Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile

Your laptop has ripgrep, installed via cargo install. ruff is there too, via uv tool install. golangci-lint came from go install. bash-language-server was npm i -g. Neovim was a tarball download. Kitty was a curl script. Six months later you get a new machine, or you just want to upgrade or reinstall. What do you even have installed? How did you install each one? Which version? Good luck. This is a small system that answers those questions — a single Makefile that declares every tool you care about, grouped by purpose, with one command to install anything. ...

March 29, 2026 · 8 min · Santhosh Thottingal

Linux Kernel in Linux Operating System.

Last night I decided to try out the new Fedora 9. I got the ISO image and I did not want to waste time and CD by burning it. I have Debian Lenny in my laptop. So edited the grub configuration and gave the path to the vmllinuz and initrd.img extracted from the iso image. Everything worked fine and it started installing packages and I was watching the blue progress bar with sleepy eyes… ...

May 21, 2008 · 2 min · Santhosh Thottingal