Solution Background - Explanation of commands By default, CentOS does not have installed the necessary drivers to mount ntfs drives. To install them, you need to enable the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL). Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains,…
On some systems like the JeOS version of Ubuntu, some commands that we consider trivial are not installed and usually there is an alternative that we are not aware of (e.g instead of nano there is vi). In this case there is the pkill command that will send a specified…
As we were setting up a machine that would be used for software development, we came to the need of installing a Java Development Kit (JDK). There are two popular choices on the web between the OpenJDK and the Oracle JDK, we decided to go with the OpenJDK option which…
