Linux Experiences/Rants or Education/Certifications thread - September 02, 2019

Welcome to r/linux rants and experiences! This megathread is also to hear opinions from anyone just starting out with Linux or those that have used Linux (GNU or otherwise) for a long time.

Let us know what's annoying you, whats making you happy, or something that you want to get out to r/linux but didn't make the cut into a full post of it's own.

For those looking for certifications please use this megathread to ask about how to get certified whether it's for the business world or for your own satisfaction. Be sure to check out r/linuxadmin for more discussion in the SysAdmin world!

_Please keep questions in r/linuxquestions, r/linux4noobs, or the Wednesday automod thread._

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EvilGnome: New Linux Spyware

hi everybody, is true !!

I search on google and I find some information about this spyware, but I don't have any idea because I'm a new Linux user

thanks

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Broken link in the FAQ

The [FAQ](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/wiki/faq) contains a link to https://www.opensuse.org/en/.
This returns an error 404. The link has to be https://www.opensuse.org.

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Librem 5 vs. PinePhone: comparison of two Linux smartphones
https://tuxphones.com/purism-librem-5-vs-pine64-pinephone-linux-smartphone-comparison/

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It's SUSE's 27th birthday today
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE#History

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My presentation of linux logo, maked in Blender + GIMP + GMIC.
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SFTPGo, the full featured and highly configurable SFTP server, nears 1.0 release

SFTPGo is a free and open source SFTP Server written in Go. It works on Linux, macOS and Windows and has no runtime dependencies.

Here are its main features:

​

\- Each account is chrooted to his Home Dir.

\- SFTP accounts are virtual accounts stored in a "data provider".

\- SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL and bbolt (key/value store in pure Go) data providers are supported.

\- Public key and password authentication. Multiple public keys per user are supported.

\- Quota support: accounts can have individual quota expressed as max total size and/or max number of files.

\- Bandwidth throttling is supported, with distinct settings for upload and download.

\- Per user maximum concurrent sessions.

\- Per user permissions: list directories content, upload, download, delete, rename, create directories, create symlinks can be enabled or disabled.

\- Configurable custom commands and/or HTTP notifications on upload, download, delete or rename.

\- Automatically terminating idle connections.

\- Atomic uploads are configurable.

\- SCP is supported.

\- REST API for users and quota management and real time reports for the active connections with possibility of forcibly closing a connection.

\- Configuration is a your choice: JSON, TOML, YAML, HCL, envfile are supported.

​

The first beta version was released today:

[https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo/releases](https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo/releases)

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KISS Linux version 1.0
https://getkiss.org/

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Show Linux: I created the Curl Cookbook
https://catonmat.net/cookbooks/curl

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MX Linux top of Distrowatch.com - Whats all the hype about?

Basically what the noscript says, whats so special about MX Linux? And why is it so popular all of a sudden?

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In Linux, most of the applications, utilities, and programs are free of cost – while on Windows applications like Microsoft Office 2019 cost 249$.
https://learnworthy.net/differences-between-windows-and-linux/

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Making Containers Safer - Hacker News - great discussion of Docker, Kubernetes, LXD etc

This YCombinator Hacker News thread has a great discussion related to making Containers
safer and covers issues related to all container technologies from Docker, Kubernetes, LXD to BSD Jails:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20764355](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20764355)

Thought I'd share this..

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grapheneX [v1.2.0 update]
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Thank you Linux for making my POS laptop usable again

I used to use Ubuntu in a VM when I was 16 to try it out. I thought it was cool, but was unmotivated to do anything else.

Im a broke uni student in a stem major who got a hp stream from my gf bc she got it from her parents and never ended up using it anyway. Screw HP for this computer. 4GB ram with a dual core Intel Celeron N3060 CPU. Fine. Its a $250 laptop, thats still workable. But the "hard drive"? A 32GB eMMC drive. This laptop also has no screws. But that doesn't matter because its all integrated onto the same board anyway. With that being said, windows takes up 28 -30GBs of space. Sometimes shrinking it down to 0 BYTES of data left, and theres no chance of putting in my own drive. This is with only 300 -500mb total of downloaded programs on it. It was slow. Constantly had 80%-100% CPU usage. Also was unable to DL any more programs that I needed for school. Even with an SD card, I still need open space in my C drive.

For the record, I'm mad at HP because they know for a fact that most of their users are going to be running Windows on this POS. They know windows will eat up all the space on that drive. Because no one who has any sense with computers would get a 32GB computer. To me, this is taking advantage of ignorant users (old people mainly).

So I said fuck it, and installed Ubuntu on it. 21GB space left. Between 12%-30% CPU usage. Libre office programs free and now I can just use the terminal instead of going through the truoble of installing a linux bash shell on windows for programming assignments.

Thank you linux.

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Recover a Linux System

Learn how to recover your linux system in time of need. Great article that shows how to diagnose & troubleshoot your system [https://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-recovery.html](https://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-recovery.html).

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RonixOS

Hello /r/linux, if you've seen or followed what I've done then you will know that a year ago, I made a distro called BlueLightOS and there was another one after that called KduxOS. Both BlueLight and Kdux were stepping stones for a bigger project that has been in the works since May of this year called RonixOS. RonixOS is a full on distribution, it's Arch Linux based but is a long term release system. It will feature multiple release types; core, server, desktop, and mobile. Some differences between RonixOS and my other projects is that custom repositories are used so in no way are the Arch Linux mirrors are being used, runit is used instead of systemd, Docker containers are used to build the packages, and SELinux is enabled on the system. RonixOS has 5 goals:

* Uniformity - RonixOS to be available on a large range of devices

* Stability - all software to be able to run without issues

* Security - applications can run but requires certain permissions from the user

* Freedom - components are easy to replace with other alternatives and should work with no issues

* Privacy - the custom desktop environment will have a mode which makes it harder for applications and websites to track you and find out your personal information

RonixOS also hopes to bring over macOS users with custom applications that can replace the major programs that macOS has. I'm also building a custom desktop environment with the ability to change the UI easily. This new desktop environment will also make it easier to run mobile applications. I hope that in the full release of RonixOS, that it'll work smoothly and run well on many devices. Currently, there's only the core test release that's out right now and can be downloaded from [here](http://91.247.228.5/disk-images/0.1.0/x86_64/ronixos-core-2019.09.01-x86_64.iso). I'm working on adding more packages into the repositories then getting the desktop release built. While the new desktop environment for RonixOS is being developed, XFCE will be used. Here's some links for the project:

* [GitHub](https://github.com/ronixos)
* [Website](https://ronixos.github.io/), more links are on here

If anyone has any questions about RonixOS, feel free to ask.

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"OpenBSD was right" - Greg KH on disabling hyperthreading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI3YE3Jlgw8

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Advice for a total noob?

So I’ve recently dove into the world of coding and been learning about unix. For my grad school research (biology) I’ve had to use PuTTY for some data stuff and I’m really enjoying it.

I’d like to take it further. I’ve been reading up on the differences in all these coding languages and distros and it is pretty overwhelming. I just learned the difference between Unix and Linux and not much else beyond that.

Anyone have any good advice on resources to learn some basics? I have an old laptop I’d like to convert to some free os and learn to live without windows. What’s a good free os for a beginner? I’m trying to install Ubuntu and I’m having trouble figuring out how to do it, so maybe I’d check with Reddit first.

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Good Code Design From Linux/Kernel
https://leandromoreira.com.br/2019/08/02/linux-ffmpeg-source-internals-a-good-software-design/

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The Story of the PING Program
https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/ping.html

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Microsoft plans to add support for exFAT to the Linux Kernel

XDA Developers: Microsoft plans to add support for exFAT to the Linux kernel.
https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-exfat-linux-kernel/

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