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
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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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Demo of OpenVSwitch VXLAN and BIGIP VXLAN connection
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Desktop performance megathread..

Can we create a thread about techniques for increasing performance / responsiveness / battery life of Linux desktop in general, as well as various highly used applications (Eg: Firefox, libreoffice), It may be especially useful for those of us with low end PCs. One top level comment per technique please..

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Maps in GNOME 3.34 comes with improved search, open URLs in the app and share dialog
http://ml4711.blogspot.com/2019/09/maps-and-gnome-334.html

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Feaneron's GUADEC 2019 update: Vendor Styles coming to GNOME
https://feaneron.com/2019/09/02/guadec-2019/

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Preinstalled Linux in Thinkpad p1/x1 carbon.

Recently I’ve been considering switching from the macOS world to the Linux world. I’m strongly considering purchasing a p1 or x1 carbon and running either Ubuntu or Linux Mint on it. I would prefer it to be preinstalled and found LAC Portland to be a source to purchase this from. I have several concerns: how reliable is this company? Do all the functions work properly such as sleep, finger scanner, etc? What happens when I have to upgrade LTS, will I face compatibility issues on getting everything to work once again? Any and all help/recommendations are appreciated.

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Choosing a Linux system

I am only a computer enthusiast, I play games do some art and programming, for most of my OS experience it has been Windows and it was a pain in the ass to customise anything without having to worry about reinstalling to have a unbloated OS I moved to Ubuntu during 18.04 period and embraced the power of Linux.
I now want to have a partially custom Linux system in my desktop, by partially I mean I do not want to go LFS, I want a base Linux package which can boot and where I can install some Linux? softwares.

(PS: I did install base Arch Linux with xorg and xfce before writing this post)

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rsyslog adding characters to log lines

Hi all,


I wonder if anyone can offer an explanation or fix for this. We send all of our FW log data to rsyslog, which in-turn has Filebeat sending the log lines to Logstash. Rsyslog appears to be adding extra characters in the log lines, like so -

<158>1 2019-09-03T06:53:37.117+01:00 CLUSTER0-n2 - - -2 - PFE_FW_SYSLOG_IP: FW: reth0.0
<158>1 2019-09-03T06:53:38.113+01:00 CLUSTER0-n2 - - -2 - PFE_FW_SYSLOG_IP: FW: reth0.0

What I'd expect is actually -

<158>1 2019-09-03T06:53:28.112+01:00 CLUSTER0-n2 - - - - PFE_FW_SYSLOG_IP: FW: reth0.0
<158>1 2019-09-03T06:53:37.114+01:00 CLUSTER0-n2 - - - - PFE_FW_SYSLOG_IP: FW: reth0.0

As a consequence, some of the Logstash rules we have aren't matching.

I know I could rewrite the Logstash rules to fix this, but a PCAP shows that the sending device which is exporting to rsyslog isn't itself adding the extra characters in. The next in-line is rsyslog as the receiver and writer to disk.

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening, or how to fix it? It's happening on two hosts, which are VM's and have no underlying hardware or resource issues.

Cheers

Andy

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ddgr - DuckDuckGo from the terminal v1.7 released!
https://github.com/jarun/ddgr/releases/tag/v1.7

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Why does ext4 have block groups?



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Firefox 69 released
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0/releasenotes/

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Warsaw (Poland) transport system uses terminal to show tram timetables
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Apparently They Use KDE and LibreOffice In the Afterlife (The Good Place)
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reddio v0.3 released (command-line interface for Reddit)
https://gitlab.com/aaronNG/reddio/-/tags/v0.3

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systemd 243 released
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2019-September/043401.html

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Anybody moved after years on advanced distros (Gentoo, Void, Arch, Debian) to more user friendly ones (Fedora, Ubuntu, Solus)? Why you did and which one you chose?

Thinking of moving from Void to Fedora when the 31 Beta arrives.

But every time i do something like that, i end up coming back and setting everything up again. Then in the middle of setting everything up, i get fed up and wish i had stayed in the more "automated" distros.

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