Getting you up to speed!
Should you use screenFetch or Neofetch? That’s up to you to decide. This article will share some info about both of them. This should be a pretty short article. I also confess that there’s not much of a “vs.” here. The screenFetch app hasn’t been updated in a long time and Neofetch is the clear … Continue reading “Screenfetch vs. Neofetch, You Decide!”
If this article’s headline looks vaguely familiar, it’s probably because I previously wrote an article that told you how to install SSH. That article was on the earlier site. This article will show you how to install SSH, so that you can remotely control your Linux computers. The old site, while up, will redirect to … Continue reading “Install SSH to Remotely Control Your Linux Computers”
META: Over the past few days, the site has kinda blown up. The bandwidth allotment was shattered for the month of May – in just the last few days of the month, meaning I had to upgrade my hosting account. Whichever of you visitors it is that has been sharing this site’s articles on Facebook … Continue reading “Repair Your Linux Boot Process With ‘Boot-Repair’”
I woke up this morning, took care of things like showering and eating, and then meandered to my computer. Swishing the mouse back and forth brought the screen to life, where I was greeted by a message that my computer was out of space. It turns out that a backup cron job seems to have … Continue reading “A Few Ways To Visualize Disk Usage In Linux”
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”
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?”
Once in a while, you’ll come across a piece software that’s only in RPM format. It’s possible to convert RPM to DEB and you may be able to install that software on your DEB-based system. You’ll find that it’s not unusual to come across software packaged in a format that you can’t use. That’s just … Continue reading “Use an RPM on a DEB-based System”
Sometimes old tools are the best, or at least adequate. In this case, we’re talking about HardInfo – a tool that hasn’t been updated in about 7 years, but still does a great job. This is Linux. There are a ton of great applications to detect and list your hardware. Most of them are CLI. … Continue reading “Graphically Examine Hardware Info With HardInfo”
These are the pages that I expect to link to often. This page will (ideally and obviously) change over time, as more anchor content is written or as pages come and go. Be sure to check back often, and to make suggestions for content. How do you ask a good support question? What keys do … Continue reading “Important Pages”
Hey, I’m KGIII (known by many names, including David) and this is my site. I’m a retired mathematician and a fan of the Linux-based operating systems. This project started off as a brief attempt to put my numerous Linux notes online. That was quite a while ago and on another domain. The search engines didn’t … Continue reading “About Me”
