Peter Czanik

666 points

Budapest

Peter is an engineer working as open source evangelist at Balabit (a One Identity business), the company that developed syslog-ng. He assists distributions to maintain the syslog-ng package, follows bug trackers, helps users and talks regularly about sudo and syslog-ng at conferences (SCALE, All Things Open, FOSDEM, LOADays, and others). In his limited free time he is interested in non-x86 architectures, and works on one of his PPC or ARM machines.

Open Source Evangelist People's Choice Award CentOS Fedora Contributor Club Raspberry Pi Author DevOps Linux Open hardware SysAdmin Android

Authored Content

How Linux got to be Linux: Test driving 1993-2003 distros

7 sudo myths debunked

The most common misconceptions I've come across involve security, flexibility, and central management. Here, I debunk these sudo myths.

Collect sudo session recordings with the Raspberry Pi

Logs and session recordings can help debug what happened on a given host if it acts strangely. Try this setup on your Raspberry Pi.

5 new sudo features sysadmins need to know in 2022

Recent sudo releases added new features that allow you to watch and control previously hidden problem areas.

Collect sensor data with your Raspberry Pi and open source tools

Learning more about what is going on in your home is not just useful; it's fun!

Use FreeBSD jails on Raspberry Pi

Create and maintain your containers (aka jails) at scale on FreeBSD with Bastille.

Turn your Raspberry Pi into a HiFi music system

Play music for your friends, family, co-workers, or anyone else with an inexpensive audiophile setup.

Contributed Content

How to make a lighted, porch bag for Halloween

20 technology horror stories about learning the hard way

Sysadmins, web designers, engineers, and programmers share their scariest experiences on the command line.

How to upgrade your Fedora Linux system with DNF

Happy birthday, Linux! Here are 6 Linux origin stories

Our contributors share their first Linux experience on the 31st anniversary of the Linux kernel.

Why the operating system matters even more in 2017

7 pieces of Linux advice for beginners

We asked our community of writers for the best advice they got when they first started using Linux.

How did you get started with Linux?

Celebrating Penguin Awareness Day with stories about the moment we learned about Linux.

Authored Comments

czanik

14 Jun 2018

Emacs, Vim, or something else?

I mainly use Joe as it has similar keyboard shortcuts as Turbo Pascal had once upon a time :) But of course I can use vi(m) as a fallback, as that's available on just about any UNIX/BSD/Linux system by default. I gave a try to Emacs a couple of times, but gave up quickly...