Chromium OS on HP Mini: xf86-video-modesetting
When I was choosing my netbook, I knew that I will install Linux on it, so, I put attention on its hardware. Having noticed that it has an Intel videocard, […]
When I was choosing my netbook, I knew that I will install Linux on it, so, I put attention on its hardware. Having noticed that it has an Intel videocard, […]
Today, I have updated my Gentoo box. The only problem I faced was broken Network Manager applet (nm-applet): no connections are shown at all; often, nm-applet is not present in […]
The Linux world is changing! Traditional split between /usr and / directories is given up by several distros, including Fedora and Arch. There is a comprehensive article that explains the […]
Retrieve an installation disk, e.g. Centos 6.4: $ wget http://mirror.corbina.net/pub/Linux/centos/6.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-minimal.iso Create an empty image: $ IMG_NAME=centos-6.4-i386 $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 ${IMG_NAME}.qcow2 12G Boot with kvm. Note that you should […]
As it was before, the latest weekend was very hard for my netbook. I told in my previous article that I have installed three Linuxes: Fedora, Ubuntu, and Gentoo, while the […]
This weekend was very hard for my netbook. I installed three Linuxes on it: Gentoo because I love it; Ubuntu because it has good support for hardware out of the […]
On May 4 2013, Debian Wheezy was released. I run root@alessio-hp:~# aptitude dist-upgrade and saw that less is removed! I tried unsuccessfully: root@alessio-hp:~# aptitude install less The following NEW packages will […]
Once my colleague asked me to help her with SSH public key authentication. The symptoms are very common: you add your id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys, try to login and… ssh asks […]
There are three levels of interpreting symbols that correspond to keys: scancode, keycode and keysym. Scancode is produced by keyboard as a series for key press or key release. Keycode […]
Consider we write a bash script that runs a while cycle with I/O redirection. $ cat redirection.sh read a_line echo “1: I have scanned: $a_line” while read a_line; do echo […]