setup


Apr. 9, 2019

Sway

In 2015 I already made a post about sway. Now with the recent 1.0 release it’s time for another one. sway is available on the OpenBuildService for openSUSE since August 2015. And on March 12th I updated the package to the 1.0 release, which happened one day earlier. I packaged all the RCs that lead up to the final release too, to be sure everything works as expected. When packaging I asked the devs about a proper ChangeLog file which lead to the annotated git tags that they now use.

Jul. 18, 2017

mu

Some time ago, spent some time during Hackweek to find a developer friendly mail client. I recommended claws, since I am very content with it. For me it was important that it has a simple configuration file, which I can backup using git and share it among different computers. It makes it quite easy to reinstall your machine then. I always thought it would be nice to be able to run my mail client on a remote server though.

Dec. 25, 2015

Sway

This post is about being cutting edge. Some friends of mine use Ubuntu, because they think it is stable. Others use arch because they think it is cutting edge. I get both, with openSUSE. If I want to have a stable system I run openSUSE Leap 42.1, with its SLE base its a really nice fit. If I want to play around with newest program I run openSUSE Tumbleweed, the rolling release version of openSUSE.

Aug. 7, 2015

irssi

irssi is probably the most popular IRC client out there. An alternative for the commandline is weechat but I like irssi better. Of course many people also use GUI clients like hexchat, Konversation, Polari or Textual for OSX. Some people prefer multi protocol messengers like Kopete or pidgin, with finch as the console aquivalent. For IRC my favourite is still irssi. The best way to get an overview of irssi is to read the Startup Howto followed by the complete manual.

Aug. 6, 2015

The dotfiles

I store most of my configuration files publicly on GitHub. However there are some programs which contain passwords in their config files, among these are irssi, Pidgin and osc. It was very annoying to always configure those programs from the start on each computer. So today I took the time and created a small server out of an old netbook. I switch it on on days I know I need a service on it and leave it off if I don’t.

Jul. 21, 2015

Enable ssh on openSUSE

Okay, going to explain how to install and enable ssh on your openSUSE box here. Some people didn’t seem to get it to work altough there is an older article describing how to do it with SysVInit. My article will have the same format just with the new commands. On the openSUSE wiki they explain it via yast. Check if package is installed: zypper if openssh Install package if it isn’t installed:

Jul. 20, 2015

The Amazing Fritz!Box

The Fritz!Box is really a very usable device. And I am quite happy that it is pretty common and many people have it. Here I describe which features I especially like and use. Accessing the Fritz!Box The easiest way to configure it is probably accessing it via your browser, just navigate to either http://192.168.178.1/ or http://fritz.box/. Sometimes I have not set up correctly DNS properly because I have a half-ass configured VPN running on one of my laptops and then I have to use the IP insteda of the domain name.