How to keep persistent SSH session using TMUX

Ever wonder how to keep a program installer or OS updater running on your Raspberry Pi, without staring at the black screen waiting for it to finish. Your precious time should be use for something worthwhile, like playing game or doing something else on your laptop and being able to…

Alternative Linux Desktop Environment: OpenBox

We all tried GNOME, KDE, LXDE, XFCE, and the recent generation of DEs such as Cinnamon and Unity. They are all bloated and overrated. Now we want to switch to a light-weight, clean, fast, and highly customisable that you can build from scratch: OpenBox. OpenBox is a configurable menu system…

Split your SSH command line terminal screen with Byobu

Byobu is screen multiplexer. That means you can have multiple sessions during your SSH access to your Raspberry Pi. Byobu is particularly usefull when you are multi-tasking on your Pi, such as coding during upgrade or download of a big file. With Byobu, you can split your SSH session into…

Linux distro desktop environment review on HP Spectre 12 X2 tablet laptop

We were excited to test the following Linux distros on HP Spectre 12 X2, and see what work well out of the box. So far only the 64-bit versions of Linux work on this machine. Ubuntu 16.04 Unity: Boot up: Yes Touch screen support: Worked well Detachable keyboard: Worked well…

Schedule your Pi or other Linux machine to reboot and run a script on boot with crontab

Simple concept. We want to ensure that our Pi is available and reliable. It is inevitable that networks get hickups, or the Pi runs out of memory requiring restart at a regular interval. For exaomple if you want to run a bash file after a reboot every 6am and 6pm,…

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