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Linux renovation ideas. What should be done to improve Linux.
I wish someone would bring an open-source Nvidia driver to the Linux operating system. I hate having to use a binary installer you have to download and run to install the drivers when you could just have the driver code in the kernel. I know it is not hard to install as long as you … Read more
Linux needs simpler driver installation. This would really help out.
Linux kernel 5.4 is very problematic, the installation of NVidia drivers is not working at all. I had to go back to 4.15-generic, as I could not get the drivers to build with the newer Linux kernel version. This is very annoying. The NVidia driver from the website can be installed, but this is more … Read more
Microsoft to add exFAT support to Linux kernel.
Microsoft Corporation are intending to add code to the Linux kernel to support exFAT. This would allow better support for exFAT storage devices without using proprietary Linux kernel modules. This is very good news, if only Nvidia would supply open source drivers for their hardware, then using it would be easier, as it requires tainting … Read more
Stalker game running on Linux with Open Xray.
A developer is working on running Stalker games on Linux with Open Xray engine. This means we could have Stalker Dead Air running on Linux. This is very good, more choice in gaming on Linux would bring more people to the platform. Dead Air has good gameplay and is quite challenging in parts. But has … Read more
How to see if a port is open on a Linux system using netcat.
The netcat command is a program for querying network connections. This little program may be used to query whether a port is open on a Linux system or not. Here I am determining whether port 443 is open on this Linux Mint machine. homer@deusexmachina ~ $ nc -zv localhost 443 Connection to localhost 443 port … Read more
How to find space hogging file on your hard disk with a Linux command.
This command will list all open files, sort them with awk and list the biggest space hogging files. lsof / | awk ‘{if($7 > 1048576) print $7/1048576 "MB" " " $9 }’ | sort -n -u | taillsof / | awk ‘{if($7 > 1048576) print $7/1048576 "MB" " " $9 }’ | sort -n -u … Read more
How to open a rar file with the Linux command line. This is very easy.
The unrar command for Linux takes care of opening rar files. Firstly, install the command with the yum install unrar command. [root@localhost Downloads]# yum install unrar[root@localhost Downloads]# yum install unrar Or this way on a Debian GNU/Linux system. [user@debian ~]$ sudo apt-get install unrar[user@debian ~]$ sudo apt-get install unrar Then you may unpack your rar … Read more
Why Linux is virus free.
Richard Stallman is explaining in this video, why the Linux operating system is virus-free, essentially the main reason is the lower market penetration of Linux; compared to Windows which is used by just about every user and business in the world and therefore is a greater and easier target due to the lower security and … Read more