Nvidia will never allow Nouveau fully operational

A lot of people on this sub (and on the Internet in general) hope that at some point Nvidia will make it possible for Nouveau to catch up with proprietary driver. It won't, ever.

Nvidia has 2 lines of GPUs: consumer Geforce and professional Quadro. Quadro is much more expensive, but has more features. The problem is that chips inside them are the same or at least very similar. The main reason why Geforces lacks these features is because they are blocked in card's software. If somebody breaks firmware signing process, everybody will be able to hack their cheap Geforces with Quadro firmware. The cash bag of Quadro would lose any reason to exist. Nvidia will do anything to stop that and .01% of their customers who are using Linux and want libre drivers are laughably worthless in comparison.

Firmwares will be signed, drivers will be closed source and any FOSS alternatives will be toys. Stop dreaming, don't feed their business model, never buy Nvidia.

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LibreOffice 6.3 released
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/08/08/tdf-announces-libreoffice-63/

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How To Install The Latest Nvidia Drivers In Ubuntu or Linux Mint Via PPA
https://moopost.blogspot.com/2019/05/how-to-install-latest-nvidia-drivers-in.html

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What has to happen with Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/NoSwapConsequence

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The Bash Trap Command
https://moopost.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-bash-trap-command.html

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Has anyone had trouble installing openthos? I don't get the 4 install options only options to boot from usb or boot to Windows
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Next power browser 1.3.0!

I'm happy to announce the release of Next 1.3.0, a Qt/GTK+ browser for GNU/Linux!

**About Next:**

Next is a keyboard-oriented, extensible web-browser designed for power users.

**New in this release:**

In this release we have made strides in turning Next into a daily driver! We have implemented ad-blocking, downloads, a Qt webengine port (blink renderer), text search, and more! To see the full list, please view the changelog here: [https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next/blob/master/documents/CHANGELOG.org](https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next/blob/master/documents/CHANGELOG.org)

**Stars on GitHub are appreciated!**

[https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next/](https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next/blob/master/documents/CHANGELOG.org)

**Download the Guix Pack Here:**

[**https://next.atlas.engineer/download**](https://next.atlas.engineer/download)

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Thanks for your time!

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Github launch ci/cd in Github Actions
https://github.com/features/actions

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I created a Wikipedia page for Sway. If anyone would like to help with improving it, I would be thankful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sway_(window_manager)

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This is a real article. The media is completely out of touch.
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KDE Linux Desktop Vulnerability Opening Malicious .desktop or .directory Files
https://thehackernews.com/2019/08/kde-desktop-linux-vulnerability.html

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Mounting SharePoint on Linux

I am a Linux noob,but recently I figured out a way to mount SharePoint online as a drive on Linux. I used Windows F12 tools to help, but hopefully this is good information for others out there who might be struggling with the same thing.

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The First thing I did was open up a SharePoint online session on my windows machine with chrome and used the developer tools to log the network traffic while it was generating my session. Then I did a search for "rtFa=". This is your session cookie that allows you to authenticate with SharePoint through Linux. You will want to grab that value and the FedAuth= value and copy this out somewhere like NP++. You can remove everything from after the long encrypted strings, but keep the last ";" I.E. [domain=sharepoint.com](https://domain=sharepoint.com)' expires; Tue, etc. combine the strings so now it should look like "rtFa=erjek...;FedAuth=488uei...;" Keep this for later.

Second, you will need to sudo apt-get install davfs2. After doing this make the directory where your SharePoint location will be located (I did mkdir /mnt/sp). Now navigate to the /etc/davfs2/ and open up the davfs2.config file as a SU. Uncomment add\_header and create a line above that and add \[/mount/location\]. On the Add\_Header line add Cookie and paste in the rtFa=3434;FedAuth=3j3k values from before. The config should look something like

\[/mnt/sp\] add\_header Cookie rtFa=3ie93ike;FedAuth=efjijekl;

Save the config and now open up a terminal window and run the command

\> mount -t davfs "[https://your.sharepoint.com/sites/mysite](https://your.sharepoint.com/sites/mysite)" /mnt/sp

Now just enter your credentials and you should have a newly mounted SharePoint drive that you can do whatever you want with!

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Note: if you want to make changes to files/folders you will have to go back into the config file and change use\_locks to 0.

Also the session cookie will expire, so if it does you will have to re-find and add that value. You could probably create a noscript that does this for you, so you don't have to do it manually each time.

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I hope this helps someone out there!

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A case for replacing cron jobs with systemd timers
https://moshib.in/posts/replacing-cron-jobs-with-systemd-timers/

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GTFOBins
https://gtfobins.github.io/

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fdisk interpretation

Hello,

I have an old email sent to a friend. That EFI system partition, is is on sdb or sda?

(The sdb failed)

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root@server pet\]# fdisk -l
WARNING: fdisk GPT support is currently new, and therefore in an experimental phase. Use at your own discretion.


**Disk /dev/sdb: 4200.6 GB**, 4200649940992 bytes, 8204394416 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 \* 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 262144 bytes / 1835008 bytes
Disk label type: gpt
Disk identifier: 2A8A0C5B-7D43-47F0-A172-3B57EFDB6EA2


\#         Start          End    Size  Type            Name
 1         3584       412159  199.5M  EFI System      EFI System Partition
 2       412160      2512383      1G  Microsoft basic
 3      2512384 8204388863    3.8T  Linux LVM       


**Disk /dev/sda: 6601.0 GB**, 6601020760064 bytes, 12892618672 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 \* 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 262144 bytes / 2883584 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/rhel-root: 53.7 GB, 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 \* 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 262144 bytes / 1835008 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/rhel-swap: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes, 8388608 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 \* 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 262144 bytes / 1835008 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/rhel-home: 4141.4 GB, 4141376077824 bytes, 8088625152 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 \* 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 262144 bytes / 1835008 bytes

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I am working on a Nintendo Wii tribute website hosted on a real Wii modded to run Debian GNU/Linux!
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Does anyone know how people get the “Mac desktop bar” on Linux



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People who are primarily Linux users:

What do you see as a benefit of having windows?

I recently installed linux (Ubuntu) onto my PC and im liking it so far. I'm planning on getting a laptop and installing linux on it as ill be doing CS at university but id like to know what advantages Windows has since i'm not sure if I should partition my hard drive and dual boot or just use exclusively Ubuntu (Since my SSD will only be 512gb)

edit: im big dumb

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I am planning to get started with linux to become a good programmer, what would you suggest me to do ?



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What Linux needs to do to reach the masses
https://geekdenial.com/2019/08/08/what-linux-needs-to-do-to-reach-the-masses/

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Linux Newbie

Hi Everybody,

I just started working with Linux. I think Linux is a great OS to learn and you have many opportunities. I just started a new Job involving Linux (Redhat/centOS)

Now my question is, do you guys know anybooks or any (Free?) Training courses? I've been learning alot the past 2weeks but i can and want to do more. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

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