A while ago I wrote that 2017 is The Year of the Linux Desktop, but there is one thing that has always bothered me and that is that I need to fallback to my Windows machine to flash a new ROM on my lovely Samsung (Android) phone. Of course there …
more ...A quite annoying bug while using the VirtualBox 5.1.x release, apparently caused by Qt5, has forced people that use Tiling Window Managers like me to look at alternative ways to keep on using VirtualBox until a fix has been released. Luckily, VirtualBox has a quite excellent Headless Mode …
more ...It has already been predicted many times, but I personally believe that 2017 is going to be the Year of the Linux Desktop. Let me explain why:
Late October 2016, Apple unveiled its groundbreaking new MacBook Pro. Besides some expected hardware refreshments like a newer CPU and a blazingly fast …
more ...About a month ago, I started playing around with Zabbix to improve my monitoring needs. While setting up Zabbix on Debian/Ubuntu itself is pretty straightforward when using apache2, and also doable when preferring nginx, the documentation regarding plugins and custom checks felt missing and a bit cumbersome to me …
more ...A while ago, I started playing around with Arch Linux on a spare computer. After following the (excellent) Beginners' guide I ended up with a rather nice LVM on LUKS setup. This spare computer has one physical (SSD) disk (/dev/sda), which is divided in /dev/sda1 (which is /boot …