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Posts about my experiments in Linux operating system

Perusing the Linux Kernel source code: Setting battery charge threshold on ASUS laptops

Using systemd to set battery charge threshold automatically during booting on compatible ASUS laptops running Linux Kernel version 5.4 and above. Also, perusing the Linux Kernel source code to understand the history of "battery charge threshold" feature on ASUS laptops and how it works.

openSUSE and IceWM adventures - minimalist computing

IceWM was an accidental discovery made during my quest for a minimal openSUSE system. I replaced KDE Plasma 5 with it. I am totally satisfied.

NoMachine adventures on openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed

NoMachine is a very good remote desktop solution for Linux. It installs fine on openSUSE Leap while on openSUSE Tumbleweed the necessary systemd service, nxserver.service, does not get installed. After manually installing nxserver.service, all is good.

openSUSE adventures - Leaped onto Tumbleweed, tumbled for a while and rolled back on to Leap due to a Dolphin bug

KDE Plasma's official File Manager, Dolphin, has a bug which forced me off of openSUSE Leap 15.2. I installed openSUSE Tumbleweed in the hope that the newer versions of KDE Plasma might have gotten rid of the bug. I was shocked when I saw the dangerous bug eerily smile at me in openSUSE Tumbleweed.

[SOLVED] Fedora 32 VirtualBox guest: Resolution stuck at 800x600 after fresh install

Fedora 32 as a VirtualBox guest is stuck at 800x600 resolution. Installation of VirtualBox Guest Additions version 6.0.18 impossible due to compilation errors. Got hold of VirtualBox Guest Additions version 6.1.8 and it got installed. However, it works only partly.

openSUSE Leap 15.1 KDE Plasma 5: My experiments in accessing other desktops remotely using VNC and RDP

I tried to connect two pretty old laptops running openSUSE Leap 15.1 with KDE Plasma 5 to create a Local Area Network (LAN). This is a summary of my struggles.

[SOLVED] openSUSE Tumbleweed VirtualBox guest: Resolution stuck at 800x600 after fresh install

A VirtualBox Guest Additions bug defined in the Ticket #19496 caused my freshly installed openSUSE Tumbleweed to have resolution stuck at 800x600. This blog post is about my experiments and observations.

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Ghost Desktop on Fedora - alien helped me

I wanted to test-ride Ghost Desktop. They have packages for Mac, Windows, Linux and Android. Linux package is what I interested in, but they only had one for Ubuntu - deb package. I currently use Fedora 28 on my workstation and laptop. Hence, I needed an rpm package which does

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Blogging system upgrade - Ghost 1.x to 2.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 DigitalOcean droplet

Ghost 1.x to 2.x upgrade on DigitalOcean Virtual Private Server (VPS) running Ubuntu 18.04 and nginx.

Leaped out of openSUSE Leap 42.3 into Fedora 27

Arch Linux is a beauty. However, the whole installation routine had become a bit too much for me. I just wanted to concentrate on the really important stuff\goals and becoming an Arch installation ninja was not one of them. I wanted a solid, slow-changing distro. openSUSE Leap 42.3

Arch Linux is rock solid although last update broke Virtualbox

I had installed Arch Linux UEFI on my main workstation on 04 November 2015 at ~03:10 hrs. I got my trusted lieutenant, Xfce, installed immediately. I used this recipe as a guide. Now, Linux does not tell us the installation time the way Windows does with the systeminfo command:

Text boot : Getting rid of bootsplash/Plymouth in Manjaro or Arch Linux

I like seeing my kernel spewing messages on my terminal when I boot my PC. I like the transparency, the openness. Having kernel messages visible can also help in understanding certain boot issues. This is how to get a completely GUI free/bootsplash free/plymouth free, fully terminal or text

Accessing USB devices from Virtualbox Windows guest on Linux host

This is one issue that had troubled me for long but was not important enough for me to put any effort into soving it. All this changed when I had to upgrade my BIOS on my Dell Optiplex 9020 machine. The problems are: * One cannot upgrade BIOS from a Linux

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and Logical Volume Manager (LVM) adventures: How upgrading to UEFI resulted in this epic post

This is a work-in-progress… It all started when I found my backup plan lacking in all ways imaginable. To be really honest, I never had one. This is not because I am digitally retarded or lazy (this is debatable) or lack resources. I did not have much to back up.

Virtualbox Guest Additions for Debian sid guest

The whole process is very simple: * Login as root or do a su root or better do a sudo * Update APT database with apt-get update * Update the system with apt-get dist-upgrade Note: The next step is needed the first time only * Install the following packages apt-get install build-essential module-assistant * On

Manjaro Linux: So stable that it is boring!

How I got Manjaro: Arch Linux installation is a terrible pain in the butt. It was designed to be like that. Geeks and power users would not want it to be any different. Minimal and fully adhering to the KISS philosophy. I love Arch Linux and have it installed on