When you want to run a middleweight Linux distribution and you already love & know Debian but don't want to run on super stable Server level since you are running a workstation *not* a server MX Linux is a very good choice as a distribution for you

You've got the power of Debian you'll get the stability of Debian yet you are bleeding edge and don't have applications which are rock stable but for a workstation a tad old
If you don't have a recent MX Linux installation you can download the new ISO version 23.6

If you have v23.5 there's no need to execute a fresh installation. The updated executables will roll out to you automatically.

https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-6-now-available/

. #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish  #distro #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming

This is how my terminals look like when I compile a kernel. I love the wonderful colours that I generate

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #kernel #Linux #POSIX #FOSS #100daysofCode #640DaysOfCode #1024DaysOfCode #programming #lolcat

After having read what horrors people experience when they upgrade their Hugo binaries, I made sure that I've kept the version that I used to make my test site and also consequently use *that* version to continue to teach myself a high level of fluency in the markdown language

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #Hugo #Linux #POSIX #FOSS #100daysofCode #640DaysOfCode #1024DaysOfCode #programming

$ alias 'rm = rm -i'

This is a standard alias in all my POSIX installations
I use it to curb accidental removal incidents of important and large directory trees

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #freeBSD #Linux #POSIX #FOSS #100daysofCode #640DaysOfCode #1024DaysOfCode #programming

Yes you have seen it correctly, I'm now including __links__ the sh & console based browser, in my workflow, since it uses few resources, doesn't understand many of the modern languages, which results in pleasure and fun on the internet. You can even use links on a serial console like my Wyse terminal!

An Adblock is not need in this modus operandi.

The places which are properly coded, do not need even JavaScript are where I frequently get my information from

Heute ist ein entspannter Tag, weil wenige SuS da sind - das nutzen wir natürlich gleich aus, um im MakerSpace kreativ zu werden! #maker #csh #makeyourSchool

Slides have been released on this wonderful piece of balancing software for your proxmox clusters proxyLB
Now you can learn even more about this piece of wonderful software

Courtesy of @gyptazy

#bash #proxyLB #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX #proxmox #loadbalancer

https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB

Gotten tired of those massive browsers hogging GB (*1024 = MB) of ram? Want to go back to the days of text based browsing?

Links has got you covered. For decades (lynx and later) links gives us back the nostalgic feel of *sh* based browsing, just like BitchX gives it with IRC in the shell.

Look how smooth and fast it works with DuckDuckGo

If you haven't done so yet and you are playing with Open Source Operating Systems, read this article about the BSD family

it is very enlightening, and worth every minute of reading it

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #freeBSD  #100DaysOfCode #1000DaysOfCode #POSIX #Programming #Patch #UNIX #History

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/03/23/osday-2025-why-choose-bsd-in-2025/

Due to my brain dead ISP which does not support IPv6 for clients in 2K25(!) I cant access my boxyBSD box.

boxyBSD is thus so far away from me :(

I have a client connection with fixed IPv4 IP somewhere, but it collapses when I use a free available IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel service.

Instead of sitting and twiddling my fingers on my Bass guitar(s) generating random() notes, I decided to get an image of the latest freeBSD and play with it locally, until I can get my ISP to provide all of us with a (set) of free IPv6 addresses because we pay them for a full service here in my country

>> log

$ wget -c https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/14.2/FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso
--2025-03-23 13:32:46-- https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/14.2/FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso
Resolving download.freebsd.org (download.freebsd.org)... 200.160.6.227, 2001:12ff:0:6224::15:0
Connecting to download.freebsd.org (download.freebsd.org)|200.160.6.227|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content
Length: 4826406912 (4.5G), 4255655894 (4.0G) remaining [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso’

-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1 12%[++++ ] 559.57M 1.01MB/s eta 75m

<< ^Z

Yes they give a puny 1MB speed, you read that correctly

#bash #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX

TIL about lsd(1)

What an awsome addition to my lolcat arsenal!

The acronym is not correctly used by me in this case, because I **know** I used LSD in the 1990's (the command in a UNIX ENV:) and LSD is just as pretty as it was psychedelic in the last century!

`man lsd `

An ls command with a lot of pretty colors and some other stuff.

@altbot

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #Networking #IPv6 #IPv4 #ProxMox #freeBSD #Linux #POSIX #Programming

TIL about BareOS

It is an amazing backup and restore solution for all platforms

https://www.bareos.com/

Giving credit to the programmers of GPARTED(8)

gparted works its magic, by entering correct parameters to a suite of partition control & editing commands, which are sh envoked, so you can easily manipulate your partitions on all your SSDs HDDs from the comfort of your UI

When you want to batch manipulate partitions, you can study the log output and make sh scripts yourself, controlling partitions anywhere.
You also have the convenience of running gparted from sh so it still works its magic for you, without the UI!

I usually run gdisk fdisk when I partition a fresh mechanical or SSD, later on I invoke gparted when I want to resize or move them

it also runs important commands at the end so that the kernel gets to know your new partition layout, which makes rebooting your machine to use them unneeded

I shrunk and resized a partition where I installed a program, which needed 75GB (*1024!) as installation space but only uses 56GB in the end. I left 12GB of breathing room on the partition after the shrink and of course grew the partition before with the same size, minus the alignment snip of 1MB

log:
myserver kernel: JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
myserver kernel: SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, scrub, repair, quota, debug enabled
myserver kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4
myserver kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4
^Z

@altbot

https://gparted.org