Category: Ubuntu

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Description of each field As you can see from the first three lines: First letter -> desired package state (“selection state”): u – means: Unknown (an unknown state) i – means: Install (marked for installation) r – means: Remove (marked […]

remember that discussion about ever changing non-standard ways of defining network interfaces and ip addresses under /etc/network… well guess what, canonical just came up with a completely new config file format X-D (guess, everything is a yaml.yml now) hostnamectl; # […]

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 […]

SecurityLab, [22.12.20 10:00] Google has explained the reasons for the massive failure of its services that took place last week. Recall that on December 14 of this year, users around the world for 47 minutes could not access Gmail, YouTube […]

update: 2020-05: printer works – with ubuntu 12 as virtualbox 6.1 vm (should also work with ubuntu 16, untested) with printers and GNU Linux it is usually like this: plug & print … 3 days later, it actually printed a […]

Mozilla Firefox, Firefox Browser, or simply Firefox, is a free and open–source (src: Wikipedia) web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation. even when mozilla is (financially) having a tough time, security should be everyone’s top […]

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. […]

My Guide to free as possible do it yourself laptop, tested an worked on two x60s: 1. get a Lenovo x60s https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ebay+Lenovo+x60s 2. a fresh battery (they still produce replacement batteries) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ebay+Lenovo+x60s+battery 3. get Atheros ar5b95 Wireless WiFi g42 cq42 […]

different sizes… different standards… every year? why? it is hard to find wifi cards that are supported by open source drivers even worse: there seems to be NOT A SINGLE wifi card vendor, that makes the firmware public (why actually?) […]

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, […]

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 my […]

the itsec troubles: CPU Intel Celeron Processor J Series is Spectre & Meltdown affected (src) while Spectre & Meltdown based hack was observed in the wild, going with RISC-V SoC or AMD based SoC (CPUs & Mainboards) might be the […]

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 […]

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 […]