Old-school technical writing with groff
Old-school technical writing with groff Jim Hall Sat, 08/06/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like One of my favorite stories about Unix is how it turned into a text processing system. Brian Kernighan tells the story in his book Unix: A History and a Memoir (chapter 3) but to summarize: The Unix team at Bell Labs ran the original Unix on a PDP-7 computer, but it was a tiny system and didn’t have...
Scalable storage for the masses to debut in ownCloud Infinite Scale
Scalable storage for the masses to debut in ownCloud Infinite Scale Markus Feilner Fri, 08/05/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like So far, ownCloud users have only had the opportunity to choose between simple local file storage based on a POSIX-compatible file system or EOS Open Storage (EOS). The latter causes massive complexity during setup. More recent versions of ownCloud feature a functionality...
Delete the local reference to a remote branch in Git
Delete the local reference to a remote branch in Git Agil Antony Fri, 08/05/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like After you merge a GitLab or GitHub pull request, you usually delete the topic branch in the remote repository to maintain repository hygiene. However, this action deletes the topic branch only in the remote repository. Your local Git repository also benefits from routine cleanup. To...
3 ways to take screenshots on Linux
3 ways to take screenshots on Linux Jim Hall Thu, 08/04/2022 – 03:00 2 readers like this 2 readers like this When writing about open source software, I prefer to show a few screenshots to help demonstrate what I’m talking about. As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. If you can show a thing, that’s often better than merely trying to describe it. There are a few ways you can take screenshots in...
Lengthen the life of your hardware with Linux
Lengthen the life of your hardware with Linux Don Watkins Thu, 08/04/2022 – 03:00 1 reader likes this 1 reader likes this Sustainability is an increasingly important problem when it comes to computing. Reduce, reuse, recycle is a popular motto for environmentally responsible consumption, but applying that to your computer hardware can be challenging. Many proprietary operating systems essentially force a hardware upgrade upon...
A sysadmin’s guide to network interface configuration files
A sysadmin’s guide to network interface configuration files David Both Wed, 08/03/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like In the first article of this series, Get started with NetworkManager on Linux, I looked at what NetworkManager does and some of the tools it provides for viewing network connections and devices. I discussed using the nmcli command to view the status of network devices and...
