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2026 6

  1. Linux Antipattern Flooding The Internet
  2. Linux Tidbits And Collecting Pebbles Part-II
  3. Linux UEFI efivars Partition Getting Full Problem
  4. Damn! Emacs Regex problem
  5. Git and Fzf Match Made In Heaven!
  6. Contributing To The Linux Kernel

2025 11

  1. Linux Firmware Update Send To Upstream
  2. Fedora DNF Toml Files Corruption Problem And Dirty Fix
  3. Learn Sparse and Smatch For Your Own Sake To Do Better
  4. Git Is Bloody Good But My Usage Is Very Limited
  5. Debian Way Of Doing Little Things
  6. How To Run FreeBSD In A Virtual Machine On Different Linux Distributions
  7. Linux Find Commandline Tool Examples
  8. Slackware Linux Custom Kernel Package Automated Way
  9. Linux Tidbits And Collecting Pebbles
  10. Linux Firefox Customization
  11. Busybox As Linux Root Filesystem For Testing

2024 42

  1. Linux Package Information Viewing on Terminal Via Fzf
  2. Linux Editors Keyboard Macros Are Cool And Can Save You Some Time
  3. Linux Error Codes Explained
  4. Arch Linux Kernel Package Build From Upstream Kernel Source
  5. Linux Readline Keybinds vs Window Manager Keybinds
  6. Nope YouTube Doesn’t Like Behind VPN; Automated Way Of Deactivate And Activate It
  7. Linux Kernel: Understanding The Boiling Points
  8. Gentoo Wireless Deauthentication Problem Shoot And Bring Back The Damn Network
  9. Linux: Ecstasy and Agony Of Living With It
  10. Opensource Tools Emacs And Vim Helps To Organize
  11. Bash Script To Convert PDF To Show Properly In Emacsclient Running On Terminal
  12. Linux Kernel Development Essence In Brief
  13. Gentoo Linux Custom Package Set Advantage
  14. Vim Generate PDF and HTML Notes Automatically With The Help Of Pandoc
  15. Emacs Org-Capture Templates And Their Benefits
  16. Linux Tools Apt-Mirror And Systemd-nspawn Are Super Effective
  17. Emacs And Vim Inflate Them For The Sake Of Usefulness?
  18. Linux Viewing Man Pages Via Various Methods
  19. Linux Distributions Download And Verification Automation
  20. Linux Email Client Mutt Take Advantage Of Procmail And Fetchmail
  21. Linux Extract Email Addresses and Web URLs From A Long Document
  22. Linux WordPress Blog Publish From Command Line
  23. Linux nvme-cli Is To Aid NVME SSD Management
  24. Linux FFMPEG Interactive Cut Section Of Audio Video File
  25. Linux Consolidated Advance Materials
  26. Linux Sans Flashy Stuff To Mitigate Distraction
  27. Linux And The Rule Of Elimination
  28. Linux Tool Find Is A Swiss Army Knife Of System Administration
  29. Linux Unix Tools Cheat Sheets At One Place
  30. Emacs Regex
  31. Vim Regex
  32. Linux And Opensource: The Burden Of Maintaining Your Stuff
  33. Linux Terminal Emulators So Many To Choose From
  34. WTF How To Solve Webkit-gtk Compile Error Problem In Gentoo
  35. Linux Automated Software Install On Freshly Installed System
  36. Linux Command Line Search Made Easy And Importantly Usable
  37. Linux Uncanny Systemd Specific Behavior About Mount
  38. Linux Seeing PDF With Zathura Once Downloaded In The Browser
  39. How Do I Sync My Blog In Various Places, Remote Repositories? If It Is At All Interest You
  40. Linux Various Browsers History And Bookmarks Combined View
  41. Linux Misbehaving GnuPG…Process To Somehow Fix The Damn Thing…Kinda Brute-force
  42. Arch Linux How To Fix The Damn Ispell Error In Emacs

2023 65

  1. Linux Git Automated Way Of Adding and Pushing Important Dot Files To Remote Repository
  2. Linux Ftrace A Short Vignette
  3. Linux Password Manager
  4. Slackware Linux Various Scripts
  5. Debian Linux Various Scripts
  6. Gentoo Linux Various Scripts
  7. Linux Kernel Make Is A Tool To Give Enough Hints About Builds
  8. Linux Kernel Module Skeleton File
  9. How To Use Wpa_Supplicant Cli On The Command Line To Deal With Wireless Network
  10. Linux Compression Tools And Algorithms
  11. Slackware Linux After Update Cleanups Automated Way
  12. Git: Uncanny Exploration With It
  13. Books Are A Great Source Of Inspiration And Aspirations
  14. Linux IRQ And SysRq Effects
  15. Linux And Glibc Juxtaposed
  16. Emacs As Mail Client Specifically as Mu4E
  17. What The Heck Is EFI And EfiBootMgr In Linux
  18. Linux And The Importance Of Shell Aliases
  19. What The Heck Is Segmentation Fault? Importantly,Why It Is Happening?
  20. Linux Scripts Mostly Oneliner Help Yourself Kinda Stuffs
  21. Fzf Is A Well Known Tool Now
  22. Bash Support Is A Bloody Good Vim Plugin For Bash Enthusiasts
  23. Bash Shell Scripts Dirty But Useful Part-II
  24. Bash Shell Scripts Dirty But Useful Part-I
  25. GNU AutoTools And Their Functionality Breakups
  26. Emacs and Vim Error Codes Demystified
  27. Linux Tools For Playing Audio And Video CMUS, And MPV
  28. Vim’s Configuration of Mine
  29. Emacs’s Configuration of Mine
  30. UNIX Linux Power Tools Are Quite Irreplaceable
  31. What The Heck Is Linter? And How Do You Use It?
  32. Linux Kernel Config Extraction From Kernel Image
  33. Cscope and Ctags Are Two Bloody Indispensable Tools
  34. What The Heck Is Kernel Command Line and Importantly What Its Purpose
  35. Apache Mod-Rewrite Flags And Their Meaning
  36. Makefile Variables Shorthand Notation And Their Meaning
  37. Linux Kernel Debugging Techniques Some Random Notes
  38. I3 Window Manager Build on Slackware Linux Automated Way!
  39. Fix The Damn x264 Encode Decode Problem In OpenSUSE Way!
  40. Get A Notification When Important Configuration Files Get Changed
  41. Git Commit Messages In An Automated Way!
  42. Emacs And Vim: Editors Should Not Be A Single Point Of Failure
  43. Linux Vmlinux Binary Exploration
  44. Debian Packaging Of Latest Kernel Build With Git
  45. Advance Bash Tips and Tricks
  46. How Am I Running My Browsers Without Depending On Linux Distributions Support?
  47. How To Update Gentoo Linux With Ease
  48. How To Tweak Linux Kernel Variables On The Fly
  49. I3 Window Manager Customizations For My Need
  50. Git: A Revision Control System Can Be Made Easy And Beautiful
  51. Automation Has To Have Some Purpose That Must Enhance Productivity
  52. Notmuch and Mu Are Two Damn Good Tools For Email Searching And Indexing
  53. Bibliography Management In Emacs With BibTeX
  54. How To Fix The Damn OpenSSL Version Problem in Slackware
  55. Choosing The Right Tools And Sticking With It Important For Progress
  56. A Quick Note About Lex/Flex And Yacc/Bison
  57. Vim Build From Source And Other Tricks
  58. Emacs Build From Source And Other Tricks
  59. How To Tap Potentials Of FFMPEG
  60. How To Get Latest LWN Headlines By Using Some Simple Bash Scripts
  61. Git Aliases Can Help You To Work Faster On Git Repositories
  62. Work Environment And The Tools Make It Efficient
  63. Gentoo How To Fix Missing LVM Binaries
  64. Slackware Linux: Yet Another Way Of Creating and Installing Package
  65. Nope,Linux Distro Hopping Doesn’t Help

2022 33

  1. Automate Vim Plugin Install By Bash Script
  2. In The Linux Parlance
  3. Linux Daemon Demystified
  4. Linux Terminals Explained
  5. Productivity Automation Sync Mail With MbSync And Tagged With NotMuch
  6. Why Linux Native Tools Are Better
  7. How To Manage Multiple Email Accounts With Mutt Email Client
  8. How Do I Get Sync With Upstream Stuff
  9. How To Solve Perl Module And Binary Mismatch Error
  10. Bash Script For Backup On Linux
  11. Vim Advance Stuff
  12. Gentoo Tips And Tricks
  13. Debian Custom Kernel Build
  14. Arch Linux Custom Kernel Build
  15. Slackware Custom Kernel Creation
  16. Gentoo Custom Repository And Custom Ebuild Creation
  17. Debian Custom Package Creation
  18. Linux Infrastructure Management Part-VIII
  19. Linux Infrastructure Management Part-VII
  20. Linux Infrastructure Management Part-VI
  21. Linux Infrastructure Management Part-V
  22. Linux Infrastructure Management Part-IV
  23. Linux Infrastructure Management Part-III
  24. Linux Infrastructure Management Part-II
  25. Linux Infrastructure Management Part -I
  26. Information Collection And Process To Keep Abreast
  27. Rambling About Mutt
  28. Rambling about Git
  29. Essential Tools
  30. Bashing The Bash!
  31. Shell,the interface to your OS kernel
  32. Compile Linux Kernel With Chosen Compiler,Automated Way!
  33. How to fetch,build and boot RC-kernel with qemu

2021 11

  1. Tools,create one that suits you!
  2. Is Linux Motivating?
  3. Browsers galore! Few I do use
  4. How do I run screencast with ffmpeg
  5. Muttering …cloud…Gosh! cloud
  6. I3 Window Manager, A fascinating journey!
  7. Minimalist way to run the computer with Linux
  8. Rambling About Vim
  9. How do I send patches to Linux Kernel Mailing list
  10. How do I send patches to Linux Kernel Mailing list
  11. Rambling about Emacs

2017 2

  1. perf – Performance analysis tools for Linux
  2. How to fix wlanO not found

2016 1

  1. How to sign your git commit?

2015 1

  1. GNU/Linux container internals aka Cgroups and Namespaces

2014 2

  1. Experimentation with Docker!!
  2. How to experiment with LXC on Debian

2013 2

  1. RVM- Ruby Version Manager
  2. Converting ext3 to ext4 filesystem

2012 7

  1. How to add Gnome-Shell Weather Extension on Arch Linux
  2. Version check for important software build tool
  3. Implementing Qemu-Kvm on Slackware-13.37
  4. How to manually install LibreOffice on Scientific Linux
  5. Installing Cinnamon desktop on Arch Linux
  6. Installing Drupal in Gentoo
  7. Mod_Security and Mod_Evasive implementation and Testing on Scientific Linux

2011 19

  1. How to read content of ELF or object file on GNU/Linux
  2. How to install package by Slackbuild script on Slackware
  3. How to add repository to openSUSE
  4. How to get over frozen Debian Squeeze Login Screen
  5. How to turn on/off Nagios service/notification by Curl from commandline
  6. How to run google Chrome browser on Gentoo
  7. Musing with GNU/Linux!: Cacti implementation on CentOS AMI
  8. Ganglia installation on CentOS
  9. Drush: A command line Drupal site manipulator
  10. Get information about packages through yaourt
  11. Nagios saga
  12. How to install python related stuff through setuptools of python
  13. How to overcome shared library saga on open system
  14. Manage httpd/apache server through puppet
  15. How to overcome emerge lock file hindrance
  16. How to fix security loophole in Gentoo
  17. Gentoo : How to add USE flags permanently
  18. MySQL : A little security tip
  19. Vi/Vim : Few mundane note about it

2010 52

  1. Fetch mail from Gmail through Mutt
  2. Get alert about LAMP stack
  3. NetSurf – A graphical-browser for emergency browsing
  4. The mystery behind LUN(Logical Unit Number)
  5. Server monitoring by Monit and Munin
  6. Measure website response time through curl
  7. Let’s deal with oddity : Remove filename with special char in them
  8. Rsync : A handy tool to sync with
  9. Password-less ssh
  10. DokuWiki : An opensource wiki to maintain information
  11. Perl upgrade from cpan shell
  12. Logwatch : A tool for watching log
  13. Open Source Software Licenses
  14. PAM : Pluggable Authentication Modules
  15. Apache : Get internal information about it
  16. Cadaver – A command-line WebDAV client for Unix
  17. Security Enhanced Linux a.k.a SELinux
  18. Musing with GNU/Linux!: SASL : IMAP authentication system
  19. SASL : IMAP authentication system
  20. Exploring /dev/random vs. /dev/urandom and /dev/zero vs. /dev/null
  21. LDAP: The tool to manage enterprise infrastructure
  22. GnuPG : A wonderful security tool
  23. Important system tools- part-II
  24. Automate ,automate automate but why??
  25. Measuring and monitoring system performances through sysstat
  26. Filesystem internals from user space
  27. Important system tools
  28. Few tricks and info about sudo
  29. Extracting information out of your hard disk
  30. How to properly run fsck on (/) root or other partitions including LVM
  31. How to update and upgrade different GNU/Linux distros
  32. Hands on MySQL Administration
  33. Investigate GNU/Linux box for io latency and network clogs
  34. Intrusion detection and file integrity check with Tripwire
  35. Configuring Apache and Nginx | Packt Publishing Technical & IT Book Store
  36. Measure bandwidth for the dialup internet connection
  37. Guide to porting from Solaris to Linux on POWER
  38. HOW TO: Teach your old Mutt some new tricks
  39. My experience with GNU/Linux professionally and personally
  40. Going for a business trip to Bangalore
  41. Cool Solutions: Nagios 3.0 – A Extensible Host and Service Monitoring
  42. Grub Error code explained
  43. Building rpm package from source
  44. Patching the kernel: step by step approch
  45. How to recover from corrupt rpm database on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora
  46. Configure Apache to handle multiple SSL site with single IP address
  47. Manage different architecture rpm on RHEL/CentOS
  48. Insight into GNU/Linux boot process
  49. Compiling custom kernel for different GNU/Linux distributions
  50. Installing Nagios made easy
  51. Cleanup Firefox clogging by pruning it’s database
  52. Enlisting kernel modules by Name,Description and Depends

2009 47

  1. Checking malware for GNU/Linux system
  2. The firefox saga on openSUSE
  3. The Web Application Security Consortium / Web Application Security Scanner Evaluation Criteria
  4. How to install Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Pyzor, Rzor, DCC, and ClamAV on Fedora Core 4 v2.1.8
  5. Integrating Tomcat and Apache on Red Hat Linux | HowtoLinux
  6. Shell Tips ! » Fine tuning a Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) server
  7. Ganglia and Nagios, Part 2: Monitor enterprise clusters with Nagios
  8. Ganglia and Nagios, Part 1: Monitor enterprise clusters with Ganglia
  9. Building Simple Load-Balancing Apache Clusters Using Round Robin DNS and NFS
  10. Instalinux – Install Linux the Easy Way
  11. Packaging software with RPM, Part 2
  12. Packaging software with RPM, Part 1
  13. Cisco Router Configuration Tutorial
  14. Linux kernel design patterns – part 2 [LWN.net]
  15. Linux Kernel Design Patterns – Part 1 [LWN.net]
  16. High-availability middleware on Linux, Part 1: Heartbeat and Apache Web server
  17. Building a Linux virtualization solution with OpenVZ
  18. Oracle, Sun Launch High-end OLTP Server – Business Center – PC World
  19. Tech Tip: Port Forwarding in Virtualbox with VBoxManage | Linux Journal
  20. Cool Solutions: Nagios 3.0 – A Extensible Host and Service Monitoring
  21. Migrating a live system from ext3 to ext4 filesystem
  22. Anatomy of Postfix
  23. Using Postfix for Secure SMTP Gateways
  24. APACHE web server and SSL authentication
  25. Migrating a live system from ext3 to ext4 filesystem
  26. Anatomy of the Linux virtual file system switch
  27. Choosing the right Linux File System Layout using a Top-Bottom Process
  28. Choosing the right Linux File System Layout using a Top-Bottom Process
  29. 10 tips for sensible systems administration
  30. Cloud computing versus grid computing
  31. Using Mongrel On Enterprise Linux – puppet – Trac
  32. Using Mongrel OnEnterprise Linux – puppet – Trac
  33. The big guns of Linux kernel development – CNET News
  34. An Introduction to Linux Shell Scripting for DBAs
  35. Startup, Inc – What You Need to Know Before Starting a Company
  36. A Cloud Browser
  37. A & P Software
  38. Unixbhaskar's Blog
  39. Dstat – All in one powerfull command to get system info
  40. “Puppeting” the corporate network
  41. Corporate and Individual Repository
  42. The "Unofficial" google shell for search
  43. Web Server Cluster–IBM Article
  44. Unixbhaskar's Blog
  45. System administration is a cumulative work in large corporates
  46. Unixbhaskar's Blog
  47. Hats off to RedHat