Ben Chuanlong Du's Blog

It is never too late to learn.

Universal Blue Atomic Linux Distributions

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

Universal Blue is a manufacturing process that focuses on community-driven sharing of best practices via automation to make awesome desktop and server operating systems (based on Fedora Atomic distributions).

I've built …

Install Dropbox Using Flatpak

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

Installation

flatpak install flathub com.dropbox.Client

Configuration on Fedora Atomic Linux Distributions and Variants

Fedora Atomic Linux distributions changed the root (/) filesystem type to composefs for reasons. Composefs is not …

Desktop Environments for Linux

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

  1. desktop files in /usr/share/applications/ different DEs might have different format. At least I know that a desktop file created by Xfce cannot be used in GNOME, not sure the …

Managing Fedora Atomic Core System Using rpm-ostree

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

Fedora Atomic Linux ditributions use rpm-ostree to install system tools.

Upgrade

sudo ostree admin pin 0
rpm-ostree rebase
rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/43/x86_64/kinoite

Tips on Linux

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

Tricks and Traps

  1. Use full paths of commands when you use a batch account or schedule a cron job. The reason is that batch account and/or cron might have different …

Tips on fd

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

Tips & Traps

  1. fd is much faster compared to find.

Installation

wajig install fd-find

The install binary is fdfind.

Example Usages

  1. Find all directories under $dir.

    fdfind --type d . $dir
    
  2. Find all …