This Week in Matrix 2020-01-03
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/03/this-week-in-matrix-2020-01-03

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Texas Linux Fest 2020 call for papers is open for two more weeks
https://www.papercall.io/txlf2020

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Some embedded systems engineer managed to make a Linux Buildroot distribution small enough to run on a business card.
https://github.com/thirtythreeforty/businesscard-linux

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This week in KDE: late holiday presents - Adventures in Linux and KDE
https://pointieststick.com/2020/01/04/this-week-in-kde-late-holiday-presents/

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A beginner needs help

I'm a college senior studying information security. I've had decent amount of experience with Linux. I took a class that required running a virtual Ubuntu server with multiple profiles with different privileges, downloading/configuring/hardening Apache, Postfix, Dovecot, OpenSSH, and PostGresql, and set up the firewall via IPtables. I got pretty good at the CLI, using basic commands like netstat, cp, rm, and many others.

I recently picked up a Raspberry Pi b and downloaded a basic ARM linux distro to keep my CLI skills sharp. I booted it up and thought, "what the heck do I do with this thing?" I don't have any project ideas.

How should I keep up with my linux skills with a blank linux distro and no plans to build something out of it?

Posts like this usually get downvoted to oblivion. Take it easy on me! I'm just an aspiring technologist who lacks direction. I'm sure you've all been there before.

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TTY Keyboard on PinePhone
https://invidio.us/watch?v=MAG2f04_aeE

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I'm looking for a set of noscripts to install a Debian based Linux distribution LIVE CD to a disk partition

Hello.

I need a set of noscripts to turn an existing preinstalled Debian based Linux distribution into a Live Kit (formely known as Live CD) AND another set of noscripts to install the Debian distro Linux LIVE CD to a disk partition. I found this :

[https://github.com/Tomas-M/linux-live](https://github.com/Tomas-M/linux-live)

it can accomplish only the first part of the job. I'm looking for a set of noscripts for the second part. Let me know,thanks.

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Upgrading Linux Kernel to the Latest.

I'm currently using 2 Linux distro on 2 separate machine. One of the machine being using somewhat latest kernel version, 5.3 and I know the most latest right now is 5.4.8. Most of the distros bring the latest kernel support out of the box. We all knows that Linux kernel being updated so frequent even distros developer couldn't ship their distro up to the current version because of some test need to be done in order to maintain stability support.

In the same time, those kernel updates comes with bug fixes to the hardwares, firmwares as well as security fixes that happening around Linux users. My nature agreed to the latest the kernel version is, the higher the gap between me and other glitches as well as receiving some supports, such as Wi-Fi drivers or CPU/GPU drivers. As of now I never tried to update the kernel manually without, not the one from the app store, command line is what I meant cause some people been talking about the system crash... Is that true?


I wanna know if it's worth or safe or recommended or anything to update the kernel before the distro developer ship the update.

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SuperTuxKart 1.1 released
http://blog.supertuxkart.net/2020/01/supertuxkart-11-released.html

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Torvalds' Comments On Linux Scheduler Woes: "Pure Garbage"
https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpostid=189723

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Introducing BusKill: A Kill Cord for Linux Laptop
https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2020/01/02/buskill-laptop-kill-cord-dead-man-switch/

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I wrote a 2-min explainer/refresher on Virtual Memory mostly for non-tech folks. Feedback is much appreciated.
https://thoughtscoop.com/2min-refresher-of-virtual-memory/

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Flowterm, a neat terminal emulator
http://objecticon.sourceforge.net/FlowTerm.html

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I want to vent about the GTK3 color picker for a moment.

That thing is an absolute piece of shit! Thankfully I don't have to use it often, but every time I have to it infuriates me. I just had to adjust the editor/syntax colors in Eclipse and if it wouldn't have been for the MATE color selector that task would have been impossible (the user experience of having to use an extra application for color picking from which you can copy colors from is also rather bad, I might say).

1. No screen-picking anymore (thanks to Wayland or touchscreens, I guess).
2. No setting of RGB values anymore.
3. No setting of HSL values anymore (to be fair, I never used that, or maybe I did once, not sure).
4. Choosing a custom color now takes one click more.
5. Once you've clicked "Custom", there's no going back to the color selector.
6. Choosing a color and then clicking "Custom" does not set your chosen color, instead you get some random-ass red.
7. Choosing a color does color the whole box with the selection color, you're not seeing what color the color is you have currently selected.
8. The available custom colors selection feels random.
9. The available custom colors behave random (At what point is a custom color added exactly? What order do these have?)
10. You'd like to know the Hex/RGB values of the pre-defined/custom color you've selected? Too bad.

Of course one could now say "you can always submit a better solution", but critics on this dialog (or any of the GTK3 dialogs) are not new and have been so far met with...well, no improvements. Additionally, something tells me that even if I come up with a better solution (MATE color picker, for example), it would not get merged upstream because it would not fit with the design (it might confuse users by displaying so many numbers). Also, critics on the dialogs seem to have a tendency to fall on deaf ears (monochrome icons in the file chooser?).

Now before somebody says "Qt for the win!", the Qt color picker sucks as bad as the Windows one!

I'm done venting, thanks, now I feel slightly better.

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GIMP and GEGL in 2019
https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/01/04/gimp-and-gegl-in-2019/

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A few thoughts on running Android-x86 on a laptop
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20200106#androidx86

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Bruce Perens quits Open Source Initiative amid row over new data-sharing crypto license: 'We've gone the wrong way with licensing'
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/03/osi_cofounder_resigns/

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Testing Android Apps with Anbox Part 1. | Ubuntu Touch | Whatsapp, Spotify and Instagram
https://invidio.us/watch?v=BU9uL9UYvog

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Linux Experiences/Rants or Education/Certifications thread - January 06, 2020

Welcome to r/linux rants and experiences! This megathread is also to hear opinions from anyone just starting out with Linux or those that have used Linux (GNU or otherwise) for a long time.

Let us know what's annoying you, whats making you happy, or something that you want to get out to r/linux but didn't make the cut into a full post of it's own.

For those looking for certifications please use this megathread to ask about how to get certified whether it's for the business world or for your own satisfaction. Be sure to check out r/linuxadmin for more discussion in the SysAdmin world!

_Please keep questions in r/linuxquestions, r/linux4noobs, or the Wednesday automod thread._

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Don't count on any (security) updates during the Christmas holidays from Canonical

// Being down voted on /r/ubuntu . somebody doesn't like this news coming out. Posting it here also.

Canonical did not push out "any" security updates this last Christmas holiday season yet some critical fixes should have been pushed a.s.a.p.

The last security update came out on 18 December 2019.

[https://linuxsecurity.com/advisories/ubuntu](https://linuxsecurity.com/advisories/ubuntu)

Looking at the Eoan changes mailing list the last update was pushed on Friday 20 December 2019 and then nothing came out of the company any more:

[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/eoan-changes/2019-December/thread.html](https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/eoan-changes/2019-December/thread.html)

Security doesn't stop when you send out all of your workers on holiday leave Canonical!

Its 6 January 2020 09:00 western European time and still no updates.

Ubuntu, The leading operating system, but not during the holidays apparently :(

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Hiri is the Microsoft Outlook Client For Linux

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[Now I can use Ubuntu and still have the Microsoft Exchange Integration](https://preview.redd.it/qce3k1f8e4941.jpg?width=810&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=045729effb3ce27c3901ba28735b737e7d0047d0)

I am documenting my 2020 goal to use only Ubuntu Linux at work.

[https://johnpili.com/hiri-is-the-microsoft-outlook-client-for-linux/](https://johnpili.com/hiri-is-the-microsoft-outlook-client-for-linux/)

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