assistant into a reproducible infrastructure-as-code home lab. Good example of the NixOS approach applied to home automation.
Linux SysOps Handbook
A concise practical handbook for Linux system operations — covering process management, networking, storage, user administration, monitoring, and shell scripting. A solid on-the-job reference for engineers who need to administrate Linux servers.
virtual-builders: VM Environment Builder Scripts
virtual-builders is a collection of scripts for building various virtual machine environments — QEMU/KVM-based VMs for development and testing. Useful for quickly spinning up reproducible Linux environments without Docker.
Backup Tool Alternatives: HN Thread
Hacker News thread cataloging backup tool alternatives — attic, borg, restic, and others — with practitioner perspectives on which holds up at scale. The comment thread is where the real comparison happens.
Get Started With Tmux
Sunaina Pai's beginner-friendly tmux guide — covering sessions, windows, panes, and the key bindings needed to make tmux a productive part of a terminal workflow. Good first-stop reference for anyone new to terminal multiplexing.
A tmux Primer
Daniel Miessler's comprehensive tmux primer — covering sessions, windows, panes, and key bindings. The reference guide for learning tmux from scratch, particularly useful for data scientists who spend significant time in SSH sessions on remote servers.
Unix Shell Tricks
Carles Fenoy's collection of Unix/Linux shell tricks and one-liners — a plain-text reference of practical command-line techniques. The kind of document that circulated among sysadmins and developers via bookmarks before Stack Overflow consolidated this knowledge.
My First 5 Minutes On A Server; Or, Essential Security for Linux Servers
Bryan Kennedy's definitive guide to the essential security hardening steps for a new Linux server — create a non-root user, set up SSH keys, disable root login, configure ufw, enable automatic updates, install fail2ban. One of the most bookmarked sysadmin articles of its era.
Raspberry Pi Setup Scripts
A GitHub Gist with setup scripts for the Raspberry Pi, including the essential dd command for writing a Raspbian image to an SD card. A practical reference from 2012 when the Pi was new and setup guides were scarce.
Configuring Wireless LAN on Raspberry Pi with RTL8188CUS WiFi Dongle
A 2012 setup guide for adding WiFi to the Raspberry Pi using the RTL8188CUS USB dongle — one of the first supported cheap WiFi adapters. The Pi had no built-in wireless until the Pi 3 in 2016, so USB dongles were required for years.