Lars Knoll, CTO of the Qt Company, talks to KDE about how he contributed to khtml, the tough years at Nokia, and the future of Qt
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/cwyagy/lars_knoll_cto_of_the_qt_company_talks_to_kde/

https://redd.it/cwyar7
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Purism CTO Presents "A Mobile Phone that Respects Your Freedom" at CCCamp – Purism
https://puri.sm/posts/purism-cto-presents-a-mobile-phone-that-respects-your-freedom-at-cccamp/

https://redd.it/cwwsfq
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ARMA3 on Linux update 1.94 ?

How can you upgrade to 1.94 to join game servers? r/arma3 via r/steam ?

https://redd.it/cwz3si
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KDE websites infrastructure update and new websites
https://carlschwan.eu/2019/08/28/more-sites-update.html

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Upgrading 8yo Mageia 1 to Mageia 2
https://redd.it/cx0fu7
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Emacs 26.3 released
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-08/msg00577.html

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Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld. Part 1 :: 0x0f0f0f
https://0x0f0f0f.github.io/posts/2019/08/building-a-raspberry-pi-3b-full-keyboard-handheld.-part-1/

https://redd.it/cx1ysz
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Redhat 6.1 is out and I am eligible for up to 180 days priority ftp service 8-)
https://redd.it/cx2l4a
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Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/08/unix-at-50-it-starts-with-a-mainframe-a-gator-and-three-dedicated-researchers/

https://redd.it/cx3rbb
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Richard Stallman about the programs controlling the users
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHnKD-CKKpc

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How good are the Linux Foundations beginner courses, to learn Sys Admin.?

I'm planning to make a career switch, from Finance to IT (more specifically, Sys Admin.). I'm generally good with operating systems and PC hardware, having built and setup several PCs in my own personal time. I know it's absolutely not the same thing, but I digress.

I've begun looking into some beginner courses (self-study) that I can do while I work full-time. Are the LF beginner courses top notch for someone like me or would you recommend free resources from MOOCs and YouTube?

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GNOME 3.34 now in Ubuntu 19.10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbgyH7vNRxs

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Ad blocker for command line interface ads.
https://github.com/kethinov/no-cli-ads

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Fedora on Lenovo Thinkpad T450?

Hello!I have previously ran Linux Mint on an old notebook, but in January I got a Lenovo Thinkpad T450, and getting it ready for the coming school year (entering Grade 10!), I realized I was still running windows. I was looking into it -- And I remember not being too satisfied with Mint near the end of the notebooks life, it became incredibly slow and bogged down -- and it seems that Fedora is a solid build still, and is probably the best option currently on the market. I come from a Mac family, but have to use Windows for games & cannot get a mac book because it's too expensive to bring to school.

Anyway, i just wanted thoughts on using Fedora on a thinkpad, and if it is a good distro to go with for schoolwork? Most everything I do is through LibreOffice & Dropbox. The only other programs I use on here are iTunes (Ecosia says I can just use virtualbox here), and a few steam games (mindustry, factorio, and Civ are the only things my laptop can run). But it is primarily a school computer & I remember liking linux objectively, even if mint left a bad taste in my mouth.

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EDIT: I do dabble in web development/general programming, for which I use the Jetbrains suite (WebStorm & Pycharm mostly), and I believe those are available on Linux as well.

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Edit: Y'all may hate me for this, but I do not want to use ubuntu. Something about it is off, I can't place it but I just don't really like it.

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Linux Laptop Buyer's Guide 2019: Tips And Resources To Find A Laptop That Meets Your Needs
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/08/28/linux-laptop-buyers-guide-tips-ubuntu-system76-dell-lenovo/

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Hardware is starting to come out that runs Microsoft Linux aka Azure Sphere OS
https://www.electronicdesign.com/iot/linux-cloud-iot-solution-microsoft-way

https://redd.it/cx21vz
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TIL about systemd-cron

systemd-cron is a third party project, not affiliated with the systemd project, that adds a generator that reads a traditional crontab and creates .timer and .service units for systemd that's equivalent to what crond would have run. It handles both cron and anacron and because it's a generator, it only runs once on boot and then exits. There's no extra daemon running at all for it, it just sets it up to run with systemd and adds a .path unit for the crontab and other directories to rerun it if the config is edited. It also supports an easy way to alter the service files being run so that you can e.g. make it persistent so it'll run cron jobs that it missed if the system was offline when the cron job would have run (like anacron, but still tied to a specific date rather than some interval), change the CPU and IO priority so it'll only use up idle resources, set a randomized offset so hourly stuff will run spread through 0 - 30 minutes instead of all starting exactly at the same time, etc.

It's packaged and shipped under Debian and Ubuntu as systemd-cron and it looks like a great drop-in replacement for crond with only a couple minor caveats. The current version is built using Python but there's a rewrite of it done in Rust.

https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron

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Deleting Mint and installing Ubuntu

Is there a way to delete mint on my ssd and install a new distro or even just download it straight from mint?

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Any distro that automatically keeps the latest driver?
https://redd.it/cxbdq9
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Steam proton was enough to move me to Linux on my home desktop

It plays enough of the games I want to play and Lutris fills most of the rest. Easy anti-cheat is the only thing in the way for me at this point.

I hope Valve find statistically enough people took advantage of Proton to continue development, it seems regardless of user base percentage they're dedicated to the project.

https://redd.it/cxbb2u
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(Noob Question) Why Linux only have 3 permission groups?

Why Linux only have owner, group and others as permission groups? What if the user want a more finer permission control? For example, assume user A belongs to group B and C, how can he/she allows a file to be readable, writeable and executable to group B but only readable to group C?

https://redd.it/cxch51
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