Firewalld stops F29 shutdown process

If your Fedora F29 is hanging during the shutdown process press <ESC> and you will see the shutdown messages. If your computer has a broadcom wireless adapter you may see this for several minutes: A stop job is running for…

HTML5 in firefox – fedora 29

Trying the version 29 of Fedora linux distribution I had issues to run HTML5 content in Firefox. Some librairies are not installed by default because of license issues. The solution is to install RPMFusion repositories: : sudo dnf install (rpm…

Encode videos with Docker & Handbrake

Looking for a cheap solution to encode videos I created a docker container and an encoding script to automate this. Dockerfile: FROM ubuntu RUN /bin/bash -c ‘apt update && apt -y install handbrake-cli cpulimit psmisc’ COPY . / RUN /bin/bash…

KDE Plasma 5.14 is out

New in Plasma 5.14 New Features There’s a new Display Configuration widget for screen management which is useful for presentations. The Audio Volume widget now has a built in speaker test feature moved from Phonon settings. The Network widget now…

Solve authentication issue on mariadb

When installing Mariadb on Ubuntu I always have the problem of root  password not set and authentication plugin set to unix_socket. The  commands below solve the issues. # change to root sudo -s # stop mariadb server systemctl stop mariadb…