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NetHogs is a small 'net top' tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process.

GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in the same place. For example, /usr/local/bin could contain symlinks to files within /usr/local/stow/emacs/bin, /usr/local/stow/perl/bin etc., and likewise recursively for any other subdirectories such as .../share, .../man, and so on.

Die Entwicklung des Xorg-Servers ist kaum noch aktiv. Über kurz oder lang führt dies dazu, dass die Software nur noch schwer mir aktuellen Bibliotheken und Compilern zusammenarbeitet. Wayland als Alternative ist mittlerweile ausgereift genug, um für die meisten Nutzer eine benutzbare Desktop-Umgebung zu bieten.

Der Vortrag gibt einen Einblick in Wayland, führt aus welche Alternativen es für Nutzer von z.B. Tiling-Window-Managern gibt und zeigt einige modernere Entwicklungen im Linux-Desktop-Bereich auf, welche für aktuelle Applikations-Paketierungen (Flatpak, Appimage) genutzt werden.

A list of tools and compositors around wlroots.

wlroots is a compositor library and defines a large and diverse ecosystem around wlr-protocols.

Since the change of year, I’ve been using Alpine Linux on my main computing device (a new desktop PC that I assembled in December). These are some notes on in, some niceties and caveats.

I used ArchLinux for over a decade before, so keep in mind that my main point of reference/background is using Arch+pacman. However, this is not an “Arch vs Alpine” article.

The XDG base directory specification defines the locations where applications should store application-private files on Linux, instead of dumping them into $HOME.