cron.weekly issue #118: goals, PHP, Go, Awk, CoreOS & more
https://ma.ttias.be/cronweekly/issue-118/

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Should i switch to Linux ?

So I used windows my whole life and now I want to switch to linux. Which one do you recommend to me ? And what should I know about linux. Primary usage would be design/coding.

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This week in KDE: Converging towards something special
https://pointieststick.com/2020/01/26/this-week-in-kde-converging-towards-something-special/

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Secure cloud backup plan!?

Hi all,

i want to backup my entire linux ssd, it is 240GB and only used 140gb off it. But incase my ssd dies i want to have a 1:1 copie on a cloud server. Who knows a good plan to go with, needs to be proper encrypted. Going to expand to a 1TB nvme drive soon, so i need 1TB+ storage. Mutiple computer backup support is a plus!

waiting for your suggestions!

TA

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Most Useful Softwares for Microsoft as well as Linux
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I have patched libinput to provide 3-finger drag functionality

This includes patches to libinput itself, and X11 libinput driver (I don't care about Wayland too much, but I guess the compositor would need to have a switch to enable it). The only thing I have not yet implemented is [that little countdown](https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89999#c6) when you need to lift your fingers off touchpad for long drags. But that's for another weekend.

However, there's a dilemma. Given that [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/6c64jr/3_finger_drag_for_wayland/) summarizes pretty accurately the state of upstream when it comes to basic usability issues, I'm *very* reluctant to contribute the patch there. Also, most of the discussion participant are salaried for their bickering and bikeshedding (by Red Hat, no less), and I'm not. It's also hacky enough to open another Pandora's box of bikeshedding around where the initialization code should be and where the config structure should reside.

Prior art: [this guy](https://github.com/complyue/libinput) who did a more comprehensive effort (I think he also did the drag-timeout-drag thing), but I didn't try his code and just did it my way because I could, and because it's mine, dammit. Keeps me wondering, though, why he didn't try contributing his patches to upstream as well. Probably because the libinput/wayland/GNOME devs are so nice and welcoming to new (not really) ideas. ;-)

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My first encounter with linux as an 11 year old.

One day I went to the library to get some books to read because I was bored. I couldn't find anything interesting so I hopped onto one of the new computers used to search books.

When I opened up the computer I immediately got confused when I saw that this wasn't Windows. It looked better, it was faster and everything went smoother.

After that I went home and never thought about it again, until 4 years later when I switched to Linux.

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Add a newline after output of every command in bash?

Is it possible to automatically insert a newline after the output of a bash command has returned? I am looking to put a bit of space between my prompt and the previous command to aid readability.

Thanks

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Top Ranked Linux Distros by Popularity on the Internet Based on the Information at Alexa

So there is this website and it's called Alexa, it can show the popularity in terms of how many visits each website gets. Now I figured, since there is no real impartial ranking of Linux distros by popularity (Google Trends doesnt work well because of the keywords not being impartial, so there is bias in terms of exact search keywords used, and DistroWatch is frequently gamed to make smaller distros appear more popular than they really are) that I would create an Alexa based ranking of each distribution.

The original search results were as follows.

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[Original result of Alexa ranked Linux distro sites](https://preview.redd.it/iw3aeplnp5d41.png?width=210&format=png&auto=webp&s=d64c17d167f746a53a7f701775a38d6f7908987c)

Now I added a little bit of processing (mainly converting it to a Log scale because the rankings are really sharply ranked) and the final output is as follows.

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[Log ranked Distros by Alexa Rank](https://preview.redd.it/khvf3gdkp5d41.png?width=216&format=png&auto=webp&s=bc4d86f9f618f6a046167f82d2d466aeb72d08a0)

Now it cannot be used as a definitive go to Linux guide because obviously different Linux distros have different goals, such as some being desktop-oriented and some being server-oriented and they are not all driven to be as popular as possible, some don't have a huge growth in mind as their base goals anyway. But I hope it at least gives a taste of where in the overall scheme of things, in terms of how much they are used, the different Linux distros are.

I hope this was a helpful analysis of where the different distros are based at in terms of how much they might be used and thanks for reading through this.

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Music Library Management with automatic folder setup

Hey, currently searching for a Tool to manage my library.

Not tagging the files, i got something for that, rather setting up the folder hierarchy like /music/\*artist/\*album for example. Anyone got something for me?

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Exein - Open Source Security Module for Linux

Hi guys we are working on Exein, an on edge machine learning security module for linux, we released a first version targeting Open-WRT for ARM and MIPS, in the next weeks we will relase it for other platform and kernels , we aim to build secure devices , hope you like our work and please share your opinion with us!

[https://github.com/Exein-io/exein-openwrt](https://github.com/Exein-io/exein-openwrt)

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Thanks!

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Exein team!

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QMessenger: desktop GUI messenger with Qt, POSIX sockets and threads

## Functional features

* private messaging
* group messaging (messages sent to multiple selected users)
* broadcast messaging (messages sent to all online users)
* supporting colored unicode emojies (UTF-16 encoding)
* messages visible in Linux terminal (colors and emojies also supported)
* login and registration (password is stored with sha254 hashing algorithm)
* easy upgradable to support file transfer
* easy upgradable to support SSL secure communication

## Download:

**Github repository:** [https://github.com/AraKhachatryan/QMessenger](https://github.com/AraKhachatryan/QMessenger)

## Requirements

* g++ compiler with C++11 standart
* Supporting POSIX standarts
* GNU make
* OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or higher
* QMake version 3.1 or higher
* Qt version 5.9.5 or higher

## Compiling and usage:

on server side:

$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
$ openssl version
$ make
$ ./server

on client side:

$ sudo apt-get install qt5-default
$ qmake -v
$ qmake
$ make $ ./client

## Screenshot:

https://preview.redd.it/i8013lve86d41.png?width=1265&format=png&auto=webp&s=e3bcf759fd35eea14d8844756d65ecc005fee506

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A new commandline/sysadmin course - via Reddit

A month-long challenge for anyone wanting to build Linux sysadmin skills. Daily lessons will appear in the sub-reddit /r/linuxupskillchallange from 3 February - which will also be used for support/discussion. All going well this will be a 'rolling' course repeated each month.

Does require some serious commitment, but if gaining/growing these skills was one of your New Years Resolutions, then you now have no excuse! Look forward to seeing you there! [https://linuxupskillchallange.com](https://linuxupskillchallange.com)

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"A Political History of X" - Keith Packard (LCA 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj02_UeUnGQ

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GtkStressTesting (GST): a system utility designed to stress and monitoring various hardware components

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[GtkStressTesting \(GST\)](https://preview.redd.it/uzs3avd5w6d41.png?width=1190&format=png&auto=webp&s=be9e38a25817a01a812ad0c1d157530e089cd55d)

Hi everyone, I recently published my latest Linux app and I was hoping to get some feedback for it here.

[GST](https://gitlab.com/leinardi/gst) is a GTK system utility designed to stress and monitor~~ing~~ various hardware components. Currently the main focus is the CPU but I will soon add more tests also for RAM and Cache.

Beside the stress testing feature, it provides also many information about the system, like:

* Show Processor information (name, cores, threads, family, model, stepping, flags,bugs, etc)
* Show Processor's cache information
* Show Motherboard information (vendor, model, bios version, bios date, etc)
* Show RAM information ^(root required) (size, speed, rank, manufacturer, part number, etc)
* Show CPU usage (core %, user %, load avg, etc)
* Show Memory usage
* Show CPU's physical's core clock (current, min, max)
* Show Hardware monitor (info provided by `sys/class/hwmon`)

The app is written entirely in Python and the stress testing part is handled by [stress-ng](https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng).

The app is available on Flathub, AUR and Fedora CORP (see the [README.md](https://gitlab.com/leinardi/gst#distro-specific-packages) for details) but it is always possible to download the source and build it locally.

If you have comments regarding the app feel free to write here but, if you found a bug or would like to request a new feature, it would be better to use the official tracker: [https://gitlab.com/leinardi/gst/issues/new](https://gitlab.com/leinardi/gst/issues/new)

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Making a KDE Plasma edition of Linux Mint after official support was dropped in 19. I will keep you posted.
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Linux 5.5
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wigRZ6TSJU09bMk3Df2DiOw83B7TrQUq+iXroQCK5EVAQ@mail.gmail.com/T/

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FISH beta 3.1b1 released
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/3.1b1

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virtual private servers are NOT virtual... correct?

Hey everyone, please go easy on me because I'm just getting involved with linux (in a sense) and playing around with an Ubuntu 18.04 droplet on Digital Ocean. One thing that's kind of confusing me is people calling a droplet a "Virtual Private Server" when (correct me if I'm wrong) there is nothing all that virtual about it- my droplet runs on hardware in a data center in New York. Am I going crazy or can't we just call such services "servers for rent"? I am able to log into the console of the server remotely on my laptop though, which is cool- but is this the only reason that people call it "virtual"? Thanks everyone, looking forward to your thoughts on this and hopefully getting some clarification.

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Linux Experiences/Rants or Education/Certifications thread - January 27, 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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A Quodlibet Plugin which mimics Foobar2000s File Operations
https://github.com/cwecht/quodlibet_file_operations

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