Linux
Getting Help on Linux
Man # The man command is short for manual. It allows you to read the instruction manual for almost every command in Linux and other Unix-like operating …
What would you like to see most in minix?
I’m working on a couple of presentations and I wanted to share this nugget of joy with anyone who hasn’t actually read it. Path: …
Linux newbies shouldn't dual boot
If you lurk around many Linux support forums, you are bound to see the regular post that looks something like this: Hi, I’m new to Linux. I tried to dual …
Advice for Newbies
I originally wrote this as a reply to a Reddit post but as I saved it, comments were blocked. Give yourself little tasks and projects to do. Think of it as …
KDE vs XFCE vs Gnome
Chris Titus↗ recently vlogged about an article↗ showing that KDE 5.17 is now smaller than XFCE 4.14 in memory usage. The article says that in their tests, XFCE …
Creating the Ultimate Container Playground: LXD on Kubic
Introduction LXC (Linux Containers) are whole-system containers. They are meant to be able to do just about anything you can do with a VM with a percentage of …
Creating the Ultimate Container Playground: Salt in LXD
Introduction: Installing Saltstack The great thing about being able to spin up several new system containers running multiple Linux distros is that you get to …
Alternative Wallpapers
[gallery ids=“899,900” type=“rectangular” link=“file”] Since my last post was so popular, here are a couple replacement …
Why are there toilets on my openSUSE wallpaper?
First of all, the entire wallpaper is here: ↗ On the right-hand side, there are these cool line-art cad drawing with Geeko in the middle. The problem is that …
My SSH Trick
10 hours of jetlag and rainy afternoon naps don’t mix. It’s 2 minutes to 2AM here in Provo, UT and I can’t sleep so I’m blogging. I want …
Stupid Script
I just cobbled this script together to make starting up VirtualBox VM’s a little easier when remote. for a in `vboxmanage list vms | sed …
Shackbox LiveDVD
I found this on KB6NU’s blog (http://kb6nu.com/shackbox/↗) and it looks like it might be an interesting Ubuntu derivative to check out. …