Category: Debian

today installed (1:1 copy with USB2IDE Adapter) Debian 8 32Bit aka ideal linux on Compaq “Evo D500” and: IT JUST WORKS 🙂 works slow but it works (it is a Single Core Celeron, what do users expect?) X-D 512 MB […]

versus is the wrong word. They are both great great GNU Linux distributions with a different focus and imho the perfect combination. Debian (apt based) “the universal operating system” (because has great hardware compatibility amd64 (64Bit intel) arm64 armel armhf […]

setup LAMP GNU-Linux Apache2 MariaDB PHP7.3 su – root; # become root apt update; # update system to latest apt upgrade; # database first apt -y install mariadb-server mariadb-client # set root pwd for database (can be root on dev […]

imho git is a bitch it’s not intuitive it’s not easy but at least pray it’s a well thought out system (it works for Linus does not mean it works for all) https://dwaves.de/2016/10/01/githhub-com-cheat-sheet/ home of git’s git repo: https://git-scm.com/ # […]

it is nice to get an graphical overview what wifi wlan networks access points one is surrounded by. also good to know what direction to point antenna/laptop to have best reception. because this allows to fine-tune what channel best to […]

https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM   the 4 free software freedom rules: freedom 0: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose. (computers start counting with 0, that’s why it is freedom 0) freedom 1: The freedom to study how […]

  hostnamectl; # tested on Static hostname: debian Virtualization: oracle Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 # will install qcreator and qt5 library apt-get install qcreator qt5-default # “no valid kits found” # is due […]

GNU Linux Debian on x86 Macbooks 😀 but they are… Pure Beauty & Nostalgia: Apple Macbook Pro 9,2 (A1278) Mid 2012 running GNU Linux like a Pro (the perfect combo that just works) for the windows users: download the image.img.gz […]

update: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2020mca.php Warning! 645 votes does not make for a complete survey! X-D Debian is a great great great GNU Linux distribution (the basis of Ubuntu and MINT). Many THANKS! TO ALL INVOLVED! It is the effort of a lot […]

some jpgs are badly compressed, taking 5-10MBytes each! a little nifty cool tool let’s you batch recompress WARNING! Always test things out before applying it to your original data! # become root su – root # install jpegoptim apt install […]

every once and a while… laptops and notebooks run out of battery… and when one manages to plug them in just 1% before stalling… the wifi on Debian might already be in hibernation and hardware on off does not help […]

about MAC address(es) not every switch has an IP assigned (if it has no web management interface, it does not need to) but it will have a MAC address. MAC address are per vendor and per device unique identifiers that […]

forget about all other wifi adapters, get the Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7612UAn V2 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8192CU] as long as it’s produced… it just works out of the box on almost any GNU Linux distro including raspberry pi […]

what IT can learn from nature: (src) mostly US users affected. Big Business: Big Companies and Big Money can afford Big Staff to maintain and secure their products, but they also provide Big Infrastructure (AWS, Office) and thus a single […]

tar gz (single core) -> tar pigz (multi core) tar might be old, but still a great program for archiving files manpage: tar.man.txt to get multi core usage for compression (faster) the user tells tar to use a different compression […]

Cinnamon desktop developed by Developer(s) Linux Mint team! – is a beautiful desktop (default on Linux Mint) alternative to Gnome2 MATE. BUT: still prefer Gnome2 MATE (at least on GNU Debian Linux) because it is: minimalistic / very resource efficient […]

# setup log of VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 6.0.10 r132072 (Qt5.7.1) # on Debian 9.8 with Cinnamon Desktop # go into software repo user@debian98:~$ cd /software/ # download latest version of software user@debian98:/software$ wget https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.0.10/virtualbox-6.0_6.0.10-132072~Debian~stretch_amd64.deb –2019-08-03 14:36:05– https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.0.10/virtualbox-6.0_6.0.10-132072~Debian~stretch_amd64.deb Resolving […]

don’t be evil “Google controls about 62% of mobile browsers, 69% of desktop browsers, and the operating systems on 71% of mobile devices in the world. 92% of internet searches go through Google and 73% of American adults use YouTube. […]

it might sound strange… and even if it sucks, but if you are concerned about security, call me paranoid but: your company’s critical infrastructure SHALL NOT BE REACHABLE BY WIFI! (especially not if you are running a nuclear power plant, […]

have seen DELL Notebooks that refused to boot unless F2 is pressed when the CMOS battery (that is not easily replaceable often 🙁 runs out of capacity… #wtf seriously??? nothing should depend on date and time… because if it does, […]

It is one of the most critical of digital infrastructures – update servers – thus vendors need to be EXTREEEEMELY careful how they run their update servers. they could get hacked and their downloads and updates get virus and backdoor […]

Update: 2020-03 it is very very confusing. on the one side the whole world is moving towards https SecurityLab, [25.03.20 15:55] “Mozilla implements an additional HTTPS Only mode in Firefox 76, in which the browser will only accept encrypted connections, […]

When your CPU is 32Bit and you try to boot a 64Bit OS / load a 64Bit program, it will crash/panic/segfault, it won’t boot beyond the grub boot selection screen. “Ben Hutchings (blog) a Debian developer and Linux kernel maintainer, has […]

are tool to bring you this cool gnome based file indexing and searching tool… that i generally distrust X-D funny enough: windows and osx come with such “we index and md5sum every single file on your computer” as well… suspiciously. […]

https://youtu.be/LC0aSk6HEsw first of all: i (still) love VirtualBox. The ability to migrate VMs between Windows and Linux servers is really cool, and it is still free to use. NO other Virtualization software can do that! 🙂 and that is exactly […]

if you print from a laptop at home at at office, and it happens you have the same printer model here and there, you might to want to distinguish between them by name. # become root sudo bash # backup […]

Thanks! thanks to all the contributors of open source soft- and hardware and people that share their knowledge online for free 🙂 i hope/think that better technology could possibly also change humans to the better… freely sharing information surely does […]

Firefox: einfach auf die Links klicken, dann auf “Add” to Firefox… und nochmal mit “OK” bestätigen. Neue Rechtschreibung: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/german-dictionary/ Alte Rechtschreibung: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/german-dictionary-de_de-for-sp/ … jetzt kann man(n)/Frau auf jeden beliebigen Text eines Formulares R-Click und … sich nie wieder vertippen X-D […]

You can find the Debian version on which your Ubuntu version is based in the file: /etc/debian_version From 10.04 up to 17.04: Ubuntu | Debian 18.04 bionic buster / sid – 10 17.10 artful stretch / sid – 9 17.04 […]

Linux is pretty hardware independent, so most of the time you can just 1:1 clone/move harddisk to new machine and in 99% of cases it will just boot. make sure – target (new) machine’s harddisk is same or bigger size […]