firelightning13

Running Windows 10/11 Guest with GPU Passthrough using laptop running Fedora

Abstract

This is a full guide for people who wanted to set up Windows 10/11 VM with QEMU/KVM hypervisor enhancements for a laptop that is configured with hybrid graphics card like Intel/AMD + NVIDIA. This process will take about 1 to 2 hours, depending on your system's performance and your patience =)

There is another comprehensive guide you can follow here (shoutout to asus-linux team who made supergfxctl which is a very important tool for this guide). It is more up-to-date than mine. I would probably incorporate those information into my guide, but you are welcome to use this one as a reference!

Before we proceed:

• This guide is exclusively for Fedora users because this distro is quite different to set up than other distro such as Arch. I would say Arch is easier to setup than Fedora, but sometimes you like to use Fedora than Arc

flowchartsman

Kali Linux Bootable USB with Persistence and Wireless on OSX

Tutorials for running live Kali on OSX often require you have networking on your laptop to apt install the drivers, but without an ethernet adapter you're not going to be able to do that, so this tutorial will cover a method of doing this manually, using another thumbdrive or external data source.

Download the appropriate Kali Linux .iso

• Download site: https://www.kali.org/downloads/

I used a 64 bit .iso image, downloaded via HTTP.

Guidoom

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#
# WARNING:
#  If you use the Odoo Database utility to change the master password be aware  
#  that the formatting of this file WILL be LOST! A copy of this file named
#  /etc/odoo/openerp-server.conf.template has been made in case this happens
#  Note that the copy does not have any first boot changes
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  Odoo Server Config File - TurnKey Linux

widdowquinn

Kali Linux Bootable USB with Persistence and Wireless on OSX

Download the appropriate Kali Linux .iso

• Download site: https://www.kali.org/downloads/

I used a 64 bit .iso image, downloaded via HTTP. I downloaded the amd64 weekly version, as the pool linux headers (needed below for installation of wireless drivers) were ahead of the stable release kernel.

Download the SHA256SUMS and SHA256SUMS.gpg files from the same location.

BretFisher

# first install pygmentize to the mac OS X or macOS system with the built-in python
sudo easy_install Pygments

# then add alias to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc etc.
alias pcat='pygmentize -f terminal256 -O style=native -g'

roadrunner2

Introduction

This is about documenting getting Linux running on the late 2016 and mid 2017 MPB's; the focus is mostly on the MacBookPro13,3 and MacBookPro14,3 (15inch models), but I try to make it relevant and provide information for MacBookPro13,1, MacBookPro13,2, MacBookPro14,1, and MacBookPro14,2 (13inch models) too. I'm currently using Fedora 27, but most the things should be valid for other recent distros even if the details differ. The kernel version is 4.14.x (after latest update).

The state of linux on the MBP (with particular focus on MacBookPro13,2) is also being tracked on https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux . And for Ubuntu users there are a couple tutorials (here and here) focused on that distro and the MacBook.

Note: For those who have followed these instructions ealier, and in particular for those who have had problems with the custom DSDT, modifying the DSDT is not necessary anymore - se

jamespamplin

The current kernel/drivers of Fedora 24 do not support the Wifi chip used on my Mac Book Pro. Proprietary Broadcom drivers are packaged and available in the rpmfusion repo.

Verify that your card is a Broadcom using: lspci -vnn -d 14e4:

Sample output:

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)

Install

Install the rpmfusion repo, note only "nonfree" is required, as the Broadcom Driver is proprietry: http://rpmfusion.org/

bassn

#!/bin/bash
################################################################################################
# Fully automated script to install Odoo and Odoo SaaS Tool (tested on a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)
# * Install & configure last stable version of nginx
# * Install & configure last stable version of postgresql
# * Install & configure Odoo
# * Configure automated backup of Odoo databases
# * Optional: Install & configure Odoo SaaS Tool
# * Optional: Background installation: $ nohup ./odoo_install.sh > nohup.log 2>&1 </dev/null &
################################################################################################

jult

#!/bin/sh

# This script runs every other night at 04:56 CET on a webserver I maintain
# Results are always at: https://jult.net/block.txt ( or https://jult.net/block.txt.gz )
# And much smaller, stripped of BS; https://jult.net/bloc.txt
# For use in Tixati IP filter: https://jult.net/bloc.txt.gz !!!
# And finally a txt file with just the bold IP-ranges: https://jult.net/bl.txt (or https://jult.net/bl.txt.gz )

# Download open block-lists, unpack, filter:
curl -s https://www.iblocklist.com/lists.php | grep -A 2 Bluetack | xargs wget -qO - --limit-rate=500k | gunzip -f | egrep -v '^#' > /tmp/xbp

aembleton

Converting a Word Document to Markdown in One Move

The Problem

A lot of important government documents are created and saved in Microsoft Word (*.docx). But Microsoft Word is a proprietary format, and it's not really useful for presenting documents on the web. So, I wanted to find a way to convert a .docx file into markdown.

Installing Pandoc

On a mac you can use homebrew by running the command brew install pandoc.

The Solution