Why use the Linux desktop if the Desktop is dead anyway?
Also, more **util-linux**: cal, chrt, col, and colcrt from /usr/bin.
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Listener feedback about zram and ziptool, and then a discussion about the term
"open"
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Finishing up the binaries in /sbin from the **util-linux** package. Includes
**sfdisk**, **swaplabel**, **swapon**, **swapoff**, **switch_root**,
**wipefs**, **ziptool**, and **zramctl**.
For **zram…
Listener feedbacks from Mastodon, including commentary about the Julian
calendar, Flatpak sandboxing problems, Flatpak usability problems,
clarification on Bzip2 and LZMA and ZIP compression.
The ov…
Is it really possible to use CentOS or RHEL as a desktop Linux distro? Klaatu
finds out!
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Listener feedback from Carl about gauging community health of a project before
getting involved with it. Klaatu has defined five community profiles, but has
no definitive answers. Listen in and send …
Are Flatpaks and Snaps a regression in security? and other exciting listener
debates.
Util-link continued, continuing with utilities in /sbin:
* sbin/ctrlaltdel
* sbin/fdisk
* sbin/findfs…
Util-link continued, starting with the utilities in /sbin:
* sbin/adjtimex
* sbin/agetty
* sbin/blkdiscard
* sbin/blkid
* sbin/blockdev
* sbin/cfdisk
Plus some listener feedb…
Listener feedback. GNU World Order is voted best Linux Podcast of 2018 by
[linuxquestions.org](http://linuxquestions.org) but fame is fleeting, and it
is no longer 2018. Bzip2 compression. You should…
The journey through the **util-linux** from the **a** package set of Slackware
continues. First, a tutorial on `getopt`, an argument parser for Bash and
Tcsh. Here is a demonstrative sample script:
…
Heaps of listener feedback about licensing, the difference between a user and
a developer, the `atool` archive tool, old GNU World Order shownotes, the
first couple of applications from **util-linux*…
Coffee across the globe. From the **a** package set of default Slackware
packages: udisks, udisks2 (udiskctl), unarj, upower, usb_modeswitch, usbutils,
and the utemptor interface to utmp, btmp, and w…
Episode audio levels adjusted, Flatpak tips, and three great coffees in
downtown Raleigh North Carolina. Finishing up the applications-that-start-
with-"t" from the **a** set of Slackware: `time` (no…
Webhosting.coop vouchers, THE CLOUD is just a virtual computer on somebody
else's (or your own?) cluster of computers, building dependencies on things
you already own.
In the **t** packages in the *…
Deep thoughts about licensing, effective licensing, and why groups of free
software developers haven't the luxury of turning a blind eye.
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Klaatu talks about software licensing as related to ZFS, and then covers the
**S** section of the **a** package set in Slackware (he also realises mid-way
through that he had already covered the **q*…
Klaatu installs ZFS and creates a ZFS USB drive. Continuing his review of all
packages installed with Slackware, he talks about reiserfs and rpm2tgz.
Finally, a thoroughly biased unbiased review of …
All about the quota command from Slackware package set **a**
`
# enable quota in /etc/fstab
# for example:
# /dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults,usrquota 0 2
#
# then remount th…
Sun 13 Jan 2019
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