Weekend Fluff / Linux in the Wild Thread - November 15, 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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Linux Journal is now back online!
https://www.linuxjournal.com/

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Most underused commands in terminal?



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Librem 5 October 2019 Software Update – Purism
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-october-2019-software-update/

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The PinePhone early dev-versions are available now.
https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinephone-braveheart-limited-edition-linux-smartphone-for-early-adaptor

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VGL - Better group manager for linux.

Hey people,

I made a noscript that some admin here might find useful : [https://github.com/0pb/VGL](https://github.com/0pb/VGL)

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The story : I have recently tried to put two different groups permissions on a single file and as you probably know -this kind of thing isn't possible-

I then looked up forums and post but it unfortunately only talks about ACL (Access Control List) and other windows-simulator-permission. Unfortunately, ACL only manage permission, it doesn't really manage groups and I'm not interested in setting up a heavy software for group management.

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So I decided to make a noscript that manage group and allow group to be in other group for example. It resulted in VGL - VirtualGroupLinux, which is a python noscript that allow the user to create and manage easily trought command line virtuals groups that act like "real" groups.

This noscript work well together with ACL so now you have a great group permission management on linux ! With nothing else than a noscript self sufficient (only latest python needed which all linux user should have anyways, no external dependancy or weird library to install) and ACL.

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If you still have any suggestion or question ask ahead !

If you don't like this noscript for any reason please tell me why !

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Linux Systems Performance
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa19/presentation/gregg-linux

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Automated bug report in Debian?

Debian Stable mostly competes against RHEL/CentOS for production servers and desktops, usually for its stability, hardware support, large package collection, independance and various other reasons.

However, while Fedora and Ubuntu use automated testing and bug report tools (abrt, apport), there's no such thing in Debian, so its stability mostly depends on manual bug report.

Sure, Debian has a large and reliable community behind it, but ironically, I find reportbug pretty buggy, and put frankly, antiquated. I understand Debian is investigating [automated code analysis](https://qa.debian.org/daca/) and has [puipart](https://piuparts.debian.org/) and [Lintian](https://lintian.debian.org/), but nothing like [FAF](https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/summary/) within Fedora. Is there a reason why SID and Testing ship without some automated crash and bug report tool?

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Korn the band and the korn shell?

So I just started learning about Linux. I am covering the different shells and the Korn shell caught my attention. It made me ask the question “did the band get it’s name for this spelling of korn? “ just thought it was interesting but does any know if there may be a relationship?

Sorry if this this has been asked before.

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Why isn’t Kali Linux beginner friendly?



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Is it possible to install Linux on an unformated drive position with WSL2 ?

(noscript)

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help me!

inside a .env file, all I have is BASE_URL="aword"

in the console I enter echo $BASE_URL, the only output I get is an empty line. Why?

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If you want security, disable hyper-threading, says Linux kernel maintainer
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/29/intel_disable_hyper_threading_linux_kernel_maintainer/

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Debian 10.2 Is now out!
https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20191116

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Wine 4.20 Released
https://www.winehq.org/news/2019111501

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Zathura and non-english symbols

There are a few issues open in pwmt's zathura repository about non-english symbols being unavailable for mapping. This is even worse for me as I type in Russian and have to switch layouts all the time.

Zathura devs say it's a girara issue, so I went on and mapped Russian letters to English ones where they map numpad keys to numbers row and it seems to work just fine. And I don't need to bind the Russian ones separately in the config file.

I think umlauts and other letters can be added as well, so check the diff on my GitHub if you are interested: https://github.com/teu5us/girara_ru-gentoo/blob/master/dev-libs/girara/files/patches/girara_ru_keys.diff

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Best Free Linux Text Editing Applications with Clone View Feature?

What are some recommendations for the best free Linux text editing applications that allow you to work on the same file simultaneously in two different windows (clone view)? I usually use notepad++ on Windows which allows you to do this but I'm looking for something that will work in Linux on a Chromebook. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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RSS reader on linux

I am interested if you guys are using any RSS Reader. If yes, which is your favourite and why?

Thanks in advance for all contributions.

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Like a BAT outta hell, Brave browser hits 1.0 with crypto-coin rewards for your fave websites
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/15/brave_web_browser_hits_version_1/

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Kickstarter - Volla Phone: Freedom through simplicity and security.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/volla/volla-phone-freedom-through-simplicity-and-security

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This is my experience with Windows and the reasons why I use Linux. Agree or disagree?

pauses upon EVERY click of a button

unstable driver system

bad defragmenting system

ads

saying there's a problem with a flash drive when there really isn't

permissions system (or lack thereof)

bloated processes

refusal to run an application upon first attempt to open it

keylogger

can't/won't completely uninstall ANY software

conglomeration of completely disconnected and unrelated colors and themes

cmd is hard to use (thank goodness they added powershell)

system resource hungry

unable to make necessary changes to the UI to make it more usable

admin tools are too difficult to navigate

UI is tied too closely to the core system, so any time the system lags, so does the UI.

There are 2 different control panels.

The updates are inconvenient and forced.

It's just so dang slow. Everything about it is like, "Oh dang it, you're here again?? But I was sleeping! Can't a guy get some shut eye??"

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