• Linux Crash Course: Background (bg) and Foreground (fg)

    In this episode of Linux Essentials, we’ll take a look at how to send tasks to the background, and then bring them to the foreground. This helps you get the current task out of the way so you can switch to something else, without having to use multiple terminal windows.

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  • Linux Crash Course – Public Key Authentication

    Public Key Authentication with OpenSSH is preferred, as it’s a much stronger method of authenticating to your servers when compared to using password authentication. In fact, password authentication in OpenSSH should always be disabled. But before you can password authentication, you’ll need to set up public key authentication, and that’s exactly what we’ll do in today’s video.

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  • Linux Crash Course – Formatting & Mounting Storage Volumes

    Storage volumes are essential to our Linux servers and workstations, but how do we format and mount additional storage volumes? In this episode of Linux Essentials, I’ll walk you through the process of formatting additional storage volumes and mounting them in your Linux instance.

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  • Linux Crash Course: The Arch User Repository

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  • Linux Crash Course: The pacman command

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