Abandon Windows in favor of Linux operating system – Tips&Tricks – Part 1

Lately, I've been moving around a bit more and working with more computers. As it happens, the manufacturer announced that it was discontinuing support for Windows 10, and the next release seems like a bad joke from a privacy perspective. That's why I decided to abandon Windows 10 in favor of the Linux operating system on my desktop machines. I thought it would be a cool topic to show that it can be done and to sell a few solutions to the problems I encountered. Enjoy the material!

First, I would like to explain (in very general terms and simple language) what I gain from using Linux, and give a general overview of what it actually is. If you are an advanced user of this system, you can skip to the second part of this text, where I will start with the problems I encountered.

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Comparison of rar, bzip2, lbzip2 compression

Recently, I've been busy preparing various directories for additional archiving in Linux (it's about files from the /var/log/ location) containing archives of reports of performed operations in the system and running programs (services such as www etc.). Since I often use archiving to RAR format, I decided to see if it would work in this case as well.

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New script – Nextcloud installer for Linux (no docker)

I wrote a script that installs Nextcloud package (an alternative to other disk services in the so-called cloud like One Drive or Google Disk), in Linux (Debian and Enterprise Linux distros). To work it requires only a clean system, everything will install and configure itself (so that it works on the local network, or outside with few more steps from user).

Here is the link: Nextcloud Installer

ConnectX firmware update with mstflint

Today I had the opportunity to update the firmware of the Mellanox ConnectX-3 card, and I thought I'd give a closer look at the process (it should work for previous ConnectX series card models as well).

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MOTD for EL

I prepared new scripts package, that will install colorful and nice motd  (message of the day) with some system informations.
MOTD is generated with scripts, that will be extracted to /etc/profile.d where you may modify them to suite your needs.
fail2ban and docker stats will not be shown if user do not have correct permissions for that.
The script runs on EL based Linux systems ie: RedHat, CentOS, RockyLinux, Fedora etc.
You may find more info here: MOTD dla EL

New script for CentOS 8 – LAMP

A new script for CentOS 8 was introduced in the projects, which is used to install and configure additional software and system to allow serving the website.

The script installs and pre-configures things like web server, database server, PHP interpreter.

Feel free to visit the section CentOS 8 LAMP Script

UNMS / UISP on EL8 Linux

I published a script that executes the installation of UNMS (Ubiquiti Network Management System) on CentOS 8 Linux / RHEL 8, despite the lack of support for those distribution by the manufacturer.

Installation manual and download link can be found in projects – "UNMS / UISP for CentOS 8 Linux installation script".

Corel error on startup – solution

Some time ago I came up with an idea to move some folders on a Windows computer to another (bigger) drive. From that moment Corel (CorelDraw or Corel PHOTO-PAINT) welcomed me with a message:

Please reconnect the device that has the file is location, or choose a new folder. In the meantime, content will be saved in the Corel default location. You can move the content after the file location is restored.

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