Category: cool tested GNU Linux Apps

first it might be a good idea to have a /script/shutdown.sh that calls /script/stop.sh (and a /scripts/start.sh, but that’s kinda complicated since systemd?) that stops all kinds of essential services (databases, vms…) before system shutdown but here is a neat […]

su – root apt update apt install tmux; # install tmux tmux; # start tmux # usage Ctrl+b ” = split pane horizontally Ctrl+b % = split pane vertically Ctrl+b o = switch to next pane hold Ctrl+b use arrow […]

don’t throw away grandpa’s laptop just yet! 😀 test out TinyCore GNU Linux http://tinycorelinux.net (could not be bothered with https yet) is possibly the most ressource efficient GNU Linux distribution out there Product Highlights: • 1x Core Intel® Mobile Pentium […]

it works now! 😀 THE PENGUIN CAN NOW MEASSURE THE TEMPERATURE! thanks ALL INVOLVED 😀 TIP: it actually has 2x temp sensors 1x meassures inside usb stick 1x meassures with the metal-probe at the end of the cable WARNING! it […]

might be minor change to some but it is actually pretty interesting to see that: what is the state of resources? from the left to right: CPU usage, RAM usage, NETWORK usage, SWAP usage, disk usage GNU Linux is not […]

today gotta say “thank you Apple” for still developing cups.org further 😀 (well “further” is kind of an exaggeration as the last release was Apr 28, 2020) it got a management web interface since forever available via localhost:631 just a […]

want to see what’s going on in the Open Source part of Android OS? e-OS is available for many many (but not all) devices here is a detailed review of the ROM in terms of privacy. IT IS AN EXCELLENT […]

is VLC still the currently BEST music player for GNU Linux? vlc is excellent for simplicity, compatibility (best format compatibility ever seen, it has some stuttering when skipping forward or backward with mp4 x264 files, mplayer might still be the […]

rawtherapee.com is an awesome corss OS photo-picture-post-processing program (THANKS ALL INVOLVED! :D) “raw image converter and digital photo processor” “RawTherapee is an advanced program for developing raw photos and for processing non-raw photos. It is non-destructive, makes use of OpenMP, supports […]

#wtheseriousf? It used to “just work” “seamlessly”, now read the “HORRORS” of reinstalling a only 4 year old iMac (2019) that Apple just does not care about anymore. (just reinstalled  LATEST 2023 Debian 12 on a 17 year old lenovo […]

Hello data travelers, cudos to the palemoon.org project, an excellent fork of Mozilla Firefox (migration is a breeze, even the hotkeys & shortcuts are the same like ALT+D “select address bar”). strange thing: when starting palemoon via mozo (excellent program! […]

aac is a great format. it uses less space whan wav, while preserving the quality of sound (sound is important) to almost 100%$ (losless). hostnamectl; # tested with Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) su – root apt update apt […]

Thanks for powerfull Open Source software such as blender! (back in the ATARI days spend all money on a mathematical co-processor for the Falcon 030, so was able to run the super expensive (750,- BUCKS !!! in 1995) “Neon 3D […]

this has to do with Caja calculating thumbnails for EVERY (!!!) picture ever found in a folder that matches the “below this and that file size” settings. having a picture “preview” possibility in a file manager is neat but if […]

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chm files are basically html files packed into an archive. unpacking them should be possible, but archmage file.chm output “Segmentation” faulted. lsb_release -a; # tested on No LSB modules are available. Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) su – root apt […]

instead of reading massively long passages of text (which can become tiresome fast) it might be nice, to have the computer read out that text? let’s do that 🙂 click play to hear picotts read above text: multiple choices there […]

lsb_release -d; # tested on (should work under Debian as well) Description: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS # list all modems mmcli -L # show details of modem 0 mmcli -m 0 # change pin of sim 0 at modem 0 mmcli […]

colorful text gives much more oversight. errors are easier to spot when they are marked in red colorful text is acchieved by defining color codes “switching” between color modes and back to default vim /scripts/colors.sh #!/bin/bash RED=’\033[0;31m’ WHITE=’\033[0;37m’ YELLOW=’\033[0;33m’ COLOR_OFF=’\033[0m’ […]

they have gone missing. but they are available again under Debian 11 https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/gcc-doc hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-9-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 apt search gcc-doc Sorting… Done Full Text Search… Done gcc-doc/stable,stable 5:10.1.0-1 amd64 […]

inkscape is a genious vector drawing program it is a bit complex though and takes time getting used to hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-18-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 Inkscape 0.92.4 (5da689c313, 2019-01-14) install the […]

mplayer is still a great program 🙂 that let’s you play streams and files on command line (per default it has no gui) creditz: http://sheet.shiar.nl/mplayer # install it su – root apt update apt install mplayer ffmpeg Ctrl+D # log […]

Yes! What RSS does NOT stand for “Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh” , “Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Gandhi, on January 30, 1948, was a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or R.S.S., a violent right-wing organization that promotes Hindu supremacy.” (src: HolyCow!) […]

long story… good alternative? https://minidvblinux.de/ having had various frustrating experiences with the topic: TV + PC (even tried a cheap DreamBox 520 HD from eBay… which are probably good devices, but this one turned out to be faulty/unstable) now… in […]

as retro as it gets… seems to be a clone of MoonPatrol. hostnamectl; # tested on Static hostname: lenovo Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-16-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 apt update apt install moon-buggy apt show moon-buggy Package: moon-buggy […]

the story goes like this. multiple files were zipped under Windows 7 (Pro German/DE) and unzipped under GNU Linux Debian 10. The problem is: that the special chars of the filenames are all reported as “invalid encoding” (within the MATE […]

some gui programs like gparted (very nice harddisk partitioning program) won’t start as root. hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-13-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 su – root; # become root gvim; # fails with E233: […]

# should work as simple as ffmpeg -i “input.mkv” “output.mp4” # tested on hostnamectl; Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-13-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 ffmpeg -version ffmpeg version 4.1.6-1~deb10u1 Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 8 […]