Debian running on ISS “pretty sure that no Windows systems are being used anymore. All/most laptops used by the astronauts have a Linux based operating systems (Debian)” (src: space.stackexchange.com) 2007: Debian: Anatomy of An Open Source Project WARNING! SHOCKING! NO […]
#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 […]
Let me be frank. Once upon the time, was a Windows user. Then was happy to have to use OSX for a transition to GNU Linux. But once on GNU Linux (Debian) do not miss neither Windows nor OSX at […]
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in short: humans per default, without an education might just be “better” apes. Some parts of mankind behave very primitive and clearly show no signs of higher intelligence or education. The troubles start, when the tools become more and more […]
CentOS 7 (maintained until 2024) is hailed a rock-solid GNU Linux Open Source (?) server OS, hardened by many idelaistic developers & RedHat technicians. …and indeed it performed well on it’s xfs filesystem (thanks all involved also thanks to RedHat […]
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 […]
scroll down and behave! (slaves of digital dictatorships) short version summary of 1984: short version: 1984 needs to be avoided at any cost. because: it is evil. (Google did not drop it’s motto “don’t be evil” for nothing) in essence: […]
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 […]
what do you think about the CNBC documentary? 2012: Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds: 1,5 Million Views! contains the famous “Fuck You NVIDIA” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA Linus Torvalds writes software since his early childhood ages and just loves programming. Without this love […]
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 […]
https://dwaves.de/2023/08/07/looking-for-a-new-soc-or-sbc-new-version-of-starfive-visionfive-2-risc-v-sob-soc-battle-rages-on-raspberry-pi-4-vs-odroid-n2l/ Update: 2023: there seems to be a new version “StarFive VisionFive 2 JH7110 64bit SoC” with 4GB RAM for 84,49 Bucks or 114,49 Bucks for the 8GB RAM version CPU performance is between Raspberry Pi3 and Pi34 also remarkable: price-wise it […]
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 […]
got the server cheap from ebay. has unfortunately only 4x 2.5″ SAS (3.5″ would be better = more storage) one SAS drive already faulty. using the native Hardware RAID10 (4x 75GByte Hitachi HGST Ultrastar C10K600 450GB (HUC106045CSS600) 2,5″ SAS2 64MB […]
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 […]
“Linux desktop remains an unpopular choice among mainstream desktop users, making up a little more than 2% of the desktop operating system market share. This is in contrast to the web server market share, which consists of 70% of Linux-based operating systems. […]
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. […]
servers/clients/computers/programs/services/webservers need accurate time… they usually get it from time servers that have an atomic clock attached to their USB port. (just guessing) ping time.google.com PING time.google.com (216.239.35.4) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from time2.google.com (216.239.35.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=43.5 […]
really don’t understand how a SoC with 3GB of RAM (!) and a 8x Core ARM can be put to the bin (as Debian GNU Linux runs on devices with as little as 1GB RAM and 2x Cores) because there […]
long story short: “The Year 2038 problem is where the Unix time can no longer be stored in a signed 32-bit integer and thus after 19 January 2038 will begin wrapping around as a negative number for representing the number […]
one was running CyanogenMod “Beanstalk” on Samsung Galaxy S3 (i9300) for the last 2-3 years and it worked pretty well, but after a while (and a lot of Apps) it becomes unreliable/unstable. (but that is with all systems that […]
Update: 2024 unfortunately also some ARM CPUs are affected by Spectre v1 and v2. Update: 2020.03 “The newly developed Rowhammer- attack TRRespass can crack the RAM-a security mechanism by many DDR4-DRAM-modules as well as LPDDR4 Chips. Until now, these were […]
warning: this only works if you have a gui/gnome installed. thanks goes to this superb tutorial with screenshots: http://xmodulo.com/debug-program-nemiver-debugger.html For Debian based distributions, it should be pretty straightforward: apt-get install nemiver; # Debian and Ubuntu pacman -S nemiver; # For […]
Debian Ubuntu Mint: for the deb based distributions hostnamectrl; # tested on Armbian (Debian for ARM Bullseye) su – root; # become root apt update; # always good apt install console-data # select a new keymap # for languages others […]
MicroKernel for mobile devices? LK (Little Kernel) is a tiny operating system suited for small embedded devices, bootloaders, and other environments where OS primitives like threads, mutexes, and timers are needed, but there’s a desire to keep things small and […]
… one also likes beauty and simplicity… this tutorial has not exactly grown into beauty – rather the beauty has grown into a beast and just as with software beyond a certain point – it needs to be split into […]
update: 2021-1 yum -> dnf hostnamectl; # tested on Virtualization: kvm Operating System: CentOS Linux 8 CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8 Kernel: Linux 5.4.11 Architecture: x86-64 ll /usr/bin/yum -> dnf-3 all those yum commands still work with dnf (nice work!) DNF […]
“The Unix Philosophy in One Lesson” “All the philosophy really boils down to one iron law, the hallowed ‘KISS principle’ of master engineers everywhere:” “Keep It Simple, Stupid” or “Keep It Super Simple” (less offensive) The Unix philosophy emphasizes building […]
While biodiversity is GOOD and efficiency is NOT all we need. Nature looks for a balance of efficiency (30%) and resilience (70%). Standardization is enshuring that your work is compatible with future versions – therefore important for programmers, administrators and […]