today's howtos
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Peter Czanik: Installing a syslog-ng 4 development snapshot on FreeBSD
Unless there is a serious problem, FreeBSD ports usually contains the latest stable syslog-ng release. However, sometimes people want to compile a git snapshot to test a new feature or bugfix. To do that, one way is to generate a syslog-ng release tgz on FreeBSD and edit the syslog-ng port files yourself. However, this needs some practice. As such, an easier solution is to use my weekly development snapshots.
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Zoom window in Emacs
Zoom window in Emacs
Zoom in tmux
I am a great fan of the zoom function in tmux, which can be called with [escape-key]-z.
This is useful when you have split the tmux window into two or more panels.
- Calling zoom in tmux will enlarge the current panel to fill the entire window.
- Calling zoom again will return to the 'normal' state.
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How to Add a Package Repository to Debian, Ubuntu and Mint
A package repository (repo in short) is a location where software packages are stored and can be retrieved from.
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Sean Davis: Enable Flatpak in Xubuntu
Out of the box, Xubuntu supports Debian, Snap, and AppImage packages with no additional configuration or packages to install. If you want to further expand your options, you can easily add Flatpak support to your Xubuntu desktop. Here&aposs how!