today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 13, 2024

• Marco d'Itri ☛ Marco d'Itri: Extending access to the systemd RuntimeDirectory with a POSIX ACL

  inn2 uses ephemeral UNIX domain sockets in /run/news/ to communicate with the ctlinnd program. Since the directory is only writeable by the "news" user, other unprivileged users are not able to use the command.

• A Beginner’s Guide to Creating Your Own Ubuntu Container with Podman on Mac and Persisting Changes

  Containers have revolutionized the way we develop, package, and deploy applications. They provide a consistent and reproducible environment, making it easier to manage dependencies and ensure that applications run the same way, regardless of where they are deployed.

• TecMint ☛ 8 Useful ‘Debian Goodies Utilities’ for Package Management

  The utilities under debian-goodies package are developed in such a way to combine with many recognized shell tools and others are included because they cannot be developed as their packages on Debian-based Linux distributions.

• TecMint ☛ How to Delete User Accounts and Their Home Directories in Linux

  When removing user accounts on a Linux system, it is also important to remove their home directory to free up space on the storage devices for new system users or other services.

• OSTechNix ☛ How To Install Podman Desktop In Linux

• Dedoimedo ☛ How to boot from USB drive in VirtualBox - Tutorial

  In VirtualBox, when you create a new virtual machine, usually, you have "two" options for starting the guest operating system. You can boot from an ISO image (which would be the equivalent of a CD/DVD drive), or you can boot from a virtual hard disk. But what if you actually have an operating system on a USB drive, and you wanted to use that as your start media?

  There are many reasons why you might want to do this. For instance, the operating system may not be available in a simple, friendly format like ISO. Or you might not even have the source ISO, only the final artifact, the partition table and data on an external drive. In today's tutorial, I will show you how you can boot from an existing (bootable) USB drive, and run whatever operating system resides there. We will use Linux as our platform of choice. Follow me.

• Data Swamp ☛ Mounting video ram on Linux

  Hi, did you ever wonder if you could use your GPU memory as a mount point, like one does with tmpfs and RAM?

  Well, there is a project named vramfs that allows you to do exactly this on FUSE compatible operating system.

  In this test, I used an NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB in an external GPU case connected with a thunderbolt cable to a Lenovo T470 laptop running Gentoo.

• Julian Peters ☛ Deploying a Light mode | jupe.studio

  I enjoy using Dark Mode wherever I can. On my OSes and all my apps. I even force a dark mode styling on websites that don’t have one.

  That’s why The Studio only had a dark mode. Because I don’t use a Light Mode.

  Up until now.

• Carl Barenbrug ☛ What Is Too Minimal?

  If you run a website related to minimalism, is it only natural that you should embrace minimalism in all aspects (branding, design, content, technology, carbon impact and so on) or just selective ones? At what point does minimalism become detrimental to a brand or user experience? What is too minimal to succeed? What does success even look like for niche markets?