The Wombelix Post - Linux

Modernizing jDeepL: Java 11 to 17 and Automated Releases

Dominik Wombacher — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200

I had some time last night - the neighbors were having a party and I couldn't sleep - so I decided to tackle a task that's been sitting in my backlog for ... [read more]

jDeepL version 0.7.4 released, pre-build binaries available

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0100

It's been a while since I announced and released the first version of jDeepL - Unofficial DeepL App for Linux based on JavaFX. Since then it was mentioned on a couple ... [read more]

Linux Professional Institute LPIC-2

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Today was finally the day I passed the second Exam 202-450 and became LPIC-2 certified. I passed the first Exam, 201-450 already in October 2019, but failed the second one ... [read more]

jDeepL - Unofficial DeepL App for Linux based on JavaFX

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 30 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200

I'm a daily DeepL User, the Windows App is convenient but nothing comparable was available for Linux, so I build my own.

jDeepL is a very simple GUI Application based ... [read more]

Customized openSUSE Images, to run on Proxmox VE out of the box, build on OBS

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0200

I'm using openSUSE whenever possible but had some trouble to use the official images on Proxmox. There is mostly a kvm-and-xen image available, but that doesn't contain cloud-init and / or ... [read more]

Import 'protective MBR' GPT disk images like SUSE or openSUSE to LVM-Thin with disabled zeroing cause corruption

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Any available SUSE and openSUSE KVM Image I tried, ended in a VM that stuck on boot with the message "a start job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid" or ... [read more]

Provide outgoing IPv4 connectivity to Docker Container on a IPv6-only Host via clatd (464xlat)

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0200

My experiences are based on a recent Harbor setup on Rocky Linux, but should be easily transferable to any other Application and Linux Distribution.

The journey began after Harbor was ... [read more]

sshd error - Bind to port failed: Cannot assign requested address

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100

I faced a very weird issue today, sshd failed to start on boot because ListenAddress was set but network.target doesn't mean IP addresses are already assigned and ready. So ... [read more]

Certified Specialist in Performance Tuning - Hardest Red Hat Exam

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200

I took five Red Hat Exams within the last six months and have to say, the by far hardest one was EX442 (Certified Specialist in Performance Tuning). Despite a lot ... [read more]

openSUSE Tumbleweed: Issues on resume from hibernate / suspend to disk

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200

So far I always used sleep when closing the lid of my Notebook, was ok even though you risk that your battery runs empty and your system shutdown. Wanted to ... [read more]

Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux - Hidden On-Access Scan debug option

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:00 +0200

I had to learn that it can be quite challenging to troubleshoot performance issues related Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux or to identify paths with high I/O load that might ... [read more]

ScummVM did the trick!

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 15:43:00 +0200

After playing around with DOSBox a while ago i gave ScummVM a try and actually it couldn't be easier. I picked Discworld II and after adding it i could just ... [read more]

Accessing SMB Share on old NAS failed from Linux

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 13:33:00 +0100

Sometimes it can be challenging to use some old Hardware. In my case I found an old Buffalo LinkStation LS-WTGL NAS from around 2008.

Connecting from an up-to-date openSUSE System ... [read more]

No Sound in DOSBox on Linux

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 18:53:00 +0100

I installed DOSBox to play some old DOS Games like Discworld on Linux (openSUSE Tumbleweed) but didn't had sound prior figure out the correct MIDI Port and adjusting the dosbox ... [read more]

Unreal Tournament (UT99) on openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 13:38:00 +0100

To be honest, i didn't played Unreal Tournament from 1999 for years but after i found the Game CD, i just had to install and play it on my Linux ... [read more]

Apple AirPods on Linux?

Dominik Wombacher — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 12:55:00 +0200

I was wondering if my Apple AirPods would work on openSUSE Linux out of the Box. Just enable pairing mode, click on connect and all fine? Not exactly, it failed ... [read more]

Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0200

Today i passed the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 Exam and earned the Certification.

Summary: The LPIC-1 will validate the candidate's ability to perform maintenance tasks on the command line, install ... [read more]