DISTROBOX IS AWESOME

What is Distrobox?

Distrobox is a project that I learned about a few months ago from Fedora magazine.

THE WONDERS OF MODERN LIFE

Last Friday, my wife and I packed up our car and drove 9.5 hours south from Prague, Czech Republic through Austria and Slovenia to a small coastal town in Croatian on the Adriatic sea. We used the Waze app on my Android phone for guidance all the way there. We stayed in an Airbnb that I found online. On the way to Croatia, we stopped outside Saltzburg, Austria for lunch. Just outside of Ljubliana, Slovenia, we topped up on diesel and had a drink and a short break.

USENET NEWSREADER REVIEWS

This is an idea that I’m playing around with. Here are some categories for any reviews. They could later depending on what I learn while doing the reviews.

LONG TIME NO POST

For the past year, I’ve been posting to a private server that I was running. Now that server is offline because I need to save money and so I’ll be writing here again.

INTRO TO NIP.IO (AND XIP.IO)

I’ve got a VM on my server whose IP address is 172.99.1.2. I can ssh using my test user, tux, by using:

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 systems. Don’t know how to use an application? The first thing to do is to run the man command and then the name of the application.

DAPS IN A CONTAINER

DAPS is OpenSUSE’s “DocBook Authoring and Publishing Suite” that is used to build documentation for SUSE and OpenSUSE. It actually requires A LOT of dependencies when being installed and for that reason alone, it’s actually better to run it in a container. This is my image and how I use it.

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.

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:

PROPOSING A NEW NEWSGROUP: INTERNET HISTORY

I am thinking about making a formal proposal for one of two new
unmoderated groups. The group would either be comp.internet.history or
soc.history.internet. I think you can see where these two names could
possibly overlap.