Netdata release v1.19
Hey all,
Introducing a major rewrite of our web log collector, [cmocka](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/cmocka?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDKJpuwODv-hPc236C7fM2r9vCYx9vTJeH93a18odECvej08YhKL8yikqtkH5YC0qIPbakDgFmmf15tnogjIj3cf_Wya85PQYEzfw9Y2OUmmX9y_0GfH_ikrxDZS109LzcjMTWo8zoUXSy893FBfR0_AxyBw6IFCcIkBObQiTOtCIjrxws3vt14_Jg5s_H61VJwB_KoiG9hPRXpuA6vV5Vm9rUSZUwM0KpucD6_6XrlRI2xwd7Sz5M_3Arnkqr4DckHC5NXNGGTVMUYJgz2H3mq1KcdwguQvlsigL2Pz4k6QW1ZCCYCvG21xk1UzcDAEEr15Yqxx-AEGa1AlNoxRqzZc8MM&__tn__=%2ANK-R) unit testing, improvements on our [Unbound](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/unbound?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDKJpuwODv-hPc236C7fM2r9vCYx9vTJeH93a18odECvej08YhKL8yikqtkH5YC0qIPbakDgFmmf15tnogjIj3cf_Wya85PQYEzfw9Y2OUmmX9y_0GfH_ikrxDZS109LzcjMTWo8zoUXSy893FBfR0_AxyBw6IFCcIkBObQiTOtCIjrxws3vt14_Jg5s_H61VJwB_KoiG9hPRXpuA6vV5Vm9rUSZUwM0KpucD6_6XrlRI2xwd7Sz5M_3Arnkqr4DckHC5NXNGGTVMUYJgz2H3mq1KcdwguQvlsigL2Pz4k6QW1ZCCYCvG21xk1UzcDAEEr15Yqxx-AEGa1AlNoxRqzZc8MM&__tn__=%2ANK-R) collector and even more! Check out our blog post for full details or read our release notes below.
Release v1.19.0 contains 2 new collectors, 19 bug fixes, 17 improvements, and 19 documentation updates. Full release notes can be found [here](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases/tag/v1.19.0).
**At a glance**
We completed a major rewrite of our web log collector to dramatically improve its flexibility and performance. The [new collector](https://github.com/netdata/go.d.plugin/pull/141), written entirely in Go, can parse and chart logs from Nginx and Apache servers, and combines numerous improvements. Netdata now supports the LTSV log format, creates charts for TLS and cipher usage, and is amazingly fast. In a test using SSD storage, the collector parsed the logs for 200,000 requests in about 200ms, using 30% of a single core.
This Go-based collector also has powerful custom log parsing capabilities, which means we're one step closer to a generic application log parser for Netdata. We're continuing to work on this parser to support more application log formatting in the future.
We have a new tutorial on [enabling the Go web log collector](https://docs.netdata.cloud/docs/tutorials/collect-apache-nginx-web-logs/) and using it with Nginx and/or Apache access logs with minimal configuration. Thanks to [Wing924](https://github.com/Wing924) for starting the Go rewrite!
We introduced more **cmocka unit testing** to Netdata. In this release, we're testing how Netdata's internal web server processes HTTP requests—the first step to improve the quality of code throughout, reduce bugs, and make refactoring easier. We wanted to validate the web server's behavior but needed to build a layer of parametric testing on top of the CMocka test runner. Read all about our process of testing and selecting cmocka on our blog post: [Building an agile team's 'safety harness' with cmocka and FOSS](https://blog.netdata.cloud/agile-team-cmocka-foss/).
Netdata's **Unbound collector** was also [completely rewritten in Go](https://github.com/netdata/go.d.plugin/pull/287) to improve how it collects and displays metrics. This new version can get dozens of metrics, including details on queries, cache, uptime, and even show per-thread metrics. See our [tutorial](https://docs.netdata.cloud/docs/tutorials/collect-unbound-metrics/) on enabling the new collector via Netdata's amazing auto-detection feature.
We [fixed an error](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/7220) where **invalid spikes** appeared on certain charts by improving the incremental counter reset/wraparound detection algorithm.
Netdata can now send [**health alarm notifications to IRC channels**](https://docs.netdata.cloud/health/notifications/irc/) thanks to [Strykar](https://github.com/Strykar)!
And, Netdata can now monitor [**AM2320 sensors**](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/python.d.plugin/am2320/), thanks to hard work from [Tom Buck](https://github.com/tommybuck).
**Improvements**
* **New Collectors**
* AM2320 sensor collector plugin
Hey all,
Introducing a major rewrite of our web log collector, [cmocka](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/cmocka?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDKJpuwODv-hPc236C7fM2r9vCYx9vTJeH93a18odECvej08YhKL8yikqtkH5YC0qIPbakDgFmmf15tnogjIj3cf_Wya85PQYEzfw9Y2OUmmX9y_0GfH_ikrxDZS109LzcjMTWo8zoUXSy893FBfR0_AxyBw6IFCcIkBObQiTOtCIjrxws3vt14_Jg5s_H61VJwB_KoiG9hPRXpuA6vV5Vm9rUSZUwM0KpucD6_6XrlRI2xwd7Sz5M_3Arnkqr4DckHC5NXNGGTVMUYJgz2H3mq1KcdwguQvlsigL2Pz4k6QW1ZCCYCvG21xk1UzcDAEEr15Yqxx-AEGa1AlNoxRqzZc8MM&__tn__=%2ANK-R) unit testing, improvements on our [Unbound](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/unbound?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDKJpuwODv-hPc236C7fM2r9vCYx9vTJeH93a18odECvej08YhKL8yikqtkH5YC0qIPbakDgFmmf15tnogjIj3cf_Wya85PQYEzfw9Y2OUmmX9y_0GfH_ikrxDZS109LzcjMTWo8zoUXSy893FBfR0_AxyBw6IFCcIkBObQiTOtCIjrxws3vt14_Jg5s_H61VJwB_KoiG9hPRXpuA6vV5Vm9rUSZUwM0KpucD6_6XrlRI2xwd7Sz5M_3Arnkqr4DckHC5NXNGGTVMUYJgz2H3mq1KcdwguQvlsigL2Pz4k6QW1ZCCYCvG21xk1UzcDAEEr15Yqxx-AEGa1AlNoxRqzZc8MM&__tn__=%2ANK-R) collector and even more! Check out our blog post for full details or read our release notes below.
Release v1.19.0 contains 2 new collectors, 19 bug fixes, 17 improvements, and 19 documentation updates. Full release notes can be found [here](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases/tag/v1.19.0).
**At a glance**
We completed a major rewrite of our web log collector to dramatically improve its flexibility and performance. The [new collector](https://github.com/netdata/go.d.plugin/pull/141), written entirely in Go, can parse and chart logs from Nginx and Apache servers, and combines numerous improvements. Netdata now supports the LTSV log format, creates charts for TLS and cipher usage, and is amazingly fast. In a test using SSD storage, the collector parsed the logs for 200,000 requests in about 200ms, using 30% of a single core.
This Go-based collector also has powerful custom log parsing capabilities, which means we're one step closer to a generic application log parser for Netdata. We're continuing to work on this parser to support more application log formatting in the future.
We have a new tutorial on [enabling the Go web log collector](https://docs.netdata.cloud/docs/tutorials/collect-apache-nginx-web-logs/) and using it with Nginx and/or Apache access logs with minimal configuration. Thanks to [Wing924](https://github.com/Wing924) for starting the Go rewrite!
We introduced more **cmocka unit testing** to Netdata. In this release, we're testing how Netdata's internal web server processes HTTP requests—the first step to improve the quality of code throughout, reduce bugs, and make refactoring easier. We wanted to validate the web server's behavior but needed to build a layer of parametric testing on top of the CMocka test runner. Read all about our process of testing and selecting cmocka on our blog post: [Building an agile team's 'safety harness' with cmocka and FOSS](https://blog.netdata.cloud/agile-team-cmocka-foss/).
Netdata's **Unbound collector** was also [completely rewritten in Go](https://github.com/netdata/go.d.plugin/pull/287) to improve how it collects and displays metrics. This new version can get dozens of metrics, including details on queries, cache, uptime, and even show per-thread metrics. See our [tutorial](https://docs.netdata.cloud/docs/tutorials/collect-unbound-metrics/) on enabling the new collector via Netdata's amazing auto-detection feature.
We [fixed an error](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/7220) where **invalid spikes** appeared on certain charts by improving the incremental counter reset/wraparound detection algorithm.
Netdata can now send [**health alarm notifications to IRC channels**](https://docs.netdata.cloud/health/notifications/irc/) thanks to [Strykar](https://github.com/Strykar)!
And, Netdata can now monitor [**AM2320 sensors**](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/python.d.plugin/am2320/), thanks to hard work from [Tom Buck](https://github.com/tommybuck).
**Improvements**
* **New Collectors**
* AM2320 sensor collector plugin
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* Added parsing of /proc/pagetypeinfo to provide metrics on fragmentation of free memory pages
* The unbound collector module was completely rewritten, in Go [go.d.plugin/#287](https://github.com/netdata/go.d.plugin/pull/287)
**Collector improvements**
* **We rewrote our web log parser in Go, drastically improving its flexibility and performance**
* The [Kubernetes kubelet collector](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/go.d.plugin/modules/k8s_kubelet/) now reads the service account token and uses it for authorization. We also added a new default job to collect metrics from https://localhost:10250/metrics
* Added a new default job to the [Kubernetes coredns](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/go.d.plugin/modules/coredns/) collector to collect metrics from [http://kube-dns.kube-system.svc.cluster.local:9153/metrics](http://kube-dns.kube-system.svc.cluster.local:9153/metrics)
* apps.plugin: Synced FRRouting daemons configuration with the frr 7.2 release
* apps.plugin: Added process group for git-related processes-apps.plugin: Added balena to the container-engines application group
* web\_log: Treat 401 Unauthorized requests as successful
* xenstat.plugin: Prepare for xen 4.13 by checking for check xenstat\_vbd\_errorpresence
* mysql: Added galera cluster\_statusalarm
* **Metrics Database**
* Netdata generates alarms if the disk cannot keep up with data collection
* **Health**
* Fine tune various default alarm configurations
* Update SYN cookie alarm to be less aggressive
* Added support for IRC alarm notifications
* **Installation/Packages**
* Corrected the Makefile.am files indentation, to prevent unexpected errors
* Rationalized ownership and permissions of /etc/netdata
* Made various improvements to the installer noscript netdata-installer.sh
* Include go.d.plugin version v0.11.0
* **Other**
* Improve Travis build warnings
* cmocka testing for http requests
* CI/CD: Prevented nightly jobs from timing out
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* The unbound collector module was completely rewritten, in Go [go.d.plugin/#287](https://github.com/netdata/go.d.plugin/pull/287)
**Collector improvements**
* **We rewrote our web log parser in Go, drastically improving its flexibility and performance**
* The [Kubernetes kubelet collector](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/go.d.plugin/modules/k8s_kubelet/) now reads the service account token and uses it for authorization. We also added a new default job to collect metrics from https://localhost:10250/metrics
* Added a new default job to the [Kubernetes coredns](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/go.d.plugin/modules/coredns/) collector to collect metrics from [http://kube-dns.kube-system.svc.cluster.local:9153/metrics](http://kube-dns.kube-system.svc.cluster.local:9153/metrics)
* apps.plugin: Synced FRRouting daemons configuration with the frr 7.2 release
* apps.plugin: Added process group for git-related processes-apps.plugin: Added balena to the container-engines application group
* web\_log: Treat 401 Unauthorized requests as successful
* xenstat.plugin: Prepare for xen 4.13 by checking for check xenstat\_vbd\_errorpresence
* mysql: Added galera cluster\_statusalarm
* **Metrics Database**
* Netdata generates alarms if the disk cannot keep up with data collection
* **Health**
* Fine tune various default alarm configurations
* Update SYN cookie alarm to be less aggressive
* Added support for IRC alarm notifications
* **Installation/Packages**
* Corrected the Makefile.am files indentation, to prevent unexpected errors
* Rationalized ownership and permissions of /etc/netdata
* Made various improvements to the installer noscript netdata-installer.sh
* Include go.d.plugin version v0.11.0
* **Other**
* Improve Travis build warnings
* cmocka testing for http requests
* CI/CD: Prevented nightly jobs from timing out
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cron.weekly is back
For those not aware, [cron.weekly](https://ma.ttias.be/cron-weekly-is-coming-back/) was, well now is again a weekly newsletter covering various linux topics distributed VIA email.
For those learning linux I suggest you check this newsletter out.
[Archive](https://ma.ttias.be/cronweekly/) going back to 2015.
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For those not aware, [cron.weekly](https://ma.ttias.be/cron-weekly-is-coming-back/) was, well now is again a weekly newsletter covering various linux topics distributed VIA email.
For those learning linux I suggest you check this newsletter out.
[Archive](https://ma.ttias.be/cronweekly/) going back to 2015.
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cron.weekly is coming back!
Once upon a time I wrote a weekly newsletter on Linux, open source & web development.
PinePhone: Everything you need to know about the $150 Linux-powered phone
https://www.androidauthority.com/pine64-pinephone-1053395/
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https://www.androidauthority.com/pine64-pinephone-1053395/
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Android Authority
Pine64 PinePhone is a $150 Linux phone that breaks the mold
The Pine64 PinePhone is a $150 smartphone with specs to match, but this device offers something most other mass market handsets can't — it runs Linux.
Librem 5 backers have begun receiving their Linux phones
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/12/librem-5-backers-receiving-their-linux-phones/
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/12/librem-5-backers-receiving-their-linux-phones/
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Ars Technica
Librem 5 backers have begun receiving their Linux phones
The first Librem 5 backers have begun receiving mostly working prototype devices.
Purism Releases Hardware Schematics for Librem 5 Linux Phone
https://puri.sm/posts/a-different-kind-of-transparency/
What do you think? How momentous is this? Is this the start of a new era for smartphones? What do you think of Purism’s design? Why are they having issues with heat? What will it take to fix it?
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https://puri.sm/posts/a-different-kind-of-transparency/
What do you think? How momentous is this? Is this the start of a new era for smartphones? What do you think of Purism’s design? Why are they having issues with heat? What will it take to fix it?
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Purism
A Different Kind of Transparency – Purism
Purism — Private and Secure Hardware, Software, and Services
Tool: I wrote a realtime regex extractor and data-aggregator
This is a bit of a x-post from /r/golang, but I thought folks here might find use for this.
I wanted to share a tool I wrote recently which was driven partly because of some technical issues I've faced recently (Lots of large-scale log parsing), and some frustration with existing tools in my toolkit. I ended up writing a small go cli app to run a regex and extract/summarize data in various formats (histogram, table, numerical summary, etc) in a performant way. This solved the problem of getting incremental output while parsing the files, along with an easy to learn syntax for aggregating the data (as long as your pretty good at regex..)
Here's a moderately complex example of parsing a nginx access log. There are three parts in this example: -m
the match extractor (regex), -e the key expression and -i to ignore a truthy expression. The below example gets all the paths and their statuses, ignoring 200, and outputs the results.
$ rare histo -m '"(\w{3,4}) ([A-Za-z/.]+).*" (\d{3})' -e '{3} {1} {2}' -i '{eq {3} 200}' -b access.log
404 GET /robots.txt 728 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
404 GET /favicon.ico 109 |||||||
304 GET / 52 |||
301 GET /mirror 11
403 GET /mirror/distros/cup/ 7
Matched: 941 / 161,622 (Ignored: 160,681)
Groups: 23
There's a lot of features (gunzip, json, asthmatic, etc), but I don't want to bloat this post, so check the links below.
I'm posting here for two reasons. 1) I'm hoping that someone will see this and find it helpful or useful and 2) I'm not a go expert by any stretch, and am definitely open to language or functional input!
I've spent a lot of time optimizing the performance characteristics of the program to be comparable to other similar applications (Learned a lot about go's pprof along the way). I also tried to bundle it up in all the popular formats (deb, rpm, tar, homebrew)
Always happy to hear feedback!
Github: [https://github.com/zix99/rare](https://github.com/zix99/rare)
Post (With lots of examples): [https://www.zdyn.net/projects/2019/11/17/rare.html](https://www.zdyn.net/projects/2019/11/17/rare.html)
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This is a bit of a x-post from /r/golang, but I thought folks here might find use for this.
I wanted to share a tool I wrote recently which was driven partly because of some technical issues I've faced recently (Lots of large-scale log parsing), and some frustration with existing tools in my toolkit. I ended up writing a small go cli app to run a regex and extract/summarize data in various formats (histogram, table, numerical summary, etc) in a performant way. This solved the problem of getting incremental output while parsing the files, along with an easy to learn syntax for aggregating the data (as long as your pretty good at regex..)
Here's a moderately complex example of parsing a nginx access log. There are three parts in this example: -m
the match extractor (regex), -e the key expression and -i to ignore a truthy expression. The below example gets all the paths and their statuses, ignoring 200, and outputs the results.
$ rare histo -m '"(\w{3,4}) ([A-Za-z/.]+).*" (\d{3})' -e '{3} {1} {2}' -i '{eq {3} 200}' -b access.log
404 GET /robots.txt 728 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
404 GET /favicon.ico 109 |||||||
304 GET / 52 |||
301 GET /mirror 11
403 GET /mirror/distros/cup/ 7
Matched: 941 / 161,622 (Ignored: 160,681)
Groups: 23
There's a lot of features (gunzip, json, asthmatic, etc), but I don't want to bloat this post, so check the links below.
I'm posting here for two reasons. 1) I'm hoping that someone will see this and find it helpful or useful and 2) I'm not a go expert by any stretch, and am definitely open to language or functional input!
I've spent a lot of time optimizing the performance characteristics of the program to be comparable to other similar applications (Learned a lot about go's pprof along the way). I also tried to bundle it up in all the popular formats (deb, rpm, tar, homebrew)
Always happy to hear feedback!
Github: [https://github.com/zix99/rare](https://github.com/zix99/rare)
Post (With lots of examples): [https://www.zdyn.net/projects/2019/11/17/rare.html](https://www.zdyn.net/projects/2019/11/17/rare.html)
https://redd.it/e58l7q
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GitHub
GitHub - zix99/rare: Create terminal-based histograms, bar graphs, tables, heatmaps and more in realtime using regex and expressions.
Create terminal-based histograms, bar graphs, tables, heatmaps and more in realtime using regex and expressions. - zix99/rare
Going back to Windows is not an option! A month into my switch to Manjaro KDE
I have my machine dual-booted but I haven't gone back to the Windows installation. I don't want to. I will put up with any of the glitches and bugs with the Nvidia drivers and such. I haven't got much to say; I could go into a rant about how much I hate Windows and never realized it but, that would make this post be a novel and I think that it is very well covered on this sub. I will just say that every time that I have to use Windows (like at school or in a VM for my 3D printers software) it just feels so clunky. The customization; wow the customization it's endless. I love it! It is awesome.
https://redd.it/e5ate0
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I have my machine dual-booted but I haven't gone back to the Windows installation. I don't want to. I will put up with any of the glitches and bugs with the Nvidia drivers and such. I haven't got much to say; I could go into a rant about how much I hate Windows and never realized it but, that would make this post be a novel and I think that it is very well covered on this sub. I will just say that every time that I have to use Windows (like at school or in a VM for my 3D printers software) it just feels so clunky. The customization; wow the customization it's endless. I love it! It is awesome.
https://redd.it/e5ate0
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reddit
Going back to Windows is not an option! A month into my switch to...
I have my machine dual-booted but I haven't gone back to the Windows installation. I don't want to. I will put up with any of the glitches and...
Beta testers wanted for harmony - Voice chat using Opus over WebRTC and Go
I'm working on a Discord alternative called [harmony](https://git.sr.ht/~tslocum/harmony). The initial proof of concept works! I'm hoping to find a few testers to run the initial release on their server (and hopefully share it with a few friends) and provide feedback.
A server exposes a web interface utilizing WebSockets and WebRTC. A native client is planned for desktop and mobile.
Please reply or send a message if you're interested in running a server. I hope to have the first release ready within the next week.
If you have any issues or suggestions feel free to share them [here](https://todo.sr.ht/~tslocum/harmony).
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I'm working on a Discord alternative called [harmony](https://git.sr.ht/~tslocum/harmony). The initial proof of concept works! I'm hoping to find a few testers to run the initial release on their server (and hopefully share it with a few friends) and provide feedback.
A server exposes a web interface utilizing WebSockets and WebRTC. A native client is planned for desktop and mobile.
Please reply or send a message if you're interested in running a server. I hope to have the first release ready within the next week.
If you have any issues or suggestions feel free to share them [here](https://todo.sr.ht/~tslocum/harmony).
https://redd.it/e59ts2
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Disney plus working
Just tried Disney plus on Firefox. Seems to be working. Anyone els have any luck?
https://redd.it/e5dm31
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Just tried Disney plus on Firefox. Seems to be working. Anyone els have any luck?
https://redd.it/e5dm31
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reddit
Disney plus working
Just tried Disney plus on Firefox. Seems to be working. Anyone els have any luck?
Desktop Linux on Android!
I've been using my note 9 for nearly a year now thanks to Linux on Dex but they've now cancelled it. I found a great alternative called andronix on the play store! I'm running Debian 10 arm64 now.
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I've been using my note 9 for nearly a year now thanks to Linux on Dex but they've now cancelled it. I found a great alternative called andronix on the play store! I'm running Debian 10 arm64 now.
​
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Help us create a video of cool features in Krita
https://krita-artists.org/t/help-us-create-a-video-of-cool-features-in-krita/1590
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https://krita-artists.org/t/help-us-create-a-video-of-cool-features-in-krita/1590
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Krita Artists
Help us create a video of cool features in Krita
After seeing a bunch of nice tricks available in krita here, we felt that a lot of people are not aware of its awesome features. And with a small team it is really hard for the developers to produce content for showing off all the features along with other…
Firefox 71 released: Improved Lockwise, native mp3 decoding
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/71.0/releasenotes/
https://redd.it/e5i714
@r_linux
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/71.0/releasenotes/
https://redd.it/e5i714
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Mozilla
Firefox 71.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
Introducing elementary OS 5.1 Hera - Built-in Flatpak support and lots of new goodies
https://blog.elementary.io/introducing-elementary-os-5-1-hera/
https://redd.it/e5i700
@r_linux
https://blog.elementary.io/introducing-elementary-os-5-1-hera/
https://redd.it/e5i700
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blog.elementary.io
Introducing elementary OS 5.1 Hera
A major update on a solid foundation
Positive early impression of Librem 5 open source, security + privacy centered smartphone
https://azdle.net/2019/11/comparing-apples-and-gnomes/
https://redd.it/e5ky66
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https://azdle.net/2019/11/comparing-apples-and-gnomes/
https://redd.it/e5ky66
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reddit
Positive early impression of Librem 5 open source, security +...
Posted in r/linux by u/the_darkener • 17 points and 3 comments
I added a new piece of software to my arsenal today - Remmina and freerdp
I use my personal laptop at work where we have a fully windows environment. I had to have my laptop though, I was designing a website and using a windows desktop to rdc into the server to open the hyperV vm window was not cutting it, I needed vim, i3, and speed to be comfortable. I could just ssh from my Linux pc into my webserver and all my problems were solved. I began to use my laptop more and my windows desktop even less, to the point where the desktop is just a total waste of space... Until I gained some new responsibilities which forced me to use our companies very custom build inventory program built around MS Access and inaccessible without getting through active directory.
We had talked about trying things like Samba and OpenLDAP to have a more free and non-platform exclusive environment, but those are huge projects and they don't come without bugs. I started looking into using rdp this morning and immediately found Remmina. With freerdp to add the remote desktop protocol Remmina made it super easy to get into multiple servers since I already had a windows login to give it, I just specified the domain and it just works, I don't need to be a part of active directory to initiate rdp, I just have to have the credentials. Now I no longer need this desktop taking space on my desk, in fact there are numerous other perks to it. If I was using one of the companies laptops, not only would it be slower, if I walked around the plant I would periodically jump between routers and lose connection to AD long enough for it to break Access. With rdp all it does is lose connection to the server and it reconnects and everything serverside is left as it was, still connected. There wasn't a single config file I needed to configure either, compare that to joining a domain with samba. Running and rdc is way more efficient too, I was contemplating using a vm, which would not only require a license, but it would be extremely intensive, and better yet, I have a literal server to run stupid MS Access, 24gb of ram baby.
I'm just hoping this helps someone out. It is very possible to use Linux in a Windows environment, even if you have to piggyback and still use Windows, you can do it even better and still have nothing proprietary on your end.
https://redd.it/e5mfoj
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I use my personal laptop at work where we have a fully windows environment. I had to have my laptop though, I was designing a website and using a windows desktop to rdc into the server to open the hyperV vm window was not cutting it, I needed vim, i3, and speed to be comfortable. I could just ssh from my Linux pc into my webserver and all my problems were solved. I began to use my laptop more and my windows desktop even less, to the point where the desktop is just a total waste of space... Until I gained some new responsibilities which forced me to use our companies very custom build inventory program built around MS Access and inaccessible without getting through active directory.
We had talked about trying things like Samba and OpenLDAP to have a more free and non-platform exclusive environment, but those are huge projects and they don't come without bugs. I started looking into using rdp this morning and immediately found Remmina. With freerdp to add the remote desktop protocol Remmina made it super easy to get into multiple servers since I already had a windows login to give it, I just specified the domain and it just works, I don't need to be a part of active directory to initiate rdp, I just have to have the credentials. Now I no longer need this desktop taking space on my desk, in fact there are numerous other perks to it. If I was using one of the companies laptops, not only would it be slower, if I walked around the plant I would periodically jump between routers and lose connection to AD long enough for it to break Access. With rdp all it does is lose connection to the server and it reconnects and everything serverside is left as it was, still connected. There wasn't a single config file I needed to configure either, compare that to joining a domain with samba. Running and rdc is way more efficient too, I was contemplating using a vm, which would not only require a license, but it would be extremely intensive, and better yet, I have a literal server to run stupid MS Access, 24gb of ram baby.
I'm just hoping this helps someone out. It is very possible to use Linux in a Windows environment, even if you have to piggyback and still use Windows, you can do it even better and still have nothing proprietary on your end.
https://redd.it/e5mfoj
@r_linux
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