Debian new homepage (to be launched in November)
https://debian-newhomepage.larjona.net/

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commitsCount: shows the commits count of a project without having to clone it

So here's a new experiment, aimed for packaging: [**commits-count**](https://gitlab.com/es20490446e/commits-count). It shows the commits count of a project without having to clone it.

This allows checking for package updates without having to **source** the hole repository, making continuous integration and rolling updates feasible.

Since the **API is centralized** in a single command, in case of change of spec of a web platform, you only have to modify it in a single place for all the packages being able to continue retrieving the count.

For the time being **GitLab** and **GitHub** are supported, although adding new platforms only takes a few lines in Bash.

In the first weeks this software shall be considered **experimental** and prone to changes. As long as constructive **suggestions** are welcome.

**Usage**:commitsCount \[web\]

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KDE Plasma - AMD Phenom II X4 955 iGPU support

Hi all, first of all this is my first post to the Linux sub.

I have an issue with graphical glitching after I installed the KDE Plasma desktop on Arch Linux. I’m running the integrated graphics off my AMD Phenom II X4 processor and was wondering if anyone knew if this is even a supported CPU for plasma or Linux desktop environments in general? And if so, how do I stop the graphical glitches?

I installed using pacman: plasma, sddm

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Perspective

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Credit: pycoders : instagram

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What you developers and software engineers do is little less than magic. Thank you.

Hi everyone!

Before I begin, disclaimer: I've been meaning to find an appropriate place to post this, but I couldn't really think of one; I hope this stays up.

I am a second-year computer science and physics undergraduate. Before I matriculated, I thought I was a tech pro when I could fix a broken Windows bootloader, configure an off-the-shelf router using its *GUI*, and slide some sliders on photos in Lightroom. Joining university was a simultaneously humbling and enlightening experience, when I realised my peers were writing hundreds, perhaps even thousands of lines of code per day; one person is a regular contributor to the Linux Kernel. Another group of people developed [this website](https://nusmods.com), to make my fellow students' lives easier when choosing our modules for the semester. Plenty others are *incredibly* talented and versatile; I felt (and still do feel) like a tiny fish in the Pacific.

That being said, beginning my CS career has also exposed me to dozens of FOSS initiatives and projects that I would have otherwise passed over, had I chosen another major: things like Arch Linux (I have it installed, but it is broken by my own volition and I have to find some time to reinstall it), Vim and Emacs (with respect to Vim: I know how to change modes, edit and quit, but that's it), LaTeX, KDE, the entire GNU initiative, Blender, Git (which I still don't know how to use), and so on, in no particular order. This list could get so long that it'd exhaust this post's character count.

All high-quality, professional, powerful software that gets things done, with nary a penny or cent needed to purchase these, and the complete source available to all.

That being said, even closed-source software is equally wondrous. I understand this is the Linux subreddit, but this is a general thank-you post to *everyone*, so things like MS Office 365, Adobe's suite (though slow and bloated), Windows, OS X, iOS, Apple's productivity suite, the hundreds of apps we use on our phones, and, last but not least, the AAA 3D video games. I just ran *The Witcher 3* some hours ago. I cannot fathom how hundreds of people came together to put out a masterpiece of art, entertainment and music, all for less than $30 (which is how much the GOTY version is during sales).

I suppose no one thinks about it much, but the things we have achieved in the past several decades, with semiconductor, electrical, electronic, computer and software engineering (to give the entire hardware stack) is, to reuse the noscript, simply magical and incredible. This post, for instance, was typed probably thousands of kilometres from any one of you reading it. And yet you *can* read it, within seconds of me hitting that 'Post' button. I can download a terabyte's worth of data in two hours flat, and were my network not the bottleneck, write all that data to a flash drive in a quarter the time. I have a slab of silicon in my computer that can render *trillions* of vertices a second, and render games that look impossibly life-like, at sixty to eighty frames a second. We fly on jet airliners that, once the VNAV and LNAV buttons are pressed, can effectively fly themselves to their destinations with minimal pilot intervention or oversight (passing over the 737 MAX).

I'm not particularly great at problem-solving, and even when it comes to assignments, I struggle plenty, and it really is quite un-imaginable that many of these software implementations have sometimes been one-man initiatives. I have (and still do) had trouble implementing a simple linked list, or a bog-standard 3D graphics assignment. I cannot comprehend the level of understanding needed to implement so many of the complex things we take for granted today. Who on earth could have thought that we could type a button, it sends an electrical signal to a slab of silicon with impurities, and a nanosecond later, what was a white text box now has the letter on that button there? The complete hardware-kernel-driver-OS-application sta

ck is mind-boggling, and the fact that Linux, an OS that today powers nearly every supercomputer, was written in someone's spare time, simply fails my comprehension.

The things that everyone here does is amazing. FOSS or not, you help billions of people worldwide save effort and time. The software and hardware you develop feed, clothe, ventilate, move, cure, and entertain people. Thank you.

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**TL;DR:** noscript.

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I want to switch from Windows 10 to Ubuntu, should I ?

I've been a Windows user my whole life, but with Windows 10, I just can't stand it anymore. The automatic updates, ads, lagging, bugs just drive me up the wall. I've a small Acer Convertible laptop, it came with only 32 GB of internal storage so auto updates leaves me with absolutely no storage for school stuff.

I consider myself pretty tech savvy compared to your average Joe, so I'm familiar with Linux (Ubuntu specifically) but I know next to none when it comes to the technical stuff like terminal commands.

So, the applications I commonly use on Windows are : PaintDotNet, Premiere Pro, Source Filmaker, Chrome, MS Office, and a few old games (nothing demanding). I haven't checked up on Wine progress but how well does it handle applications now ? Specifically the ones I mentioned (PaintDotNet's .NET framework used to be an issue).

I look forward to y'alls advice, really want to ditch Windows.

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Dell bets large on Ubuntu Linux laptops for builders
http://mashviral.com/dell-bets-large-on-ubuntu-linux-laptops-for-builders/

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Microsoft Edge is officially coming to Linux soon. [see at 8:39]
https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/79341?source=sessions

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Pine64 November Update – ANSI Pinebook Pro and PinePhone Preorder
https://www.pine64.org/2019/11/05/brave-heart-edition-pinephones/

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This open-source AI tool quickly isolates the vocals in any song - Perfect for making karaoke backing tracks and mashups
https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/5/20949338/vocal-isolation-ai-machine-learning-deezer-spleeter-automated-open-source-tensorflow

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 released
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-ups-iq-intelligent-operating-system-latest-release-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8

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KDE PIM in September October 2019: More collaboration with Plasma mobile, new features in KMail and some community statistics
https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2019/11/05/news-from-kde-pim-in-september-october-2019/

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WPE: Building full screen web applications for the Raspberry Pi
https://medium.com/@decrocksam/building-web-applications-for-wpe-webkit-using-node-js-3347146013f3

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Is Ubuntu safe?

I'm using Linux for quite a while and I'm considering a switch to Ubuntu on my main laptop. However I'm curious about it because **Ubuntu is not completely open-source** and that kinda tilts me. Is it safe to use Ubuntu for VERY sensitive documents? Also what data does Ubuntu collect about your system in depth? I became sketchy about this especially when Ubuntu started rolling out with Amazon app preinstalled. Do you think I'm safe from government agencies when using Ubuntu? **Do you think I can open ANYTHING without it being LOGGED or SENT anywhere?** I've done some research but would like to hear some response from you guys also.

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Unable to find disk

Hi. I beem trying to install Kali linux on my hard drive but everytime I try to load my system is just unable to locate disk. I dont even see any options at all while it perfectly runs with live usb which is something i dont want to do (tried both usb and dvd booting option)
My system is Dell optiplex 7010 mini tower preloaded with windows pos. Is there any way to fix this issue?

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Weekly Questions and Hardware Thread - November 06, 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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Straightforward tutorial on how to set up hibernation without a swap partition (swapfile)

I had to consult multiple sources on how to do this so I thought it would be good to compile it all into one post. I don't have any blog site so I thought Reddit might be a good place to post this. It doesn't require update-initram2fs nor uswsusp (I accidentally overwrote my boot sector using these tools and plus they seem like magic, versus this method which seems more clear and obvious). It also does not require any other external tools other than the ones that come with Linux.

**Guide**

1. Create a swapfile. A good size would be more than your total RAM
1. `sudo fallocate -l 8G /swapfile`
2. `sudo mkswap /swapfile`
2. Set the permissions for the swapfile (only readable and writable by root)
1. `sudo chmod u=rw,go= /swapfile`
3. Enable the swapfile
1. `sudo swapon /swapfile`
4. Add an entry to /etc/fstab to enable swap at boot
1. `sudo bash -c "echo /swapfile none swap defaults 0 0 >> /etc/fstab"`
5. Find out which drive your system boots from
1. `lsblk`
2. See Figure 1 below for output example
6. Find out the offset in bytes of the swapfile is located on your disk
1. Run `sudo filefrag -v /swapfile`
2. You should get some output like the below Figure 2. Note the number circled in red because that is the swapfile offset.
7. Tell GRUB where to resume the session from on boot
1. Open /etc/default/grub in your favorite editor (as sudo of course) and find the line "GRUB\_CMDLINE\_LINUX\_DEFAULT"
2. Add `resume=<your boot drive here>` and `resume_offset=<your swapfile offset>` to the things in that list and then save the file
1. See Figure 3 below for my example
8. Apply the GRUB changes
1. `sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg`
9. Now hibernate should work. Test with either `sudo systemctl hibernate` or `pm-hibernate` if you have pm-utils
10. You can set up your machine to hibernate in your distro's power settings on laptop lid close or hibernate button press or whatever now. I won't cover that in this post.

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[Figure 1: lsblk output. I just have one partition so my system boots from \/dev\/sda1 \(resume value\)](https://preview.redd.it/vhoejij99zw31.png?width=584&format=png&auto=webp&s=7eab92d5285d91293617580ba0f221a106b65ccf)

[Figure 2: the number circled in red should be your resume\_offset for \/etc\/defaults\/grub](https://preview.redd.it/ygskmolg8zw31.png?width=827&format=png&auto=webp&s=5239057d79b5a681d3ae2e94cae873ec20be9a6e)

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[Figure 3: You need to add these two circled fields to the GRUB\_CMDLINE\_LINUX\_DEFAULT list](https://preview.redd.it/6wgh7tnq9zw31.png?width=831&format=png&auto=webp&s=aa590f1d0b9485a95fad9e74f81f8e88b46db2ba)

Sources:

[https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?noscript=Swap#Using\_a\_Swapfile](https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?noscript=Swap#Using_a_Swapfile)

[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power\_management/Suspend\_and\_hibernate#Hibernation](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate#Hibernation)

[https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=182392](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=182392)

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Let me know if you guys have any problems.

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Gnome has reached its funding goal and OIN is pivoting to target patent trolls
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/04/open_invention_network_will_pivot_to_take_on_patent_trolls/

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Why is it so hard to install packages on Linux?

There are so many ways to install packages on Linux, sometimes it can be so technical compared to Windows and Mac. Just double click the . exe or . dmg and next, next, next, finish.

With Linux sometimes you need to find and install dependencies, or use command line apt-get, snap, dpkg -i, sometimes add repositories, etc. It can really turn some people off from Linux.

Yes, there is the graphical software store to install programs and packages such as on Ubuntu but why doesn't Linux have a standard double click, simple installation process for all programs like OSX and Windows?

What are the benefits, if any, of having so many methods of installing software on Linux?

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Big shout-out to Calculate Linux for hosting their own little PeerTube instance
https://tube.calculate.social/videos/trending

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