Category: NZTekonverse -> Ubuntu

  • Debian Falling Behind In Hardware Compatibility

    One of the great controversies in the open source world is manufacturers who supply closed source drivers for their devices for open source operating systems like Linux. Debian uses the term “firmware” to describe these drivers and Debian, more than almost any other Linux distribution out there, prides itself on a firm policy of “officially”…

  • Ubuntu LTS vs non LTS releases

    Good day. As I install various versions of Ubuntu on a few virtual machines and computers and also use Debian on some as well, there is naturally an important comparison to be made between the Debian and Ubuntu release cycles. Ubuntu has stabilised on a twice yearly release cycle but the LTS releases are every…

  • How to PERMANENTLY disable an input device in Linux (Xorg Display Server)

    About 2 months ago I posted on how to use the xinput command (on Ubuntu and derivatives) to disable an input device. This, however, only works until the next time the computer is restarted. In addition, not all distros provide the xinput command; Debian doesn’t, and I haven’t done any research to determine whether this…

  • Lubuntu 19.04 with LXQt

    It should generally be known by now that the Lubuntu project, which produces a version of Ubuntu that utilises the LX desktop environment for low resource usage, has switched from LXDE to LXQt in its more recent releases. The use of LXQt provides for a refreshing modern interface design in this application and for me,…

  • Ubuntu Touch may step in where Firefox OS finished….maybe?

    We certainly have a strong case for an alternative to Android because we should get a choice to be free of Google’s massive data collection infrastructure that is tracking everything we do and everywhere we go with our phones. Revelations for example that Android 8 screen scrapes every app in the system are mind boggling.…

  • KDE remote desktop sharing

    One of the best things about KDE is the amount of apps they have available that are integrated into the shell. As XFCE lacks its own remote access integration you have to install x11vnc and muck around trying to get it to run as a service which I have yet to be able to complete.…

  • How to set a custom display resolution in Xubuntu

    This is the way to mirror my pair of screens on my bedroom PC. One screen is 1360×768 (a little odd) and the other is 1680×1050. The default mirroring in XFCE will only run them both at a 4:3 resolution like 1280×1024, since this is the highest resolution they are both compatible with, even though…

  • Capturing video in Linux / Video resizing / DVR recording

    Simple Screen Recorder is a great Linux software package that can be used to capture video from the screen. I set up my media PC to use it after connecting a second screen to use as the control screen for all applications (in other words, the application itself runs on the control screen while the…

  • Android desktop options

    So after my last post I have had a play with Android x86 on the Linux PCs with very mixed results. Quite why Facebook finds it difficult to support the desktop / browser based version of Instagram with the ability to post images is hard to fathom considering how well they have made Facebook work…

  • Linux RAID-1 [9]: Removing an array

    The last step having set up a new array is to remove the old one from the computer. This is relatively straightforward. Firstly the array has to be unmounted, which is a simple umount command with the path, in this case umount /oldhome. The next thing is to run a mdadm command to remove the…