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Sysadmin Corner 001: Wake-On-Lan Sticky Setup

2023-08-24

Upgrade Joys and Ah-ha Moments MX 23 Libretto is awesome! I have been running MX Linux on my Recycled Workstation at work since MX 19 so this is the second time I have upgraded to the newest version of MX Linux on this workstation. Although I have enjoyed running the MX Fluxbox edition for the last few years, I decided to switch to their flagship edition which uses XFCE as the desktop environment.…

Volley Your Files From One Computer to Another

2022-07-28

It’s Magical The ability to transfer files from one computer to another on my home network using scp felt magical when I first got into Linux. I had been using “sneaker net”. In those days, “sneaker net” meant putting the file on a 3.5" floppy and walking the floppy disk across the house into the room where the other computer was located. Before I started running Linux on old computers, I never had a network of computers.…

MX Linux as Wireguard Client

2022-01-02

In my previous post, I shared the excitement of getting a Wireguard VPN set up on a 1st Generation Raspberry Pi. At that point, I had only set up my main Linux system at home, my Fedora 35 system, as a Wireguard client to connect to the RPi Wireguard server. You can read about the configuration methods I went through by reading Wrangle Dotfiles Round 2.0 to get my Fedora 35 system connected to the Wireguard VPN.…

Wrangle Dotfiles Round 2.0

2021-12-23

How do these technologies fit together? 1st Generation Raspberry Pi B with 512mb of RAM Wireguard VPN Git Bash “if then elif fi” yadm I gave away the answer with this article’s title. Using these technologies, I have taken dotfile management to the next level. This technology stack is how I implemented the 2.0 version of dotfile management. If you want to read about my version 1.0 adventure, you can read Wrangle Dotfiles with Yadm .…

ROXterm a Full Featured Terminal

2021-12-21

MX Linux often introduces me to new FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). My preferred flavor of MX Linux is MX-Fluxbox . This MX Linux flavor used to be bundled with the flagship version of MX Linux that installed the XFCE Desktop . Since the ISO already had all of the XFCE tools, MX-Fluxbox often used XFCE tools as its defaults too. With the latest release of MX-21 the development team decided that there would be three separate ISO’s for the three main flavors plus an additional ISO of XFCE offering Advanced Hardware Support for computers with the latest hardware and graphics cards.…