Below you’ll find 2 tools that make it easy to use free OpenVPN servers from VPN Gate in Linux.In case you’re not familiar with VPN Gate, this is project that offers free VPN servers that are ran by volunteers who use SoftEther. It was designed with the Great Firewall of China in Mind and is sponsored by the University of Tsukuba, Japan.
Source: Easily Use Free VPNs From VPN Gate In Linux With These 2 Tools ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog
A couple redditors showed interest in how I set up my Pi as a SOCKS proxy and recommended I make a separate post as a tutorial, so I’ll do my best to explain everything.
Background
SOCKS stands for Socket Secure, and is essentially just a middle man for a server and client for send information between. The best description I’ve heard of it is “It’s a poor man’s VPN.” It essentially works the same, but each service has to be configured to work with it (i.e. I have Firefox on my Mac working through my SOCKS proxy but not Chrome and Safari). Why would you want a SOCKS proxy over a VPN? From my experience, it runs better on a Pi, and I can also do multiple things over SSH (such as also run a file server). Having to configure each service to run through it can also be a pro or a con, depending on if you want everything to work through it or not.
Basic Overview
There’s really not much to setting everything up; it’s a pretty straightforward process. For those just looking for something short and sweet, here are the basic steps I followed. I’ll go over each more in depth below.
Source: RPi as a SOCKS proxy and SSH file server Tutorial (Reddit/Raspberry Pi)
If you are looking to improve the security of your Linux system, check out Firejail that can sandbox all processes and reduce the risk of security breaches
Source: How to Improve the Security of Your Linux System with Firejail – Make Tech Easier
Your Own Linux..! recently published a multi-part series on Unix/Linux shell scripting, that would be useful to anyone desiring to write a bash script. The articles are:
Introduction – Linux / Unix Shell (Bash) Scripting
Bash Scripting Variables – Environment and Special Shell Variables
Bash Scripting – Arithmetic, Logical, Relational and Bitwise Operators
Bash Scripting – Arrays with Examples
Bash Scripting Conditionals – if-then-else, if-elif-else, Nested if-else
Bash Scripting – ‘case’ Statement
Bash Scripting – ‘select’ Loop and ‘select-case’ Statement
That’s the complete list as of the publication date of this post (EDIT: Plus a couple of late additions). If you want to check to see if any have been added since then, go here.
Linux Find Command is one of the most important and much used command in Linux systems. In this article we’ll show you the best 35 Linux Find Command Examples.
Source: 35 Practical Examples of Linux Find Command (Tecmint)
I realized after posting this that it is a repeat post, but those new to the Raspberry Pi might not have seen the original post, so here it is again:
SD cards are said to have a finite life. If you are planning on running a Raspberry Pi 24x7x365, there are some steps that you can take with GNU/Linux to extend the life of the card: here are some ideas.
Source: Raspberry Pi: Extending the life of the SD card | ZDNet
Thunderbird is an email client by Mozilla who are also behind Firefox. This guide shows most of the features available within Thunderbird and an overview of how to use them
Source: An Everyday Linux User Guide To The Thunderbird Email Client « Everyday Linux User
In Linux, there are several ways to switch to the root user and it can be confusing. Learn the differences between each command and their use cases.
Source: The Differences between Su, Sudo Su, Sudo -s and Sudo -i (Make Tech Easier)
wattOS is a stunning example of really great things coming in small packages. wattOS is a lightweight and fast desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS built around the LXDE. It uses the lightweight Openbox window manager as its default user interface. To credit this 8-year-young community of developers with birthing an energy-efficient Linux distribution is an understatement.
Source: wattOS Energizes Aging Hardware | LinuxInsider
Boot-Repair is around from quite sometime, released under license GNU-GPL and it is great tool to fix the issues with your Grub and Boot, it repair frequent boot issues you may encounter in Ubuntu …
Source: Fix Ubuntu/Linux Mint boot and grub issues with Boot-Repair – NoobsLab
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