5 Best Vector Graphics Editors for Linux

Today I reviewed: 5 Best Vector Graphics Editors for Linux. Will play with Inkscape first I guess…

File types In Linux

Today I found myself referring to: File types In Linux/Unix explained in detail. Basically:

Also apparently there is a thing called a Door File on Solaris, but, alas, we’re not caring about that.

This is an excellent article, I only wish I had time to read it: So you want to build an embedded Linux system?.

This was fun: An Interview With Linus Torvalds: Linux and Git. I will check back next week for the second part!

# apt install doomsday doom-wad-shareware

This popped up on Hacker News today: The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel. I wonder if we can infer from this that AMD Radeon graphics cards are well supported on Linux..? I might buy one for my next workstation…

Today I discovered an article explaining Linux file system timestamps: Linux File Timestamps Explained: atime, mtime, and ctime; and a good thing too, because I always thought ‘ctime’ was ‘create time’, but not so! Turns out that ‘ctime’ is ‘change time’, similar to ‘mtime’ but apparently cannot be set from userspace. My investigations were prompted by my investigations info how `borg create` identified changed files.

So today I read How To Switch Between TTYs Without Using Function Keys In Linux and learned about the `chvt` command which can change the virtual terminal on the host’s physical console. This is gonna come in handy!

Today this one popped up on r/programming. The suggestions were: