Bitbucket kills Mercurial support
https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket

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Somu: A tiny FIDO2 security key for two-factor authentication and passwordless login
https://www.crowdsupply.com/solokeys/somu

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Dual Boot of Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.2 and Windows 10 on Lenovo Yoga 730 - First Impressions

Linux Mint 19.2 is brand new. The Yoga 730 is a modern laptop with a touchscreen that flips completely backwards so it can be used as a tablet. It was on sale at Best Buy last week with an I5-8265U processor, 12 GB RAM and a 256GB hard drive for $550 if you were a student or a parent of a student. I picked one up and wanted to detail my experience in case someone picked it up or is thinking about getting one.

For starters, I did not stick with the 256GB SSD. I replaced it with an Addlink S70 1TB PCIE NVME M.2 card I got from Amazon for $124. So, the first thing I did when I got the laptop was to install all Windows updates and flash the BIOS. Then, I selected to create a recovery drive. After the recovery drive was finished, I turned off the computer, turned it over, removed the 10 screws in the back and gently pried off the cover. On the right side (if the battery is on the bottom), you will see the battery plug on the motherboard. Unplug it. Remove the M.2 card, replace it with your new one, plug the battery back in and replace the cover. Start up the computer with the USB plugged in and it will allow you to recover your windows installation onto the new blank SSD.

After that, everything about the laptop was working in Windows 10. Windows and the BIOS were updated. I went into partition disks and shrunk the Windows 10 partition to half its size. I put linux mint on a USB stick and tried to enter bios. Everything I read online said you have to press F2 or function F2. I tried like 10 times and it would not work. You can press the novo button on the side to automatically start into BIOS, but I went through windows 10: recovery, advanced boot, etc. and entered BIOS that way. I checked and nothing in BIOS appeared to need changing. Everything was set up to allow for installation of Linux Mint, so I did the advanced boot again from Windows and selected to boot from USB.

I went through the normal settings, but when it came time to configure I selected "something else" just to be on the safe side. It didn't need me to select the EFI partition. But, I created a partition for / out of the free space. (Linux Mint uses a swap file instead of a swap partition automatically unless you explicitly provide a swap partition.) I installed.

The installation went perfectly. Mint was able to boot and so was Windows. The BIOS boot screen doesn't even come up unless you select Windows in Grub. This means grub comes up VERY fast on boot. Wifi and everything else worked out of the box except for the fingerprint reader (which will not work in linux and is a pain to register fingerprints in Windows). However, flipping it into tablet mode, or making a tent with it...those things did not work.

In general settings, there is a setting to disable automatic screen rotation. IT IS SET. You have to uncheck that setting to get screen rotation working. However, this still will do nothing. You have to use the following command:

sudo apt install iio-sensor-proxy inotify-tools

THEN display rotation will work pretty flawlessly, BUT the touchscreen does not rotate along with the display. So, if you flip the screen 180 degrees and touch the bottom of the display, it registers as a touch to the top of the display. To fix this [I found this little noscript from bartv](https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=239800) and saved it as rotate.sh and chmod'd it to execute. I put it in my startup programs in linux mint. However, it does not work as written. Type xrandr in a terminal and look at the output. If you have the Yoga 730, you need to change the line:

xrandr --output eDP1 --rotate normal

to

xrandr --output eDP-1 --rotate normal

and change every line that starts off "xinput set-prop 11" to "xinput set-prop 12". Then, whenever you boot, it will start that noscript and will rotate your touchscreen along with the display.

Everything but the fingerprint reader appears to work in linux. I even tried my Lenovo Active Pen (the original, not the 2) and it worked

out of the box. I sat and drew in Krita for an hour in tablet portrait mode and had no problems. When you're using the pen, it even automatically stops counting your finger touches as input...just like Windows does.

Wifi works around the house and did not drop out even once in an hour of use. All in all, this seems like a good 2 in 1 for linux.

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Weekly Questions and Hardware Thread - August 21, 2019

Welcome to r/linux! If you're new to Linux or trying to get started this thread is for you. Get help here or as always, check out r/linuxquestions or r/linux4noobs

This megathread is for all your question needs. As we don't allow questions on r/linux outside of this megathread, please consider using r/linuxquestions or r/linux4noobs for the best solution to your problem.

Ask your hardware requests here too or try r/linuxhardware!

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Have you ever wanted real Linux on a mobile device rather than Android OS? I have.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pinephone/comments/ctbbtk/have_you_ever_wanted_real_linux_on_a_mobile/

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Input Latency Reduction On Mutter 3.34
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/711

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sorry penguins but...
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Updates from the Document Liberation Project (sister project to LibreOffice)
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/08/21/updates-from-the-document-liberation-project/

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libspng v0.5.0 - simple libpng alternative, up to 35% faster
https://libspng.org/

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Which is your favorite Linux Desktop and why ?

**1)** Which is your favorite Linux Desktop and why ?

**2)** Do you love or hate systemd and do you feel the controversy is over now ? do you miss the old day or you prefer it now ?

**3)** What you run at your job Centos/RedHat or Ubuntu or something else ? Which you prefer or feel is more powerful / stable ?

**4)** Can you do all the same advanced things in AWS with Linux than you can with Azure in term of features set, programming, iso image etc etc ?

**5)** What's the best Alternative in the Linux world to a Office 365 cloud setup ?

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System76's firmware-manager is now available in the AUR

[https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firmware-manager-git/](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firmware-manager-git/)

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Coreutils: about exitcodes and changelogs

Somewhere between 2006 and 2017 they changed the exit codes for `ls` and I'ld like to see when. Just out of curiosity.

Here's an example, I've got these 2 servers:

|Server|OS|Coreutils version|
|:-|:-|:-|
|Server-1|Red Hat 4 (2006)|5.2.1|
|Server-2|CentOS 7 (2017)|8.22|

If I try to `ls nonExistantFile` on Server-1, the exit code is 1, if I try it on Server-2, the exit code is 2.

I had to do a lot of debugging in shitty code to fix that behaviour and now I'm curious: **Is there any way to see a complete changelog in the coreutils?**

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I ported my free Windows app to Linux, looking for feedback

I have a little GUI tool that adjusts pixel brightness based on screen contents. I made it to reduce eye strain when tabbing back and forth between dark IDEs and Firefox at night. (It also has basic temperature control, which I had to do because unfortunately it conflicts with Redshift).

It was originally for Windows, but I've gotten fed up with that, so here we are.

I'm fairly new to Linux in general, so I'm looking for feedback on whether there's any major issues. (Actually, it'd be great to know if you can get it to work at all). Source code and instructions are here: [https://github.com/Fushko/gammy](https://github.com/Fushko/gammy). Thanks in advance!

P.S. Apologize if this isn't the right place to post this. No idea where else to put it.

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What has been your biggest screwup and what have you done to prevent it in the future?

I am sure we all have had a bad day at least once when using Linux. I use Linux for around 20 years now. My biggest screwup was that I was installing a new machine and at the same time I placed the backup hardware in the old machine. I mixed up the machines and deleted not only the data on the main machine, but also on the backup machine.

I needed to reburn 200+CDs and 250+ DVDs. I lost also all of my other data, like emails going back for 15 or so years.

I did learn that having lost the emails is not an issue. The data you absolutely need can be gotten from elsewhere. I now just keep an absolute minumum in data.

For the backups, I now have not only backups but also backups of the backups. For the movies, and music, those are copies. The "real" data is incremntal copies. Only done by pull. The backup of the backup is turned off most of the time. Only comes onine when it does the backup. That is for around 5 minures per day.

I have also learned to work on only one machine at a time. Only when that one works for a week will I go to the next machine. But at that day I felt like a complete idiot. Most likely because I was a complete idiot.

So how did you break things and what did you to solve and/or prevent it?
This might show new users that making mistakes is ok.

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Knoppix has dumped systemd
https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=10639

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Unable to Install Windows 7

Recently I Installed Linux Mint on my laptop and removed windows 7. Now I want to install windows 7 back but my BIOS is replaced by GRUB and it does not detect my bootable USB so that I can install Windows 7. How do I solve this issue. I urgently need windows 7 as I need to run some accounting software and those are not available on linux mint. Please Help me?

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PSA: There is no official Pinephone subreddit presence at this time

PinePhone, an open source phone project which can be read about here: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/, does not currently have a verified subreddit presence. PinePhone is a great and exciting project, however, a subreddit has appeared that is not following reddit guidelines and may try to scam users by appearing to be official. On r/linux, some members of the PINE64 team have project flair and they are the only official reddit presence at this time.

r/linux encourages **everyone** to unsubscribe from all subreddits that appear to be presenting as an official PinePhone presence until further notice. A specific subreddit was linked on r/linux a few days ago and that helped the subreddit grow by over 400 people. That subreddit is ran by someone that has refused to hand over the subreddit to the PinePhone team as well as engages in spam and vote manipulation here on r/linux and has been reported to the admins. Automod rules are in place and the subreddit will not be allowed to be mentioned on r/linux.

**Do not** harass/brigade PinePhone related subreddit users or mods - please just unsubscribe. If you stay subscribed, be aware of scams and unofficial links to buy the PinePhone and report suspicious activity to https://reddit.com/report

To be clear, PinePhone is a legitimate project and this is just about subreddits related to it. You're welcome and encouraged to post directly to official PinePhone resources on r/linux, but no subreddit related to PinePhone is should be followed or linked to on r/linux. We will edit this post if an official subreddit appears on reddit.

While it's ok to have unofficial subreddits (as most are, including r/linux) but per reddit [guidelines](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/moderator-guidelines) it must be clear they're unofficial - and when the mods are engaging in suspicious behavior it became clear that this PSA was needed.

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Librem 5 August Update - Purism
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-august-update/

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Unplugged my headphones and got greeted by a nice little easter egg in alsamixer
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UBports publishes new OTA update
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-10-release-239

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