Looking for a new tutorial series to write up for linuxhandbook.com … kinda like what I did with Proxmox.
Anything you guys would like to see?
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It is great thing to do.
I am the wrong one to ask because I tend to have unpopular interests like
- porting software
- grub and multibooting
- alternate init systems
- Julia programming
What you want is something the average Linux user will benefit from… then you will have an audience. Maybe
- qemu/KVM
- some particular uses for docker
- password managers
- how to secure desktop linux
It has to be something you have mastered of course. Ask yourself what is in your toolkit.
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I feel like I’ve got the sophomore block, it’s kinda like when a band or an artist comes out with their first album and its a big hit, and then their second album is kind of meh because it didn’t live up to the expectations of the first one. LOL
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I think that Americanism means you dont feel creative.
To get the creative bit back, I read some totally unrelated topic, then try to see if it will cross fertilize my work area.
It has worked for me , but not always. … like I once took some stuff out of psychometric analysis and used it in genetics.
So go and explore some topic you like… then when you come back to computers, see if it gels.
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good idea.
on a sort of unrelated note, speaking of KVM … I got to see what happens when you can’t enable KVM on proxmox virtual machines on a server that’s got dual xeon processors and 256 gigs of RAM.
For some reason (probably because people break stuff) they had the BIOS passworded and I couldn’t get into it to turn it on.
The VMs run like a 486. lol
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I ran Unix on a 486… BSD not Linux. It was usable, but only supported a primitive (twm) window system. It ran Netscape OK.
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ahhh I remember running slackware on a 486. lol
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Not come across that, specialist market stuff ?
There is a lot of talk of using VM in Linux here on the forum. A tutorial of …
What is the purpose of VM?
What VM are there, recommended VM, ease or difficult to use.
How to set it up. (disk space required, ram needed, allocated cores, etc)
How to load the OS into the VM.
How to remove the OS from VM or load a different OS.
Switching from host to VM and then back to host.
Any communication between the host and VM.
Passing or sharing data / files between the two.
Shutting down the VM,
Removing VM from your system.
Difference between VM and sandbox (like firejail).
Maybe a bit too much to place into a handbook.
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I’ve played with Julia a bit. It looks something like Python but is faster executing. Used mainly in Data Science from what I see. That’s right up Nev’s alley I think.
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Yes mostly scientific stuff. Julia language is a competitor with R for data analysis.
It is named after the Julia Set… see Chaos theory. The only language named after a mathematical object.
I did not know there was anyone interested in Julia.
Yes like Python and like C
I find the user interface annoying. That REPL thing handicaps me.
The attraction is it is designed for parallel processing. In R that was sort of added as an afterthought.
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The issue would be for anyone writing books, tutorials etc, finding a client base to make it worthwhile with the effort involved.
Would like to encourage but cost vs user base.
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Some people write for the sheer pleasure of doing it, without any thought as to who may read it.
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Yes been there done that.
But it’s hard to have a project and learning objectives.
So I am going to teach iteration
Using
For … Next
Or
Do … until
Or
While …
But then you ask why or which and how can it be used and how to transfer such a skill set or knowledge.
Bit of pascal programming from my youth !
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I loved it too 
So that I never left it, nowadays I use Lazarus to create something useful for my own workflow, my own pleasure…
If you liked Pascal programming, you can keep on using that language.
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I think it must be over 40 years ago when i last taught programming is any language.
I worked as a prof at a uni inbthe uk, pascal was my prefered, but did do cobol, basic and jackson structured méthodologie.
Wrote programs for stock control and music systems, but then dbase, dataease, filemaker pro and mysql came along and it went out of the window
No desire or need but thanks for the link, will have a look at that just to see if i am still capable.
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You certainly moved on.
I think I erred by clinging to programming when I could have done other things
never taught it formally, but I trained lots of Technicians.
I used Pascal as a bridge between Fortran and C.
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The longest I stayed in one company was 5 years and even then I moved up the pay grade by getting promoted into other posts. My mother could never understand my constant change or the need to move.
Peter principle or just bored
In the end decided I could no longer work for anyone except myself and even then I wonder…
Guess I never found my true call in work so could never rest
Seagull manager… Fly in deliver crap and fly out.
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