Weekly Questions and Hardware Thread - September 25, 2019

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Linux powered robot keeping balance
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Announcing a New Linux Program: File Search, a FOSS visual file search utility
https://www.getlazarus.org/apps/filesearch/

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How we implement per-user CPU and memory resource limits on Ubuntu
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/Ubuntu1804SystemdUserLimits

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Distro reccomendation

Hello,
I'd absolutly love if some of you write down your favourite beginner friendly Linux distro. I'm looking forward to try something new. I've already gone through Manjaro, Ubuntu, Lubuntu And ZorinOS.

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[lkml] Wireguard to be ported to kernel crypto API by upstream
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHmME9qK2RWPLWWZGcmtVEHz+vUaVRBNtjv3GutkzWccdogF0w@mail.gmail.com/T/#mc1fc0f4c6746c56f8dee156eb37e11cfab44fd71

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GNOME Foundation facing lawsuit from Rothschild Patent Imaging
https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/09/gnome-foundation-facing-lawsuit-from-rothschild-patent-imaging/

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Archiving encrypted data

Do you think there are people out there, that save all encrypted data, that they can get and save it until the time has come that computers are fast enough that they can easily decrypt this data? Are some encryption protocols more affected by this problem than others?
Thanks for your answers

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Out of box H.264 and AAC support in Fedora 31 Workstation
https://blogs.gnome.org/kalev/2019/09/25/out-of-box-h-264-and-aac-support-in-fedora-31-workstation/

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GameMode improvements for GNOME 3.34 and Fedora 31
https://christian.kellner.me/2019/09/25/gamemode-improvements-for-gnome-3-34-and-fedora-31/

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Mirror of the Restoration of 1st Edition UNIX kernel source. 1972, Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc.
https://github.com/qrush/unix

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Mesa 19.2 has been released
https://mesa.freedesktop.org/relnotes/19.2.0.html

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Changes to CentOS: What CentOS Stream means for developers
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/09/24/changes-to-centos-what-centos-stream-means-for-developers/

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Contextutron: A Linux Touchbar

About a week ago, I posted an idea for a touchbar for Linux ([https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d4nchc/idea\_for\_a\_touch\_bar\_for\_the\_linux\_desktop/](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d4nchc/idea_for_a_touch_bar_for_the_linux_desktop/)). Now, I am happy to show a simple python prototype, at the moment it works with; kate dolphin, konsole, and gedit. I would like to show it: [https://github.com/boredom101/contextutron](https://github.com/boredom101/contextutron). Instructions are in the readme. Please tell me what you think.

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Oldschool graphics programming with Lubuntu (OpenGL ARB Assembler) - source code in video denoscription
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLxYmPR0xbE

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Synaptics CX Audio Support in fwupd
https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2019/09/25/synaptics-cx-audio-support/

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First Librem phone rolled out
https://youtu.be/AuT2w6BkT-k

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What are some cliches and stereotype about your distro that are actually true?

A few days ago I saw the opposite being asked, with interesting replies. I thought asking if any cliches are actually true would be similarly eye-opening.

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GNU/Linux distributions of Spain in 2011
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Is Linux Getting Boring (perhaps in a good way)?

Is Linux is getting boring to anyone else? - I mainly follow Ubuntu. Each update seems less and less exciting to me. A few years ago there was a sort of Window Management War going on, and each release on each distro had exciting and new changes that I loved following and reading up on. Now things are settling down, becoming more stable, and the big sweeping changes turned into small incremental ones. No huge WM changes, no big and crazy unified phone/desktop system being worked on, not really much of an investment from Canonical to take over the consumer desktop market, just gradual stability and speed improvements. I think the most exciting projects I am following these days are Proton and VSCode (of all things). -- I'm not really complaining, just noticing.

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mesa intel driver in ubuntu is better than on windows. how do I port or install it in windows too?



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