Oil's Parser is 160x to 200x Faster Than It Was 2 Years Ago
http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/01/parser-benchmarks.html

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Binary vs source

As I was recently watching Gentoo review vids I came to a personal conclusion that manual compilation based distros prioritize performance over ease of maintenance (i.e. installation and updating of packages). This leads to the following questions:

1. Is this conclusion/assumption correct?
2. If it is, then how big are the trade-offs, and are they generally worth it? I saw 1 person online say their Gentoo installation with Plasma 5 took only about 350\~ Mb in idle simply because they built everything from source. Then I saw another person say that building from source only increased their performance by 10% (of course comparing actual numbers to percentages isn't very wise, but you get the point). Meanwhile, waiting hours just to install LibreOffice or something doesn't sound too fun to me.

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Linux++ (February 23, 2020) New Issue Out Including Interview with Alan Pope of Canonical!
https://medium.com/linux-plus-plus/linux-february-23-2020-905c10a99301

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Linux Experiences/Rants or Education/Certifications thread - February 24, 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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Linux Kernel 5.6 RC3 Released Now
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/23/336

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Anyone got a lead on inexpensive but good quality Tux stickers? Not finding much on Amazon Prime with free shipping.



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TaskLite: A CLI task manager built with Haskell and SQLite
https://tasklite.org/

https://redd.it/f8io93
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Perks and drawbacks to running the Void distro
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20200224#void

https://redd.it/f8ih72
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sourcegraph: a chrome helps you read the code of GitHub repos
http://ee-fans.com/sourcegraph-a-chrome-extension-helps-you-read-code-of-github-repos/

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How to get started with linux distro development?

Hello, I have been using linux for not too long now (about half a year). I have been using Manjaro i3 edition. I have recently received my pinephone breave heart edition and I have been thinking of starting to contribute. For example, I am very interested on contribution to u/postmarkedOS. The problem is I have not done any distro development before.


What resource would you recommend as a good starting point for a beginner who wants to get their feed wet with linux distro development/contribution?

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Google Summer of Code student applications open 16 March 2020. Want to work on a KDE project? Read the guidelines and get in touch
https://community.kde.org/GSoC

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Stuck in black screen for three days. Trying to boot from Kali linux live USB. Below image is the first thing it shows, then bunch of text appears very fast and then the dragon logo loads for a bit. Then everything goes dark and it stays that way. Please help
https://redd.it/f8r99h
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Support for the RaspberryPi4 Display Pipeline Contributed to Linux
https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/cover.6c896ace9a5a7840e9cec008b553cbb004ca1f91.1582533919.git-series.maxime@cerno.tech/T/#t

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The Future of the Arch Linux Project Leader
https://www.archlinux.org/news/the-future-of-the-arch-linux-project-leader/

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io_uring Linux 5.7 feature gives polled IO huge boost
https://twitter.com/hielkedv/status/1231532586285125638?s=21

https://redd.it/f8uurc
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OpenSSH with FIDO2 and Trezor
https://blog.trezor.io/openssh-with-fido2-and-trezor-e565c2277

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One of us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAFMJ1LnQu8

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LPE and RCE in OpenSMTPD's default install (CVE-2020-8794)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/24/5

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Anyone else feel like they can write a python noscript way faster than the equivalent bash solutions (sed, awk, printf, etc.)?

Often I want to do simple tasks and to challenge myself to not use python I lookup the bash solution using tools like sed, awk, printf, etc. But just getting through the bash syntax and how every tool has its quirks using different flags is very time consuming. I also find that any task that can't be expressed as a simple loop or pipeline takes exponentially more time to write.

For example, today I had a task of trimming the leading and trailing whitespace from every line of a text file. The awk answer `awk '{$1=$1}1'` is short but very non-obvious to me, and the regex sed answer `'s/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'` is a mess. Python string handling such as `str.strip()` by comparison is reasonable and can handle special characters like whitespace and backslash with no problem (vs. `read` and whatever `$IFS` is). And it should be no surprise to newbies that bash syntax is full of gotchas. It feels like I am working in a minefield of potentially code-breaking special characters.

[Some articles online](https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/sed-awk-learn/) say "everyone needs to know sed and awk" but is it really worth learning whole new syntaxes? I suppose I am repeating myself of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/107603/is-there-still-any-reason-to-learn-awk I think it's more worth my time to work a language I am familiar with rather than trying to make use of these tools. What do you think?

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Flatcar Container Linux enters new era after CoreOS End-of-Life announcement
https://kinvolk.io/blog/2020/02/flatcar-container-linux-enters-new-era-after-coreos-end-of-life-announcement/

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This week in KISS Linux (#12)
https://k1ss.org/blog/20200224a

https://redd.it/f8tx2a
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