My Linux pages

About this page

My Linux pages are a collection of hints and notes about solving different "problems" that came up. They are for from being complete and rather useless for Linux beginners.

Linux distributions

• Slackware, the first distribution I used (and I used it for a very long time)
• Linux from Scratch, a system I used some time (but it was too time consuming)
• I also used lubuntu for a while
• archlinux, the distribution I'm currently using. There are also Arch Linux related notes

Getting different pieces of hardware to work

• Hints on Bluetooth networks
• Hints to enable IrDA connections
• Getting started a WLAN with Linux
• How to use sound with ALSA under Linux

Networking

• Notes about the use of iptables.
• Setup and use of NFS under Linux (NFSv3 and NFSv4) with Kerberos
• Linux as a CIFS (former SMB) client.

Misc.

• Update Firmware using fwupd
• Hints on the GRUB bootloader
• Info about using DVD-RW and related stuff (DVD-RAM, UDF)
• DM-Crypt-Howto
• LUKS-Howto
• Howto access devices in C programs
• Howto create QR codes
• My notes about systemd configuration
• My notes about SSH and SCP