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  • XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought

    A couple months back I switched my terminal from xfce4-terminal to the venerable xterm. For some reason I always put xterm in the same bucket as xclock, xmessage, or any other prehistoric command starting with X that comes pre-installed on any graphical Linux distribution.

    It was surprising to learn that xterm is still very much actively developed. Even more surprisingly, it turns out xterm has incredibly low input latency compared to modern terminals. This is easy to test at home, try typing in xterm compared to any other terminal and feel how much snappier it is.

    The lower latency alone is worth the price of admission in my opinion, so I went about configuring xterm as my default terminal. The configuration goes in ~/.Xresources and you need to run xrdb ~/.Xresources after every change, or make vim do it.

  • How to install ClassiCube on a Chromebook

    Today we are looking at how to install ClassiCube on a Chromebook. It is a sandbox block game inspired by Minecraft Classic. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below.

    This tutorial will only work on Chromebooks with an Intel or AMD CPU (with Linux Apps Support) and not those with an ARM64 architecture CPU.

  • How to install Kodi 18.8 on Linux Mint 20.1 - YouTube

    In this video, we are looking at how to install Kodi 18.8 on Linux Mint 20.1.

  • How to download webcomics from the command line on Linux

    Would you like to back up all the strips of your favorite website? Hopefully, the open source community has the solution: a command line program to download all your favorite webcomics from your terminal.

  • How to Safely Uninstall Ubuntu in a Windows Dual-boot PC | FOSS Linux

    Previously, We covered a post on How to dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu on the same PC. We also went further and looked at How to dual-boot two Linux distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu. This post will look at something around the same line but a little different.

  • How to mount Google Drive on Linux

    In the past, close to 30K people signed up for a online petition, desperately wanting to have an official native Linux client for Google Drive, and yet their voice is still being ignored by Google. Perhaps when it comes to boosting their bottom line, Linux desktop market is not a priority for Google.

    They can ignore Linux desktop market all they want, but they cannot ignore the power of FOSS. Faced with the frustration, the open-source community respondded, producing unofficial Google Drive clients such as Grive or SyncDrive. These clients are file synchronization tools which sync files and folders between local file system and remote Google Drive. As such, you cannot mount Google Drive using these tools.

  • How To Customize Your WordPress Login Page - Anto Online

    Let’s face it! The default WordPress login page is quite bland. If you have some impressive stuff on your site, then showing the WordPress form is a bad first impression. The login form should at least reflect the greatness that the users are about to experience. Let us take a look at how you can customize the WordPress login page!

    Besides, using the default WordPress login page shows that you are lazy or ordinary. This is a bad sign, especially when you want people to trust you. The good news is that customizing the login page is easy since it can be done with plugins’ help.

  • Fedora 33 : Install wordpress on Fedora distro.

    For those who are celebrating the winter holidays with the Linux operating system, I have created this little tutorial...
    The first step - update and upgrade the Fedora 33 Linux distro.

  • Efficiently Manage Remote SSH Connections With These Linux Commands
  • How To Install A New Desktop Environment Using Raspberry PI OS

    The default desktop environment for the Raspberry PI OS is a good place to start when you first get your Raspberry PI but there are lots of other choices available.

    A desktop environment encompasses every visual aspect of your computer from the backgrounds, to the way windows appear and are managed, the panels, icons and in many cases a set of default applications.

    Thus far unless you have followed my guide for customising the Raspberry PI desktop your desktop experience will consist of a panel at the top, a single wastebasket icon on the desktop and a menu that pulls down from the top left and a series of system tray icons in the top right.

    There are many different desktop environments available and with Raspberry PI OS there is a fairly straight forward way to install the most popular ones.

  • Pi4 slow USB drive fixed

    I have posted about extreme sluggishness of EasyOS on the Raspberry Pi4, and fixes:
    https://bkhome.org/news/202101/easyos-64-bit-running-faster-in-pi4.html
    Unfortunately, that is not the end of the story. Bootup is slow, the desktop drive icons are very slow to load, and other drive-related operations are very slow. A bit of online research on Pi forums revealed the cause -- "USB attached SCSI" (CONFIG_UAS) is enabled in the kernel.
    UAS makes UAS-enabled SSDs go faster, however, it seems to be broken, even on some supposedly UAS-enabled SSDs. I do recall this issue, and EasyOS kernels for x86_64 PCs have CONFIG_UAS disabled.

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today's howtos

  • How to install go1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04 – NextGenTips

    In this tutorial, we are going to explore how to install go on Ubuntu 22.04 Golang is an open-source programming language that is easy to learn and use. It is built-in concurrency and has a robust standard library. It is reliable, builds fast, and efficient software that scales fast. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel-type systems enable flexible and modular program constructions. Go compiles quickly to machine code and has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. In this guide, we are going to learn how to install golang 1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04. Go 1.19beta1 is not yet released. There is so much work in progress with all the documentation.

  • molecule test: failed to connect to bus in systemd container - openQA bites

    Ansible Molecule is a project to help you test your ansible roles. I’m using molecule for automatically testing the ansible roles of geekoops.

  • How To Install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 9 - idroot

    In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, MongoDB is a high-performance, highly scalable document-oriented NoSQL database. Unlike in SQL databases where data is stored in rows and columns inside tables, in MongoDB, data is structured in JSON-like format inside records which are referred to as documents. The open-source attribute of MongoDB as a database software makes it an ideal candidate for almost any database-related project. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the MongoDB NoSQL database on AlmaLinux 9. You can follow the same instructions for CentOS and Rocky Linux.

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  • Self-host a Ghost Blog With Traefik

    Ghost is a very popular open-source content management system. Started as an alternative to WordPress and it went on to become an alternative to Substack by focusing on membership and newsletter. The creators of Ghost offer managed Pro hosting but it may not fit everyone's budget. Alternatively, you can self-host it on your own cloud servers. On Linux handbook, we already have a guide on deploying Ghost with Docker in a reverse proxy setup. Instead of Ngnix reverse proxy, you can also use another software called Traefik with Docker. It is a popular open-source cloud-native application proxy, API Gateway, Edge-router, and more. I use Traefik to secure my websites using an SSL certificate obtained from Let's Encrypt. Once deployed, Traefik can automatically manage your certificates and their renewals. In this tutorial, I'll share the necessary steps for deploying a Ghost blog with Docker and Traefik.