Tablet for Linux

Hello,
I'm looking for a tablet with good battery . I want install Linux on it. Thanks for any advice guys :)

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Turning an old Windows Netbook into a Linux computer

I am having an old Netbook, Asus Eee PC 1000HE, specifications can be seen here: [https://www.cnet.com/products/asus-eee-pc-1000he/specs/](https://www.cnet.com/products/asus-eee-pc-1000he/specs/) and want to turn that one into a Linux computer, but being no expert (although with some experience in Raspbian) I have no idea how to proceed. Any advice will be greatly appreciated as I'll have a lot of fun with a Linux Netbook and this Windows crab is of no use to me at all (and extremely slow anyway).

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Im high as fuckkk

Shout out to everyone just now getting linux to jailbreak with checkra1n!

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Dual Boot Help (Win10 and CentOS8)

Please help me guys. I'm losing my mind trying to dual boot my machine.

Here is the specs of my machine:

- acer 4755g
- SSD for windows 10 and HDD for CentOS 8 (partition, not whole disk is used)

**Problem:**


- CentOS grub cannot detect windows 10 bootloader.

**Here are the steps that I have done to correct it:**

- Installed ntfs-3g and ran sudo grub2-mkconfig > /dev/null. It still does not see the windows boot loader. In fact, sudo grub2-mkconfig > /dev/null returns nothing.

- Also tried to manually add chainloder on grub, still nothing.

**Possible reason for the problem**

- Windows 10 is installed using BIOS and CentOS is using UEFI

I'm just confused on how CentOS managed to install UEFI on my machine. I'm pretty sure that my machine only supports BIOS. Note: To make the bootable USB, I used rufus with the MBR option.

**FINAL NOTE:**


I think if I convert the bootloader of CentOS from UEFI to BIOS, this problem will be solved.
But can it be converted and How?

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When is Firefox/Chrome/Chromium going to support hardware-accelerated video decoding?

We are in the year 2020, with Linux growing stronger as ever, and we still do not have a popular browser that supports something as simple as hardware-accelerated video decoding (YouTube video for example).

I use Ubuntu on both of my PCs (AMD Ryzen 1700/RX 580 on the desktop, and AMD Ryzen 2500U/Vega 8 on laptop), and I need to limit all of my video playback to 1440p60 maximum, since 4K video pretty much kills the smoothness of the video. This is really pissing me off, since the Linux community is growing at a rate that we have never seen before, with many big companies bringing their apps to Linux (all distros), but something as basic as VAAPI/VDPAU support on browsers is lacking up until this day in stable releases, which on a laptop it is definitely needed, because of power needs (battery). Firefox should at least be the one that supported it, but even they don't.

The Dev branch of Chromium has hardware-accelerated video decoding, which works perfectly fine on Ubuntu 19.10, with Mesa 19.2.8, but they don't have any plans to move it to the Beta branch, and even less to the Stable release (from what I have been able to find, maybe I'm wrong here).

In a era where battery on laptops is something as important as ever, and with most Linux distros losing to Windows on the battery consumption subject (power management on Linux has never been really that great, to me at least), most people won't want to run Linux on their laptops, since this is a big issue. I have to keep limiting myself with video playback while on battery, because the brower has to use CPU-decoding, which obviously eats battery like it's nothing.

This is something that the entire community should be really vocal about, since it affects everyone, specially we that use Linux on mobile hardware. I think that if we make enough noise, Mozilla and Google (other browsers too), might look deeper into supporting something that is standard on other OSs for more that 10 years already (since the rise of HTML5, to be more specific). Come on people, we can get this fixed!

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migrating OS (ubuntu in EFI mode) between different types of drives? (SATA m.2 ssd to NVMe)

wondering what the best way to go about this would be. i'm out of the game when it comes to imaging software n such. my theoretical options from what i can think are:

1) dd raw sector by sector image

2) "smart" image like fz, macrium, that one that starts with a, etc

3) just making a partition on the destination drive and copying / to it. this seems like the "safest" way to me?

post any of these i understand i'd have to reinstall grub because sata and nvme use different device handles (/dev/uhnvmesomethingidr90293948 as opposed to /dev/sd*). sound correct? sounds correct to me but im just some guy.

i do not know if nowadays there's imaging software that handles this kind of migration automatically. but i think i can manage to run grub-install on a drive if needed.

here is a screenshot of my drive arrangement. very simple, no encryption, plenty of free space and they're both 256gb drives in the first place. only snafu is im not intimately familiar with if it being install in EFI mode could throw any sticks in the spokes.

EDIT: oops here screenshot https://imgur.com/YcGKrBu.png its sda

i just remembered the one that starts with a is acronis.

any input well appreciated! this is both for my sake and that of potential googlers. hi from the past.

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End-of-Life Announcement for CoreOS Container Linux
https://coreos.com/os/eol/

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Dell’s 2019 XPS 13 DE: As close as we currently get to Linux-computing nirvana
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/dells-2019-xps-13-developer-edition-the-best-linux-laptop-til-the-2020-version/

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FOSDEM 2020 talks are online
https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/events/

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PSA: Installing Ubuntu in UEFI mode to an external harddrive may alter your internal ESP partition. This is a known bug for 6 years, yet no fix so far.

I have a Surface and wanted to install Ubuntu to my external hard drive since I needed proper 3D acceleration for an university project. However, since I like Windows as a main desktop OS (dangerous to say here I guess, but there are quite a few things I really hate about Linux on Desktop) and my SSD is not that large, I wanted to install it to my already existing hard drive. So, I made room for a FAT32 partition and a ext4 partition, chose the ext4 for / and selected the FAT32 parition for the "Install boot loader to the following partition" option.

Guess what happens next? System installed, reboots and whoops, I'm in a GRUB shell. Okay, guess it just changed the UEFI boot variable. I disconnect the drive, and still boots to GRUB shell. Well here we go, Ubuntu just installed the boot loader to the internal SSD and set it as default boot loader, even though that was never intended. On top of that, it even installed a non working boot config, that's why I ended up in the GRUB shell after all.

After spending like 2 hours fixing this shit, I finally managed to remove GRUB from the SSD and moved it to the external hard drive. However, how did this happen?

Turns out [this is an almost 6 years old known bug reported with high priority.](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1396379?comments=all) No one bothered fixing it so far, even though it messes up the boot config and other distros don't seem to have this issue.

To spread awareness here, pay attention when installing Ubuntu in UEFI mode as dual boot, even on an external hard drive. Kinda strange to ignore a given option, especially since UEFI is not new anymore but rather already there for years, yet the support for it still seems half-assed, at least in Ubuntu.

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Deviceplane - A new open source tool for updating and managing Linux devices
https://github.com/deviceplane/deviceplane

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What happened to Deepin?

The website is inaccessible for me for some reason.

Last time I checked the update was like 8 months old.

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What are some good uses of Termux for Android?

I just discovered it today, and it works great with youtube-dl, a command line app to download YouTube videos (and vids from many other websites).

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23+ year old "bug" shows up in compiling a Linux application

This is not meant to be a support question. This is tagged "over-dramatic" because it feels like a TNG Picard "facepalm" moment; except Q is an apparent bug that goes back to when DS9 was still on the air...


*'struct dirent' has no member named 'd\_namlen'*


I've been struggling to build a copy of /r/nginx 1.6.1 with some addons on /r/centos 7.x over the past couple days. Tried using gcc, devtoolset-7 (newer gcc), r/LLVM 3 & 5, ... even compiled from scratch LLVM version 9 ... still back to that same error. Thought I'd get clever & disable the test: nope, still failed when it actually got to compiling what needed that test to pass. But it led me closer to the problem at hand. Some more Google-Fu, and [this interesting gem appeard from TLDP](http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Building-HOWTO-11.html)...


*The notorious fortune program displays up a humorous saying, a "fortune cookie", every time Linux boots up. Unfortunately (pun intended), attempting to build fortune on a Red Hat distribution with a 2.0.30 kernel generates fatal errors.*

*....*

*Let us edit the file* *fortune.c*
*, and change the two d\_namelen references in lines 551 and 553 to d\_reclen. Try a make all again.* ***Success.*** *It builds without errors. We can now get our "cheap thrills" from fortune.*


[Red Hat 4.2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux) (not RHEL, not Fedora) came out on my 16th birthday. I'm going to be 39 this year, and I didn't even start using Linux until 1998/1999. [Nginx](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx) first came out in 2004. I'm terribly amused that this old piece of advice, involving a [joke program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix)) not many folks bother to use these days; is probably my best bet at fixing this issue.

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Introducing Creepts: The First Cartesi DApp - 2-Layer Linux Infrastructure

Creepts is the world’s first decentralized tower defense tournament game. It is built on top of Cartesi’s Layer 2 solution for blockchains, which is available as an open-source software stack that is under active development. Currently, Creepts is playable on the Rinkeby Ethereum testnet.

Full Article: https://medium.com/cartesi/introducing-creepts-the-first-cartesi-dapp-374eee8ad914

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Whatever happened to Tux Droid and where can I buy one?



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Unable to access drive

So o basically tried to install Linux mint with the option that partitions off a bit of your drive so you can dual boot. I tried that and the partition had failed, so I restarted my computer tho see if anything happened, but now my windows drive won’t boot.

TLDR: failed partition, broke windows drive, is there any way I can get the files back without formatting?

Here’s a picture https://imgur.com/a/elZkI6m

Edit: is there any way I can access it from Ubuntu?

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Kali on Android via Terminal

Is there a way to install the full Kali package on an ARMv7 Android KitKat device?

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The Hidden Early History of Unix (Video)
https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/early_unix/

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How PowerShell 7 Logging works in Linux
https://www.petri.com/how-powershell-7-logging-works-in-linux?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-powershell-7-logging-works-in-linux

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Contribute Linux For Beginner?

Hello, I just migrated from Windows to GNU / Linux 6 months ago, and it changed my habits to be more productive ... such as joining the community, learning web programming, trying new alternative software, etc.

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I want to join in contributing to the development of Linux

where should i start?

What programming language should I learn?

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