Linux Genie

The local variable is set user-specific on the shell or inside the .bashrc file whereas the global in /etc/environment or /etc/profile files.

Crontab is a file carrying cron jobs. The cron jobs are executed automatically in a scheduled manner to perform some activity.

First, install the FTP daemon on the server side and configure it through its configuration file. Then, install the client on the client side and enjoy using FTP.

Apache is one of the leading Web servers for Ubuntu or other Linux distributions. You can install it and easily configure it on Ubuntu through this guide.

Most of the time, “tar.gz” files are equipped with the source code containing the compilable/executable files. Read this post to learn about the installation.

Use the mount command in the terminal to mount the drive temporarily whereas you can make the changes in the /etc/fstab file to make the drive mount permanently.

Plenty of desktop environments can be installed to get the GUI on the Ubuntu server. You can install GNOME, XFCE, LXDE, LXQt, etc, as demonstrated here.

The latest version of the slack can be installed from the flatpak whereas the snap and the .deb method also allows you to install the slack’s stable version.

The ZFS support is available through the zfsutils-linux package which is available through the default repositories. Read this post for detailed info on ZFS.