https://cloud.google.com/shell gives you access to a shell with loads of preinstalled binaries and 50 hours of free time every week. And it can be installed as a PWA.
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…your installed packages and determine which file(s) are used by which package. I came across GoboLinux.org recently and, I have to say, I’m intrigued! It’s an experiment that has been going for 10 years(!) – you can read an interview with one of its original developers at https://hub.packtpub.com/gobolinux-interview-lucas-villa-real/. There’s an fairly active forum over at https://gobolinux.discourse.group/ and they also do Twitter, IRC(!), Mastodon, and…yes, Facebook!
No, I haven’t installed it yet…not enough time to play with a radically different distro (that is not without its problems) but it’s progressing and takes an interesting approach to file and package management.
A Linux that makes it easy to track… Read More »
Yeah, it was a looonnnngggg time ago. Why does V7 matter? https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/V7WhyItMattersSoMuch
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Looks like an interesting Linux. Check the article at https://boilingsteam.com/i-love-arch-but-gnu-guix-is-my-new-distro/ and the distro’s website at https://guix.gnu.org/ for more
Linux distro from GNU Read More »
A relatively short (55 steps when I did it) learn-by-doing tutorial on simple and not so simple regex pattern development. https://regexlearn.com/ is the site. I learned a few things!
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Stop browsing the text log file. Journalctl maintains an actual database which makes it easy to filter on date or time or source or … I became a journalctl convert a few years ago and have never looked back. Unsure how to use it? https://www.thegeekdiary.com/beginners-guide-to-journalctl-how-to-use-journalctl-to-view-and-manipulate-systemd-logs/ is as pretty decent intro.
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