User:Maffblaster/Published articles

A page my published articles are kept. Articles are tracked here so that I can keep a visual reference of progress. Small things add up.

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Acer Chromebook C720
AQEMU
Aufs
Blue Yeti Pro
badblocks
Category:IDE
Build automation
Cgit
Chrome
Chromium
Configuration file management - Article detailing tools available on Gentoo and guidance for managing configuration files.
Corsair Strafe RGB
Cramfs
crossdev
cvechecker
Data compression
Dcfldd
Desktop environment
Detox
Developer Handbook
Dos2unix
Dmidecode - Software that reports information about a system's hardware as described in the system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard.
Duperemove — a btrfs and XFS tool for finding duplicated extents and submitting them to the kernel for deduplication
e2fsprogs — a suite of standard userspace programs for ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems.
Egencache — a tool that (re)builds metadata information for the Portage package database.
F3 — an open source, cross platform H2testw clone.
File managers — a computer program that allows for the manipulation of files and directories on a computer's filesystem.
Fonts — a core part of the system and are necessary in order to represent text on a display.
Gemato — a stand-alone utility to verify and update Manifest files distributed in the Gentoo ebuild repository.
Gentoo_Wiki:Article_Blueprints/Hardware/Embedded
exFAT — a Microsoft file system optimized for flash memory storage
ext — the first in a series of file systems created exclusively for Linux.
ext2 — an open source disk filesystem created for Linux, and the second version of the extended series of filesystems.
ext3 — an open source disk filesystem created for Linux, and the third version of the extended series of filesystems.
FAT — filesystem originally created for use with MS-DOS (and later pre-NT Microsoft Windows).
FFmpeg — a cross platform, free, open source media encoder/decoder toolkit.
Firefox — Mozilla's web browser.
fdupes — a tool for identifying duplicate files across a set of directories.
FUSE — a way for users to mount file systems without needing special permissions
Gentoo developer side-projects — The purpose of this article is to list some of Gentoo developers' side projects
git-lfs — an open source plugin created by GitHub that enables the git version control system to better track binary blobs.
GIMP/Plugins
HEIF - Provides details on how to render HIEF image files in the GNOME (and hopefully more soon!) desktop environment.
Hwinfo — a small utility created by OpenSUSE to gather information on system hardware.
Hyper-V — a hypervisor integrated in current versions of Microsoft Windows.
I2P — an anonymous network, similar to Tor.
ImageMagick - A collection of tools and libraries for many image formats.
Iotop — a top-like utility that monitors system input/output.
iperf — a network testing utility helpful for determining network performance.
IRC — a stable, mature, text-based chat (instant messaging) system. IRC is one of the primary avenues of communication for those involved at all levels in the Gentoo project.
IRC/Guide — provides a broad overview of concepts related to IRC.
Kernel/Configuration/Kernel Seeds — pre-made kernel configuration files.
kpatch — a GPLv2 licensed dynamic kernel patching tool developed by RedHat.
Larry the cow — one of Gentoo's unofficial mascots.
Leafpad — an extremely simple, yet functional, GTK2 text editor.
Lenovo Thinkpad W530 — a configuration guide to help users work out some of the gritty details needed to get this notebook working as it should on Gentoo Linux.
Let's Encrypt — a free, automated, and open certificate authority client.
Linux firmware — is a package distributed alongside the Linux kernel that contains firmware binary blobs necessary for partial or full functionality of certain hardware devices.
Live patching — is an 'update-and-coming' kernel feature being developed by a few corporate Linux companies.
‎lshw — a small tool that provides detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 or EFI (IA-64) systems and on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work).
‎lspci — contains various utilities dealing with the PCI bus (primarily lspci).
‎lsusb — a collection various utilities for querying the the Universal Serial Bus (USB).
Magic SysRQ — a kernel hack that enables the kernel to listen to specific key presses and respond by calling a specific kernel function.
Neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and agility. Actually published by Thamognya (Jeff132312342q4323) . My draft was merged into that article.
Gentoo_Wiki:Article Blueprints/Meta
Gentoo_Wiki:Article_Blueprints/Hardware/Motherboards
Minetest - an infinite-world block sandbox game and game engine that is heavily inspired by Minecraft and InfiniMiner.
Memtest86+ — memory test software based on the commercially available (from Passmark) memtest86 program.
Multimedia container formats - High level meta article explaining the function of multimedia container formats and how to consume them on Gentoo.
Mumble — an open source, cross platform, low-latency, high quality voice over IP (VoIP) client.
Murmur — the server component to Mumble built on the Qt framework.
Netifrc — Gentoo's default framework for configuring and managing network interfaces on systems running OpenRC.
nload — a super simple, command-line network interface monitoring tool.
OBS Studio — free software for video recording and live streaming.
Overgrowth — a third person, 3D, fast paced, cross-platform action computer game developed by Wolfire Games.
OverlayFS — an in-kernel attempt at providing union file system capabilities on Linux.
pass - a command-line password manager that stores, retrieves, generates, and synchronizes passwords securely.
pciutils — contains various utilities dealing with the PCI bus (primarily lspci).
PCManFM — a powerful yet lightweight file manager application, default file manager of LXDE.
Pip — Python's package management system. It references packages available in the official Python Package Index (PyPI).
PowerTOP — a Linux utility that can monitor and display a system's electrical power usage.
Practical jokes - an archive for practical jokes that have been undertaken - in good humor - around the greater Gentoo ecosystem and community.
Project:Installer — an attempt to increase the usability of Gentoo and related Linux distributions by providing an interface for users to backup and recover existing installations.
PyCharm Community Edition — an open source, single-language integrated developer environment (IDE) for Python projects created by JetBrains.
Python — an extremely popular cross-platform object oriented programming language.
portageq — a tool to quickly query Portage information.
Redshift — an automatic color temperature adjustment to help reduce monitor eye strain induced by working in low-light conditions.
regenworld — regenerates the Portage world file by checking the Portage log file for all actions performed in the past.
repoman — a Python program used to enforce a minimal level of quality assurance in ebuilds and related metadata added to ebuild repositories.
rsync — a powerful file sync program capable of efficient file transfers and directory synchronization.
Ryzen — a multithreaded, high performance processor manufactured by AMD.
‎Scan modem — a software tool that finds a suitable driver for a connected modem.
SCP — an interactive file transfer program, similar to the copy command, that copies files over an encrypted SSH transport.
Security Handbook — valuable guidance on Gentoo Linux security and cybersecurity in general.
SFTP — an interactive file transfer program, similar to FTP, which performs all operations over an encrypted SSH transport.
Gentoo_Wiki:Article_Blueprints/Software
smbnetfs — a FUSE-based filesystem for SMB/CIFS shares.
SparkleShare — a cross platform, free, open source, Dropbox-like, git-based collaboration and file sharing tool.
SSHFS — a secure shell client used to mount remote filesystems to local machines.
SquashFS — an open source, read only, extremely compressible filesystem.
Swap — refers to both the act of moving memory pages between memory and a secondary storage.
Synergy - Software used to manage multiple machines over multiple displays with a single keyboard and mouse.
Tahoe-LAFS — an encrypted, secure, distributed (fault-tolerant) file system). (Actually created by Charles17 because my article was rotting in my userspace for too long. I merged my article's content with his).
TestDisk — a free and open source, cross platform data recovery suite.
Tkinter — "most portable GUI toolkit for Python"[1] and is Python's "de-facto standard GUI (Graphical User Interface) package"[2].
Thunderbird — Mozilla's solution to the e-mail client.
Tmux/plugins — tmux plugins enhance user experience by adding or extending functionality.
Tmux/plugins/tmux-mem-cpu-load — a small program designed for system monitoring in the status line of tmux.
Udevil — a small auto-mount utility created to be a "a hassle-free replacement for udisks."
Ufed — an ncurses-based USE flag editor designed to simplify configuration of a system's USE flags.
usbutils — a collection various utilities for querying the the Universal Serial Bus (USB).
uMurmur — a minimalistic server for Mumble designed to run on embedded systems (DD-WRT or OpenWRT) or older PC hardware.
unzip — provides decompression for classic zip formats.
uptimed — a daemon that keeps track of a system's 'uptime' (how long a system has running between a reboot).
USB to serial adapter — details the process of enabling support for USB to serial (RS-232, RS-422, RS-485 etc) adapters in the Linux kernel.
Gentoo_Wiki:Article_Blueprints/User_pages — a semi-structured, rough user page blueprint that users can copy and paste to provide them with ideas for information to include in their user pages.
util-linux - userspace utilities for Linux specific system management including device control, terminal logins, process management, and tty messaging.
webapp-config — Gentoo's installer for web-based applications.
WeeChat — a light, extensible, actively maintained, well documented, highly featured text-mode IRC client.
WeeChat/Glowing Bear Guide
Window manager — manages the creation, manipulation, and destruction of on-screen windows and window decorations in Xorg.
WireGuard — a modern, simple, and secure VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography.
Wgetpaste — a command-line tool for posting snippets of text to various online "pastebin" services
XMPP‎ — a real-time communication protocol based on XML.
Zip — provides classic zip compression.
zstd - A fast, lossless compression library created by Facebook and now used all around open source.

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