Bash 5.0 installation for Linux

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This guide is for almost every Linux distribution.

Prerequisite is that you have the required build tools installed already.

If not, do the following step:

Debian and Ubuntu users way;

sudo apt-get install build-essential

The Fedora/Red Hat way:

sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Legacy Software Development"

First step is getting the source package

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-5.0.tar.gz

Next step is compiling and installing it;

tar xf bash-5.0.tar.gz
cd bash-5.0
./configure
make
sudo make install
sh

Ubuntu Linux kernel 5.0 RC1 installation guide

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This installation guide describes how to install Linux Kernel 5.0.0 release candidate 1 (RC1) on Ubuntu Linux. This works with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux and most Ubuntu-based distributions including Kubuntu and Mint.

The included kernel files have been compiled using the generic Ubuntu configuration. A low latency version is also available in the directory of the linked files.

This post is an update of “Ubuntu Linux kernel 4.20 installation guide“

The files can be found at  kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.0-rc1

  • In the terminal run: sudo update-grub
  • Reboot and select the kernel from the bootloader menu

Ubuntu Linux kernel 4.20 installation guide

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This installation guide describes how to install Linux Kernel 4.20 on Ubuntu Linux. This works with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux and most Ubuntu-based distributions including Kubuntu and Mint.

The included kernel files have been compiled using the generic Ubuntu configuration. A low latency version is also available in the directory of the linked files.

This post is an update of “Ubuntu Linux kernel 4.19 installation guide“

The files can be found at  kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.20/

  • In the terminal run: sudo update-grub
  • Reboot and select the kernel from the bootloader menu

The Future of jQuery Updater for WordPress

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jQuery Updater was one of the very first WordPress plugin I`ve wrote, and was released in April 2011. During that time jQuery was hot.
My plugin allowed users to use an updated version of jQuery, either bugfix release or minor release not originally bundled with WP.

Nowadays jQuery`s releases are ocasionaly, with the last one 10 months ago. This means the plugin hasn`t been updated for the same time.

Also the userbase of my jQuery Updater for WordPress plugin is shrinking.
WordPress 4.9 comes standard bundled with jQuery 1.12.4
Using jQuery 2 or 3 with this version will surely cause issues with the WP bundles scripts.
This directly leads to low star ratings and bad reviews.

Several years ago I started a branch to increase the functionality and add a user interface to the plugin. By now nothing more happend to the source code than a lot of placeholders and unfinished items.

All this together with my lack of time, I`ve decided to halt further development of the plugin until further notice.
This means I will do minor patches within jQuery 3, but without significant changes to the plugin other than updates.