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• EFI Boot Manager tricks
• Convert MBR partitions and legacy BIOS boot to GPT partitions and UEFI boot
• Boot CentOS 8 installer ISO with UEFI to install GPT partitions
• Workaround for minor issues in CentOS network installer
• Philosophical principles of UEFI boot and Linux
• Lennart Poettering wants to systemd-ize the Unix home directory system?
• Is Ubuntu still relevant?
• My process to migrate a disk image from hard disk drive to SSD
• Using `gparted` on a loop device disk image file
• Status of Trisquel, `sysvinit`, and some reflection on my tech learning path
• What is the format of XYPixmap in X11?
• Why remote GLX is a thing of the past
• QEMU shared clipboard
• More info on creating bridged networking with QEMU, and the trick to guest-host communication with NAT
• How to unset "manually installed" on an apt package
• Read NTFS creation date from GNU/Linux
• Multiple filesystems in the same partition
• Suspend on modern Ubuntu
• Fixing broken apt dependencies in Raspbian
• Move relative symbolic links
• Configure remote syslog over UDP
• Difference between smbfs and cifs and Windows 7 vs. 10
• Find which font is used for the default `sans-serif` on Ubuntu
• Virtualization on Raspberry Pi
• Rsync a hard disk image
• The rise and fall of Playstation 3 Supercomputers
• Different ways to start a program on Unix and Raspberry Pi bootup
• `myhostname` and `lmhosts`
• `setsid` to run SSH with custom password
• Linux kernel performance still on the decline
• `systemd` replacement for rc.local
• Attach a serial device as Xorg keyboard
• Get hard disk metadata on GNU/Linux
• Esoteric login software used in large institutions
• Another article on the history of Unix
• CentOS hostnamectl and NetworkManager static IP
• The final fate of XEmacs
• Hooray! Trisquel 9 development version is available
• pip proxy and certificates
• What "MII" in `mii-tool` stands for
• Adventures in creating a bridge between eth0 and wlan0, and how to use wpa_supplicant manually
• Again, statx on Linux to get crtime
• Loop mount a partition from a full disk image
• What happened to VirtualBox on Trisquel?
• Copy a disk image over the network
• Trial notes on trying to solve slow VNC problem
• Looking for causes of slow VNC performance
• Generate a UUID on the command line in Linux
• Mount FTP filesystem on GNU/Linux
• Convert a VMDK disk image to an ESXi disk image
• CentOS or Debian? And MHVTL.
• Bootloaders and Device Tree
• Notes on weird things about multi-hostname macvlan configs
• Find listening ports with `netstat -l`
• Interesting links on Humble Bundle, Docker, CoreOS, Docker on ARM, Pine64
• Notes on using `cpio`
• "Daubert process" used in Sleuthkit
• Great open-source 3D scanners, including advanced Raspberry Pi use, filesystem information and tools
• Debian versions and Ubuntu package sources