Tag: linux

Squeeze every MB/s from WireGuard: MTU sizing, GSO/GRO CPU offloading, AllowedIPs routing, PersistentKeepalive tradeoffs, and iperf3 benchmarks included.

FRR vs BIRD: two open-source routing daemons compared for BGP, OSPF, and home-lab dynamic routing. Which one belongs in your stack?

VM-backed Linux dev environments on macOS/Linux — Lima vs Multipass compared on speed, container support, and resource use.

PID 1 zombie reaping in containers — tini, dumb-init, and docker --init compared; when each one fixes your signal handling and stops your 10s shutdown tax.

Both are free, both run on Linux, both edit video. So which do you pick? An honest decision guide to choosing between Kdenlive and DaVinci Resolve on Linux.

Edit 4K (or chunky 1080p60) on a mini PC without the timeline turning into a slideshow. Kdenlive proxies plus VAAPI/NVENC for cheap homelab editing.

Cisco's OpenH264 download server geoblocks sanctioned regions, breaking Firefox and Flatpak installs. Four practical fixes, ranked simple to nuclear.

Open-source screencast pipeline: record with OBS using the right settings, edit in Kdenlive, ship 1080p MP4. The combo that replaces Camtasia.

sanoid manages ZFS snapshot policies automatically, syncoid replicates them over SSH to remote pools — together they're the lowest-effort offsite backup strategy for any ZFS user.

Kdenlive cheat-sheet for the effects you actually reach for every edit: blur for privacy, audio ducking, titles, transitions, and the render dialog.

eBPF traces what Linux is actually doing — syscalls, TCP events, slow functions — without rebooting. A hands-on intro to bpftrace, BCC, and libbpf with copy-paste one-liners.

An honest take on migrating a home lab box to NixOS with flakes: the steep learning cliff, the weird Nix language, and why atomic rollbacks win.