Getting you up to speed!
This article will show you a few ways to determine which distro and version you’re using. There are many ways to learn this, but these are three easy ways to tell. There are any number of reasons why you might not know this information off the top of your head. Perhaps you’re working in a … Continue reading “A Few Ways to Determine Which Distro and Version You’re Using”
When you take a digital picture, the resulting file contains potentially personal information. It is known as ‘Exif‘ and it contains sensitive information. This article will explain how to sanitize Exif data to avoid leaking your personal information. If this article looks familiar, I’ve previously authored an article on this subject. It’s at the old … Continue reading “How To: Sanitize Exif Data From Your Digital Images For Privacy Sake”
One of the things I hope to avoid on this site is lists and rankings. I hope to be creative enough to avoid what other sites do. You shouldn’t expect this site to have articles like, “The Top 10 Distros for Low-end Computers!” It’d be great if I were creative enough to not end up … Continue reading “My Three Favorite Text Editors, a Meaningless List”
I open a lot of URLs in the course of a day, especially during the pandemic when there’s naught to do but while away my time online. Seriously, I open a whole lot of addresses – many of them the same and opened often. I thought it’d be great to have keyboard shortcuts to browser … Continue reading “Keyboard Shortcuts to Browser Bookmarks”
I recently wrote a similar article, illustrating how you can use ‘apt-mark’ to prevent application updates. While that was handy, it only applied to those who use APT as their package manager. It offered nothing of value to those who use YUM. This article will explain how you can prevent application updates with ‘yum-versionlock’. You … Continue reading “Prevent Application Updates With ‘YUM-VERSIONLOCK’”
While unwise, there are times when you need to prevent application updates. You can do this with ‘apt-mark’ and this article will explain how. Obviously, this method is only effective if you use a Linux distro that has an APT-based package manager. For the most part, you should always keep your software updated. However, that’s … Continue reading “Prevent Application Updates With ‘APT-MARK’”
In the other site’s version of this article, I only had information for Ubuntu. This time, I’ll expand it to cover the major distros. It seems like a good a time as any to fix this. (I’d link to the original article, but that page will now direct here.) I’m not sure why you’d want … Continue reading “When Did I Install Linux? (Expanded Edition!)”
Ubuntu versions, and official flavors, have different lengths of time that they’re supported. Today, we’ll learn how to tell how much longer you have Ubuntu support and what you can do about it. Every two years, Ubuntu releases a LTS version. That means “Long Term Support” and the support length for that is usually 3 … Continue reading “How Long is my Ubuntu Support Going to Last?”
In order to install Linux, you need to be able to boot to USB (or CD/DVD – with USB being more common these days and many devices not even having CD/DVD drives). The goal of this article is to help you boot to USB or to optical media, so that you can install or repair … Continue reading “How do I ‘Boot to USB’? (Or CD/DVD, if Such is Available)”
There are a number of situations where you may not be sure if your CPU supports 32 or 64 bit Linux. If you want to know, it’s pretty easy to see if it supports 32 or 64 bit. If nothing else, it’s always good to know what your CPU architecture is and thus know which … Continue reading “Is My System Capable of 32 or 64 Bit Linux?”
