SQL Server on Linux Usage

I'm doing research for an upcoming course and would be really interested to hear how people are using SQL Server on Linux out in the wild. What have been your best/worst experiences, especially in comparison to using it on Windows? Loves/hates vs other RDBMS on Linux. If you were designing a course, what would you want students to know? Thanks!

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systemd-homed: Reinventing Home Directories
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/asg2019/relive/164

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When, how, why did you start your Linux journey? How did you discover Linux, what had drawn you to it, and what's keeping you there now?



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Weekend Fluff / Linux in the Wild Thread - September 20, 2019

Welcome to the weekend! This stickied thread is for you to post pictures of your ubuntu 2006 install disk, slackware floppies, on-topic memes or more.

When it's not the weekend, be sure to check out r/WildLinuxAppears or r/linuxmemes!

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The Passion Of Saint iGNUcius
https://jackbaruth.com/?p=16779

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Porting MATE Apps to Wayland
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/porting-mate-apps-to-wayland/12670

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"Journalists" and internet mob attack RMS with lies. In-depth review.
https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/index.html

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Potentially off topic - any software packages like YouTube but for offline/home use?

Hi,

I basically want to have my own video server (not plex) but web based.

I throw all my videos into /var/www/html/videos or whatever, and then when I visit the site, they're all laid out with thumbnails.

I have searched online but I keep just getting things like Vimeo, Netflix etc...

Thanks

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Red Hat's "Open letter to the Free Software Foundation Board of Directors"
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/open-letter-free-software-foundation-board-directors

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Chess Sphere, the game to end all no budget indie games. Free for Linux on Steam.
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Have you ever asked anyone unfamiliar with Linux what they thought of it or the users?

A response I got once was we were just hackers or computer-craving cave dwellers. I’d like to hear about your own personal accounts of this!

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GitHub - cyring/CoreFreq: CoreFreq is a CPU monitoring software designed for the 64-bits Processors.

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[Linux 5.3 powered by CoreFreq 1.66](https://i.redd.it/4gmose95mwn31.png)

Go to [github.com/cyring/CoreFreq](https://github.com/cyring/CoreFreq)

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Software Freedom Day - Celebrate Software Freedom Day
https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/

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Popular snaps per distro
https://snapcraft.io/blog/popular-snaps-per-distro

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I'm planning to migrate to Linux and I'm seeking advice

I've been a Windows user my whole life, with my first OS being Windows 2000. I have very little experience with Linux; I've used Ubuntu for databases at school and did some MySQL programming with it, both within the terminal and an IDE. I'm a software developer in training and would wish to resume doing that on Linux, but I would like my main release platform to be Windows. So here are my questions:

1) What are some good distros for a newbie?
2) What are some things I should know about Linux before fully migrating?
3) What difficulties might I face as a developer?

Things that piss me off about the modern Windows OS's include:

\- lack of privacy
\- lack of customization
\- having Bing and Edge shoved in your face
\- the new settings app (it even opens up through the control panel, come on...)
\- lots and lots of bugs
\- annoying features that cannot be disabled
\- useless inbuilt apps that cannot be uninstalled

Things that I fear might become a problem once I migrate to Linux:

\- lack of customer support
\- lack of help online
\- incompatibility with Windows programs that I don't wish to part with
\- incompatibility with external devices (I had a Mac corrupt my USB flash drive and everything on it, I try to learn from my mistakes)

I have another laptop which has Windows on it, and two external hard drives used as local storage (one through the USB port, another is connected to the router to be used by multiple machines), I hope I won't have problems transferring files between those. Any advice is appreciated!

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Nvidia driver gone missing!

I'm new to Linux. Started with Ubuntu 18.04.3 and got everything working for me. Installed the newest Nvidia driver from Nvidia.com. Played games with Steam and Lutris and was just impressed with Linux.

Then there was some update that came in and it removed my Nvidia driver and reverted me to x.org driver if I remember correctly. I use the Ubuntu software center where I selected another Nvidia driver to install instead of the x.org.

After reboot I was greeted with a black screen with no options to log into Ubuntu.

As a new user I have no idea what to do in such situation.... any advice?

Install a fresh Ubuntu or is there some Linux magic to get a driver up and running without a fresh install?

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Just a request

Does anyone e know of a program that will notify me if a file sits in a directory for a specified amount of time. I looked at inotify and fsnotify but they only watch for addition, removal, and modification of the file. Must work on suse. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

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The price of victory! My $3.02 class action settlement check from the Sony "Other OS" litigation. Stemming back from when Sony removed this feature via firmware "upgrade" and GeoHotz was cracking the PS3 open like a free lobster!
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Linux on a flash drive or hard drive?

I want to install Ubuntu or android x86 on my 2011 PC. Should I install it on a flash drive or a hard drive? Would a flash drive be slower than a hard drive

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A highly optimized and extremely lightweight Linux distribution built from scratch

Hey there, how's everyone doing?

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I'm currently working on a project called [glaucus](https://github.com/firasuke/glaucus). It's a highly optimized and extremely lightweight suckless (except that it's not statically linked) Linux distribution built from scratch.

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[Idles under 6mb of RAM!](https://i.redd.it/694ug75yizn31.png)

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It was previously known as snail, and has been under development for 2 years now. The development started in parallel with another project of mine called DOTSLASHLINUX (a website that featured extremely lightweight and in depth kernel configuration guides. Unfortunately, it's currently unmaintained. You can find the archived website and all of its articles here [DOTSLASHLINUX](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.dotslashlinux.com).

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[snail was also extremely lightweight, but lacked many features to make it usable](https://i.redd.it/zs50dhh3jzn31.png)

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The project was initially intended for educational purposes, but soon grew into something really interesting, so I decided to publish it on github (for now, will also be published to gitlab and framagit soon).

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What's so special about glaucus? Here's a list of some of its features (a really ambitious project I know but bare with me):

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1. Extremely lightweight, as the `core` installation only needs 25MB of disk space and requires 33MB of RAM to boot in QEMU and idles at just under 6MB of RAM
2. Razor sharp bleeding edge as it fetches the latest sources available from upstream repositories for all cerata (cerata means packages, refer to the [Naming Convention](https://github.com/firasuke/glaucus/wiki/Naming-Convention) for more cool names (please bare with me xD)).
3. The building process (for both glaucus and both of its toolchains) is entirely automated (The process of building from source is currently broken, but will soon be fixed as it's undergoing a redesign process to closely resemble that of [Musl-LFS](https://github.com/dslm4515/Musl-LFS) due to several errors relating to the graphics stack not correctly separating from the host).
4. `musl` libc (I know right :P)
5. skarnet's `s6` small supervision suite
6. skarnet's `s6-linux-init` tools for a Linux init system (version 1.0.3)
7. skarnet's `s6-rc` service manager for s6 (with morpheus/stali noscripts ported to s6-rc) (currently
8. No coreutils (so you'll be left with no tools in your user base, jk xD), as it was replaced with:
1. suckless base (`sbase`)
2. unportable base (`ubase`)
3. OpenBSD `ls`, `pax`, `stty`, `diff`, `fmt`, `patch` and `sort` from OpenBSD's userland port to Linux (`lobase`)
9. OpenBSD's ksh ported to Linux (`loksh`) as the main user shell (much lighter and faster (around 2.5x) than bash, and still manages to support auto-completion and command history).
10. `dash` for running noscripts (all system's noscripts are in dash, which is only 1.8x faster than loksh) (you can even replace run dash alone if you're an adventurer, but glaucus tries to stay convenient while being extremely lightweight)
11. NetBSD's curses, with `less`, `mandoc` and `vim` (yes vim, I know right xD) all built against it
12. LibreSSL
13. Any many more lightweight and suckless software (`dash`, `mawk`, `byacc`, `re2c`, `nnn`...)
14. Adheres to the latest FHS standards, with a minimal and clean root filesystem
15. The kernel uses the bare minimum configuration needed to get a bootable system (from DOTSLASHLINUX's extremely lightweight kernel configuration guides)

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But wait, there's more! The core image builds (along with 130+ cerata) (again cerata are packages because [Naming Convention](https://github.com/firasuke/glaucus/wiki/Naming-Convention) DUH), with really extreme optimization flags such as:

1. OpenMP
2. The dangeous `Ofast` (not recommended though)
3. Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS)
4. Global Common Subexpression Elimination (GCSE)
5. Integrated Register Allocation (IRA)
6. Interprocedural Pointer Analysis (IPA)
7. Grap

hite Loop Optimizations (ISL) (with the latest upstream sources for ISL)
8. Link Time Optimization (LTO) (with `zstd` set as default compression method, and zlib set as a fallback method)
9. And more curated peformance flags

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The `core` and `extra` images (image names will be changed in the future, but we'll stick to core and extra for now), build with all of the above flags enabled. This is intended to showcase that many packages (or at least the ones included in glaucus cerata) can survive extreme configuration options like `Ofast`, and to show that some packages don't build with certain flags (like `musl` not building with LTO, and `mawk` not building with OpenMP... you get the point).

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Most of these flags help improve performance, but the choice is left to the user to experiment with all the curated list of flags listed in `noscripts/system/variables` to achieve the best performance possible on his/her system (keep in mind that building from source is currently not working, so you'll have to stick with the provided binary images, that have all these flags turned on, which you can find [here](https://github.com/firasuke/glaucus/releases)). You can also remove all of these flags, and stick to the basic `-Os -s -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe` and further reduce the image size down to 14mb (really the choice is up to you, as all included cerata work with all included flags).

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Kindly refer to the [wiki](https://github.com/firasuke/glaucus/wiki) for more information regarding glaucus (Please keep in mind that the wiki is nowhere near finished (I'd say it's at 15% but that's just wishful thinking).

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Also kindly refer to the [Screenshots wiki page](https://github.com/firasuke/glaucus/wiki/Screenshots) for screenshots of glaucus in action.

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This project is highly experimental (and currently only available for `x86_64-pc-linux-musl` architectures, and only runs in QEMU for now) so please tread with care!

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It also lacks a package manager (or at least a dependency sorting method), and a fully functioning graphics stack (which is what I'm currently working on atm).

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The project further needs a logo and some artwork, perhaps a glaucus bennettae swimming in the sea with Tux the penguin (the official linux mascot) and Puffy the pufferfish (the official OpenBSD mascot).

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glaucus is licensed under the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) license.

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This project is dedicated to my lovely parents.

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If you like glaucus and want to support its development, then kindly donate to:

* [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/firasuke)
* [Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/firasuke)
* [Ko-fi](https://ko-fi.com/firasuke)
* [Flattr](https://flattr.com/@firasuke)
* PayPal: [firasuke@gmail.com](mailto:firasuke@gmail.com)

Hardware donations are also accepted.

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I'd be more than pleased to hear your thoughts on this project!

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Thanks for your time.

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Edit #1: typos

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