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Contributor Covenant

By: A. Schmid

06-06-2023

A Code of Conduct for (Open Source) Communities. According to Wikipedia, the Contributor Covenant is used in prominent projects including Linux, Ruby on Rails, Swift, Go, and JRuby. Relevant signers include Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Eclipse and GitLab.

In 2016 GitHub added a feature to streamline the addition of the Contributor Covenant to an open source project and the Ruby library manager Bundler also has an option to add the Contributor Covenant to software programs that its users create: https://www.contributor-covenant.org.

Manually Resize (Windows) Bootcamp Partition on Mac

By: A. Schmid

25-06-2019

ISO, Linux, Storage, System, Windows

The following tutorial is borrowed from: https://superuser.com/questions/1270251/resizing-windows-10-bootcamp-partition-manually, generously written by the user dardeshna.

GPT fdisk

By: A. Schmid

03-06-2019

ISO, Linux, System, Visualization

GPT fdisk (consisting of the gdisk, cgdisk, sgdisk, and fixparts programs) is a set of text-mode partitioning tools for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Windows. The gdisk, cgdisk, and sgdisk programs work on Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) disks, rather than on the older (and once more common) Master Boot Record (MBR) partition tables. The fixparts program repairs certain types of damage to MBR disks and enables changing partition types from primary to logical and vice-versa. You can learn more about fixparts on its dedicated Web page. If gdisk, cgdisk, and sgdisk sound interesting to you, then read on (or skip straight to the “Obtaining GPT fdisk” link if you don’t need the GPT pep talk): http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/.

Rufus

By: A. Schmid

11-12-2017

ISO, Linux, System, Windows

Create bootable USB drives the easy way – Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.

It can be especially useful for cases where:

you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)
you need to work on a system that doesn’t have an OS installed
you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
you want to run a low-level utility

Source: https://rufus.akeo.ie/.

Perfect alternative to UNetbootin.

Active KillDisk

By: A. Schmid

03-12-2016

Backup, Linux, Security, System

Freeware Download Active@ Kill Disk – disk eraser software for secure formatting of hard drives without any possibility of following data recovery: www.killdisk.com.

Windows USB/DVD Download Tool

By: A. Schmid

13-11-2016

ISO, Linux, System, Windows

The Windows USB/DVD Download tool allows you to create a copy of your ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD: ~~https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool~~.

A better alternative is Unetbootin, downloadable at http://unetbootin.github.io.

UNetbootin

By: A. Schmid

03-05-2011

ISO, Linux, System, Windows

UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you’ve already downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn’t on the list: unetbootin.sourceforge.net.

Also check Rufus as alternative.

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