There is the old method cat /etc/*-release to match distribution release file. For example on openSUSE this will match with /etc/SuSE-release. This method is deprecated and will be removed in the futu
VBoxManage can't directly convert vdi to qcow2, so there is two options : With VBoxManage convert vdi to raw and with qemu-img convert raw to qcow2 With qemu-img convert vdi to qcow2 Notes : vdi are
FreeBSD update to version 10.3. Main improvments: 15 security flaws patched UEFI support Gnome 3.16.2 Full Release Notes on official FreeBSD website.
OpenBSD update to version 5.9. Main improvments: Pledge - a new mitigation mechanism process in restricted mode security improved 70% of user components converted WiFi 802.11n multithread network
A usefull command if are want to read keyboard input : showkey. Very useful to know keycodes when programming. 🔗What is showkey ? showkey - examine the codes sent by the keyboard 🔗How does it work ?
Changing of TTY (TeleTYpewriter), text console or text terminal without keyboard shortcut may be useful for remote administration or virtualization. So to change of TTY in CLI (Command-Line Interface)
To display the repository list in command line you can use : 123456789101112131415161718zypper lr# | Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Ref
To see your battery infos you can use acpi if you have it or directly see system files. 🔗Upower command In both case you can use upower command to get some usefull infos: 1upower -i /org/freedesktop/
To know your 3D graphic(s) controller(s) working (GPU or/and chipset) with your VGA output you can run the following command : 1/sbin/lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D' Example : 123/sbin/lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D'00
This work with Grub2: When you are on the bootloader, hover over your distribution name and press e (e for edit) You can now add options in the window that just opened On the line beginning with linu