Practical Linux tips and tricks – terminal shortcuts, productivity hacks, and configuration tweaks for Ubuntu and other distros.
28 Liam’s Systems Brief: Every Linux system needs an init system to manage services, handle boot, and supervise processes. The two most talked-about options are runit and systemd, and they could not be more different. Runit is lean, transparent, and boots in seconds. systemd is comprehensive, feature-packed, and powers over 90% of desktop Linux. In…
When a server slows down, the first question is what it is waiting on. Is the CPU saturated? Is memory exhausted and the system is swapping? Is disk I/O holding up processes? The vmstat command puts clues about each resource in one compact table, making it a useful first check before you move to a…
Last week, we revealed the Free Tmux course. I am also working on creating roadmaps so that members can follow a dedicated learning path with all the resources we have created in the last 8 years. Next week, we should have the GitOps course, focusing on ArgoCD. This will build upon the foundation of the…
pwd looks like one of the simplest Linux commands, but there are a few details worth knowing once symlinks and shell scripts enter the picture. In this guide, we’ll go through practical pwd examples, along with our cd command guide for related directory navigation. You’ve probably typed pwd countless times without giving it much thought….
A laptop fingerprint sensor unlocks the laptop and usually stops there. Immurok wants to do quite a bit more than that. It is a tiny wireless box that can unlock your desktop session, approve a sudo command, authenticate via polkit, log you into a server over SSH, generate TOTP codes for 2FA, and put a…
GTK 4.24 released on Friday as the newest stable feature release to the GTK4 toolkit. It’s quite a nice update to GTK4 for pairing with next week’s GNOME 51 desktop release. GTK 4.24 adds support for the Wayland ext-background-effect protocol that can be used for providing blurred backgrounds behind windows, such as for blurred window…
The Kdenlive team has released version 26.08.1 of its open-source video editor, the first maintenance update in the 26.08 series. The update fixes several crashes that could occur during common editing tasks. These include changing Timeline Preview settings while creating a new project, saving and exiting after deleting a sequence, stopping a failed audio recording,…
Intro After months of good old fashioned struggle with Google Drive and YouTube Studio, we were finally able to prepare the video sessions from the 2025 and 2026 Flock To Fedora event livestreams. These are now released to our YouTube and PeerTube communities. This article describes the details of the entire process that got us from the raw footage to the…
The fifth (and final planned) point release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is now available to download. Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS brings refreshed installation media (ISOs) that includes of the software updates, bug fixes and security patches released since the last ISO was produced. This cuts down on the number of updates that need to downloaded post-install….
11 Liam’s Ubuntu Brief: Getting Git running on Ubuntu is one of those tasks that seems simple until you realize there are three different ways to install it, each with trade-offs I have learned the hard way over years of managing Ubuntu development machines. This guide walks you through every method, shows you how to…
