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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Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix
https://grsecurity.net/teardown_of_a_failed_linux_lts_spectre_fix.php

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Any architects (buildings, not software) here who use a linux at work?

Hey everyone,

I was wondering whether Linux could be a daily driver for architects. Is there any proprietary software that would give problems?

A young friend of mine has started studying architecture and was working in an architects office where everyone told her to buy a MacBook. 1k € is way too much for a student (apart from the obvious fact that mac is utter garbage). She was now asking me whether to go for it or not, but I can't really tell her to go for Linux since I absolutely don't know if that will give her trouble down the line, considering some proprietory software that every architect uses of which I don't know of.

Any architects who use Linux as their daily driver that can shed some light?

Have a nice day!

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Charging Money For Linux Distros And Open Source Software? It's More Successful Than You Think
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/09/03/paying-for-linux-distros-and-foss-software-successful-elementary-os/amp/

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Librem 5 is Chonky
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Linux news: Latest Linux kernel updates by core kernel developer Greg Kr...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvCkr75H2kY&feature=share

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More Linux users than Mac in my CS class
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Linux Mint creates XApp.StatusIcon to replace deprecated GTK.StatusIcon to preserve App Indicators support
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3795

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Weekly Questions and Hardware Thread - September 04, 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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PCManFM-Qt and custom home-made actions in contex-menu

Can you describe step by step the necessary actions to add custom commands, in the contextual menu in this file manager, when I right-click on a file or folder?

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Porting desktop environment from one distro to another distro

Hello everyone,

I am quite new to Linux. I just came across the distribution called Enso OS. And so far, I really love the desktop environment of this distribution. It is XFCE but all the transition, animation, and overall design are very nice. However, I would like to use Manjaro. Is it possible to port the desktop environment From Enso OS to Manjaro?

Thank you.

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