Category: GNU Linux and Mate Gnome2 Desktop

can it run GNU Linux Debian 10 (64Bit)? yes it can! what used to be aWindows XP box is now running very latest FREE version Debian, thus allowing to run latest Firefox and latest Thunderbird 🙂 (to stay up to […]

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “be careful what you reveal to your friend” (the internet) https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode5/ data google tries to collect from users: (it is probably only the tip of the iceberg) what if – instead of security – Google […]

for Macbook (intel x86) users: 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 unpack the […]

one might know the firefox “delte browser history” ctrl + alt + delete hotkey which is convenient… to clean up all logins and stuff. one fine day… one tried to empty the trash can with a hotkey… one tried all […]

ONLY BUY FROM HARDWARE VENDORS THAT SUPPORT FREE & OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE! (release the sources for their drivers and documentation for their hardware) “Currently there are only a few modern wifi chipsets readily available that work with free software systems. […]

look at this superb piece of Open Source software: … that is actually USED BY PEOPLE (like this one to write this article). unlike windows it comes with: life-time FREE UPDATES (!!!!!!!!!) a simple no f*****ing tiles design it comes […]

update: safety first! when it comes to important files: safety comes first thus recommend to the user that wants to go pro the following backup system: have two complete backups at two different places: backupA: at the company, USB 3.0 […]

this is, because this is, because, when one logs in, and opens another shell as the same user, the last bash process to quit, will save to ~/.bash_history overwrite history. to avoid this add: (TEST IN PROGRESS (UNTESTED)!) # Avoid […]

# how to debug problems # create script vim /scripts/mon_all_logs.sh # fill with this find /var/log/ -type f \( -name “*” \) ! -path ‘*.gz*’ -exec tail -n0 -f “$file” {} + # something is wrong here tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ […]

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 […]

while not officially supported no drivers here: https://www.wacom.com/en-us/support/bamboo-support works out of the box on CentOS7/Rhel7, Kernel 4.15.9 THIS WORKS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE 🙂 THANKS ALL INVOLVED! # what os do i have? hostnamectl Operating System: CentOS Linux 7 (Core) CPE OS […]

“Cinnamon is a Linux desktop which provides advanced innovative features and a traditional user experience. The desktop layout is similar to Gnome 2 with underlying technology forked from Gnome Shell. Cinnamon makes users feel at home with an easy to […]

it is not possible to change uuid of a swap partition with tune2fs, because it only supports ext3/ext4. you will have to recreate it and pass the uuid during creation, which is not a problem because usually swap SHOULD not […]

preparations on terminal: detect your hardware: you can get old but well supported notebooks/laptops here like the dell latitude e4310 with this intel-spy-on-me wifi/bluetooth module on board: lshw |grep lue description: Bluetooth wireless interface product: DW375 Bluetooth Module capabilities: bluetooth […]

checkout what is the latest version of netinst.iso not so free – but your network card might work you can try the free software only version first – and if it says – “firmware missing”… try again with this version… […]

adding printers in with the system-config-printer wizard dialog under linux debian gnome2 mate with cups nowadays used to work quiet well as you can see here… apt-get update; apt-get install firefox; # without browser you can not access the cups […]

you can use the command: xdpyinfo|less to get your X-server version: name of display: :0.0 version number: 11.0 vendor string: The X.Org Foundation vendor release number: 11604000 X.Org version: 1.16.4 maximum request size: 16777212 bytes motion buffer size: 256 bitmap […]

in general unfortunately the minimum time-unit usable with at is minutes – no seconds or milliseconds. timing non-repetative tasks tasks that are just run once but at a certain time or date at ist not installed per default under centos/redhat, […]

to play sound from a script/bash/command line: there are multiple possibilities… hostnamectl; # tested on Static hostname: DebianLaptop Icon name: computer-laptop Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 # paplay seems to be part of the […]

it is interesting to see what kernel+filesystem the distributions rely on. Kernels: While CentOS is still on 3.10, Debian is believing in 3.16, and SUSE is “latest” with it’s 4.4 Version kernel. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/04/linux-kernel-4-0-new-features https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Linux-Kernel-macht-Versionssprung-auf-4-0-2557302.html you can upgrade with Debian to […]

but imho the best background pictures are the universe and galaxy background pictures that change every 15min /usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos more fancy background images you could use. # become root su # get latest package definitions apt update # update all packages […]

Gnome2 MATE Desktop comes with pretty cool Cosmos background slideshow. in theory it should be possible to put more pictures into it… just search for “cosmos” on yandex.ru or any other search engine. space grounds: MATE Gnome2 comes with nice space […]

there is no menu-manager installed per default. it was named “alacarte” now it is named “mozo” easy MATE menu editing tool mozo is an easy-to-use menu editor for MATE that can add and edit new entries and menus. It works […]

THE POWER OF THE GNU PENGUIN: HUMANS SHOULD NEVER EVER WAIT FOR MACHINES! MACHINES LIFE FOREVER – HUMANS DO NOT (YET). GNU LINUX Debian 8 “Jessie” with MATE Gnome2 Desktop GUI) on DELL E4310 with Samsung SSD 830 – powerup […]

you won’t believe it – but your password is NOT required. all you have to do is find “#autologin-user” and put your “autologin-user=username” into it and <- UNCOMMENT autologin-user-timeout=0. reboot. works. uname -a; # tested with Linux debian 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 […]

Update: 2020-05 PDF are important file formats for document exchange, but in 2020 PDF as Mail-Attachments can not be 100% trusted anymore. how to create PDF under Linux? there are various programs that support export to PDF format least but […]