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🦎 Hi geekos! If you’ve been running containers on your Leap or Tumbleweed machine, you probably started with podman run commands. Maybe you moved to Docker Compose files to manage stacks. Those are great tools, but they have a limitation, as they don’t integrate natively with systemd, your operating system’s init system. When your server reboots, do your containers start back up automatically? If a container crashes, does it restart? How do you view its logs alongside your system journal? ...

👻 Void in the Basement I have a basement, and I have a problem: no WiFi signal in said basement. I have also a piece of e-waste that refuses to die: a Samsung N130 netbook from 2009. It has a single-core Atom processor and 1GB of RAM. By modern standards, it can barely open a web browser. But for a Linux terminal, It’s a supercomputer. Instead of buying a generic ~10€ WiFi repeater, I decided to turn this little warrior into a fully programmable, secure, and transparent WiFi router using Void Linux. Here is exactly how I did it. ...

Intro October is at an end, and I want to share a quick recap of my participation to some conferences. First of all, a big thanks to the organizers who dedicate their energy to these efforts, and to SUSE for supporting my attendance! Modena, Oct 4, 2025 : GDG DevFest 2025 Ancient, historical location : The venue was in the city center: an actual church and a teathre I managed to be there only on saturday modena.rb guys and linux booth! ...

🧹 My Messy Linux Box As year passes, my Linux system, over the time, starts to get a little… Messy. My ~/Downloads directory is a digital dumping ground. It’s a collection of ISOs, test scripts, and those huge multi-gigabyte Virtual Machine images I need to test once and then forget about. Add to that ~/Pictures/Screenshots, which is overflowing with thousands of quick snaps I’ll never look at again. Disk space is cheap nowadays, but I like to have things nice and clean. I could go in and manually clean it… But who remembers to do that ? ...