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  • PDF Editors For Linux

    This post is brought to you by the new Blogger interface Google has forced on everyone! Which is dreadful! The only way I keep my sanity editing posts on Blogger is to create the post in a separate editor (LibreOffice Writer in this case) and then paste the completed article into Blogger. There is much…

  • General update week 30, 2020

    I wrote about a lot of fun getting a system to work with static IP addressing (it is running Debian 10 with LXQt). Since it was able to be made to statically configure its IP with no issues, I configured the other Debian10-LXQt system with a static configuration also. The second computer only has one…

  • Building a Linux PC for under $1000 (TechRepublic)

    TechRepublic have an interesting article on building a great Linux PC for under $1000. Although it’s clear the article refers to US dollars, which in price terms is usually lower, the prices are mostly comparable with what we pay in NZ.  My last couple of build experiences were different. I built a low cost system…

  • Rsync Backup System [6]: Latest Progress / Using The Rsync Daemon

    Because of issues with Rsync over ssh I am looking into using the Rsync daemon instead. The commentary on that is below. Until I can get that working properly I am backing up each computer individually using its own removable drive bay. This can be achieved by changing the ownership of the backup folder on…

  • Reinstall KDE system with LXQt [3]

    Reinstall KDE system with LXQt [3]

    This is the third article in a series about problems with KDE leading to a reinstallation with LXQt. Both running on top of Debian 10. The computer concerned is running two NICs because it needs to access both networks that I have here. I have the main one based on a corporate wireless link from…

  • Setting up sudo on Debian

    Debian is a bit different from Ubuntu and that is the reason I like it. Debian is much more focused for technically advanced people and, for example, has hibernation enabled by default, which contrasts with Ubuntu that makes it difficult to use hibernation, and there are many other differences in Debian that I prefer. One…

  • Reinstall KDE system with LXQt [2]; KDE network and display configuration extremely difficult with numerous bugs

    As related yesterday I found various issues with KDE on a computer and decided to reinstall Debian 10 with LXQt as the user interface. After completing the installation I attempted to use ConnMan, which is the network configuration manager that comes with LXQt on Debian, to do a manual configuration of the 1.x network adapter…

  • Reinstall KDE system with LXQt [1]; KDE network and display configuration extremely difficult with numerous bugs

    KDE has some great reputation as a desktop environment in Linux and has won considerable plaudits. It however has numerous unresolved bugs which I have observed in the display and network configurations that are leading me to ditch KDE on one of my desktop computers in favour of LXQt. I have had three computers running…

  • Free Linux video editors [4]: Kdenlive

    So…I have been creating and editing home video for quite a number of years now. It wasn’t a thing much when I was at school; schools didn’t have much in the way of video equipment, and editing software at a reasonable price for the low spec PCs we had back then was almost non existent.…

  • Free Linux video editors [3]

    Well I have written about free video editors for Linux a number of times, this is the third article in this series. It’s taken me a few years to get to this point of discovering good quality software for Linux because there are so many open source projects that people have started and then abandoned,…