s for people to take as a reply to this thread only.

Polls should:

* Try to avoid duplicating an already-posted poll!

* Results must be open to view, ideally without taking the poll but we understand that some poll software doesn't allow to see a result without taking a poll so that part isn't a hard requirement, but it must be available _somehow_, and the license of the results must be clear before taking the poll.

* Polls cannot ask for personal information. This includes that polls cannot require a login except for reddit-authenticated polls or if you're using the comments of this thread and tallying the votes that way

* Avoid anything crude or trolling

* Polls should be relevant to the r/linux community in some way

* Politics ok, but all discussion about it should stay as replies to the poll in this thread and if the post get's locked users are excepted to drop the discussion

Other than that, enjoy!

**Survey/Result License**

I believe I own the copyright of survey results, so I'm licensing it under [Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.5)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/). Please choose a license for your own surveys as well.

P.S. if anyone wants to host a LimeSurvey instance for r/linux, which would give us unlimited responses, or pay LimeSurvey for the unlimited plan, or have a fully featured LibreJS poll software available, I'll gladly use that over Google for all future polls!

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Donate Now | GNOME Patent Troll Defense Fund by GNOME Foundation
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/gnome-foundation-inc/gnome-patent-troll-defense-fund

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How many of you know about BOINC?

BOINC - Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley\_Open\_Infrastructure\_for\_Network\_Computing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing)

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It's a platform for grid computing where every computer gets tasks depending on the projects you are subscribed to. The idea is to use the computing power of your computer (or server) while it is IDLE for scientifical purposes. It has a very nice but dated GUI (you can still use CLI), and it can be controlled remotely through the GUI and an unofficial ncurses GUI.

It has helped on many scientific breakthroughs, like the detection of gravitational waves or the analysis of tabby star. And is used by organizations as important as the CERN and the SETI.

It has tasks for both GPUs and CPUs (depending on the project), and some projects run on Android too (although i don't recommend running it on a phone you are currently using) .

There are dozen of projects : [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php](https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php)

I personally run the LHC@home as CPU tasks, and einstein@home as GPU tasks.

For all those not using Debian or Ubuntu, you will want to take a look at this :

[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/BOINC#Using\_BOINC](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/BOINC#Using_BOINC)

Also, whatever projects you check, you may want to take a look at the forums, for example, here is how to run some lhc@home projects without virtualbox : [https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum\_thread.php?id=4971](https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=4971)

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Which is the best 2D printer in the market for GNU/LInux?

If you were to get a 2D printer that is:

* GNU/Linux friendly.
* Resource efficient (ink, laser, etc).
* Well supported.
* Great printing and manufacturing quality.

Which would you get?

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Phoronix| "Fedora 31 Performance Is Still Sliding In The Wrong Direction" - Benchmarks
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora-31-benchmarks&num=1

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Linux Mint Monthly News - October 2019
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3811

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Wiremapper: a Linux application for the Pockethernet hardware

I bought the Pockethernet hardware back when it was still on indiegogo, for people who never dealt with ethernet testers: It's a device that you use to test network cables, in the pockethernet case the tester is a bluetooth device you're supposed to use with an Android phone.

The phone requirement annoyed me for a long time and would like my test results directly on my laptop. I finally took the time to write a nice GTK3 application for it that can now do some of the basic features. I haven't managed to make some of the more advanced features work like the cable length tests and more advanced link tests like DHCP and the various port-id protocols.

It's written in python and split in two parts, [Wiremapper](https://gitlab.com/MartijnBraam/wiremapper) is the GTK3 application and the [pockethernet library](https://gitlab.com/MartijnBraam/pockethernet-protocol) that actually handles the communication with the hardware. This makes sure that it can support other testing hardware and probably a QT5 frontend.

I hope that I can make some other network administrators very happy with this application :D

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Ubuntu and QT Creator

TRying to get QT Creator and Android sdk to get along. I've been working on this for three days. Videos, articles, etc and just can't get this one little error to go away. Can anyone give me a push in the right direction?
Kubuntu 19.10

https://preview.redd.it/up2e3c29kyv31.png?width=891&format=png&auto=webp&s=1a9a823ad04e055208aa9ccf290541f8727b1e33

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Halloween Update for FreeCAD & Debian Science Work
https://www.kwk.systems/blog/posts/halloween-update-for-freecad-debian-science-work/

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anyone know of a program that copies a flash drive to network storage automatically whenever one is plugged in?



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Native GTK Dialogs in LibreOffice
https://caolanm.blogspot.com/2019/10/native-gtk-dialogs-in-libreoffice.html

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Destination Linux interviews Lukasz Erecinski (Pine64)
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=bibXkrT8AqU&feature=youtu.be&t=2642

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Why only root can mount?

(It's not a support question but a design question)

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If a user has permissions to read/write a file, it seems reasonable that he will be able to mount it. Moreover, he practically can make his own interface of mounting and mount it that way.

​

Thanks!

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Htop explained
https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/

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Firefox to discontinue sideloaded extensions
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/31/firefox-to-discontinue-sideloaded-extensions/

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linux kernel live patching

Does anyone actually use this in production to avoid reboots? I do not see much discussion around this on the internet. Anyone have personal experience.

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Fifth weekly @kdecommunity #PlasmaMobile update: Better integration with the @gnome GTK applications, new application features and several bugfixes!
https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2019/11/01/Plasma-Mobile-Weekly-update-5.html

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Weekend Fluff / Linux in the Wild Thread - November 01, 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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2FA-Auth v2.0-0 -- Generating 2FA codes in your terminal

Hey, guys! How are you?

I'm here to announce my project 2FA-Auth.
It's an user-friendly project that generates "Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)" codes in your terminal. You just need a GNU/Linux distribution that runs BASH as default interpreter.
To get it, access my GitHub repository:
https://github.com/alencc1986/2FA-Auth.git

Thanks!

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Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
https://netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22dateLabel%22%3A%22Custom%22%2C%22attributes%22%3A%22share%22%2C%22group%22%3A%22secure%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22share%22%3A-1%7D%2C%22id%22%3A%22https%22%2C%22dateInterval%22%3A%22Monthly%22%2C%22dateStart%22%3A%222019-10%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222019-10%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D

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postmarketOS // Ten years of Nokia N900
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2019/11/01/ten-years-of-nokia-n900/

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