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APPS

A/V: Kodi - VLC - Blender - Gimp - Shotwell - Davinci Resolve

Music: FL Studio - Reaper - Audacity - Ampache - Spotify - Strawberry

Games: Steam - Minecraft - Twitch

TOOLS

Mediawiki - Wordpress

LibreOffice - qBitTorrent - Cura

vscode - ne - Qt Creator - Emacs - GitLab

irc - slack- pidgin - XMPP - Rocket.Chat - zoom

i3 - UnixPorn - terminal - kitty - screen - albert

maim - copyq

mame - Simon - Kaldi - Q2A

Chrome - Firefox - Brave - Vivaldi - Tor - Okular

DBeaver - pgadmin4 - Studio 3T - Sqlite Explorer

postgres - sqlite - mongodb - mysql - SQL Server

Docker - ninja - gcc - git - eslint

TrueNAS - Linux software raid - Wireshark - Apache

ssh - gpg - haproxy - dnsmasq - geth

proxmox - SPICE - vnc - Remote Desktop

WireGuard - TailScale - OpenVPN

GCP - AWS

systemd - xrandr - samba - fail2ban - ntp

Software Under Review

Software Archive

OS installation

Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade

Ubuntu 22.04 upgrade

Linux barebones quickstart

Ubuntu quickstart

Ventoy ISO boot disk

Raspberry Pi

Kali quickstart

Centos quickstart

Cygwin quickstart

OS X

Update gentoo kernel

Upgrade gentoo

Windows 10 quickstart

Install cygwin
Disable automatic restarts

Install Group Policy Editor from an admin Powershell console:

@echo off 
pushd "%~dp0" 

dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~3*.mum >List.txt 
dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~3*.mum >>List.txt 

for /f %%i in ('findstr /i . List.txt 2^>nul') do dism /online /norestart /add-package:"%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\%%i" 
pause

Run Group Policy Editor to disable restarts:

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Configure Automatic Updates
(o) Enabled
[2] Notify for download and auto install?  Or [3] Auto download and notify for install?  Going with [3], we'll see.
(or...) (o) Enabled: No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations
---
No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installation (just in case)
(o) Enabled
---
(reboot if you had to change it?  or will that wipe it out?  tbd...)

In a corporate environment, you should quit your job - I mean, you will likely have to redo this after ANY f'in reboot.

Memtest boot disk
It should be on red-on-black flash drive. Or, get a fresh download of USB zip, it includes a Windows exe to create the boot. Or use the ISO.

Ubuntu upgrade / reinstall notes

Create and boot from Ubuntu USB
There should always be a boot USB for this in my set, but it needs recreation on new Ubuntu versions... Download the latest 64-bit Ubuntu desktop iso Format a USB drive as FAT (NOT exFAT or NTFS) Burn the iso to the USB, providing a GB of space (we want to add the nvidia driver once booted) sudo usb-creator-gtk Boot with it On startup, select the USB EFI boot option in refind, select "Try Ubuntu", (on MBPro, hit e and add [ nouveau.noaccel=1] to grub line), hit F10 to start Once it is running, start System Settings, select Software, enable proprietary drivers Install, checking the [download as you go] and [install 3rd party stuff] boxes.

Ubuntu set up networking
Install NetworkManager, as the wpagui UI sucks sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome YOU MUST remove interfaces from /etc/network/interfaces so wpa gives them up to nm-applet add nm-applet to startup if needed - i don't think it is needed as it seems to start up automatically now - try rebooting first

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-[[Kodi]] - [[Blender]] - [[Gimp]] - [[Shotwell]] - [[Reaper]] - [[Audacity]] - [[Cura]] - [[LibreOffice]]
+== APPS ==
-[[Mediawiki]] - [[Wordpress]] - [[Ampache]] - [[Spotify]] - [[Strawberry]] - [[VLC]]
+A/V: [[Kodi]] - [[VLC]] - [[Blender]] - [[Gimp]] - [[Shotwell]] - [[Davinci Resolve]]
-[[Visual Studio Code|vscode]] - [[Qt Creator]] - [[Emacs]] - [[GitLab]]
+Music: [[FL Studio]] - [[Reaper]] - [[Audacity]] - [[Ampache]] - [[Spotify]] - [[Strawberry]]
+Games: [[Steam]] - [[Minecraft]] - [[Twitch]]
+== TOOLS ==
+[[Mediawiki]] - [[Wordpress]]
+[[LibreOffice]] - [[qBitTorrent]] - [[Cura]]
+[[Visual Studio Code|vscode]] - [[ne]] - [[Qt Creator]] - [[Emacs]] - [[GitLab]]
 [[irc]] - [[slack]]- [[pidgin]] - [[XMPP]] - [[Rocket.Chat]] - [[zoom]]
-[[i3]] - [[UnixPorn]] - [[terminal]] - [[screen]] - [[albert]]
+[[i3]] - [[UnixPorn]] - [[terminal]] - [[kitty]] - [[screen]] - [[albert]]
 [[maim]] - [[copyq]]
-[[Steam]] - [[Stadia]] - [[Minecraft]] - [[Twitch]] - [[qBitTorrent]]
 [[mame]] - [[Simon]] - [[Kaldi]] - [http://www.question2answer.org/ Q2A]
-[[Chrome]] - [[Firefox]] - [[Tor]] - [[Okular]]
+[[Chrome]] - [[Firefox]] - [[Brave]] - [[Vivaldi]] - [[Tor]] - [[Okular]]
-[[pgadmin4]] - [[Robo 3T]] - [[Sqlite Explorer]]
+[[DBeaver]] - [[pgadmin4]] - [[Studio 3T]] - [[Sqlite Explorer]]
 [[postgres]] - [[sqlite]] - [[mongodb]] - [[mysql]] - [[SQL Server]]
-[[ninja]] - [[gcc]] - [[git]] - [[eslint]]
+[[Docker]] - [[ninja]] - [[gcc]] - [[git]] - [[eslint]]
 [[TrueNAS]] - [[Linux software raid]] - [[Wireshark]] - [[Apache]]
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 [[ssh]] - [[gpg]] - [[haproxy]] - [[dnsmasq]] - [[geth]]
-[[proxmox]] - [[SPICE]] - [[Docker]] - [[OpenVPN]] - [[vnc]] - [[Remote Desktop]]
+[[proxmox]] - [[SPICE]] - [[vnc]] - [[Remote Desktop]]
+[[WireGuard]] - [[TailScale]] - [[OpenVPN]]
 [[GCP]] - [[AWS]]
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+{| class="wikitable"
+! [[Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade]]
+|}
+{| class="wikitable"
+! [[Ubuntu 22.04 upgrade]]
+|}
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 ! [[Linux barebones quickstart]]
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 |}
 {| class="wikitable"
-! [[Raspberry Pi OS quickstart]]
+! [[Ventoy|Ventoy ISO boot disk]]
 |}
 {| class="wikitable"
-! [[Raspberry Pi Ubuntu quickstart]]
+! [[Raspberry Pi]]
 |}
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 {| class="wikitable"
 ! [[Cygwin quickstart]]
-|}
-{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"
-! Clone a Pi
-|-
-| The BEST thing to do is to copy the MicroSD from Carambola (marked with a black 'O'):
-* open a terminal so we can watch the MicroSD /dev/sd{#} assignments
- sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog
-* take the carambola MicroSD card out of the Pi and put it into an Anker hub (gets less hot than the small MicroSD sleeves - and it WILL get hot!)
-* put another new MicroSD card into another Anker hub
-* open another terminal
- dcfldd bs=4M if=/dev/sd{Letter of carambola} of=/dev/sd{Letter of new card}
-* They will get HOT... I don't know how to make sure they don't get TOO hot yet... cross your fingers I guess...
-* Drop the new card into the new Pi, boot
-* set up a new config folder
-** rm ~/config
-** cd development/config
-** cp -rp carambola lime && git add lime
-** cd ~ && ln -s development/config/lime config
-* change /etc/hostname
-* change name of exfat "share" partition
- exfatlabel /dev/disk/by-label/carambola_share lime_share
-* edit /etc/fstab to update partition name
-* (optional) change the uuid of partitions as desired (otherwise you may get kernel/userspace warnings about conflicts when mounting more than one card in an ubuntu host) - note that I've never actually done this...
- tune2fs /dev/sdaX -U random
-* reboot.. and away we go!
 |}
 {| class="wikitable"
 ! [[OS X]]
-|}
-{| class="wikitable"
-! [[Raspberry Pi Raspbian setup]] (old)
 |}
 {| class="wikitable"
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 # Once it is running, start System Settings, select Software, enable proprietary drivers
 # Install, checking the [download as you go] and [install 3rd party stuff] boxes.
-|}
-{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"
-! OpenELEC multi-boot install
-|-
-| The easiest way is to add a new drive just for OpenElec and install OpenElec to it with the installer.  But if you want to SHARE ONE DRIVE with other boots, DO NOT DO THAT :-) Do this instead:
-* On an existing refind-booted system, set up two new ext4 partitions
-** one about 2GB in size, labeled [SYSTEM], and marked as bootable
-** the other with 10GB or more, labeled [STORAGE]
-** [http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/Manual_Installation prep the drives] (no journal, ssd trim)
-* download openelec and mount; there are a couple ways:
-** get the img and install to a thumb
-** get the img and mount (see below)
-* Set up OE drives to mount in other OSes to /openelec-system and /openelec-storage
- /dev/disk/by-label/SYSTEM  /openelec-system  ext4 noatime 0 0
- /dev/disk/by-label/STORAGE /openelec-storage ext4 noatime 0 0
-* copy target/KERNEL and target/SYSTEM to SYSTEM
- cp OpenELEC_img/target/KERNEL /openelec-system/
- cp OpenELEC_img/target/SYSTEM /openelec-system/
-* set up UEFI boot
-** subl /boot/efi/EFI/refind/refind.conf (and add this block)
- # MDM Trying this, from: http://openelec.tv/forum/64-installation/70783-how-to-efi-booting-openelec-on-new-pc-s-nuc-s
- # Only I had to change BOOT to SYSTEM.  and quiet to debugging.
- menuentry OpenELEC {
- 	  icon EFI/refind/icons/os_openelec.png
- 	  volume SYSTEM
- 	  ostype Linux
- 	  loader KERNEL
- #	  options "boot=LABEL=SYSTEM disk=LABEL=STORAGE debugging"
- 	  options "boot=LABEL=SYSTEM disk=LABEL=STORAGE quiet"
- }
-* I THINK you need one or more of these too, not sure!
- cp target/boot/bootx64.efi /openelec-system/BOOT
- cp target/boot/bootx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/
- cp target/boot/bootx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/
-|}
-{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"
-! OpenELEC boot from thumb
-|-
-| NOTE: I have the image already on a white stick with red lettering... anyway...
-* Get the latest dev version (stable didn't work for me although this may change)
-* [http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/HOW-TO:Installing_OpenELEC/Creating_The_Install_Key dd it onto a thumb]
-* reboot and select to boot to the thumb in BIOS
-* when the boot: line comes up, type "live" to get run a live Kodi rather than run the crufty old installer
 |}
 |}