Replacing login manager with tty

This post describes how to disable login manager and use only tty to start desktop environment.
Also it shows how to create fancy image as welcome screen for tty login.

Setting up tor proxy

Tor is an anonymizing network, designed to enhance your privacy on internet. You can easily install an tor daemon and setup it as your proxy, to start private browsing. This post shows how to do this.

Bash Specialities, part 3

This part shows examples for bash string manipulation: string matching and replacing, some substring operations and positional parameters operations.

Loadbalancing owncloud with HA Proxy

This post shows more advanced loadbalancing for owncloud service. The primary concept is inspired by owncloud with dedicated php-fpm service post.
This architecture is more advanced and provides better scalability for load division and therefore better performance.
Performance is crucial factor for such a service providence and a single Raspberry Pi doesn't have much of it. This architecture (2 loadbalanced Raspberry Pi's) provides 33% performance increase and offers easily to connect more nodes.

Custom i3-status bar and SLiM configuration

In this post, I'll show how to change theme and other configuration for SLiM login manager, how to setup conky to create customized i3-status bar and at the end I'll cleanup old unnecessary KDE packages, no longer needed in i3.

Bash Specialities, part 2

This post shows different examples of usage for file descriptors in bash and few interesting linux commands and features.

Replacing KDE with i3 and basic i3wm setup

In this post I assume you have a standard KDE installation.
Following steps should guide you to replacing KDE's kdm with much faster and simpler SLiM login manager with i3 Desktop Environment. At the end my basic i3 configuration is shown.