GNU World Order Linux Cast

Short show this week, due to a move to the south island. Klaatu talks about metadata. shasum -a256=67f3507b54626ab46425e7e0c748339dd36eb0ca0cb84201161088de268e41fd

The **ddate** command from the **util-linux** package, and all about Discordianism and the Church of the Subgenius! shasum -a256=892f65334593874dc3ad5f4a1e7092e47204a444353dc94d6a32e8397966d815

Listener feedback, plus **colrm** and **column** from **util-linux**. Tip: To get information about strange characters in GNU Emacs, place your cursor on the character and then type **Alt**-**x** **describe-char** $ cat example.txt hello world $ cat example.txt | colrm 1 1 ello world $ cat example.txt | colrm 1 6 world $ column --table /etc/fstab shasum -a256=e8c5429e82fd036697154e5f93f46d22deccc4...

Why use the Linux desktop if the Desktop is dead anyway? Also, more **util-linux**: cal, chrt, col, and colcrt from /usr/bin. shasum -a256=45df23d5d8b5a9ac2a1dcb296fc4c54c07ac67f2c4ba4d1706dbd0e7bfa8b2f9

Listener feedback about zram and ziptool, and then a discussion about the term "open" shasum -a256=3bf3b49bc608028806bbddbbf89e6fda93b59dc93877d983aa114f65facbb809

Finishing up the binaries in /sbin from the **util-linux** package. Includes **sfdisk**, **swaplabel**, **swapon**, **swapoff**, **switch_root**, **wipefs**, **ziptool**, and **zramctl**. For **zramctl** to work, remember to load the zram module. $ sudo modprobe zram shasum -a256=8c830319aa6a8a57ec6249c6aaccfc07e3fb4679c697a55083514fed06bc5e30

Listener feedbacks from Mastodon, including commentary about the Julian calendar, Flatpak sandboxing problems, Flatpak usability problems, clarification on Bzip2 and LZMA and ZIP compression. The overview of util-linux continues with **mkswap**, which designates a partition of a special hard drive or a special file as "swap" space. _NEVER run **mkswap** on a partition or file that contains data yo...

Is it really possible to use CentOS or RHEL as a desktop Linux distro? Klaatu finds out! shasum -a256=83403ca53e18e0f9ec4f9eb15237dae450c991e99c238ce5b501379b4ca74824

Listener feedback from Carl about gauging community health of a project before getting involved with it. Klaatu has defined five community profiles, but has no definitive answers. Listen in and send in commentary if you have ideas on this topic. shasum -a256=4e9b2b1d7ea30b828d18ca3130aad63294376dbc6298b04240800e987dbe4b08

Are Flatpaks and Snaps a regression in security? and other exciting listener debates. Util-link continued, continuing with utilities in /sbin: * sbin/ctrlaltdel * sbin/fdisk * sbin/findfs * sbin/fsck * sbin/fsck.cramfs * sbin/fsck.minix shasum -a256=ae167c67dcbe7c696496fb0d0d55eaada1fb85cdd23edcf2e541c6e234483718

Util-link continued, starting with the utilities in /sbin: * sbin/adjtimex * sbin/agetty * sbin/blkdiscard * sbin/blkid * sbin/blockdev * sbin/cfdisk Plus some listener feedback about getopt and getopts, bzip2, good bad sound, and more. shasum -a256=0c659a9a033416bbbd8d0e1ae87d98c7db8610db2165700fc0c0cec3d3bca4c5

Let's build a flatpak together! shasum -a256=e7164ea3ecdd9fdec2346cb98d7e2fcf5d266cb54b2480b857da35846e875ca6

Listener feedback. GNU World Order is voted best Linux Podcast of 2018 by [linuxquestions.org](http://linuxquestions.org) but fame is fleeting, and it is no longer 2018. Bzip2 compression. You should run bzip2 compression tests and send Klaatu your results. Controversy over scripts that download and install automatically. A bakery that runs on Emacs and PostgreSQL. Further Grav commentary. Pico CM...

The journey through the **util-linux** from the **a** package set of Slackware continues. First, a tutorial on `getopt`, an argument parser for Bash and Tcsh. Here is a demonstrative sample script: #!/usr/bin/bash ## or you can just use /bin/sh OPTS=`getopt --options f --long foo --alternative -- "$@"` eval set -- "$OPTS" echo "Raw input: $OPTS" while true ; do case "$1" in -f|--foo) echo "Option...

Heaps of listener feedback about licensing, the difference between a user and a developer, the `atool` archive tool, old GNU World Order shownotes, the first couple of applications from **util-linux**: `dmesg`, `findmnt`, `hostname`, `more`. shasum -a256=ea59e48b103732218c54dd0641db2955c6fa98bf7091103a7d599ec5efe75b36

Coffee across the globe. From the **a** package set of default Slackware packages: udisks, udisks2 (udiskctl), unarj, upower, usb_modeswitch, usbutils, and the utemptor interface to utmp, btmp, and wtmp. Udisks is a friendly interface for interacting with drives. $ udisks --enumerate /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdc1 /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdc2 /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdc /org/...

Episode audio levels adjusted, Flatpak tips, and three great coffees in downtown Raleigh North Carolina. Finishing up the applications-that-start- with-"t" from the **a** set of Slackware: `time` (not the built-in Bash one) and **tree**. shasum -a256=fab180be7af7354c200bc8409355aca5de35cdacd0842fdf33399981c66627f5

Webhosting.coop vouchers, THE CLOUD is just a virtual computer on somebody else's (or your own?) cluster of computers, building dependencies on things you already own. In the **t** packages in the **a** set: heaps of tar tips, and some thoughts about tcsh. shasum -a256=ca3ed7db2ded1a84c527d3b2db78abcc75ae2ad1294441537afb6f45abd32398

Deep thoughts about licensing, effective licensing, and why groups of free software developers haven't the luxury of turning a blind eye. shasum -a256=5a38318ccaef3130a41d440aba3615032f3523a4b306e013c5e437177b7a1d25

Tech talk, licensing, ZFS, and more. shasum -a256=3c0a900d0058665c96b6aac34c7b8ebe9ad25d930d5bbfdfc565398e64747a06

Klaatu talks about software licensing as related to ZFS, and then covers the **S** section of the **a** package set in Slackware (he also realises mid-way through that he had already covered the **q** and **r** sections and part of the **s** section, but nobody complained about it, so presumably they were all worth a second look). shasum -a256=81027a9666dfb2978e2f74db96ca5be5f6b0f36747f1618edd89b1...

Klaatu installs ZFS and creates a ZFS USB drive. Continuing his review of all packages installed with Slackware, he talks about reiserfs and rpm2tgz. Finally, a thoroughly biased unbiased review of the amazing webhost cooperative, [webhosting.coop](http://webhosting.coop). shasum -a256=ae2a54c33666f86c32317efaedd7c8aa37a33abfe501d8c511cd1407c3f75dcc

All about the quota command from Slackware package set **a** ` # enable quota in /etc/fstab # for example: # /dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults,usrquota 0 2 # # then remount the partition: % whoami % root % mount -o remount / # create quota index: % quotacheck --user --create-files --no-remount # if it fails with ## cannot stat() /dev/root # then this is a workaround: % ln -s /dev/sda1 /dev/root # now turn...

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Season 13 begins! We have switched to a fancy new hosting provider, [Webhosting.coop](http://webhosting.coop), a cooperative web hosting organization run in part by Josh Cox, a long-time supporter of the show. Introductory episodes about [Linux](https://gnuworldorder.info/#0x0) and [Slackware](https://gnuworldorder.info/#0x1) have been posted. If you're new to Linux, start with these episodes!. In...