Of my roughly 40 year career in IT, the past decade has been spent in the world of embedded systems cross compiling via Multi-Arch packages. Some systems require building inside…
Linux
Ubuntu Pig!
The world is quickly abandoning Ubuntu. At one time it was a much loved Linux distro but now it is a pariah. Much of it started with that virus Unattended…
Flatpak Can’t Print or Attach Files
Flatpak printing and file attaching, especially with email clients that have been flatpaked, is a major (&)(*&+_ing nuisance. “Oh, we’re sandboxed!” will be the rallying cry from the support team…
Flatpak Won’t Load URL
I see this mostly on Manjaro Cinnamon, but it’s rampant on other distros given the volume of complaints. It is yet another reason why Agile must be banned globally. Anything…
Installation and Configuration of OpenSuSE Leap 15.6
OpenSuSE has a well deserved reputation for being “expert friendly” and Leap 15.6 doesn’t do a lot to fix that. Yes, I’ve written about OpenSuSE on this blog many times…