Category: GNU-Linux

details on the latest SanDisk Ultra 3.2Gen1 32GBytes stick Why this stick and not 1:1 dd copy a Debian (or other) Live iso on the stick? (Debian even provides Live.iso with a bunch of different desktops to chose from #NOICE!) […]

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 […]

so RedHat developed the virsh manager, but not qemu itself. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43704856/what-are-the-differences-between-qemu-and-virtualbox QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an […]

Pure Beauty: “the glow” “IT JUST WORKS” 🙂 wifi works two-finger-scroll touchpad works sound works (hey! startup sounds are important 🙂 admitted: the keyboard will need some time of getting used to X-D (per default Macbook Pro A1278 would run […]

Why Hybrid? “Most hybrid kernels start as monolithic kernels and begin moving components into user land, primarily as security to support 3rd-party components and drivers which may be malicious or buggy. An example of a hybrid kernel design may keep […]

to recover the data: how to mount luks2 encrypted volume also check out alternative: GNU Linux – create new encrypted partition harddisk – how to open encrypted harddisk partition possibility: remove harddisk, attach to sata2usb adapter, then mount on different […]

update 2022: next to the good old (non-destructive if used correctly) “dd” is still the way to go for benchmarking harddisks under GNU Linux. a simpler one is “gnome-disk-utility” also interesting but not very simple in installation & usage (complicated! […]

Overview Recent 360Netlab unknown threat detection system to capture to a group of unknown malicious families of the sample, which a number of samples supported CPU architectures are x86(32/64), ARM(32/64), MIPS(MIPS32/MIPS-III) as well as PPC, after our analysis, which is […]

“Knights, Orks and Skeletons (of course)” Severance Blade of Darkness (2001) is an very very old (almost 20 (!!!) years now) open world adventure game almost a “Lara Croft” in “the middle ages” meeting Orks from “Lord of the Rings” […]

ffmpeg / avconv is pretty nice. it can even do mp4 to gif conversion! 🙂 so what the user can do is: use SimpleScreenRecorder, to record a fixed rectangle of the screen to mp4 and then use ffmpeg / avconv […]

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “be careful what you reveal to your friend” (the internet) https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode5/ “where it has gone from defending America to controlling it” data google tries to collect from users: (it is probably only the tip of […]

the for loop when the user wants a command to be run exactly x times # one-liner for-loop for i in $(seq 1 5); do echo $i; done; # multi-liner for-loop for ((n=1; n<=17; n++)) do printf “do this and […]

what is the problem? https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/13564/why-is-vim-for-debian-compiled-without-clipboard for whatever reasons a lot of vim packages come compiled without system -clipboard support. furthermore: for copy & paste per default vim uses it’s own registers (not the default primary and secondary system clipboard that […]

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 […]

the SanDisk Ultra 32GB are fast, cheap USB sticks that user can get around 8€ online. when it keeps mounting “read only” and refuses to mount read+write, “I’ve contacted SanDisk, and they’ve said it happened “beacuse the flash drive has […]

“The function resets the cache not only when necessary, but also on the “order” of any application. Linus Torvalds, the Creator of the Linux kernel, opposed the addition of the L1 data cache reset function when context switching to the […]

ah oh! Debian says the problem is fixed in many versions. The table below lists information on source packages. Make sure to keep all internet facing systems as up to date as possible. this bug might be critical for all […]

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 […]

home of git’s git repo: https://git-scm.com/ # to clone git’s git repo git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git # as can be seen there, it is STILL under active development written in primarily in C, with GUI and programming scripts written in Shell […]

man made madness: Of course: this madness operates – just as tax avoidance – completely within the legal frameworks of countries with politicians that are open to “donations” (it is called CORRUPTION -> corrupt laws to profit the few). Of […]

Ever played SingStar on PS2? it is great fun! (for example on one’s birthday party?) there is a karaoke system for linux called: An open-source karaoke, band and dancing game where one or more players perform a song and the […]

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 […]

imho: CentOS is a rock solid server operating system. Why is CentOS perfect for servers? a server (usually) is build for a specific purpose and should have as little software installed as possible (more software = more reliability, speed and […]

Update: 2020-02 added “geany” is there an ideal IDE for every task? Nope. Of course just as programming languages every IDE has their pros and cons. (build for a specific purpose? might serve other purposes also) There is not a […]

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 […]

for good overview it makes sense to label the harddisk partitions according to functionality (what is their purpose?) GNU Linux bash – how to label partitions tune2fs (xfs & ext4) all infos about one’s harddisk: # tested on: hostnamectl Static […]

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“The Linux Foundation has become one of the main engines and drivers of IT technology. It has also helped to overcome the old opposition of Open Source developers versus IT industry. Today, more than half of Global 2000 Software and […]