Linux + GNU = Humans Enabled

WordPress Admin Page   WordPress, a free open-source content management system (CMS), is one of the most popular platforms for blogs and websites in the world today. The official website for WP is wordpress.org . WP is a spectacular platform! This great product, with all it's ability to be customized, its high-quality visual appeal, its super-duper functionality, its multitude of themes, and so much more, it's so awesome that this feature-rich platform is Free and Open Source for everyone to use! WordPress is made even more powerful due the plethora( literally 10s of thousands ) of plugins (both free and paid) that are available for the platform! I wanted to take a look at this fabulous software for myself so I made some notes for installing WP on one of my Manjaro Linux 5.10.59-1-MANJARO x86_64 21.1.0 Pahvo machines for a test. Installation was pretty quick and easy, and I only encountered a few snags in the process. I'll point out how to work around the issues below. As a...

Like many things in Linux+GNU some  users absolutely love the middle click - close-tab or paste feature of the mouse being set by default. Others absolutely hate it! The problem in this case is:  apparently there is no easy way to disable the mouse middle-click through any graphical settings tools of Ubuntu. But as always, with Linux+GNU - there is a way. Here's a quick post about disabling the middle mouse button in Ubuntu or Debian Linux. This method would likely work with non Debian based distros as well, but I haven't tested it. I've seen a few approaches to accomplish the disabling but the one I was able to get working is by using a custom xorg.conf file in Ubuntu 18.10. The first thing one needs to figure out to disable the middle click is what button it's numbered as on in the 'xinput' command. Once we find that out, we set that number position to '0'. You may need to install xinput with: $ sudo apt install xinput  Try this...

So I was reading a great post by liamdawe@ over at gamingonlinux.com entitled: ' Some thoughts on Valve’s new Steam Play feature and what it means for Linux gaming ', and I wanted to share my thoughts about it. liamdawe's post is about Valve's new Linux+GNU Gaming initiative dubbed 'Steam Play', which uses an open source fork of the venerable WINE compatibility application for playing win-based programs on Linux, see winehq.org for more information about this great program. First of all, these are exciting times for Linux Gaming! I've been plugging for gaming on Linux for a decade or more. I've also been using and working with Linux for even longer than that. For example, I wrote some simple posts about how Linux would be great for gaming back in 2009, e.g., ' Proof - Gamers want GNU/Linux ports '. After all these years, I'm still just as excited about Linux being a major gaming platform as I was back then! Also, I remember back ...

(Update 09-08-17 -  CLICK HERE for the automatic setup script  - Now Just 296KB!   sha1sum: f3b79c2e191baf8060367681bae27ac75fab9886 ). Based on reader comments, I've added the functionality for the script to use either yum or apt-get (Fedora or Ubuntu). Includes updated Azilink by Charlie Snider - for Android 2.3.x . READ the install  instructions here  (e.g., PLUG YOUR DROID INTO THE USB FIRST!)) Let me know how it works for you in the comments.) So if you're like me you recently picked up the fabulous Verizon Droid Linux-based phone, and now you're one happy camper. I've been cruising along with my Droid (Android Linux based device) for a month now, and I'm happy as a clam. I have to tell you... The Verizon Droid is quite a fine Linux-based device indeed. So now that I've used the Droid for awhile, I set out in search of a piece of functionality that I hadn't yet replaced from my Blackberry days. That is: The capability to tether my Dr...

Frostwire Application   "Switch to GNU/Linux and get your freedom on today!" A message I've been working to share for years! A simple way that I do this, is by wearing a shirt that says "Linux" as often as I can.   So I was out on a road trip, proudly wearing my Ubuntu GNU/Linux shirt, and I pulled into a gas station to get a snack. That's when I met Carl.   Carl saw my shirt and complimented Linux. We nearly did a high five right there in the gas station! Then, after a quick exchange of praise for our favorite operating system, and a solid hand shake, Carl asked if I knew how to solve a problem he was having with installing the Frostwire application for Ubuntu 16.04, or even in Pinguy OS .    Frostwire  is a GPL licensed , free and open-source software (FOSS) application for use with bit-torrent(file sharing/distribution), media-download(i.e., from YouTube, archive.org, etc.), and/or media-playback of a myriad of different media content types (i....

Being an absolutely avid GNU/Linux user, I am always very much enjoying my technological freedom! In fact, switching to GNU/Linux is among the better choices I've ever made, career-wise and from the standpoint of weilding the cutting edge when it comes to Technology! Get Yours! That said, I use two web browsers on my Linux machines: Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox. The thing with using Chrome on GNU/Linux, and it's good and a bad thing - is that the Adobe(tm) Flash plugin is integrated into the Chrome. So until all Flash content gives way to HTML5 content on the web, Chrome gives me the most functionality for the current Internet. Google's Chrome is an awesome an powerful browser that's based on the Open Source Chromium project. This is an awesome project that helps to provide the most access to the web, from all sorts of devices and operating systems - it's cross-platform-compatible. Google Chrome is awesome, but one thing I've noticed...

Update - 9/16/2017 SIMPLY DO THIS ONE STEP TO SEE IF IT MAKES YOUR ADAPTER WORK: Try building the driver by running this in the terminal (ctrl+alt+t): sudo apt-get install rtl8812au-dkms It works for me in Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful) If the above doesn't get your wireless working, then start the process from the rest of this blog post by first running: sudo apt-get remove rtl8812au-dkms Continued below... Another GNU/Linux adventure. This time with Ubuntu GNU/Linux 16.04, kernel - uname -r - 4.4.0-12-generic. So I went shopping at my local Walmart (TM), and picked up this Netgear (TM) Wireless AC Adapter AC600 (A6100) Dual Band USB wireless adapter and brought it home to install in my GNU/Linux rig. Plug it in and nothing... No wireless connection detected! Why does this still happen! The year is 2016, why do we still have to manually setup wireless adapters for GNU/Linux? Oh well, good honest CLI training for the users to understand their new system I gu...