It’s not so rear to have blocks or masked files when using Gentoo emerge system, but it is not complex and in most cases it…
Author: neoX
Gentoo updating KDE – package blocks
In continuing our tips for updating big or multiple packages in Gentoo this time we show how to update KDE Platform, Plasma and Apps packages….
Ubuntu 16/18 LTS – load a new kernel without rebooting the server
Here are the commands needed to load a new kernel without rebooting your server or desktop computer. Why you need this? As said in our…
CentOS 7 – load a new kernel without rebooting the server
Here are the commands needed to load a new kernel without rebooting your server or desktop computer. Why you need this? Sometime rebooting a server…
Gentoo updating perl with many masked and blocked packages
After our previous howto Gentoo – update dev-libs/icu on a desktop box with KDE GUI and many masked packages we want to show you another…
Build your own kernel under Ubuntu using mainline (latest) kernel
Here we will show how to build your own kernel under Ubuntu 16/17/18. We are going to use mainline kernel because most of the cases…
Delay loading all pages in the Chromium and Google Chrome browsers tabs during start up and save a lot of memory
Recently we noticed our Chromium began to behavior really strange (we noticed it from Chromium version 69). When starting the Chromium browser the system tended…
Gentoo – update dev-libs/icu on a desktop box with KDE GUI and many masked packages
No, we are not going to answer why someone will use Gentoo for Desktop, but well such human beings still exist and we have one…
Enable BBR tcp congestion control under CentOS 7
It’s been a while since a new tcp congestion has been developed (by Google), which has the potential to replace the default cubic one! The…
Close socket as if the remote closed the connection
If you have a hung process and it happened to be in this state because of the network, for example your client or server program…