Etiqueta: Linux

Keywords: Productivity, Reproducibility, Sysadmin Every now and then, the same image pops up on my timeline: one Linux distribution pitted against another, compared solely by how many megabytes of RAM they consume at idle. Ubuntu allegedly starts at 6 GB, Arch at 512 MB, followed by a hundred comments debating it as if everything was…

Keywords: Arch History, Philosophy, Software,Slackware In the history of free software, simplicity has always worked as a kind of talisman-word: everyone invokes it, almost no one means the same thing by it. Two projects make this clearer than any manifesto. Slackware and Arch Linux share the same slogan —KISS, Keep It Simple, Stupid— and out…

In Part 1, we set up our Domain Controller correctly: an operational realm that bypasses the .local trap, signed time protocols, and a robust versioned backup routine. However, we explicitly left three core promises for later because they represent the exact threshold where superficial tutorials abandon the reader: the file server operating completely decoupled from…

Keywords: Active Directory, Backup, Debian, Kerberos, Networking, NTP, Samba, Sysadmin, Wireguard The biggest myth in commercial IT is that a secure and professional network requires thousands of dollars in servers and unaffordable corporate licensing. It is a lie: with Samba 4 on Debian 13, you can build an Active Directory free of CALs or seat…

Keywords: Baloo, CachyOS, KDE, KWallet, Plasma, Sysadmin In systems administration, we do not operate on “it seems to work,” but on technical certainty. This article stems from a recent KDE Plasma 6 update that forced me to chase background processes, run diagnostic commands, and—most importantly—clone the KDE source code to confirm what the machine was…

Keywords: Digital Sovereignty, Linux, Open Source  Linux has a problem: it will never be entirely normal. Not because it is naturally difficult, nor because its users belong to some technical sect, although they sometimes work hard to prove the point. Linux’s problem is deeper. It was not designed to behave like a single, closed, obedient…

Keywords: Arch, Brother, CachyOS, dcp-1617nw The Definitive Arch Linux/CachyOS Guide Some hardware feels like it was designed to test the patience of Linux users. The Brother DCP-1610NW —and its close relatives in the 161x family— fits perfectly into that category. It is a monochrome laser multifunction printer: cheap to run, physically tough, reliable, and clearly…