When you want to run a middleweight Linux distribution and you already love & know Debian but don't want to run on super stable Server level since you are running a workstation *not* a server MX Linux is a very good choice as a distribution for you

You've got the power of Debian you'll get the stability of Debian yet you are bleeding edge and don't have applications which are rock stable but for a workstation a tad old
If you don't have a recent MX Linux installation you can download the new ISO version 23.6

If you have v23.5 there's no need to execute a fresh installation. The updated executables will roll out to you automatically.

https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-6-now-available/

. #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish  #distro #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming

This is how my terminals look like when I compile a kernel. I love the wonderful colours that I generate

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #kernel #Linux #POSIX #FOSS #100daysofCode #640DaysOfCode #1024DaysOfCode #programming #lolcat

After having read what horrors people experience when they upgrade their Hugo binaries, I made sure that I've kept the version that I used to make my test site and also consequently use *that* version to continue to teach myself a high level of fluency in the markdown language

`hugo version`
hugo v0.140.2-aae02ca612a02e085c08366a9c9279f4abb39d94+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2024-12-30T15:01:53Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #Hugo #Linux #POSIX #FOSS #100daysofCode #640DaysOfCode #1024DaysOfCode #programming

$ alias 'rm = rm -i'

This is a standard alias in all my POSIX installations
I use it to curb accidental removal incidents of important and large directory trees

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #freeBSD #Linux #POSIX #FOSS #100daysofCode #640DaysOfCode #1024DaysOfCode #programming

FYI: Mein ständig erweiterter Shell Spickzettel:

https://joplin.cloud.nerdraum.de/shares/4GWSqhy0eSKKJmRgbMSihv

Dank geht an @b0rk
Ich liebe ihre Zines. Manche gibts mittlerweile auch kostenlos oder im humble bundle. Aber auch gekauft sind sie jeden cent wert

I added some more cool things to my grimoire! https://reillyspitzfaden.com/code/#grimoire

I have interactions on Mastodon/Bluesky coming in as webmentions, and that's nice, but other sources get lost in the shuffle, so I have a script here (https://github.com/reillypascal/personalsite-ssg/blob/main/webmentions.py) that filters out all the ones where "wm-source" contains "https://brid.gy/," which is super helpful.

Today I'm discussing my thoughts on “home-cooked” and “situated” software, and how that's inspired me to start a collection of useful script tools for myself.

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/04/a-grimoire-of-shell-scripts/

Slides have been released on this wonderful piece of balancing software for your proxmox clusters proxyLB
Now you can learn even more about this piece of wonderful software

Courtesy of @gyptazy

#bash #proxyLB #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX #proxmox #loadbalancer

https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB

Finally tracked down a bug in Zsh which loses history entries!

https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2025/msg00114.html

Gotten tired of those massive browsers hogging GB (*1024 = MB) of ram? Want to go back to the days of text based browsing?

Links has got you covered. For decades (lynx and later) links gives us back the nostalgic feel of *sh* based browsing, just like BitchX gives it with IRC in the shell.

Look how smooth and fast it works with DuckDuckGo

If you haven't done so yet and you are playing with Open Source Operating Systems, read this article about the BSD family

it is very enlightening, and worth every minute of reading it

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #freeBSD  #100DaysOfCode #1000DaysOfCode #POSIX #Programming #Patch #UNIX #History

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/03/23/osday-2025-why-choose-bsd-in-2025/

Due to my brain dead ISP which does not support IPv6 for clients in 2K25(!) I cant access my boxyBSD box.

boxyBSD is thus so far away from me :(

I have a client connection with fixed IPv4 IP somewhere, but it collapses when I use a free available IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel service.

Instead of sitting and twiddling my fingers on my Bass guitar(s) generating random() notes, I decided to get an image of the latest freeBSD and play with it locally, until I can get my ISP to provide all of us with a (set) of free IPv6 addresses because we pay them for a full service here in my country

>> log

$ wget -c https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/14.2/FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso
--2025-03-23 13:32:46-- https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/14.2/FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso
Resolving download.freebsd.org (download.freebsd.org)... 200.160.6.227, 2001:12ff:0:6224::15:0
Connecting to download.freebsd.org (download.freebsd.org)|200.160.6.227|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content
Length: 4826406912 (4.5G), 4255655894 (4.0G) remaining [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso’

-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1 12%[++++ ] 559.57M 1.01MB/s eta 75m

<< ^Z

Yes they give a puny 1MB speed, you read that correctly

#bash #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX

I went to some state parks with my partner today and wanted to do a photo blog on my notes page (https://reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/), and I wasn't looking forward to manually resizing/changing image formats over and over

It totally took me longer *this* time, but I figured out how to do it with zsh/imagemagick:

for file in ./**/*(.); magick $file -quality 65 -resize 35% $file.webp

TIL about lsd(1)

What an awsome addition to my lolcat arsenal!

The acronym is not correctly used by me in this case, because I **know** I used LSD in the 1990's (the command in a UNIX ENV:) and LSD is just as pretty as it was psychedelic in the last century!

`man lsd `

An ls command with a lot of pretty colors and some other stuff.

@altbot

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #Networking #IPv6 #IPv4 #ProxMox #freeBSD #Linux #POSIX #Programming