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HowTo Geek ☛ The Terminal Is the Last Place You Can Work In Peace. Here's How to Set it Up
Anything that can run the Linux terminal (which is pretty much anything with a CPU) can run a workspace like this. And because it doesn’t rely on a graphical desktop environment, it’s incredibly lightweight. For example, there’s a version of Tiny Core Linux that’s just 11 MB. You could flash that onto a USB stick, enable persistent storage, and now you have a portable office suite that you can take anywhere and plug into any machine that’ll boot from USB.
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HowTo Geek ☛ 7 Ways to Use SSH to Turbocharge Remote Server Connections
A cool underrated feature of SSH is the ability to forward graphical applications over X11. You might think that SSH is just a way to use the command line remotely, but you can also run full-fledged GUI apps, albeit slower over the network than if you were sitting at the machine. This feature is known as "X forwarding." It's similar to how mail might be forwarded to another address. The machine is forwarding X apps from the main machine to your machine.
This is something that has been a part of X11 from the beginning, albeit over telnet and XDMCP rather than SSH. SSH is more secure, and you should avoid the other protocols if possible.
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XDA ☛ Proxmox hookscripts are the best automation feature you're not using
Proxmox is an incredible tool for the home lab, enabling anyone to launch a feature-rich hypervisor for deploying various virtual machines (VMs) and Linux containers (LXCs) within isolated environments. What you may not know about are Proxmox hookscripts. Proxmox allows the creation of hookscripts to automate tasks during the lifecycle of a VM or LXC, effectively allowing you to automate just about anything when a virtualized environment changes state. These hookscripts can be defined and stored within a specific directory and referenced in config files for Proxmox to load.
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XDA ☛ 5 systemd tweaks that really boost my boot time
Not every Linux user obsesses over how quickly their system boots, but I like seeing a fast and clean startup. Even with a solid-state drive, bottlenecks can sneak in and slow things down. Systemd provides a variety of tools that allow you to track where those delays are occurring and resolve them. With a bit of tuning, I was able to shave a noticeable amount of time off my boot process without sacrificing stability.