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DistroWatch Tips and Tricks

A fun advice column which explores interesting bits of technology and command line utilities available on Linux and BSD.

Tips, Tricks and Myths archive
• Tips and tricks (2026-02-16): Command line tips and tricks for 2026
• Tips and tricks (2026-02-09): Sharing files on a home network
• Tips and tricks (2025-12-08): Fun command line tricks
• Tips and tricks (2025-10-20): Creating and restoring encrypted backups
• Tips and tricks (2025-10-06): Using SQLite to manage ZIP files
• Myths and misunderstandings (2025-09-15): Open source and central authority
• Tips and tricks (2025-09-01): Malware warnings about Linux ISO files
• Tips and tricks (2025-01-13): Silly things to do with a PinePhone (or other minimal computer)
• Tips and tricks (2025-01-06): Filtering ads with a Pi-hole
• Tips and tricks (2024-10-07): Unified package management vs universal package formats
• Tips and tricks (2024-08-05): Making snapshots of UFS on FreeBSD
• Tips and tricks (2024-07-22): Port knocking and other ways to protect OpenSSH
• Tips and tricks (2024-07-08): Changing init software after a distribution has been installed
• Tips and tricks (2023-06-19): A safer way to use dd
• Tips and tricks (2022-02-07): UBports as a home server with media sharing
• Tips and tricks (2021-11-01): Finding the right words, sorting filesystem snapshots, truncating audio files
• Tips and tricks (2021-07-12): Navigating multiple shells
• Myths and misunderstandings (2021-05-31): Does physical access mean root access?
• Tips and tricks (2020-10-12): Compressing memory with zRAM
• Tips and tricks (2020-07-06): Rescuing encrypted home directory data
• Tips and tricks (2020-05-25): Creating, removing, modifying, and ignoring aliases
• Tips and tricks (2020-02-03): Dealing with low-memory performance
• Tips and tricks (2019-11-11): Monitoring and recording user activity
• Tips and tricks (2019-11-04): Manipulating PDFs
• Tips and tricks (2019-10-07): How to find files by multiple criteria in Linux
• Tips and tricks (2019-09-09): Command line tips - using ffmpeg, awk and renice
• Tips and tricks (2019-08-26): How to check the licenses of kernel modules
• Tips and tricks (2019-08-12): How to find files
• Tips and tricks (2019-07-22): Limiting a user's disk usage with quotas
• Tips and tricks (2019-06-24): Running Android applications on GNU/Linux with Anbox
• Tips and tricks (2019-05-20): Overview of options for running open Linux distros on mobile devices (2019 edition)
• Tips and tricks (2019-04-29): Creating a SOCKS proxy for web browsing
• Tips and tricks (2019-04-22): Simple rsync examples
• Tips and tricks (2019-04-08): A journey to get Falkon 3.1.0 running and problems with portable packages
• Tips and tricks (2019-02-18): What being free, stable and light-weight mean
• Tips and tricks (2018-11-26): Default passwords on live media
• Tips and tricks (2018-11-19): Bash command line short-cuts and tips
• Tips and tricks (2018-08-20): Limiting resource usage
• Tips and tricks (2018-07-16): Managing boot environments with zedenv
• Tips and tricks (2018-06-11): OpenSSH, pipes and file transfers
• Tips and tricks (2018-06-04): An overview of hard and soft links
• Tips and tricks (2018-05-28): Gathering system information
• Tips and tricks (2018-05-21): Finding which services were affected by an update
• Tips and tricks (2018-05-07): Live upgrading Raspbian
• Tips and tricks (2018-04-16): Fix filenames, manage networks from the command line and more command line tips
• Myths and misunderstandings (2018-02-05): Wayland, Xorg and Mir
• Tips and tricks (2018-01-08): Adding an AppImage to the application menu
• Tips and tricks (2018-01-01): Managing multimedia files
• Tips and tricks (2017-12-18): Tools for rescuing the operating system and data files
• Tips and tricks (2017-12-11): Working with images from the command line
• Tips and tricks (2017-12-04): Keep terminal programs running, using the at command, reverse OpenSSH connections
• Tips and tricks (2017-11-06): Quick tricks to fix small problems on Linux
• Tips and tricks (2017-10-23): Building software with Ravenports
• Tips and tricks (2017-10-16): Running the Linux-libre kernel
• Tips and tricks (2017-09-11): Running Plex Media Server on a Raspberry Pi
• Tips and tricks (2017-09-04): Void source packages
• Myths and misunderstandings (2017-08-07): Unity, Mir and Ubuntu Touch
• Tips and tricks (2017-07-10): Gathering system information with osquery
• Tips and tricks (2017-06-19): Combining commands in the shell
• Tips and tricks (2017-05-29): Waking up your computer remotely
• Tips and tricks (2017-04-24): Nix package manager on alternative Linux distributions
• Tips and tricks (2017-04-03): Advanced file systems, network traffic, running a script at login/logout
• Myths and misunderstandings (2017-03-20): Linux Mint's security record
• Myths and misunderstandings (2017-02-27): Can Netflix run on a Raspberry Pi?
• Tips and tricks (2017-02-20): Shell switching, battery charge, getting the system's IP address and dealing with stubborn processes
• Tips and tricks (2017-02-13): Package compression compared
• Tips and tricks (2017-01-30): Running Ubuntu Touch on an Android phone
• Tips and tricks (2016-11-28): Transitioning from PC-BSD to TrueOS
• Tips and tricks (2016-09-05): Copying columns of text, organizing files, creating torrents
• Tips and tricks (2016-08-22): More utilities via moreutils
• Tips and tricks (2016-08-08): Play nicely, drop secure shell sessions cleanly, check init's name
• Myths and misunderstandings (2016-08-01): The massive memory myth
• Tips and tricks (2016-04-04): Command line weather, ionice, rename files, video preview snapshot, calendar, ls colour settings
• Myths and misunderstandings (2016-03-21): The value of version numbers
• Tips and tricks (2016-03-14): Verifying ISO images
• Tips and tricks (2016-02-22): The Firejail security sandbox
• Myths and misunderstandings (2015-12-21): The spread of systemd and launchd
• Tips and tricks (2015-08-24): Improved package stability coming to FreeBSD/PC-BSD
• Myths and misunderstandings (2015-06-15): sudo
• Tips and tricks (2015-05-25): Ubuntu's Snappy package manager
• Myths and misunderstandings (2015-05-18): GPL
• Myths and misunderstandings (2015-04-20): ZFS
• Tips and tricks (2015-04-06): GRUB Customizer
• Tips and tricks (2015-03-02): Choosing good passwords
• Tips and tricks (2014-03-31): Hiding processes from other users, get geographical location of IP address
• Tips and tricks (2011-09-12): Working with media files on command line
• Tips and tricks (2011-08-08): (Xfce) interface woes
• Tips and tricks (2011-07-25): Basename, for loop, dirname, aliases, bash history, xsel clipboard
• Tips and tricks (2011-05-16): File encryption and cloud backup
• Tips and tricks (2011-04-18): Compiling the Linux kernel
• Tips and tricks (2011-04-11): All about package signing
• Tips and tricks (2011-04-04): Creating bootable USB drives with UNetbootin
• Tips and tricks (2011-03-07): Using the Secure Shell
• Tips and tricks (2010-12-20): Find common words in text, find high memory processes, cd short-cuts, pushd & popd, record desktop
• Tips and tricks (2010-11-15): Check free disk space, wait for a process, command line spell-check, shutdown PC when CPU gets hot
• Tips and tricks (2009-08-17): Running Fedora "Rawhide"
• Tips and tricks (2009-06-01): Running openSUSE "Factory"
• Tips and tricks (2009-05-11): Running Mandriva "Cooker"
• Tips and tricks (2009-04-20): Reverting to older kernel under Ubuntu
• Tips and tricks (2006-09-18): Extracting package lists from various distributions
• Tips and tricks (2006-05-01): Using GRUB with XFS
• Tips and tricks (2005-08-08): Konqueror & Kate make an excellent remote admin team... and a killer casserole
• Tips and tricks (2005-07-25): Digital cameras, mobile phones and music players under Linux
• Tips and tricks (2005-07-18): Restoring partition table
• Tips and tricks (2005-04-18): Gftp and Sftp - Like Peanut Butter and Jelly
• Tips and tricks (2005-04-11): Copying a VCD

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