I have a java application and I wont to run this application on light version of Linux server, so all what I need from my Linux is the java application. how I can setup custom Linux to run only my jar app and remove all unnecessarily program from it? what is the best approach to do that?

I am thinking to do such thing, but I am not aware for such conditions. So, I wanted to know what will happen if I remount.

I have a directory with various python packages that I'd like to archive using tar. I need to exclude the numerous __pycache__ folders that get left behind by the build/testing process but using --exclude "__pycache__" will not achieve this. How can I get tar to ignore all subdirectories that mat...

I am using Lubuntu 18.04 LTS, and thinking about switching to Debian + LXDE. I am an OS user and may be an occasional programmer of applications. I am wondering whether to choose Debian stable, test or unstable. I am reading https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-choosing.en.html, st...

How can I make a restore point for a Ubuntu Server 18.04? I have a clean install of the Ubuntu Server OS and before installing any Web Server I want to perform a backup and if something goes wrong with the installation I want to backup/ return to that point that I have created just before. Anot...

So I’m running ROS melodic and while running catkin_make I get an error in package conflict. Long story short, I want to use pip‘s empy package instead of em package, but the em package is loaded from python deb packages. How can I delete the em deb package

I'm looking for a solution to proxify all the outgoing connections through several network interfaces so that they would appear to come from different IP's and I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 EC2's. What I tried was creating an instance, assigning two network interfaces and attaching elastic IP's to bot...

I'm on Ubuntu 18.04. I'm debugging an application that communicates with a remote server and I'd like to be able to directly view the bytes sent from my machine (rather than relying on debug output). Is there a way to do this?

Right now I have a PHP script that I run through a localhost website constantly. It is very irratating and I know there is a better solution for me out there. To trigger the PHP script, a JavaScript infinite loop on the webpage keeps continuously calling every 1ms the PHP script while checking to...