#linux

How to cut AUR package build times on ArchLinux, plus what the move from Ubuntu to a rolling release actually gets you.

Making a laptop suspend to RAM on the lid close and then hibernate a couple of hours later, on Debian and Ubuntu — the systemd way, and the pm-utils way for machines that have not switched yet.

Forking, detaching from the terminal, PID files and signal handling in PHP — plus an honest look at the one problem the language does not let you solve, and what to do about it.

TRIM, scheduler choice, mount options and the writes worth moving off disk, to get both speed and lifespan out of an SSD on Linux.

How to recover a Mac after installing Ubuntu's bootloader into the MBR, on a machine that boots from EFI and GPT.

How to configure pam-pkcs11 so the Spanish DNI-e electronic ID card works as your login credential on Ubuntu 12.04.

How to turn a PECL tarball into a Debian package without any prior packaging experience, step by step.

Reclaiming disk space on Debian and Ubuntu by stripping the translations, documentation and package files you will never use.

Spotify 0.4.8 shipped D-Bus support on Linux: what the interface exposes and how to drive the player programmatically.

How to join an Ubuntu 10.04 machine to a large Active Directory domain for centralised users, groups and resources.