Ubuntu

Rebuild a Pop!_OS package from sources

2023-01-12 429 words, 3 minutes
linux
pop_os
debian
ubuntu
package

I don’t like the 50/50 tiling ratio of xfwm. I have cooked a patch to modify that ratio to my likings and already applied it to my OpenBSD local port tree. But the spare laptop runs Pop!_OS. And Debian / Ubuntu based Linux distribution comes with prebuild packages ; and that’s usually great! Getting and patching the software source to build a custom deb package is quite easy when you have the recipe. And here it is.

Backup the Mac on Ubuntu

2017-04-24 138 words, 1 minutes
linux
netatalk
time machine
ubuntu

I backup my MacBook using Time Machine. But the storage is available from a Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) workstation. Here’s how to publish some storage to provide backup space to the Mac.