Daniel Larsson

Etikett: Linux

  • Nextcloud on CentOS — host your own cloud

    A lot of use cloud services. Cloud services can be used to sync between devices, but is also good for cooperation with colleagues. Most of us use clouds own by others, such as Google drive, Box or Dropbox. I for myself prefer to handle the cloud myself. In my opinion it should be easy to…

  • Debian on my secondary computer

    I had Void on my secondary computer for a long time. However, the computer was partitioned in a problematic way — there was no room in root, while a lot in home. I therefore decided to try something else — and I have never installed Debian on a real machine (only in virutal machines). I…

  • Installing Vivaldi — the web browser

    The first post of the year! Vivaldi is a great web browser. In fact, it is so great that I now use it as my daily web browser. I will not write about why it is so great (now) — but how to install it. I am using Fedora, and Vivaldi is not in the…

  • Choose drive to Boot in Macbook Pro

    I have a Macbook pro mid 2014 on which a double boot Fedora and MacOS. I mainly use the Fedora partition, and the computer boot in to Fedora as default. But I recently noticed that the system changes the default boot drive when updating MacOS. This is a bit strange since I also have a…

  • Markdown is a practical tool

    Introduction Markdown is a simplified way of writing HTML-code. I have not engaged myself especially much in markdown. Yes, I have heard about, especially in relation to RStuido. However, I don’t use RStudio, except when I am teaching. And to be honest, it is here I find most use of Markdown. For example, in a…

  • Installing Arch Linux

    Arch Linux is one of the best Linux Distribution for one reason – the package manager (Pacman) and the Arch User Repository (AUR). Arch is also a good distribution if you have preferences what programs you need since you customize that by yourself. The problem for many using Arch is that the system is not…

  • Can you use Linux as your main work computer?

    … I don’t know – but I have used Linux as my main system for more than a year now. My first computer  was a Commodore 64 which was mainly used for playing games. Back in the 1990’s, before we had Internet, my family bought an Olivetti, which had Windows. Ever since then I have…

  • Hantera referenser i LibreOffice

    Zotero är en av de bästa verktygen för att hantera referenser i LibreOffice. Zotero är lite, enkelt att använda och effektivt. Med Zotero kan man enkelt ladda ner referenser och pdf-filer från google scholar eller web of science, för att sedan via en knapptryckning eller via kortkommandon lägga in i dokumentet man skriver. Referenslista följs…

  • Microsofts typsnitt i LibreOffice (Ubuntu)

    Bakgrund: Microsoft släppte sina typsnitt 1996 med genereösa licensvillkor i ett försök att sprida dessa på internet. Projektet övergavs 2002. Dessa gamla typsnitt kan dock laddas ner och användas — t.ex. Libre office. Det man behöver göra är att installera Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts (tff-mscorefontinstaller). I Linux mint kan man använda Software Manager…