Posted on Tue 02 January 2024 in Security • Tagged with Linux, FreeBSD, Admin, ssh, tmux, zsh
Having secure remote access that's still convenient is key when you're travelling. My setup is very old, but still works perfectly. The remote access I need is mostly terminal access, as I have a lot of tools on terminal to access my important data remotely.
I use …
Posted on Sat 23 December 2023 in Linux • Tagged with Linux, Debian
When I installed Debian on a Thinkpad two weeks ago, I was out of luck. As you may have heard, the stable Linux kernel maintenance team imported a change from the upstream which caused a major problem on systems with ext4 filesystems. Ext4 is the default for Debian installs, and …
Posted on Fri 22 December 2023 in Linux • Tagged with CentOS, Linux, Debian
Over the past few years I have used a number of different Linux distributions in addition to FreeBSD and MacOS. My daily work is also often done on Microsoft Windows machines. I am not a fan of the best operating system battle. In my opinion, the best system is the …
Posted on Wed 13 December 2023 in Linux • Tagged with Linux, Debian
If you like the cli like I do, you might also like modern tools with some eye candy. Nala is a nice frontend for dpkg and a replacement for apt. It has some useful features for your daily work.
The history for nala can …
Posted on Mon 04 July 2022 in GNSS • Tagged with GNNS, Galileo, Linux, Galmon
Some time ago, I stumbled over the Galmon project by Bert Hubert. Since I am into everything with space technology, this caught my attention. Bert initiated a project where you can host your own mini observing station and collect status information from …
Posted on Thu 29 March 2018 in misc • Tagged with Atom, Mac, Editor, Linux, Windows
The GitHub Inc. has released the Atom editor (https://atom.io) some time ago. It is a nice editor with some basic IDE functionality. Based on the first experiences it is a stable peace of software with a fast interface. The most basic features you would like to see in …
Posted on Sat 23 August 2014 in Fedora • Tagged with custom kernel, Fedora, Grub, initrd, kernel, Linux
The last time I built a Linux kernel for my machine was quite a time ago. In my Linux hacking times when I did my private researches on how Linux works and how the software can be built for it, I used Gentoo and there it was normal to build …
Posted on Mon 26 May 2014 in Fedora • Tagged with dualboot, Fedora, Grub, Linux, UEFI
Yes it is possible! Even with secure boot enabled!
On my workstation I use a dual boot configuration for some games and my Linux based development and testing. Since I am using a UEFI only configuration it was quite easy to use a dualboot …
Posted on Sat 04 January 2014 in Linux • Tagged with Fedora, Linux, upgrade
Since the Fedora 20 release called Heisenbug is now some weeks old and the first updates are available I decided to update my Thinkpad. As described in older posts I prefer to reinstall the system partition and only keep my /home partition which contains all my stuff.
This time I …
Posted on Wed 13 March 2013 in Fedora • Tagged with i3, i3wm, rpm, window manager, Fedora, Linux
The new version 4.5 of i3 and i3status 2.7 is available for Fedora 17 over my repository. Short how to update i3wm on Fedora17 can be found here.
The detailed release notes are available here:http://i3wm.org/downloads/RELEASE-NOTES-4.5.txt
If your using Fedora 18 there …