Linux

In which I have zero self control While browsing the Amazon Black Friday sales a few weeks ago, a particular deal caught my eye. An ASUS Chromebook CR11 ruggedized laptop for around $130. Now, I have enough laptops, but I’ve always wanted to try and hack Linux onto one, and this one was attractive due to its ruggedized nature as well as a full blown Intel N100 CPU. I purchased the laptop and once it arrived, I began poking around the internet to see how I could get regular Linux on this thing. ...

Setting up brscan-skey with the Brother DS-940DW on Ubuntu Overview The Brother DS-940DW is a little handheld mobile scanner. Getting it working on Linux in a way where you can actually use the Start/Stop button on the scanner to scan things was a bit of a bear, so I thought I’d document how I did it. Part of the issue is that brscan-skey depends on the old version of libsane, and does not work with libsane1. ...

NoteZFS 2.2.7 has been released with up to Linux kernel 6.12 support, so this workaround is no longer necessary. I’ll leave the post up in case this is ever useful in the future. I previously posted about how to build a desktop OS from the Fedora Server installer. This is a bit of a follow up to that post. I’ve now been running Fedora 41 for a few days and it’s been a mostly pleasant experience. ...

How to build up Fedora Server Edition to a desktop In this article I’ll go over how to take the Fedora Server Edition image and build it up into a full desktop. 1. Download the Fedora Server Edition ISO. Download the latest .iso (DVD) release from here. Burn it to a USB stick using whichever method you prefer, and boot into it. 2. Set Software Selections to custom Once in the Fedora installer, the first step we want to take is to go into “Software Selections” and set it to “custom” instead of the Server Edition. ...