When I was young and computer resources were limited I thought: "Why the hell am I messing with shell scripts when I could just do it more easily with Python?"

30 years later I'm older and computer resources seems to be unlimited and I think: "Why the hell am I wasting resources using Python when shell scripting is already there and does the job?"

#UNIX #shell #ShellScripting #Python

What are the first things you install on a fresh Linux/Unix system? I can't go without screen, mc & emacs even for a few minutes..

#gnu #linux #unix #emacs #sysadmin

Credo sia utile condividere questo sito per diffondere un' eventuale idea di passaggio a Linux:

https://endof10.org/

Non indirizza a nessuna distro in particolare ma utilizza @distrochooser per trovare la distro più adatta alla esigenze dell'utentə.

Tra le altre cose, si può anche aiutare e contribuire alla traduzione italiana, volendo. Qui i dettagli:

https://endof10.org/contribute/

#linux #unix #linuxITA #unixITA #guufITA #endof10 #distrochooser #linuxitalia #gnulinux

#TIL that the command grep comes from the way that ed text editor find and print a line g/re/p (global, regular expresion, print) #cli #unix

RX 480 or GTX 1060

http://beamng.drive

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/http://beamng.drive

#gaming #linux #unix

Fedora 43 cleared to ship with Wayland-Only GNOME (FESCo, 2 hours ago)

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Wayland-Only-GNOME

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Wayland-Only-GNOME

#fedora #linux #unix

Hypervisor as a Library

https://seiya.me/blog/hypervisor-as-a-library

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://seiya.me/blog/hypervisor-as-a-library

#compsci #linux #osdev #programming #rustlang #unix #virtualization

Microsoft Rumored to Be Testing Steam Integration Within Microsoft Store (Potentially for Next-Gen Xbox, Too)

https://wccftech.com/microsoft-rumored-to-be-testing-steam-integration-within-microsoft-store-potentially-for-next-gen-xbox-too/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://wccftech.com/microsoft-rumored-to-be-testing-steam-integration-within-microsoft-store-potentially-for-next-gen-xbox-too/

#gaming #linux #unix

Red Hat Introduces Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-introduces-rhel-10

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-introduces-rhel-10

#linux #unix

stat() saves the day again!
#UNIX

📅 Herzliche Einladung zum ersten #Stammtisch der #UNIX-Freunde Süd-Ost-Oberbayern
https://UNIX-Freunde.mro.name
Am Mo, 16. Juni um 19:00 bis 22:00 Uhr treffen sich Fans, Interessierte und Neugierige beim Stammtisch der UNIX-Freunde im #Traunstein​er Aubräu zum Fachsimpeln und Ratschen.

Ab 19:30 halte ich einen Vortrag "Meine eigene Internet Dropbox: lokalen Webserver global erreichen — mit Bordmitteln".

Ich freue mich darauf Euch zu sehen und sagt's fleißig weiter!

Viele Grüße, Euer

Marcus Rohrmoser
¹ https://mro.name/b5dy2e4

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now open source

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/windows-subsystem-for-linux-wsl-is-now-open-source/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/windows-subsystem-for-linux-wsl-is-now-open-source/

#gaming #linux #unix

#Unix according to the web: Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor any of the other numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes a mistake, a giant "?" lights up in the center of the dashboard. "The experienced driver," says Thompson, "will usually know what's wrong."

So @rl_dane introduced #bzip3 to me to use instead of #bzip2. Let's turn some bz2 files into bz3 to see the difference.

First example: 90k opus files

hey snips wake word dataset. It has ~90k opus files and a tar file of 3.1GB. bzip2 produces the same 3.1GB which is as expected. bzip3 created 3.0GB but used tons of computation power. Not worth the 100MB

Second example: Windows 7 virtual box VM image

Windows7.vdi it's Windows 7 VM image for the "special" days. I think I have to get rid of it. But while it is still there, let's see how each will perform. It is 16GB uncompressed. bzip2 -9 is 7.0GB. bzip3 is 6.3GB but at the expense of like 3x CPU time. Deleting all of them anyway. Down with Windows.

Third example: Pure XML text file

Pure XML file. It's Persian and English characters. Uncompressed is 1.7GB. bzip2 -9 is 276M while bzip3 is 260MB

Final example: Creating a simple bomb

So I did this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=./justzero bs=2G count=6

So now I have a 16GB with only zero bytes. bzip2 -9 is 672KB. bzip3 is 46KB.

Conclusion

Thank you @rl_dane

Real nice thing!

#compression #gzip #zip #filecompression #textcompression #datacompression #linux #unix #tech

#Unix Magic https://unixmagic.net/

Valve just replied that they believe they've fixed the lag bomb

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/11446#issuecomment-2892172851

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/11446%23issuecomment-2892172851

#gaming #linux #unix

I like the fish shell but I can’t script for shit with it. I’ve got bash for brains: for file in *; do mv $file $file.bak; done

I’m living through a variation of the “use csh interactively but script with borne shell” that read like a mild form of madness to me when I first started using #unix.

Could you help others skill up on a #BSD related topic?

Submit a tutorial at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/

See https://2025.eurobsdcon.org for information about the conference.

See you in Zagreb!

#eurobsdcon #bsd #conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware #skillup #upskill

@vitloksbjorn I have the same issue when I joined #Mastodon
But after near few month(s) I've got an interesting discussions, people I follow and timeline to read

The recipe is simple – use hashtags and look at the peoples' profiles to subscribe if vibecheck is passed :dragnloaf:

Toots with some hashtags are automatically boosted (like #photography or #unix ), so the more people will see your toot