Library makers are getting sick of maintaining their software for ungrateful and demanding users. Here's an idea to turn that around.

Ok so I dont really know if it's a trend but I've been hearing it anecdotally and in the nerd media more and more - people grow tired of being maintainers, they get burnt out by users demanding help and changes.

What if we started a service that shields these unicorns from the slavering masses? We create a service takes the bug lists and feature requests away from the developer and tracks not only the users who want a feature or a bugfix, but also how much those users have contributed themselves in either code, or help, or money in the form of patreon or other sponsorship / patronage services.

Imagine being part of a small group of developers of a great, powerful and ubiquitous library and having a bug wrangler that sent you a polite email each day at 11am with any worthy requests. Never having to see the users who complain because they haven't taken the time to read the docs and certainly won't contribute to code or documentation, or even helping other users.

I don't yet have a way in my head to tie all of these things together and I'm sure it would end in a world of complaints, disputes and unhappy people but I feel the need to think about how to protect Free Software and keep the dream alive.

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Where are the syscall functions such as fork(2), execve(2), open(2), pipe(2), mmap(2), read(2), poll(2), close(2), dup2(2) or sigaction(2) stored?

I assume in the vmlinuz image within the boot directory, and that their memory addresses are loaded into RAM at system boot. I couldn't find anything about their location anywhere online though... On some sites people claimed them to be part of glibc, but that's obviously wrong as glibc is just a wrapper around them (like WinApi). So... where are they?

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Want to help organize Akademy 2020? Download the guide and let us know where KDE should take the event next
http://ev.kde.org/akademy/CallforHosts_2020.pdf

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"Cannot find your kernels" error when trying to download OpenSuse network image and checksums?

I get directed to a "sorry, we cannot find your kernels" page when I click the network image or checksum link to download off of OpenSuse's download page for TumbleWeed

Was able to download the .iso off a mirror link but still unable to get the SHA256 checksums

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A collection of funny bash noscripts

Hi

I made this project to encourage you guys to learn bash noscripting or show you can what to do with that.

Please take a look at that and feel free to share your ideas and report issues.

[https://github.com/Naategh/Funny-Scripts](https://github.com/Naategh/Funny-Scripts)

https://redd.it/cxu5z2
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Glusterfs volume expansion
https://www.reddit.com/r/GlusterFS/comments/cxn75c/glusterfs_volume_expansion/

https://redd.it/cxtljz
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Problem running Kali Linux from USB



Hi!
I'm having trouble running Kali linux from my USB.
I have an Asus UX430U with Windows 10 and Ubuntu on 2 partitions and a 16GB USB. I need Kali for an ethical hacking course. I got recommended to install it on a USB but it just won't boot from it.

I follow this video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Y9LV5Plyw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Y9LV5Plyw)

and all seem to work smooth until i 4:04 where he selects his USB; I can only choose my ubuntu partition.

I have tried many different methods before this video and have used 'Rufus 3.6' to create the bootable USB. The files in the USB looks fine, can it be ruined from too many tries with rufus?

Any ideas?

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A brave redditor tells a story about when Linus Torvalds kicked his puppy (x-post from /r/ProgrammerHumor)
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/cxtae1/comment/eynmphy/?context=4

https://redd.it/cxvfyj
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Why my Ubuntu OS is connect with WiFi but its not working with internet any way pls?
https://redd.it/cxu78i
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CPUFreq and Ryzen 5 3600

Hi, I'm fairly new to linux and all the stuff around I have a question, I installed CPUFreq on my PC (Fedora 30 KDE, kernel 5.2.9) with Ryzen 5 3600 as a CPU however I don't have any fancy information about the CPU in KDE widget that I added to my taskbar. Is there any patch, or something, that I can install that will provide some functions for Ryzen 3000 series? If yes, can you give me a short 'how-to'? Here's a photo of how it looks. https://imgur.com/a/bIzKJqr

EDIT: About a informations that I don't have, I saw the recent Level1Techs video where Wendel is showing CPUFreq from Ryzen 7 3900X i belive where he got plenty of stuff there.

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GNUnet: a new network protocol stack for building secure, distributed, and privacy-preserving applications, designed to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack.
https://gnunet.org/en/index.html

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Linux Pressure Stall Information (PSI) by Example - Unixism
https://unixism.net/2019/08/linux-pressure-stall-information-psi-by-example/

https://redd.it/cxy6zy
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Waypipe: GSOC project complete
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2019-August/040819.html

https://redd.it/cxyuq6
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Speed Art Inkscape: Wallpaper Linux
https://youtu.be/qA4XKixOt54

https://redd.it/cxzs8d
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Rust is the future of systems programming, C is the new Assembly (Packt) [LWN.net]
https://lwn.net/Articles/797714/

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Routr 1.0.0-RC3 is now available
https://github.com/fonoster/routr/releases/tag/1.0.0-rc3

https://redd.it/cy2sdr
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Best Desktop Environment for Couch & TV?

I have Linux Mint as a distro and Cinnamon as a DE. I would like to use cinnamon when I have my laptop at my desk. What could I use when I hook my laptop up to my TV to watch videos and for gaming?

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I would like one that is user friendly when your on the couch and one that may have everything bigger such as the window buttons, menu, and font size.

https://redd.it/cy2nj4
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HP 14" laptop (14-df0023cl), $299 at Costco (and it loves Linux)

Costco has an HP 14" Laptop on sale for $299. I just got one for my mom, slapped Fedora 30 with XFCE4 on it and everything worked out of the box perfectly; wifi, bluetooth, the touchpad and all. It only comes with 4GB of ram, but it does have a second memory slot open and will take up to 16GB in total. It comes with a 128GB M.2 SSD already in place, but also has an internal drive bay if you want to slap in a 2.5" SSD (although you do need a mounting tray/special cable for the SATA connection, available only from HP and semi-hard to locate). The display is beautiful, nice and bright, and all the function keys for volume up/down/mute and brightness controls also "just worked" out of the box. It comes with an 8th-gen Core i3 and feels plenty snappy as-is.

Specs: [https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06166782](https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06166782)
Service guide: [http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06146792.pdf](http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06146792.pdf)

I pulled off the bottom chassis (using the directions in the service guide above) and found that the m.2 socket is keyed for NVMe. I then found on the HP support site that their Core i3/i5/i7 systems all support NVMe, so I ordered a Samsung 970 EVO 500GB NVMe m.2 2280 module from Amazon ($90USD on sale/delivered). I just so happened to have a spare 4GB DDR4 2666mhz SO-DIMM in a box, so now it's running on 8GB or RAM and 500GB of NVMe goodness.

Not too shabby for a Costco special and some Linux loving!

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How to manage multiple SSH key pairs | Enable Sysadmin
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/manage-multiple-ssh-key-pairs

https://redd.it/cy53ad
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KDE Usability & Productivity: Week 86
https://pointieststick.com/2019/08/31/kde-usability-productivity-week-86/

https://redd.it/cy6kqs
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Btrfs vs RAID 0 for Cheap Home Server

I want to create a home media/storage server. I can only afford 2 HDDs + 1 RaspberryPi.

I don't care for downtime but I don't want to lose data (given that both disks won't fail simultaneously). I want to know if there are bad sectors as soon as possible so that I can replace the broken disk.

Is this even a good idea? Can I restore the data if both disks go bad (assuming I still have a good copy on one disk)?

What would you suggest?
Thank you in advance!

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