Systemd positivity thread
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.syntax.html

https://redd.it/e2n3eo
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GNU/Linux PinePhone
https://youtu.be/mlO3jxU_bZk

https://redd.it/e2lldt
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First Librem 5 Birch phones being unboxed

Seems like Purism's Librem 5 phone (using that word even though you cannot yet talk on the phone it seems) is finally being delivered to some real users.

AMA from a user who got a Librem 5 delivered, over on r/Purism:

[https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/e2mqgb/i\_have\_my\_librem\_5\_ama/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x](https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/e2mqgb/i_have_my_librem_5_ama/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x)

Also, someone made a blog post with some pictures:

[https://azdle.net/2019/11/librem-5-unboxing/](https://azdle.net/2019/11/librem-5-unboxing/)

And there is this unboxing video:

[https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/55eece8c-2d6c-4da3-8c8c-895217d66e2a](https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/55eece8c-2d6c-4da3-8c8c-895217d66e2a)

Here is a Purism employee saying the call audio does not work yet: [https://forums.puri.sm/t/phones-coming-tomorrow-final-shipping-emails-via-u-kop316-u-azdle-pictures-in-thread/7967/15](https://forums.puri.sm/t/phones-coming-tomorrow-final-shipping-emails-via-u-kop316-u-azdle-pictures-in-thread/7967/15)

Anyway, great news!

https://redd.it/e2t233
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How to resize LUKS encryptedpartition (shrink or extend LUKS device) in Linux

I have written an article with the steps to extend and shrink LUKS encrypted device on a logical volume. Although such practice is not officially recommended but if it is required then one can follow this guide.

I have tested the extend and shrink on ext4 file system, while shrink doesnot works on XFS filesystem.

Do let me know your views if this needs to be improved in any manner.


I plan to write some more article on the same topic related to Network Bound Disc Encryption in RHEL 8


Here is the link to the article

[https://www.golinuxcloud.com/resize-luks-partition-shrink-extend-decrypt/](https://www.golinuxcloud.com/resize-luks-partition-shrink-extend-decrypt/)

https://redd.it/e2jcld
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Linux vs. Unix What is the difference?
https://opensource.com/article/18/5/differences-between-linux-and-unix

https://redd.it/e2u4br
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Redox OS: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc
https://www.redox-os.org/news/focusing-on-rustc/

https://redd.it/e2uj7k
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Linux vs. Unix What is the difference?
https://opensource.com/article/18/5/differences-between-linux-and-unix

https://redd.it/e2u4br
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Can’t reinstall OS

So I got an old laptop up and running and it’s lvm encrypted. I know that password but don’t know my user password. How can I reinstall an os? As I can boot onto USB but due to cryptosetup it won’t boot to be able to delete. And going back to windows is mundane

https://redd.it/e2w85k
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The file /var/lib/dbus/machine-id matters for your privacy (and Devuan fixed it)


jaromil wrote on slashdot:

"A few days ago [Devuan ASCII 2.1 was announced](https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/ascii-point-release-announce-112119) and one update has been overlooked by most media outlets: our [dbus patch to re-generate machine-id at every boot](https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/dbus/commit/fa87b166962f3464278ae8ec76e102bd225a511e). This patch matters for everyone's privacy and I hope more distributions will follow our example, let alone Debian. We are dealing with important privacy implications: non-consensual user tracking is illegal in many countries and is [not even mentioned in the machine-id documentation so far](https://wiki.debian.org/MachineId)."

https://redd.it/e2iqsy
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googler (google from terminal) v4.0 released, works with new layout
https://github.com/jarun/googler/releases/tag/v4.0

https://redd.it/e2fex0
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Linux share at only 1,56% Last month
https://netmarketshare.com/linux-market-share?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22%24and%22%3A%5B%7B%22deviceType%22%3A%7B%22%24in%22%3A%5B%22Desktop%2Flaptop%22%5D%7D%7D%5D%7D%2C%22dateLabel%22%3A%22Custom%22%2C%22attributes%22%3A%22share%22%2C%22group%22%3A%22platform%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22share%22%3A-1%7D%2C%22plotKeys%22%3A%5B%7B%22platform%22%3A%22Linux%22%7D%2C%7B%22platform%22%3A%22Chrome%20OS%22%7D%2C%7B%22platform%22%3A%22Mac%20OS%22%7D%5D%2C%22id%22%3A%22linux%22%2C%22dateInterval%22%3A%22Monthly%22%2C%22dateStart%22%3A%222018-01%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222019-10%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D

https://redd.it/e2gjg6
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What's new in Firefox Preview 3.0
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/whats-new-firefox-preview-30

https://redd.it/e2z5dy
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Unicode (international) kernel font lookalike for X11. Work in progress.
https://github.com/srmrfm/X11kernelfont

https://redd.it/e305pt
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Why does the Librem 5 cost that much?
https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/

https://redd.it/e2zsxc
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Cannolo: a tool to shrink, flash and expand disk images on external devices

Cannolo is a simple bash tool that automatically shrinks disk images, flashes them on an external disk/device and expand the primary partition in order to fill the entire disk space.

I developed it in order to easily replicate some disk images/configurations on disks.

The project and more info [here](https://github.com/WEEE-Open/cannolo)

Feel free to contribute!

https://redd.it/e31nhi
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I found our beloved Tux the pengweng on the DFA site! I guess favicon.bmp needs to be changed.......
https://redd.it/e33d6w
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Trying to switch over to linux from windows but ran into two issues and would like suggestions

So i dual booted ubuntu because i thought it has the most apps and support (let me know if u have a better distro for me). Im a senior CS student and setting stuff up in windows is a major pain in the ass. I wanted to dual boot MacOS and Windows just so i can use MacOS for programming stuff but making a hackintosh is another pain. Anyways i mainly plan to do web development and android development in android studios so for that i think ubuntu is fine (maybe there is a better distro for this? im really new to linux).

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Anyways i found out that some major apps i use day to day are not supported by Ubuntu. For example, i use onedrive to sync everything from my desktop, laptop, phone and tablet. I downloaded InSync but its saying that i have a 15 day trial and another problem i have is that InSync doesn't let me resize the window which is a pain.

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I usually monitor the temps but idk how i can do it in linux.

https://redd.it/e363z0
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Private Internet Access and the Freenode IRC project
https://freenode.net/news/freenode-pia-changes

https://redd.it/e364lu
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What's inside etcd? A deep dive into the kubernetes world
https://medium.com/techlog/whats-inside-etcd-a-deep-dive-into-the-kubernetes-world-4792df3230d1

https://redd.it/e1hdba
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Pop!_OS is pretty awesome

Hi guys, first time Linux user. Installed 4 different distributions as guests on Virtual Box to get familiar with the Linux installation process across different distributions: RHEL, Manjaro, Kali, Debian, and Pop!\_OS. On Kali and Debian, I chose to have KDE as my desktop environment while Manjaro has Xfce set up, and Gnome was set up on RHEL and Pop!. Of course, since these where running on virtual machines running in Windows, performance isn't as snappy as performance would have been had I installed them on a real machine. However, Pop! performs really well. Videos played on the other Linux distros is choppy and "tears," which is to be expected since I didn't set up PCI passthrough to utilize my graphics card for rendering thus having that workload performed by my CPU. But video runs smoothly in Pop!\_OS. I allocated the same RAM and CPU core amounts to each VM, and yet Pop! is killing it! Anyways, wanted to share my "findings" with the community. Love Linux and hope to one day master its style of kung fu.

https://redd.it/e39gid
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Keeping memory contents secret [LWN.net]
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/804658/8eaf9fdc5477865e/

https://redd.it/e1du9t
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