Use Git to Manage Kernel Sources on Gentoo
Gentoo offers its users a wide array of Linux kernel packages in the sys-kernel/* category, each of which may install the kernel in a different way. In part...
Categories
Tutorial
Refine Gentoo on Windows Subsystem for Linux
This article covers some information that can help perfect a Gentoo installation on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to maximize its performance, improve i...
Gentoo Configuration Guide: systemd
As of now, the Gentoo Handbook, which is the official Gentoo installation guide, mainly focuses on steps to install a system based on OpenRC instead of syste...
Gentoo Configuration Guide: GNOME on systemd
Getting a perfect GNOME configuration on Gentoo is not hard but is tricky. In other words, it would be a piece of cake once you have done it, but it is not...
Create a CPU Frequency and Temperature Monitoring Bash Script for Linux-based Systems
This post will show you a way to monitor CPU frequency and temperature on Linux-based systems without aid of any programs or packages that are not commonly ...
Merge the /usr Directory of a Gentoo Installation
The /usr merge, sometimes also known as /usr move, refers to a process on a Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) compliant system, which most GNU/Linux distri...
Use Btrfs on Fedora Installed from a Raw Image
Fedora is moving to Btrfs for its default file system on its “desktop variants” in Fedora 33. This change is welcomed by some users because of some benefit...
USB Issue on Raspberry Pi 4 Running Fedora - Complex Solution
In the previous post we looked at a very simple solution to fix the USB ports on Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB/8GB RAM models running Fedora, which involves a trade-of...
USB Issue on Raspberry Pi 4 Running Fedora - Simple Solution
When Fedora runs on Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB/8GB RAM models, the USB ports might not be working out-of-box as of Fedora 32 and Linux kernel 5.8. In this post, I w...
Perform Manual dnf history undo
My choices of GNU/Linux distributions are Fedora for desktop computers and CentOS for servers. Both of them feature DNF - Red Hat’s package manager front-en...
Install Raspberry Pi’s vcgencmd on Fedora
This post is a continuation of my previous one about setting up a cluster of Raspberry Pis running Fedora. After I got the cluster to compute something, @Col...
Set Up Fedora on a Raspberry Pi Cluster
First and foremost, I would like to thank @ColsonXu for giving me this opportunity to play with some Raspberry Pis. He had got a few Raspberry Pi 4’s and bu...
Use Cygwin’s Shell or Git Bash in Windows Terminal
Recently, Microsoft has made the first stable release of Windows Terminal, a new terminal program for Windows 10. Windows Terminal allows you to add and use...
Share GTA V Game Files Between Steam and Epic Games
After Epic Games announced that it would give away free copies of GTA V for a week, many people started to claim this gift on that game platform. Even some ...
Blog
GSoC 2021 Final Work Products
As this year’s GSoC has come and gone, it is time to compile a retrospective of all the work I have done for my GSoC project. In a nutshell, the bulk of my ...
An ebuild Testing Solution for ebuild Repositories
Common package managers implement the concept of software repositories to allow the set of packages installable from the package manager to be expanded. On ...
Finding Leaf Packages Faster: Optimization for In-degree Computation in Dependency Graph
Dependency is a concept that appears often in software engineering. In the previous article for my GSoC project, I discussed build systems and package mana...
Introducing ebuilds That Build Kotlin Core Libraries from Source
An initial and successful attempt to create source-based Kotlin packages on Gentoo
Properly Handling Process Output When Using Java’s ProcessBuilder
Another mysterious disappearance of me from my personal website has happened after the previous one in last November. The reason is the same: I had been qu...
MC Forge Mod Dev Blog: Adding a Configuration GUI - 1.16 Version
The very first blog post for this series covered how I created a configuration GUI screen for a Minecraft Forge mod targeting Minecraft 1.14.4 and above, des...
A Patchy System – Applying Patches with Portage to Fix Upstream Bugs
For many free software projects, there is usually some delay between the initial annoucement of a bug fix or an enhancement and the moment when you finally ...
MC Forge Mod Dev Blog: Migrating to Minecraft 1.16
It is no longer news that Minecraft Forge has stable Minecraft 1.16 support, as the first recommended build for 1.16.x, which is Forge 34.1.0, was released i...
My Gentoo Hands-on Experience
It has been six weeks since I published the last post on this site. Myriad new topics and ideas to write about have accumulated in my drafts for new articl...
MC Forge Mod Dev Blog: Adding a Configuration GUI
Minecraft Forge had been shipping a configuration GUI framework which mods could use to provide customization options, but the framework has been gone since...
Restarting This Personal Site
I have been planning to repurpose my personal website on GitHub Pages as a blog for jotting down how I play around with different technologies. When I try so...
GSoC 2021
GSoC 2021 Final Work Products
As this year’s GSoC has come and gone, it is time to compile a retrospective of all the work I have done for my GSoC project. In a nutshell, the bulk of my ...
An ebuild Testing Solution for ebuild Repositories
Common package managers implement the concept of software repositories to allow the set of packages installable from the package manager to be expanded. On ...
Finding Leaf Packages Faster: Optimization for In-degree Computation in Dependency Graph
Dependency is a concept that appears often in software engineering. In the previous article for my GSoC project, I discussed build systems and package mana...
Introducing ebuilds That Build Kotlin Core Libraries from Source
An initial and successful attempt to create source-based Kotlin packages on Gentoo
Properly Handling Process Output When Using Java’s ProcessBuilder
Another mysterious disappearance of me from my personal website has happened after the previous one in last November. The reason is the same: I had been qu...
Tricks
Finding Leaf Packages Faster: Optimization for In-degree Computation in Dependency Graph
Dependency is a concept that appears often in software engineering. In the previous article for my GSoC project, I discussed build systems and package mana...
Use grep as a Substitute for cat
I came across a fascinating and educative article, Unix Recovery Legend, when someone posted a link to it on Reddit. The article presents a story of the writ...