VirtualBox on a CRUX host
Posted: 2024-05-12 Filed under: system | Tags: CRUX, virtualbox Leave a commentFor virtualization, I use VirtualBox, installed from the All distributions binary package provided by upstream (*.run). Since CRUX is a bit of an esoteric distribution, startup stuff and building of kernel modules does not happen automatically. Therefore, calling certain scripts should be done manually.
Read the rest of this entry »
Make Grub find a Windows partition
Posted: 2024-04-07 Filed under: system | Tags: boot, efi, grub, UEFI, windows Leave a commentI have Linux installed on sda and Windows 10 installed on sdb. Both disks are EFI and I want to make Grub add Windows to the boot menu.
Read the rest of this entry »
Tor browser: specify a country node
Posted: 2024-03-31 Filed under: network | Tags: exit, node, tor, tor-browser Leave a commentI visit an old, Linux-dedicated forum, that sometimes does not like comments from users with a foreign IP address, due to its outdated engine or something. In order to post, I often need to prove that I am not a robot, via captcha. Well, I am not a robot and this happens only occasionally, but it’s still annoying. Therefore, I decided to find out whether I can use the Tor Browser with a pre-specified country for the exit node.
Read the rest of this entry »
Traditional names of network devices
Posted: 2024-02-04 Filed under: network, system | Tags: adapter, CRUX, eth0, grub, lilo, network, wlan0 Leave a commentMoving from Slackware to CRUX, I noticed that my network devices have weird names, such as enp4s0. What happened to the good old eth0? It did not bother me much at first, but… For example, I have a firewall script, where I specify adapter names, and it is a bit annoying to always check for the specific one, depending on the computer I am working on.
Read the rest of this entry »
Slackalaxy 