Tag: linux

Both are free, both run on Linux, both edit video. So which one do you pick? An honest decision guide for Linux creators choosing between Kdenlive and DaVinci Resolve.

Edit 4K (or chunky 1080p60) on a mini PC without the timeline turning into a slideshow. Kdenlive proxies plus VAAPI/NVENC for cheap homelab editing.

Cisco's OpenH264 download server geoblocks sanctioned regions, breaking Firefox and Flatpak installs. Four practical fixes, ranked simple to nuclear.

Open-source screencast pipeline: record with OBS using the right settings, edit in Kdenlive, ship 1080p MP4. The combo that replaces Camtasia.

sanoid manages ZFS snapshot policies automatically, syncoid replicates them over SSH to remote pools — together they're the lowest-effort offsite backup strategy for any ZFS user.

Kdenlive cheat-sheet for the effects you actually reach for every edit: blur for privacy, audio ducking, titles, transitions, and the render dialog.

eBPF traces what Linux is actually doing — syscalls, TCP events, slow functions — without rebooting. A hands-on intro to bpftrace, BCC, and libbpf with copy-paste one-liners.

NixOS promises reproducible, declarative Linux from a single config file. The learning cliff is steep and the Nix language is weird — but atomic rollbacks and identical machines from a git repo are genuinely worth it for the right use case.

Screen is on every server, tmux is the sysadmin workhorse, and Zellij is the modern newcomer with sane defaults. Here's how all three compare — and which one you should actually use.

GNU coreutils are 50 years old and it shows. ripgrep, fd, bat, eza, fzf, and zoxide replace grep/find/cat/ls with faster, friendlier Rust-powered tools. Here's what each one wins at — and when the original still holds.

systemd-nspawn ships on every modern Linux box and most sysadmins have never touched it. Here's when this no-daemon, no-Docker-socket container runtime is actually the right tool.

Your RAID 5 rebuild on a modern multi-TB drive has a 40-50% chance of hitting a URE before it finishes. Here's the 2026 math and what to do about it.