This tutorial describes how you can speed up DNS requests using BIND as a local cache. https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/cache-your-dns-requests.html
This small tutorial describes how you can get rid of the -- MARK -- message on Debian GNU/Linux in the message log.
https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/remove-mark-from-the-message-log.html
How to encrypt and decrypt a file with GnuPG, OpenSSL or LibreSSL, or Mcrypt using the Advanced Encryption Standard and a password phrase. https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/encrypting-and-decrypting-files-using-gnupg-openssl-or-mcrypt.html
Software projects, whether small or big, often needs to go trough periodic official releases. Often you need to release a stable branch of a project while at the same time development continues on the main branch. This small tutorial is about how this can be done using the Mercurial revision control system. https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/mercurial-branching-main-and-stable-a-possible-workflow.html
Man pages (short for "manual pages") are the extensive documentation that comes preinstalled with almost all substantial Unix-like operating systems. The Unix command used to display them is man. Each page is a self-contained document. This how-to is about how to convert a man page into a PS or PDF document.
https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/how-to-convert-a-man-page-into-ps-pdf-or-dvi.html
In the world of Linux (also called GNU/Linux) there currently exist over 600 distributions, approximately 300 of those are in active development, constantly being revised and improved, and while most of them look great, only a few of them are actually worth paying attention to IMHO. https://unixdigest.com/articles/why-i-do-not-like-derived-linux-distributions.html
