The idea here is that we use a Desktop PC for developing/debugging Raspberry Pi set-ups using qemu for emulating Rasperrby Pi.
qemu currently supports the following configurations:
For years I have been using VNC for my remote desktop needs. This works usually well enough. The features that I like are:
On the …
I wrote a small tool to access QNAP snapshots from the Linux command line.
Pre-requistes:
/share/netcfg containing the file:read-only with root-squash.I am busy moving away from my VeraEdge installation to a Home Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 4. This is because it looks like the maker of the VeraEdge was bought and it is slowly being phased out.
For this I am using the following parts:
This recipe is for setting virtualization on a voidlinux desktop.
Use this setup script to set things up on void linux.
Note that virsh and virt-manager commands connect to different libvirtd
sessions by defauult.
virsh defaults to qemu:///session while virt-manager to qemu:///system.
It is better …
Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system. Flatpak was developed as part of the freedesktop.org project and was originally called xdg-app …
A quick note on how to add icons to menus in a Linux desktop.
/usr/share/pixmaps.
- png and svg (and maybe others) are supported.
- 24x24 seems to be a good size for menus..desktop file in /usr/share/applications …My ISP provider is KPN. They recently enabled IPv6 in my street. I was using before a IPv6 Tunnel Broker, starting with SixXS and after they went out, with Hurricane Electric. So naturally, I decided to switch to KPN's native IPv6 service.
They provide a /64 prefix, which is reasonable …
In void Linux, the default is without logging. Most cases it is OK for desktop use.
If you want to enable syslog service in void, you need to install:
socklog-void
Also to let your user have access to the logs, use:
usermod -aG socklog <your-username>
Because I like to have …
The point of this article is to document I workaround that I came up with to handle a HDMI KVM switch.
What happens is that if my Linux PC is turned on while the KVM switch is selecting the other PC, it fails to initialize the display, so when you …
PulseAudio is nowadays the default sound system in many Linux distributions. It lets you do a number of useful things.
PulseAudio comes with a handy command line utility pacmd to do a
number of things.
pacmd commandsHere we explain how to use XScreenSaver EXCELLENT screensaver hack collection with the MATE screensaver applet.
xscreensaver and mate-screensaver/usr/libexec/xscreensaver: contains the screensaver hacks executables/usr/libexec/mate-screensaver : contains the mate-screensaver executables/usr/share/applications/screensavers : containes the …I am running void-linux at home with musl as the standard
C library.
While most things work well, there is a number of programs that
do not and must be using glibc counterparts.
To enable this I followed this guide here: Live switching Void Linux from glibc to musl.
To …
I made the switch to void linux. Except for compatibility
issues around glibc, it works quite well. Most compatibility
I have worked around with a combination of Flatpaks, chroots and
namespaces.
The high lights of void linux:
systemd …Alpine Linux Quick installation
See wiki For Alpine Linux > 3.8
/etc/apk/repositoriesOptional: (docker compose)
apk add docker-compose
Note 2021-03-21: When I tested this, the daemon.json did not
work! Your mileage may vary …
These are just random thoughts nothing really was implemented.
Alpine Linux image
/apks/x86_64/etc/local.d/
cloud-init-lite/etc/network/intefaces exists we abortapk add --force-non-repository /path oniguruma,jq .. restore /etc/apk/worldudhcpc -b -p /var/run/udhcpc.eth0.pid -i …Keep your data and accounts safe by using a secure open source password manager to store unique, complex passwords.
Maintaining complex, unique passwords for each site and service you use is among the most common pieces of advice that security professionals provide to the public every year.
Yet no matter …
There are plenty of reasons why people would need to encrypt a partition. Whether they're rooted it in privacy, security, or confidentiality, setting up a basic encrypted partition on a Linux system is fairly easy. This is especially true when using LUKS, since its functionality is built directly into the …
If you often mount and access a remote NFS share on your system, you will probably want to know how to improve NFS file access performance. One possibility is using file caching. In Linux, there is a caching filesystem called FS-Cache which enables file caching for network file systems such …