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hardware.sh, a BASH script that produces a PDF of hardware information

February 15, 2023

Hardware detection script for *buntu Linux refurbishers

About the script I wrote the hardware.sh BASH script to make it a bit simpler for volunteers at The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project to figure out what hardware was in a computer. For more than a dozen years we’ve been asking volunteers to gather information from the BIOS, or using phoronix-test-suite under our PXE booted Debian Live environment. Volunteers would write the information on quarter page-sized sheets we would…

February 4, 2023

22 Programs I regularly use under Xubuntu

Introduction (method for choosing programs) When coming up with this list of programs I use regularly under under Xubuntu I felt I had to set some criteria. Any program in this list had to be a program I use regularly outside of work. I use quite a few more programs that run under Xubuntu when I’m at work. While there’s some crossover between what I use at work and home,…

February 3, 2023

Add webp support to Xubuntu 22.04

Introduction (webp) The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is an amazing image editor. I’ve used GIMP at The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project ever since I started volunteering for the project back in November of 2001. GIMP is one of the programs in Xubuntu that can open images ending in the .webp extension. Webp is a format developed by Google that was intended to replace jpg, png, and gif formats.…

February 1, 2023

Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish

It’s a challenge to talk about Xubuntu Linux without referring to Xubuntu’s more popular relative, Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu Linux was started in 2004 and based around a then popular flavour/distribution of Linux, Debian. Debian Linux was the distribution The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project initially used to develop our own Linux distribution, WCLP – Working Centre Linux Project, way back in 2001. By 2006 the project had switched to Ubuntu…

February 1, 2023

A quick look at Xubuntu 22.10

At the Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project we still install Xubuntu 20.04, codename: Focal Fossa, on almost all of the systems we refurbish. Xubuntu 20.04 was released to the public in April, 2020, making it 3 years old now. Xubuntu 20.04 is considered a Long Term Service (LTS) release, meaning it gets updates and support for 5 years (2025). Xubuntu 22.04 was released April of 2022. Xubuntu 22.04, codename: Jammy…

The software centre open and populated under Xubuntu 20.04

January 31, 2023

Xubuntu – Installing software using the Software program

Introduction If you’ve ever installed a program using Google Play on a cell phone, or the iTunes store on a iPhone or iPad, the Xubuntu “software” application will seem familiar. In versions of Xubuntu older than 20.04 the “software” program was more commonly known as the “software centre.” The actual file-name of the software program is gnome-software. This post was written with the assumption that Xubuntu 20.04 is still being…

I’ve been messing with the web site again

A couple of weeks ago I deactivated the old web site and spun up a “marketplace” version of Drupal. The site ended up being a hot mess. While I used to prefer using Drupal back in the Drupal 6 and 7 days, recent versions have just become so complex and heavy that they seem no different than WordPress.