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The Tiny antiX Linux Distribution

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. I forget whether antiX image is hybrid or not. Try and find this out.

  2. The command line installer of antiX is not intuitive (not as good as command line installer of …

Manage Autostart Applications

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

  1. Autostart *.desktop configuration files are located in directories /etc/xdg/autostart and ~/.config/autostart/ . By default, autostart applications in /etc/xdg/autostart are not shown to users in …

Tips on MacPorts

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

sudo port selfupdate
port search pkg
sudo port install pkg

MacPorts behind Firewall

  1. Use http instead of rsync. Open the file /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf and replace the line …

Copying Files in Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. Generally speaking, you do not want to follow symbolic links when copying files unless you are copying from one machine to another. If you do not want follow symbolic links, use …

User Access Control on Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Login Access Control

The /etc/security/access.conf file specifies (user/group, host), (user/group, network/netmask) or (user/group, tty) combinations for which a login will be either accepted or …