One of the most useful things, when you start learning something new, is the cheat sheet: a list with the most important things to learn at first. So you can read, memorize and remember things with an easy method, just a quick look at needs. The following list is only scratching the surface of Linux commands. There is far more[…]
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The Birth of UNIX at Bell Labs with Brian Kernighan
When you work on your computer, there are so many things you take for granted: operating systems, programming languages, they all have to come from somewhere. In the late 1960s and 1970s, that somewhere was Bell Labs, and the operating system they were building was UNIX. They were building more than just an operating system though. They were building a[…]
Read moreLinux mobile as a daily driver alternative
The truth is that Ubuntu touch (and arguably luneOS) is the already daily driver ready fully open source gnu/Linux OS, we don’t have any real numbers on how many devices run ubuntu touch (as we don’t track anyone period) but based on the download numbers and people in our telegram channel, we definitely have well over 5000 active daily users![…]
Read moreBliss OS. Android for your x86 personal computer
The project is an Android fork that aims to bring the beauty and the power of the phone/tablet system to the modern desktop and laptop PC. The ‘build’ and ‘alpha’ words should suffice to make you understand that it is absolutely not a software ready for everyday use. Better to abstain, especially if you don’t actually intend to develop –[…]
Read moreSystemd. Joys and sorrows of a misunderstood demon
Systemd is a software suite of daemons, libraries and administration utilities designed with the aim of centralizing the management and configuration of Unix-like operating systems. Systemd is generally used as init system to use to bootstrap user space during startup and manage user processes. It replaces the classic origin, which is the descending one from the Unix System V (SysVinit).[…]
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