Mikrotik RouterOS has been a target for a decent amount of attack in last few months and this hasn’t stopped yet. Yesterday Mikrotik reported another security vulnerability resulting in remote access, infection and deploying a botnet code on infected devices. It is so far claimed to be a vulnerability in the Winbox (port 8291) interface although it is not confirmed that the issue limits only to this. Read More

June 19, 1993 is a date that mark one particularly important step in the open source world. On that date the name FreeBSD is officially agreed for what is today one of the most popular open source operating system. Read More

There’s a pretty common issue with locales in Ubuntu that brings up a nasty warning message about “Setting locale failed”.

You can use the following line to resolve it:

sudo update-locale LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8

This sets the default locale to en_US.UTF-8.

Gitlab is one of the most popular version control, issues management and CI systems today. Based on Git for the version control, GitLab adds a plenty of tools, integrations and a beautiful graphical interface to manage your your projects and tasks. Often reffered as an self-hosted alternative to the popular service Github.com, Gitlab is actually a well developed and supported project. Gitlab CE is the community edition and is openly deployed as a self-hosted solution. Read More

This simple ‘how to’ will show you the steps to change the hostname of Linux server. The host name is the identifier of a server. A good practice is to set a meaningful name that will help you to easily identify your servers. Read More

How to check your public IP in Linux command line appears to be quite a common question, so we have an simple and easy solution for you.

You can get your IP from our “‘whatismyip” page by using command line tools like ‘curl’ and ‘wget’ and the following address: Read More

Rsync is a very handy tool for local and remote file synchronization. It syncs your files by utilizing an algorithm that transfers only the modified parts of a file and minimizes the data transferred. In this article we will show you a few examples on how to use Rsync and enjoy it’s powerful features. Read More

A new CentOS release – 1804 has been just announced publicly. The latest build of the popular Linux distribution is based Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 and includes mainly bug fixes and security improvements.  CentOS is a 100% compatible rebuild of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, delivering enterprise quality operating system and features.

Fedora 28 Server image is now available for Cloud Servers.

The new version of Fedora arrived last week with a nice set of updates and new features. You can now try them on CloudBalkan.

On May, 1st the new version of Fedora was released. Fedora 28 comes right on time at the promised release date and delivers a plenty of new features and improvements. Read More