System76 Unveils New Firmware Manager
https://blog.system76.com/post/187072707563/the-new-firmware-manager-updating-firmware-across
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The New Firmware Manager: Updating firmware across Linux distributions
Over the past few months, System76 has been developing a simple, easy-to-use tool for updating firmware on Pop!_OS and System76 hardware. Today, we’re excited to announce that you can now check and...
Multiplayer survival game Rust is offering refunds for Linux users
They're going to stop shipping the linux client as well. [Here is a good writeup about it](https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/08/17/rust-will-offer-refunds-as-they-stop-shipping-linux-client/) but they've pretty much said none of the developers used linux outside of developing the game client, Unity doesn't support building the anticheating software for linux, but does for Windows and OSX, etc. They knew they'd lose more money than they made off linux, but it sounds like it's become way too much of a hassle for them and they're at a crossroads.
They also gave the number of users who have played in the last 30 days by OS:
Windows 227,842
MacOS 2,414
Linux 217
But, they've gone even further and made the statement "Don't make Linux versions of any future games because we can't/won't properly support it"
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They're going to stop shipping the linux client as well. [Here is a good writeup about it](https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/08/17/rust-will-offer-refunds-as-they-stop-shipping-linux-client/) but they've pretty much said none of the developers used linux outside of developing the game client, Unity doesn't support building the anticheating software for linux, but does for Windows and OSX, etc. They knew they'd lose more money than they made off linux, but it sounds like it's become way too much of a hassle for them and they're at a crossroads.
They also gave the number of users who have played in the last 30 days by OS:
Windows 227,842
MacOS 2,414
Linux 217
But, they've gone even further and made the statement "Don't make Linux versions of any future games because we can't/won't properly support it"
https://redd.it/crxf7o
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Rock Paper Shotgun
Rust will offer refunds as they stop shipping Linux client
Multiplayer survival game Rust will soon stop shipping its Linux client and offer refunds to those who have played using it. They’ve penned a blog post explaining that it had become a “cheater’s sanctuary,” and that a September update addressing performance…
KDE Usability & Productivity: Week 84
http://pointieststick.com/2019/08/18/kde-usability-productivity-week-84/
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KDE Usability & Productivity: Week 84
Get ready for week 84 in KDE’s Usability & Productivity initiative! 84 weeks is a lot of weeks, and in fact the end is in sight for the U&P initiative. I’d say it’s been a…
A redshift noscript I wrote
I recently installed redshift (a program that changes screen color temperature). I wanted to create a custom noscript to use it.
\[Here\]([https://github.com/BigB00st/Dotfiles/blob/master/.noscripts/redshift/redshift-enable.sh](https://github.com/BigB00st/Dotfiles/blob/master/.noscripts/redshift/redshift-enable.sh)) it is.
I thought that some of you might find it useful. Feedback is appreciated.
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I recently installed redshift (a program that changes screen color temperature). I wanted to create a custom noscript to use it.
\[Here\]([https://github.com/BigB00st/Dotfiles/blob/master/.noscripts/redshift/redshift-enable.sh](https://github.com/BigB00st/Dotfiles/blob/master/.noscripts/redshift/redshift-enable.sh)) it is.
I thought that some of you might find it useful. Feedback is appreciated.
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Note-taking with markdown/code support, public sharing and a clean, cluttered-free folder structure
https://wreeto.com
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Note-taking with markdown/code support, public sharing and a...
All things Linux and GNU/Linux -- this is neither a community exclusively about the kernel Linux, nor is exclusively about the GNU operating system.
Control Alexa from your Linux terminal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSbPGk6j-ik
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Control Alexa from your Arch Linux terminal (turn on sound)
How to control Amazon's Alexa from your Linux command line. Ezpz How To: 1. place your macbook pro next to alexa 2. create a noscript on your linux box contain...
My Linux-powered home theater setup
https://silverhammermba.github.io/blog/2019/05/12/htpc
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Floating little leaves of code
My janky home theater setup
I’ve been iterating on our home theater setup for a few years now. Recently it feels like it has stabilized somewhat so I think it’s time to share my work with the world. I am curious what people think and especially if people know of a better way to do things…
Librem5 and pinephone
I'm bored to see how much hate there are around librem VS pinephone, this topic is about librem5 AND pinephone
Everyone should respect both project, because like it or not they are trying to do what someone else failed, so THANK YOU PURISM AND PINE64 to be brave and try to give a mobile gnu/linux experience. All haters should just shame on them because there is no win to put sh\*t on this projects, and i hope both project will succeed because they deserve it, and WE as gnu/linux community deserve to have a choice outside apple/google duopoly.
I can't ignore there are a lot more complain on librem5 than pinephone, i want to underline that purism is doing a lot of work on software, and they are upstreaming what THEY ARE DOING, for the good of the community, and for the good of pinephone too, so it's obvious the price is higher, more devs are working on software and firmware, and this company spend money to develop things that will share with entire community, and this is not an obvious choice.
So when someone write about "ridicoulus" price of librem5, just think you are not just paying for a smartphone, but you are paying to make gnu/linux mobile true.
Then buy pinephone ore librem5, buy what it feels more confortable to you and to your pocket, or buy an apple or android phone if you prefear, but please respect this project because they value a lot for people who care about freedom and diversity.
At the end, i whould like to suggest to everyone who can afford the price and who care about gni/linux to buy a librem5 because their work are upstreamed, and every money they raise is something we will get back as software code and used for pinephone too
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I'm bored to see how much hate there are around librem VS pinephone, this topic is about librem5 AND pinephone
Everyone should respect both project, because like it or not they are trying to do what someone else failed, so THANK YOU PURISM AND PINE64 to be brave and try to give a mobile gnu/linux experience. All haters should just shame on them because there is no win to put sh\*t on this projects, and i hope both project will succeed because they deserve it, and WE as gnu/linux community deserve to have a choice outside apple/google duopoly.
I can't ignore there are a lot more complain on librem5 than pinephone, i want to underline that purism is doing a lot of work on software, and they are upstreaming what THEY ARE DOING, for the good of the community, and for the good of pinephone too, so it's obvious the price is higher, more devs are working on software and firmware, and this company spend money to develop things that will share with entire community, and this is not an obvious choice.
So when someone write about "ridicoulus" price of librem5, just think you are not just paying for a smartphone, but you are paying to make gnu/linux mobile true.
Then buy pinephone ore librem5, buy what it feels more confortable to you and to your pocket, or buy an apple or android phone if you prefear, but please respect this project because they value a lot for people who care about freedom and diversity.
At the end, i whould like to suggest to everyone who can afford the price and who care about gni/linux to buy a librem5 because their work are upstreamed, and every money they raise is something we will get back as software code and used for pinephone too
https://redd.it/cs25ea
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When I'm going to turn off my Laptop, inmediatly appear a window saying "gnome-keyring-daemon not responding". What's wrong?
The only way that I turn off my laptop sucessfully is by typing the following comand in the terminal: "shutdown now -P"
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The only way that I turn off my laptop sucessfully is by typing the following comand in the terminal: "shutdown now -P"
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r/linux - When I'm going to turn off my Laptop, inmediatly appear a window saying "gnome-keyring-daemon not responding". What's…
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Introducing reddio - a command-line interface for Reddit written in POSIX sh
https://gitlab.com/aaronNG/reddio
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Aaron G / reddio · GitLab
a command-line interface for Reddit written in POSIX sh
How to install Touchscreen Driver on Laptop/Tablet (Tutorial)
**Introduction:** Hello, my name is Eitan. I am new to linux but i am learning rapidly.I want to contribute to the community by writing a tutorials for things that might sound easy and unnecessary but for some it might help a lot. if you see that i wrote something wrong please be sure that your write in the comments so i will fix myself.
(Tested on Voyo Vbook A1 with Ubuntu 18.04.3)
Step 1 checking if the firmware is already available: Go to Terminal and login as root Sudo su
and check for firmware modprobe silead
if nothing happened you don't have the driver, if it shows you the driver is available skip Step 2.
Step 2 Installing the firmware: In Terminal write dmesg
and than go to Silead to check what is the driver's name (most of the time it's mssl1680), Now go to this [Git](https://github.com/onitake/gsl-firmware) and look for your Laptop/Tablet and click on the website in the firmware column, than download the firmware (Example (FileName).fw) and put it in /lib/firmware/silead (if the folder silead don't exist than create it. you may need sudo privileges to put the file there) and rename the file as was shown in Dmesg (usually mssl1680.fw).
Step 3 Downloading xinput input evdev and calibrator:
sudo apt-get install xinput-calibrator sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-evdev
(if evdev doesn't work download from [here](https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/download))
Step 4: Reboot
Step 5: In terminal write xinput-calibrator
and click on the dots as it asks you. make sure the folder
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
is created (create it if not) and add the file
99-calibration.conf
and write the results of the calibrator. For example:
Section "InputClass" Identifier "calibration" MatchProduct "silead_ts" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event14" Option "MinX" "31405" Option "MaxX" "-20" Option "MinY" "23984" Option "MaxY" "76" Option "SwapXY" "0" # unless it was already set to 1 Option "InvertX" "0" # unless it was already set Option "InvertY" "0" # unless it was already set EndSection
Step 6: Reboot
Step 7 Finding the matrix of your Screen: In terminal write
xinput list-props silead_ts
and you will see libinput calibration martix (don't mistake for the same one with default in the end)
Step 8: Add the following line in
/etc/X11/xinit/xinputrc
xinput --set-prop 10 "libinput Calibration Matrix" (with your paramaters)
for example
xinput --set-prop 10 "libinput Calibration Matrix" -2.0882497963235185, 0.0, 1.001125569612532, 0.0, -2.6999736330699893, 1.006245056200623, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0,
Step 9: Reboot
Step 10: Congratulations Enjoy
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**Introduction:** Hello, my name is Eitan. I am new to linux but i am learning rapidly.I want to contribute to the community by writing a tutorials for things that might sound easy and unnecessary but for some it might help a lot. if you see that i wrote something wrong please be sure that your write in the comments so i will fix myself.
(Tested on Voyo Vbook A1 with Ubuntu 18.04.3)
Step 1 checking if the firmware is already available: Go to Terminal and login as root Sudo su
and check for firmware modprobe silead
if nothing happened you don't have the driver, if it shows you the driver is available skip Step 2.
Step 2 Installing the firmware: In Terminal write dmesg
and than go to Silead to check what is the driver's name (most of the time it's mssl1680), Now go to this [Git](https://github.com/onitake/gsl-firmware) and look for your Laptop/Tablet and click on the website in the firmware column, than download the firmware (Example (FileName).fw) and put it in /lib/firmware/silead (if the folder silead don't exist than create it. you may need sudo privileges to put the file there) and rename the file as was shown in Dmesg (usually mssl1680.fw).
Step 3 Downloading xinput input evdev and calibrator:
sudo apt-get install xinput-calibrator sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-evdev
(if evdev doesn't work download from [here](https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/download))
Step 4: Reboot
Step 5: In terminal write xinput-calibrator
and click on the dots as it asks you. make sure the folder
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
is created (create it if not) and add the file
99-calibration.conf
and write the results of the calibrator. For example:
Section "InputClass" Identifier "calibration" MatchProduct "silead_ts" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event14" Option "MinX" "31405" Option "MaxX" "-20" Option "MinY" "23984" Option "MaxY" "76" Option "SwapXY" "0" # unless it was already set to 1 Option "InvertX" "0" # unless it was already set Option "InvertY" "0" # unless it was already set EndSection
Step 6: Reboot
Step 7 Finding the matrix of your Screen: In terminal write
xinput list-props silead_ts
and you will see libinput calibration martix (don't mistake for the same one with default in the end)
Step 8: Add the following line in
/etc/X11/xinit/xinputrc
xinput --set-prop 10 "libinput Calibration Matrix" (with your paramaters)
for example
xinput --set-prop 10 "libinput Calibration Matrix" -2.0882497963235185, 0.0, 1.001125569612532, 0.0, -2.6999736330699893, 1.006245056200623, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0,
Step 9: Reboot
Step 10: Congratulations Enjoy
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GitHub - onitake/gsl-firmware: Firmware repository for Silead touchscreen controllers
Firmware repository for Silead touchscreen controllers - onitake/gsl-firmware
Basic Thoughts On Switching To Linux
[https://youtu.be/BA1YHnoR0o8](https://youtu.be/BA1YHnoR0o8)
​
Simple vid in response to a prior post (which was sadly removed). I do feel like there are other things to be addressed in the transition for users of various capabilities and niches. Thoughts or additional feedback?
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[https://youtu.be/BA1YHnoR0o8](https://youtu.be/BA1YHnoR0o8)
​
Simple vid in response to a prior post (which was sadly removed). I do feel like there are other things to be addressed in the transition for users of various capabilities and niches. Thoughts or additional feedback?
https://redd.it/cs4zn3
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Switching To Linux 101
Video seeking to answer some basic beginner Linux questions
Slackware, the longest active Linux distro, finally has a Patreon page
https://www.patreon.com/slackwarelinux/overview
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Slackware is creating a secure, full featured, bloat-free Linux-based operating system | Patreon
Become a patron of Slackware today: Get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for artists and creators.
The Binary Times Podcast, episode 04: GNU/Linux, Snap, LibreOffice 6.3, Linux Journal's demise and more
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The Binary Times Audiocast
The Binary Times Audiocast | GNU/Linux tips and tricks, everyday GNU/Linux IT usage and news. Make the most of your GNU/Linux installation
The necessity of Linux on desktop given cloud computing?
I'm honestly wondering, is Linux on desktop really necessary? A lot of things run online like Facebook, email, and so on.
Want to hear your honest thoughts.
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I'm honestly wondering, is Linux on desktop really necessary? A lot of things run online like Facebook, email, and so on.
Want to hear your honest thoughts.
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Launching free, fast, anonymous VPN w/ unlimited bandwidth (looking for beta users)
https://www.frepn.com
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FreePN is the only completely free, secure, anonymous, unlimited bandwith VPN. Use the world's fastest, most ubiquitous VPN with FreePN.
KNOPPIX 8.6.0 - Linux Live System (new version based on Debian buster)
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix860-en.html
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KNOPPIX 8.6.1 - Linux Live System
What is the current pace of growth of the Linux desktop community/userbase?
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r/linux - What is the current pace of growth of the Linux desktop community/userbase?
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