After 16 years of operating under the .ru domain, this website has moved to oss-it.su. On this website, in addition to information about the oss-it organisation, you can find news from the world of information technology and free software, and learn about solutions to common problems in this field.
pyGtkRDP is a simple GUI for freerdp-x11 or rdesktop connections, written in python3. The application provides the ability to preset terminal connection parameters by the administrator and a graphical connection interface for the user.
Resizing a running partition, adding a swap partition without reloading. The instruction is relevant for most Linux distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, CentOs, Fedora, Gentoo etc.
You can find a cheap Chinese soil moisture sensor labeled YL-100. But it’s hard to find working instructions on how to use it. This article intends to fill this gap.
Sometimes it may be necessary to use old computers. Linux operating systems are perfect for this task. There are a lot of articles and recommendations on the Internet for selecting software and specific distributions for this task. But there is a key problem: recently all browsers (and some other programs) have ceased to support old processors (most 32-bit).
On many laptop models with Ubuntu systems (Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu etc.) the wireless network stops working after returning from sleep/standby mode. The problem is quite common and occurs in many versions of the system: 16.04, 14.04 and others. The article will describe a universal solution to this problem.
How to install MC (Midnight Commander) with Samba support.
Pine64, which makes single board computers of the same name, will launch a new ARM notebook with an 11.6″ screen at the end of February, priced at just $89. A model with a 14″ display will also be available for $99.
How to recover deleted files on an NTFS partition with any Linux Live CD.
Most LiveCD distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, etc) contain a filesystem.squashfs file, which is a container with a squeeze file system that is unzipped and loaded when the LiveCD boots. The following will describe how to add/remove and edit files in such a container.