It's time to talk about my writerdeck
https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck/
Of course, I'm a Linux user, and I have any number of options. I could have gone with a simple desktop or window manager and just not installed a browser, but I wanted something that really broke the desktop OS muscle memory and forced me into thinking about my words with intention.
I opted for a tty-based setup, using Debian (Trixie at the time of writing). Console only- no x11 or Wayland, no desktop getting in my way.
brvier/Gjallar: Gjallar is a modern monitoring and observability platform inspired by Gjallarhorn, the legendary horn of Heimdall in Norse mythology. Built for reliability and speed, Gjallar continuously watches your infrastructure, services, and applications, detecting anomalies and sounding the alarm before issues become incidents. Observe. Detect. Alert.
https://github.com/brvier/Gjallar
Gjallar is a modern monitoring and observability platform inspired by Gjallarhorn, the legendary horn of Heimdall in Norse mythology. Built for reliability and speed, Gjallar continuously watches your infrastructure, services, and applications, detecting anomalies and sounding the alarm before issues become incidents. Observe. Detect. Alert.
leodeim/vpsmon: Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS
https://github.com/leodeim/vpsmon
Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS
Installer crashes in storage editor in all Live environments except Workstation - Fedora Discussion
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/installer-crashes-in-storage-editor-in-all-live-environments-except-workstation/192590
Workarounds
Don’t start the installer (or quit it if you started it already). Start terminal (Konsole in KDE) and edit a config file:
sudo nano /etc/anaconda/profile.d/fedora.conf
Find this part:
# The default browser for the Web UI.
webui_web_engine = slitherer
and change it to:
# The default browser for the Web UI.
webui_web_engine = firefox
Close the editor (Ctrl+X → Y → Enter), and run the installer, either from a desktop launcher, or from a terminal:
liveinst
The installer should no longer crash when using drop-down lists.
KDE liveinst crash - Fedora Discussion
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/kde-liveinst-crash/177548/11
I had this exact issue attempting to install Fedora 44 KDE live ISO on an older laptop with a GeForce GTX 970 GPU. I resolved it by forcing Anaconda to use Firefox instead of Slitherer.
I can confirm that Firefox was the selected default browser, but for some reason the indicated variable doesn’t seem to work
Instead of editing /usr/libexec/anaconda/webui-desktop I changed the following line inside /etc/anaconda/profile.d/fedora.conf:
webui_web_engine = slitherer
to
webui_web_engine = firefox
this allowed me to start Anaconda GUI normally and proceed with installing Fedora 44.
LinuxOnTab — Real Linux in your browser. No install, no server, no Docker.
https://linuxontab.com/
LinuxOnTab boots a real x86 Linux kernel and Alpine userland inside your browser using WebAssembly and the v86 emulator. A zero-install, local-first, in-browser Linux terminal — a lightweight Docker alternative for instant sandboxes, teaching, demos, and disposable shells.
Ghostbox — Disposable little dev machines
https://www.ghost.charity/
There are strange little pockets of temporary compute all over the internet. Ghostbox makes them feel like one small machine.
How to turn anything into a router
https://nbailey.ca/post/router/
Fortunately, you can make a router out of basically anything resembling a computer.
I’ve used a linux powered mini-pc as my own router for many years, and have posted a few times before about how to make linux routers and firewalls in that time. It’s been rock solid stable, and the only issue I’ve had over the years was wearing out a $20 mSATA drive. While I use Debian typically, Alpine linux probably works just as well, perhaps better if you’re familiar with it. As long as the device runs Linux well and has a couple USB ports, you’re good to go. Mini-PCs, desktop PCs, SBCs, rackmount servers, old laptops, or purpose built devices will all work.
reinauer/AmiFUSE: Native AMIGA filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE
https://github.com/reinauer/amifuse
Native AMIGA filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE
The Unexpected Joys Of Hacking An Old Kindle | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/24/the-unexpected-joys-of-hacking-an-old-kindle/
Make no mistake, I’m greatly appreciative of the fact that we now have mature single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi available for a reasonable cost. But taking what’s essentially consumer e-waste and turning it into a useful platform for learning and experimentation is the true hacker way. So whether you’ve got a Kindle collecting dust somewhere at home, or end up grabbing a few off of eBay for a song, I invite you to bust out the USB-serial adapter and start exploring.
rolflobker/recall-for-linux: Bring Microsoft Recall to Linux!
https://github.com/rolflobker/recall-for-linux
Are you forced to work with Linux?
Do you miss the convenience of Microsoft spying on you and keeping track of everything?
Fear not! This amazing tool will bring back all those great Windows Recall features that you have been missing:
マリウス . A Word on Omarchy
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/
Omarchy feels like a project created by a Linux newcomer, utterly captivated by all the cool things that Linux can do, but lacking the architectural knowledge to get the basics right, and the experience to give each tool a thoughtful review. Instead of carefully selecting software and ensuring that everything works as promised, the approach seems to be more about throwing everything that somehow looks cool into a pile. There’s no attention to sensible defaults, no real quality control, and certainly no verification that the setup won’t end up causing harm or, at the very least, frustration for the user. The primary focus seems to be on creating a visually appealing but otherwise hollow product.
Thoughts On Omarchy: Slick Distro, Complicated Ethics
https://tedium.co/2025/10/13/omarchy-linux-distro-commentary/
Omarchy is a reminder that we live in a world where software isn’t just software, but the people who make it. And dhh, despite his rep as a dev’s dev, comes with a hell of a lot of baggage. Recently, the Ruby on Rails community has been through some things, and dhh himself has proven a lightning rod on multiple occasions, most recently for a post many saw as deeply xenophobic, bordering on eugenicist.
Self-host Obsidian using Docker to Access it Via Web Browser
https://linuxhandbook.com/obsidian-docker-self-host/
A central Obsidian server, running in my homelab, accessible via browser, no desktop clients, no mobile apps, just one self-hosted solution available from anywhere I go.
obsidian - LinuxServer.io
https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-obsidian/
Obsidian in a Docker container for access from a browser
YaLTeR/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri
Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize.
Swift Step activates every time i ledge grab :: Hollow Knight: Silksong General Discussions
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1030300/discussions/0/595159120097767833/
Myself and some other people on Linux using the 8BitDo controllers had this issue. If this applies to you, force steam compatibility to Proton 9.0.4 and it should work fine.
Oddly enough, this was my exact situation. There are dozens of us!
Who Wants One More Package Manager | MeaTLoTioN's Place
https://meatlotion.com/blog/who-wants-one-more-package-manager/
Creating a package manager for BBSes - BSR or BBS Sysop Repository is a tool that will enable you to install BBS doors in the same way you can install packages on your *nix operating system
Nix/NixOS is the new “dotfiles golf” - and that’s awesome
https://whynot.fail/nixos/the-new-dotfile-golf/
Sets of dotifile hacks are now their own “packages” (flakes in nix world) that anyone can use - stylix for example, which tries to do the impossible: make the theming/styling consistent across the whole OS, from NeoVim to GTK to Plymouth, all with the same colors and wallpapers.
Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple | matttproud.com (blog)
https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/x-window-system-boot-stipple.html
For the uninitiated, what are we looking at? Could it be the Moiré Error from Doom? Well, no. You are looking at (part of) the boot up screen for the X Window System, specifically the pattern it uses as the background of the root window. This pattern is technically called a stipple.
Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine) - Noel Berry
https://noelberry.ca/posts/making_games_in_2025/
When I share stuff I'm working on, people frequently ask how I make games and are often surprised (and sometimes concerned?) when I tell them I don't use commercial game engines. There's an assumption around making games without a big tool like Unity or Unreal that you're out there hand writing your own assembly instruction by instruction.
Give Your Animal Crossing Villagers The Gift Of Linux | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/18/give-your-animal-crossing-villagers-the-gift-of-linux/
thanks to the work of [decrazyo] there’s a piece of furniture that you can add to your Animal Crossing house that will never get old: an x86 emulator that boots Linux. As explained in the video below, this trick leverages the fact that Nintendo had already built a highly accurate Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator into Animal Crossing on the GameCube, which could be used to run a handful of classic games from within the player’s virtual living room. But it turns out that you can get that emulator to load a user-provided ROM from the GameCube’s memory card, which opens the doors to all sorts of mischief.
leaningtech/webvm: Virtual Machine for the Web
https://github.com/leaningtech/webvm
WebVM is a server-less virtual environment running fully client-side in HTML5/WebAssembly. It's designed to be Linux ABI-compatible. It runs an unmodified Debian distribution including many native development toolchains.
WebVM is powered by the CheerpX virtualization engine, and enables safe, sandboxed client-side execution of x86 binaries on any browser. CheerpX includes an x86-to-WebAssembly JIT compiler, a virtual block-based file system, and a Linux syscall emulator.
rinetd(8) — rinetd — Debian unstable — Debian Manpages
https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/rinetd/rinetd.8.en.html
rinetd redirects TCP or UDP connections from one IP address and port to another. rinetd is a single-process server which handles any number of connections to the address/port pairs specified in the file /etc/rinetd.conf.
Controlling a Rigol DS1052E Oscilloscope from Ubuntu Linux
https://hccc.org.uk/usbtmc.html
Installing Debian Linux in a VirtualBox Virtual Machine | Open-Source Routing and Network Simulation
http://www.brianlinkletter.com/installing-debian-linux-in-a-virtualbox-virtual-machine/
In this article, we will review the procedures required to install Debian Linux in a virtual machine managed by the VirtualBox application
Installing Debian Linux in a VirtualBox Virtual Machine | Open-Source Routing and Network Simulation
http://www.brianlinkletter.com/installing-debian-linux-in-a-virtualbox-virtual-machine
In this article, we will review the procedures required to install Debian Linux in a virtual machine managed by the VirtualBox application
Ringing in 2015 with 40 Linux-friendly hacker SBCs · LinuxGizmos.com
http://linuxgizmos.com/ringing-in-2015-with-40-linux-friendly-hacker-sbcs/
2014 brought us plenty of new open-spec, community-backed SBCs — from $35 bargains, to octa-core powerhouses — and all with Linux or Android support.
Ringing in 2015 with 40 Linux-friendly hacker SBCs · LinuxGizmos.com
http://linuxgizmos.com/ringing-in-2015-with-40-linux-friendly-hacker-sbcs
2014 brought us plenty of new open-spec, community-backed SBCs — from $35 bargains, to octa-core powerhouses — and all with Linux or Android support.
TechnoSophos: Run Node.js apps on low ports without running as root
http://technosophos.com/2012/12/17/run-nodejs-apps-low-ports-without-running-root.html
$ sudo apt-get install libcap2-bin $ sudo setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /usr/bin/node $ node foo.js
networking - Linux: allowing an user to listen to a port below 1024 - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10735/linux-allowing-an-user-to-listen-to-a-port-below-1024
setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /path/to/program
Renegade BBS in Ubuntu Linux - Telnet|Multi-Node
http://www.instructables.com/id/Renegade-BBS-in-Ubuntu-Linux-Telnet-Multi-Node/
There are many open source BBS resources out there for Linux, but I came up short in finding anything even remotely mentioning renegade and Linux in the same sentence. This left me feeling nostalgically challenged so I set out to find a way to run a telnet multi-node Renegade BBS from my Ubuntu system. In this instructable, I will show you how I achieved this and hopefully inspire some much needed creative improvements as well.
Renegade BBS in Ubuntu Linux - Telnet|Multi-Node
http://www.instructables.com/id/Renegade-BBS-in-Ubuntu-Linux-Telnet-Multi-Node
There are many open source BBS resources out there for Linux, but I came up short in finding anything even remotely mentioning renegade and Linux in the same sentence. This left me feeling nostalgically challenged so I set out to find a way to run a telnet multi-node Renegade BBS from my Ubuntu system. In this instructable, I will show you how I achieved this and hopefully inspire some much needed creative improvements as well.
Rubénerd: Using QEMU for DOS on *nix
http://rubenerd.com/using-qemu-for-dos-on-nix/
While DOSBox is a great piece of kit, sometimes you may have more speciailised DOS needs that require the use of a VM. In my case, I use QEMU and so far things are working great.
Rubénerd: Using QEMU for DOS on *nix
http://rubenerd.com/using-qemu-for-dos-on-nix
While DOSBox is a great piece of kit, sometimes you may have more speciailised DOS needs that require the use of a VM. In my case, I use QEMU and so far things are working great.
What am I running inside my bash?
http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/bashheimer.html
I desperately needed to extract the complete (and very lengthy) command line I had written 6 months ago in a bash shell - which was still running under screen. Read on to see how I eventually made it...
Mount / Unmount Android System images | My Cellar Door
http://javigon.com/2012/09/04/mount-unmount-android-system-images/
There are many reasons for wanting to unpack Android’s system image. The most obvious is modifying it. System.img is in the end an ext4 loop file system (such as the Linux system image), that can be mounted, modified and repacked in order to be burned afterwards in an embedded system. Android’s system image can be obtained from the google factory images.
Mount / Unmount Android System images | My Cellar Door
http://javigon.com/2012/09/04/mount-unmount-android-system-images
There are many reasons for wanting to unpack Android’s system image. The most obvious is modifying it. System.img is in the end an ext4 loop file system (such as the Linux system image), that can be mounted, modified and repacked in order to be burned afterwards in an embedded system. Android’s system image can be obtained from the google factory images.
Unpack/repack ext4 Android system images « AndWise
http://andwise.net/?p=403
This is for all who want to unpack and modify the original system.img that you can flash using recovery.
How to manually mount a USB Hard Disk, including a disk that was part of a RAID1 array - SynologyWiki
http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_manually_mount_a_USB_Hard_Disk,_including_a_disk_that_was_part_of_a_RAID1_array#How_to_mount_a_USB_enclosure_containing_a_RAID1_disk
This wiki shows you how to manually mount a USB Drive enclosure containing a Hard Disk. The term "mount" is the Linux term for adding a data device to a system so that its contents are navigatable. The procedure also describes the steps necessary if the Hard Drive in the USB enclosure was previously part of a working RAID 1 configuration (e.g. removed from another Synology Server). The same procedure will also probably work for RAID 0 drives, but I have not tested that.
Thoughts on Technology: HOWTO: Scale Your Display under Linux
http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2011/09/howto-scale-your-display-under-linux.html
Something that has always annoyed me about a good deal of netbooks is the fact that someone decided that 1024x600 was an acceptable maximum resolution. While this isn't always an issue, it becomes extra annoying when you attach an external display to your tiny computer. By default your are typically forced into one of two choices:
Pioneering in Linux -- Macbook Pro Retina: Changing the Resolution in Ubuntu
http://linuxmacbookproretina.blogspot.com/2013/01/changing-resolution-in-ubuntu.html
pts.blog: How to fix the adb no permissions error on Ubuntu Lucid
http://ptspts.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-fix-adb-no-permissions-error-on.html
This blog post explains how to fix the no permissions error the Android Debugger displays when running the adb devices command Linux. The solutions presented here have been tested and found working on Ubuntu Lucid, but they should also work on other Ubuntu and Linux versions as well.
My First Firefox OS App hits the Firefox Marketplace
http://ruk.ca/content/my-first-firefox-os-app-hits-firefox-marketplace
In many ways it feels like 1993 all over again, back when we ran Linux 0.93 on IBM PCs and it sort of worked.
Encbox.md
https://gist.github.com/Tho85/6045429
Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox-esque sync folder
Firefox OS for Raspberry Pi: Now Available
http://www.philipp-wagner.com/blog/2013/04/firefox-os-for-raspberry-pi-now-available/
It has been quite some time since my last post about Firefox OS running on a Raspberry Pi, but the questions didn’t stop to come in “when will it be released”? Well, I’m sorry that it took so long (sometimes finding time is not that easy), but finally, here we are: the sources and build instructions are available!
Firefox OS for Raspberry Pi: Now Available
http://www.philipp-wagner.com/blog/2013/04/firefox-os-for-raspberry-pi-now-available
It has been quite some time since my last post about Firefox OS running on a Raspberry Pi, but the questions didn’t stop to come in “when will it be released”? Well, I’m sorry that it took so long (sometimes finding time is not that easy), but finally, here we are: the sources and build instructions are available!
FrontPage - Raspbian
http://www.raspbian.org/
Raspbian is a free operating system based on Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your Raspberry Pi run. However, Raspbian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 35,000 packages, pre-compiled software bundled in a nice format for easy installation on your Raspberry Pi.
FrontPage - Raspbian
http://www.raspbian.org
Raspbian is a free operating system based on Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your Raspberry Pi run. However, Raspbian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 35,000 packages, pre-compiled software bundled in a nice format for easy installation on your Raspberry Pi.
Backup your Linux system to Dropbox | Personal website of Dave Hope
http://davehope.co.uk/Blog/backup-your-linux-vps-to-dropbox/
As an adovate of Dropbox I’ve been keen to find a simple way to backup by webserver/VPS to Dropbox. With up to 10gB of storage space for free there’s plenty of capacity for me to backup some MySQL databases and webroot. Unfortunately the Linux command line dropbox client doesn’t provide any way to synchronise a specific directory.
Backup your Linux system to Dropbox | Personal website of Dave Hope
http://davehope.co.uk/Blog/backup-your-linux-vps-to-dropbox
As an adovate of Dropbox I’ve been keen to find a simple way to backup by webserver/VPS to Dropbox. With up to 10gB of storage space for free there’s plenty of capacity for me to backup some MySQL databases and webroot. Unfortunately the Linux command line dropbox client doesn’t provide any way to synchronise a specific directory.
andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader · GitHub
https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader
Dropbox Uploader is a BASH script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox, an online file sharing, synchronization and backup service
Tracking planes for $20 or less | Clayton's Domain
http://www.irrational.net/2012/08/06/tracking-planes-for-20-or-less/
Since getting my hands on a compatible TV tuner, I’ve been able to listen to police radio, pager networks, garage door openers, air traffic control, and lots more.
Tracking planes for $20 or less | Clayton's Domain
http://www.irrational.net/2012/08/06/tracking-planes-for-20-or-less
Since getting my hands on a compatible TV tuner, I’ve been able to listen to police radio, pager networks, garage door openers, air traffic control, and lots more.
Leave git diff result in the terminal - Stack Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14004039/leave-git-diff-result-in-the-terminal
export LESS=eFRX
Ubuntu 12.10 : How to Install Nvidia Proprietary Drivers
http://techhamlet.com/2012/11/install-nvidia-drivers-in-ubuntu-12-10/
The latest Ubuntu 12.10 have several issues with both AMD/ATI and Nvidia proprietary drivers. Most of the Nvidia cases had a small dependency issue and it can be fixed.
Ubuntu 12.10 : How to Install Nvidia Proprietary Drivers
http://techhamlet.com/2012/11/install-nvidia-drivers-in-ubuntu-12-10
The latest Ubuntu 12.10 have several issues with both AMD/ATI and Nvidia proprietary drivers. Most of the Nvidia cases had a small dependency issue and it can be fixed.
Remove Old Kernels in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric ocelot) | Liberian Geek
http://www.liberiangeek.net/2011/11/remove-old-kernels-in-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot/
When you’re running Ubuntu and updating your system frequently, there is a high chance that older kernels that are no longer needed are still installed on your system. Over time, if these older kernels are not removed, precious hard disk space may be wasted and your system’s performance may suffer.
Remove Old Kernels in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric ocelot) | Liberian Geek
http://www.liberiangeek.net/2011/11/remove-old-kernels-in-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot
When you’re running Ubuntu and updating your system frequently, there is a high chance that older kernels that are no longer needed are still installed on your system. Over time, if these older kernels are not removed, precious hard disk space may be wasted and your system’s performance may suffer.
[HOWTO] Apple Magic Mouse on 10.10 Maverick Meerkat - Ubuntu Forums
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1612843
$ xinput set-float-prop "Apple Magic Mouse" "Device Accel Velocity Scaling" 2.0
ZoneMinder - ZoneMinder: Linux Home CCTV and Video Camera Security with Motion Detection
http://www.zoneminder.com/
ZoneMinder is an integrated set of applications which provide a complete surveillance solution allowing capture, analysis, recording and monitoring of any CCTV or security cameras attached to a Linux based machine. It is designed to run on distributions which support the Video For Linux (V4L) interface and has been tested with video cameras attached to BTTV cards, various USB cameras and also supports most IP network cameras. A partial list is given in the Wiki and Support sections, please give feedback in the Forums if it works with yours. ZoneMinder also requires MySQL and PHP, and is enhanced by a webserver such as Apache.
ZoneMinder - ZoneMinder: Linux Home CCTV and Video Camera Security with Motion Detection
http://www.zoneminder.com
ZoneMinder is an integrated set of applications which provide a complete surveillance solution allowing capture, analysis, recording and monitoring of any CCTV or security cameras attached to a Linux based machine. It is designed to run on distributions which support the Video For Linux (V4L) interface and has been tested with video cameras attached to BTTV cards, various USB cameras and also supports most IP network cameras. A partial list is given in the Wiki and Support sections, please give feedback in the Forums if it works with yours. ZoneMinder also requires MySQL and PHP, and is enhanced by a webserver such as Apache.
Groklaw - Day 23, From the Courtroom: Oracle v. Google Trial - Jury: No Patent Infringement ~pj Updated 2Xs
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120523125023818
UPDATE: The jury verdict is in. They found no infringement of the patents!
Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed for Developers | DevOpsANGLE
http://devopsangle.com/2012/05/07/dell-announces-a-linux-laptop-designed-for-developers/
A few years ago Dell began offering the Ubuntu distribution of Linux on its desktops and laptaps, but quietly dropped the option from its online store in 2010 (though it’s still possible to order certain machines with Ubuntu). Today at the Ubuntu Developers Summit Dell announced that it is dipping its toes into back into the Linux laptop market with Project Sputnik, a developer-centric laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 on Dell’s XPS13 Ultrabook hardware.
Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed for Developers | DevOpsANGLE
http://devopsangle.com/2012/05/07/dell-announces-a-linux-laptop-designed-for-developers
A few years ago Dell began offering the Ubuntu distribution of Linux on its desktops and laptaps, but quietly dropped the option from its online store in 2010 (though it’s still possible to order certain machines with Ubuntu). Today at the Ubuntu Developers Summit Dell announced that it is dipping its toes into back into the Linux laptop market with Project Sputnik, a developer-centric laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 on Dell’s XPS13 Ultrabook hardware.
Lunduke.com
http://lunduke.com/?page_id=2646
Linux Tycoon is the premier Linux Distro Building Simulator game in the universe.
(Truth be told: It’s probably the only Linux Distro Building Simulation game in the universe.)
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer/How to install Ubuntu - XDA-Developers
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/How_to_install_Ubuntu_on_an_Asus_EEEPad_Transformer
Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux computer on track to launch later this month
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2012/02/raspberry-pis-35-linux-computer-on-track-to-launch-later-this-month.ars
The first model of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's low-cost Linux computer will likely be available for purchase later this month. The organization announced today that manufacturing on the first batch is set to complete on February 20.
Fedora 16 now being served, with large side order of cloud -- Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/fedora-16-now-being-served-with-large-side-order-of-cloud
#14: CentOS hanging leads to failure - Issues - jedi4ever/veewee - GitHub
https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee/issues/14
config.ssh.max_tries = 50 config.ssh.timeout = 300
Setting up a CentOS base box for development and testing with Vagrant
http://chrisadams.me.uk/2010/05/10/setting-up-a-centos-base-box-for-development-and-testing-with-vagrant
iguanair - Revision 1683: /public/trunk
http://iguanaworks.net/repos/iguanair/public/trunk
Chumby Rootdisk - RFS1 (analyzed) - ChumbyWiki
http://wiki.chumby.com/index.php/Chumby_Rootdisk_-_RFS1_(analyzed)
Good breakdown of the startup scripts and hooks out to user-writable scripts
IRControl
http://www.staarcom.com/software/IRControl
What is it? This is a combined MacOS X Preference Pane and faceless background application (FBA) to receive and send Infrared signals (more...)
IguanaWorks - USB IR
http://iguanaworks.net/product1.psp
Our USB IR Transmitter/Receiver is a standard USB device that can transmit and receive the infrared codes supported by LIRC (Linux only) and WinLIRC (Windows only and beta). Combined with (Win)LIRC, this device can communicate with most home electronics, such as TVs, stereos, DVD players, receivers, and their associated remote controls. When used with MythTV, you can turn your computer into a TiVo-like media center.
NSLU2-Linux - HowTo / AddAnInfraredReceiverAndTransmitterWithLIRC browse
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/AddAnInfraredReceiverAndTransmitterWithLIRC
With the following (minimal) hardware circuitry the NSLU2 is able to receive and transmit infrared signals, e.g. like RC5. These are normally received by audio and video equipment and sent by remote controls from your couch. The signals are decoded and generated in software using LIRC.
NSLU2-Linux - HowTo / AddASimpleTenPinConnector browse
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/AddASimpleTenPinConnector
This is another version of a connector, not so universal like the 34-pin one, but with a tap on the green LED, that can be used for the transmission and reception of infrared remote control signals.
Duplicated Virtual Machines Have Same IP Address (View topic) • virtualbox.org
http://forum.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&p=149855
"Ok, that Ubuntu issue is a known problem. It saves the assignment of MAC ethX using an udev rule. Have a look at /etc/udev/rules.d and you will find a file 70-persistent-net.rules there. You can savely remove this file. This file is auto-generated by /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules. You can remove that file as well. From now on, the guest will no longer store the assignment between the MAC and ethX interface."
How to backup the Synology Server to Amazon S3 - SynologyWiki
http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_backup_the_Synology_Server_to_Amazon_S3
"This is a instruction guide on how to modify the Synology Server to backup files to Amazon's S3 service, an online storage space, offered by Amazon.com
To backup (synchronize) your data from your Synology box to Amazon S3, you'll need to install some additional software on your machine, like OpenSSL, wget-SSL, ruby and s3sync. This installation is detailed here. "
Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots
"This document describes a method for generating automatic rotating "snapshot"-style backups on a Unix-based system, with specific examples drawn from the author's GNU/Linux experience"
How to Install Bootstrap - SynologyWiki
http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_Install_Bootstrap
NSLU2-Linux - SlugOS / InstallandTurnupABasicSlugOSSystem browse
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/SlugOS/InstallandTurnupABasicSlugOSSystem
"This article demonstrates the steps involved in installing and configuring a basic SlugOS system."
Headless Virtualbox on OSX - Jon Atkinson
http://jonatkinson.org/headless-virtualbox-osx
"When I'm developing, I try to continuously deploy to a realistic environment as often as possible. This means a Debian server running a stack as close to production as I can get. Of course, I don't deploy to the actual production servers (a lesson I've learnt many times over), so I virtualise a Debian box and clone package set from the production server. Combined with bridged networking and a quick hosts file change, and I've got a production-equivalent server always available at server.local."
pigz - Parallel gzip
http://www.zlib.net/pigz
"A parallel implementation of gzip for modern
multi-processor, multi-core machines"
Compubeaver
http://kottke.org/09/09/compubeaver
It's not a dead badger, but it'll do. "Kasey McMahon decided to combine an interest in taxidermy with her PC. Fearing that the natural world is being replaced by technology, the artist installed a working computer inside of an idle beaver."
How to Install/Run A Wordpress Blog on a Palm Pre! | Palm Pre Hacks Blog!
http://palmpre-hacks.com/palm-pre-hacks/how-to-installrun-a-wordpress-blog-on-a-palm-pre
Totally pointless, but cool. "Since the Palm Pre is based on Linux, I figured that you could probably run a Wordpress blog on the Palm Pre. Well, after about 3 hours of research, I found a way to run a wordpress blog using Optware Lighttpd and MySQL server."
find and xargs
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/tech/find.html
"Part of the reason why the Linux command line is so POWERFUL!"
First Driver for USB 3.0
http://www.ozelwebtasarim.com/index.php/web-haberleri/16261-first-driver-for-usb-30
"After a year-and-a-half's worth of work, Intel hacker Sarah Sharp announced that Linux will be the first operating system supporting USB 3.0. "
Better local development with VMs | Open Komodo
http://www.openkomodo.com/blogs/jeffg/better-local-development-vms
"I just downloaded and installed Ubuntu Server 9.04 in a VM Image strictly for the purposes of setting up a simple local dev environment on my MacBook. This is the base image, which I want to configure with some useful but general capabilities."
Get Continuum-wine
http://wine.getcontinuum.com
"The objective of this website is to provide SubSpace/ Continuum players with recommended options for getting Continuum to run smoothly on Linux without having to download, patch, and compile wine source, in as small of a package as possible, with as little setup as possible."
ZNC - ZNC
http://en.znc.in/wiki/ZNC
"Welcome to the ZNC wiki where you may find and publish information about ZNC, an advanced IRC bouncer."
an IRC client in 40 lines of shell script
http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-hacks/2008-February/000480.html
"Unfortunately, the only programming language I could find is sh, and there don't seem to be any IRC clients."
Questionable Content #1105
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1105
"IT IS NOT A NECKBEARD IT IS A HEATSINK!"
An Amazing Mind: The REAL reason we use Linux
http://blog.anamazingmind.com/2008/03/real-reason-we-use-linux.html
"Let me say that again. It's fun to use the command line."
rootz - VamosProject
http://vamosproject.org/rootz
"mounts complete live systems over the web, and make them available locally. With rootz you can attach your local linux system to various mirrors that serve livecds and simply run applications without any installation or prior download of the software."
flyback - Google Code
http://code.google.com/p/flyback
"Apple's Time Machine is a great feature in their OS, and Linux has almost all of the required technology already built in to recreate it. This is a simple GUI to make it easy to use."
Introduction and QuickStart | The Open Source Journal
http://portal.itauth.com/loggerfs-introduction
"It seamlessly passes log data through the file system and directly into a database. Unlike existing log parsers, which often run periodically and scan the entire file for changes, LoggerFS takes a unique approach by masking the database backend with a fi
ASCII by Jason Scott: Nailing It
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000438.html
"Quag7, one of my contemporaries and collaborators, absolutely nails how to put up an informative webpage about a technically geeky and nostalgic subject."
dataswamp.net: Apple IIe serial term (Connected to Gentoo Linux)
http://www.dataswamp.net/apple2eserialterm
"As you reflect upon each and every atrocity against Man and God that you have committed (perhaps to your parish Priest), you can make a mental note that it all stopped when you started screwing around with the null modem cable."
Building a Simple Calendar Server with Fedora and WebDAV - FedoraNEWS.ORG
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Building_a_Simple_Calendar_Server_with_Fedora_and_WebDAV
"In this article I will show you how I've done it, plus I'll show you some other options that you might find interesting if you are a Fedora developer or supporter."
xdo - do (keyboard or mouse) things in X :: semicomplete.com - Jordan Sissel
http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/xdo.html?source=rss20
"I spent some time coding today and I now have a tool that will let you execute raw keyboard and mouse input into X using the XTEST extension."
SCWM, Pot and the GPL
http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/inspiration.html
"friggin compiling alien language implementations from France (OCaml) will break your widdle head when stoned"
You are kidding arent you ? -- jerryleecooper's comment on "Why Linux will not displace Windows" | TalkBack on ZDNet
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12355-0.html?forumID=1&messageID=579806&start=43&threadID=31199
"Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? ... That sounds preposterous to me."
NewsForge | Asterisk on OpenWrt
http://mobile.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/02/09/1727256
"I installed Asterisk on OpenWrt White Russian RC4 on a Linksys WRT54GS wireless router."
Samba developer resigns from Novell
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061221-8481.html
"The Microsoft patent agreement has put [Novell developers] outside the community and there is no positive aspect to that fact, and no way to make it so"
Shelley The Republican : The Freedom Blog ? Linux: A European threat to our computers
http://shelleytherepublican.com/2006/04/20/linux-a-european-threat-to-our-computers-by-tristan.aspx
This has got to be a parody site. "Osama uses Linux because he knows designed to counterfit DVDs, curcumventing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and defraud companies like Disney."
Main Page - Wiili
http://www.wiili.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
"WiiLi is a live Linux CD that makes the Nintendo Wii boot into a full Linux Desktop without the need of a mod chip or hardware modification.."
Roll your own servers with Netcat - Lifehacker
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/command-line/roll-your-own-servers-with-netcat-202271.php
"Unix command-line utility netcat gets called the "network swiss army knife" with good reason."
Wonders of 'dd' and 'netcat': Cloning OS harddrives
http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html
"In this document we will try to exploit the power of low level data transfer command popularly known as 'dd' and netcat."
Tomboy : Simple note taking
http://www.beatniksoftware.com/tomboy
"Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day."
NSLU2-Linux - HowTo / RunSqueakSmalltalk
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/RunSqueakSmalltalk
"Have fun! Enjoy the nice GUI/IDE running on the slug."
ruben bolink - gameboy running unix
http://www.bolink.org/projects/gameboy
Wow. Now that's a screwed up fake! No Gameboy has the resolution to display that much text!
The Open Source WRT54G Story
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3562391
The story of the Linksys Wireless-G Router (model WRT54G) and how you can turn a $60 router into a $600 router is a little bit CSI and a little bit Freaks & Geeks.
The Tao of Mac - blog/2006-07-04
http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2006-07-04
"Since it's the 4th of July and everyone is relaxing anyway, I thought I'd do something different regarding the Mark/Ubuntu/Cory thing:"
Essentials, 2006 edition [dive into mark]
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/26/essentials-2006
"Now that I've completed my move to Linux (sorry Mac fanboys, the install was flawless and everything worked out of the box), someone emailed me to suggest that I update my essential software list."
Evince Simply a document viewer
http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince
"Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It currently supports pdf, postscript, djvu, tiff and dvi."
ongoing Time to Switch?
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/06/15/Switch-From-Mac
"Will I Switch? Yes. For Mark's reasons, and because Im pretty darn sure that either Ubuntu or some other distro will eventually get the key things right."
Hydrogen - advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux
http://www.hydrogen-music.org
"drogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming."
Linux.com | GNU grep's new features
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/19/1920231
"If you haven't been paying attention to GNU grep recently, you should be happily surprised by some of the new features and options that have come about with the 2.5 series."
Linux 2.4 NAT HOWTO: Destination NAT Onto the Same Network
http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO/NAT-HOWTO-10.html
"If you are doing port forwarding back onto the same network, you need to make sure that both future packets and reply packets pass through the NAT box (so they can be altered). "
[netrek-dev] Netrek on a LinkSys WRT54G and Asustek WL-HDD using OpenWrt
http://mailman.us.netrek.org/pipermail/netrek-dev/2006-March/002859.html
"I've ported version 2.10.2 of the Netrek Vanilla Server to run on the Broadcom platform used by LinkSys WRT54G and clones, using the OpenWrt build tools."
Golden's Rules: Why new chips + Xen = dream machines
http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/columnItem/0,294698,sid39_gci1176065,00.html
"I can use Linux as my main operating environment and still have the option of Windows available to run applications not yet ported to Linux."