Linux jobs in smaller US towns?

I understand that the jobs are in the big cities, with strong economies, etc.. I know the salaries in such places are higher, but I just really need to get away from the hustle and bustle. My commute is miserable, there are people stacked on top of people here and to be painfully honest, I just want to distance myself from the BS.

So, with that being said, I want to move. I'm not really concerned with 'where' in the country, as much as I am with just finding a job that I can go to everyday, and not want to **rent a bulldozer with a omni-directional flamethrower for the drive home.** The searches I have done, seem to regularly want the swiss-army knife IT guy.. *'someone to manage our network devices including firewalls, SAN, Active Directory environment, our Linux servers, and handle desktop support, oh and be available for 24x7 on-call'*

**I'm not interested in that kind of nonsense.**

Me? I've got 20+ years working with Linux, up to Team Lead roles, in very established large companies, as well as StartUps.. ***So here is my question:*** Where are you folks *(and there have to be some of you out there that were in similar situations)* finding jobs in smaller towns?

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The Internet was never designed with security in mind?

Interesting quotes from a Bruce Schneier book. It's news to me that the Internet was never designed with security in mind. As it does exactly what it was designed to do, deliver packets end-to-end. If you've got control of a BGP system then you can of course get up to all sorts of mischief.

“ [Click here to kill everybody](https://www.schneier.com/books/click_here/)“ by Bruce Schneier Sep 2018

“The Internet was never designed with security in mind:“

“When the Internet was developed, what security there was focused on physical attacks against the network. Its fault-tolerant architecture can handle servers and connections failing or being destroyed. What it can’t handle is systemic attacks against the underlying protocols.“

“And even for relatively high-quality software systems like Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, you’re still installing patches all the time.“

“Criminals have harnessed large numbers of hacked computers into bot, or zombie, networks.“

Notice how Schneier manages to not mention Windows in relation to bots and gives one mention to linux in the footnotes.

“Nearly all of us use one of three computer operating systems and one of two mobile operating systems.“

Still no mention of Linux or Open Source and just who in their right minds runs the DHS on Windows.

He does quote the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) from 1996:

“It is highly desirable that Internet carriers protect the privacy and authenticity of all traffic, but this is not a requirement of the architecture. Confidentiality and authentication are the responsibility of end users and must be implemented in the protocols used by the end users. Endpoints should not depend on the confidentiality or integrity of the carriers. Carriers may choose to provide some level of protection, but this is secondary to the primary responsibility of the end users to protect themselves.“

Yea, Confidentiality and authentication are the responsibility of end users, and all the rest is doom-and-gloom waffle.

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Hello Reddit. After a lot of research I have decided to switch to Linux but when I try to boot into my drive (with Solus) then this happens. Any ideas to fix it?
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Playing with the Pinephone (Linux)! Computer? Or Phone?
https://invidio.us/watch?v=c32-QOrI4cw

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My first time on linux
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I want to go to my local Microsoft office this Sunday with my friends and protest proprietary software. Do you think this would be worthwhile? If so, then DM me to obtain more details.

This one: [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/officelocator?Location=77024](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/officelocator?Location=77024). I'm trying not to advertise, but I'd like to promote and encourage others to join my favorite/our favorite cause.

​

EDIT: I seem to have been enlightened by the Linux community. What about creating, for example, a booth where one can ask informants about open source software? Sort of like a Socratic advertising strategy (which sounds ironic for FOSS).

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gitlab.fd.o financial situation and impact on services
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2020-February/041232.html

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Microsoft dropping out windows server certifications to move to Azure cloud which is Linux based!
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/community-blog-post.aspx?BlogId=8&Id=375282

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Dual boot MX Linux and Lakka using same /home directory

I have MX Linux and I am having issues with gamepads and setting them up with RetroArch, so I'm giving up and going to partition my ssd (20gb or so) for Lakka. My question is; can I access the /home directory that's set up with MX Linux (on a separate 1tb drive formetted to ext4) to access my roms?

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I won a free LPIC-1 course (free as in free beer)

I got lucky and won a free course for LPIC-1, it will be in person and last 7 months, I don't have to pay anything for it.

I'm really excited about going, because it will be the first time I ever take a Linux course, I never in my life took any certifications or anything before, I'm self-taught and I've been using Linux for about 20 years now.

When I started with Linux it changed my life because back then it was difficult for me to get software or learning material, I didn't had internet and courses were expensive. So I can appreciate a free course like this. :)

Now given my background and actual experience, would it be worth taking the LPIC-1? I'm sure there will be something I'll learn from it, and it's probably nice meeting other folks who use Linux.

Anyone here has taken this course before? How was it for you? Would you recommend I go?

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Why don't you just play games on Windows ?
https://www.thelinuxexp.com/post/double-booting-windows-and-linux-to-play-games-on-pc

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How to run linux without installing it?

hey so recently I wanted to learn linux but I am not familiar with it at all also i dont want to change my windows directly to linux

So i was thinking Is their a way to run linux on my pc without installing it.

Also what level will that setup help me in CTF 's?

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Most consistent Powerpoint editor for 2020?

I love Linux to death. My one and only Linux negative is the lack of Powerpoint compatibility. Powerpoint flat out wins the presentation wars, and now that MS Office 2019 is out, running MS Office 2010 via Playonlinux feels incredibly dated.

As I know, there is no documented way to run MS Office 2019 via Wine, and even MS Office 2016 can be a bit buggy. So, what are our options in 2020? For those of you who need to use pptx for work, can you help discuss your workflow and comment on the options here?

* LibreOffice
* FreeOffice
* WPS Office (free)
* WPS Office (premium)
* MS Office 2016 (Wine) ?
* MS Office 2019 (Wine) ???
* Office 365
* Other online services (e.g. Canva)

Libre is great as a standalone system, but its pptx portability fails big time for me. I have little experience with the others on Linux, besides MS Office 2010. It seems that WPS does a good job displaying pptx files for me. I'm considering using Office 365 to begin my work and coupling that with WPS locally, though I believe the 365 version is limited compared to the desktop version. Thoughts? What's your system?

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What I learned going from prison to Python
https://opensource.com/article/20/1/prison-to-python

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Weekend Fluff / Linux in the Wild Thread - February 28, 2020

Welcome to the weekend! This stickied thread is for you to post pictures of your ubuntu 2006 install disk, slackware floppies, on-topic memes or more.

When it's not the weekend, be sure to check out r/WildLinuxAppears or r/linuxmemes!

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An Interview with fphemeral: Community Member & Librem 5 Early Adopter
https://puri.sm/posts/an-interview-with-fphemeral-librem-5-early-adopter/

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Netdata release v1.20!

Hey all,

Our first major release of 2020 comes with an alpha version of our new **eBPF collector**. eBPF ([extended Berkeley Packet Filter](https://lwn.net/Articles/740157/)) is a virtual bytecode machine, built directly into the Linux kernel, that you can use for advanced monitoring and tracing. Check out the [full release notes](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases/tag/v1.20.0) and our [blog post](https://blog.netdata.cloud/posts/release-1.20/) for full details.

With this release, the eBPF collector monitors system calls inside your kernel to help you understand and visualize the behavior of your file denoscriptors, virtual file system (VFS) actions, and process/thread interactions. You can already use it for debugging applications and better understanding how the Linux kernel handles I/O and process management.

The eBPF collector is in a technical preview, and doesn't come enabled out of the box. If you'd like to learn more about\_why\_ eBPF metrics are such an important addition to Netdata, see our blog post: [*Linux eBPF monitoring with Netdata*](https://blog.netdata.cloud/posts/linux-ebpf-monitoring-netdata/). When you're ready to get started, enable the
eBPF collector by following the steps in our [documentation](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/ebpf_process.plugin/).

This release also introduces **host labels**, a powerful new way of organizing your Netdata-monitored systems. Netdata automatically creates a handful of labels for essential information, but you can supplement the defaults by segmenting your systems based on their location, purpose, operating system, or even when they went live.

You can use host labels to create alarms that apply only to systems with specific labels, or apply labels to metrics you archive to other databases with our exporting engine. Because labels are streamed from slave to master systems, you can now find critical information about your entire infrastructure directly from the master system.

Our [host labels tutorial](https://docs.netdata.cloud/docs/tutorials/using-host-labels/) will walk you through creating your first host labels and putting them to use in Netdata's other features.

Finally, we introduced a new **CockroachDB collector**. Because we use CockroachDB internally, we wanted a better way of keeping tabs on the health and performance of our databases. Given how popular CockroachDB is right now, we know we're not alone, and are excited to share this collector with our community. See our [tutorial on monitoring CockroachDB metrics](https://docs.netdata.cloud/docs/tutorials/monitor-cockroachdb/) for set-up details.

We also added a new [**squid access log collector**](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/go.d.plugin/modules/squidlog/#squid-logs-monitoring-with-netdata) that parses and visualizes requests, bandwidth, responses, and much more. Our [**apps.plugin collector**](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/apps.plugin/) has new and improved way of processing groups together, and our [**cgroups collector**](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/cgroups.plugin/) is better at LXC (Linux
container) monitoring.

Speaking of collectors, we **revamped our** [**collectors documentation**](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/) to simplify how users learn about metrics collection. You can now view a [collectors quickstart](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/quickstart/) to learn the process of enabling collectors and monitoring more applications and services with Netdata, and see everything Netdata collects in our [supported collectors list](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/collectors/).

## Breaking Changes

* Removed deprecated bash
collectors apache
, cpu\_apps
, cpufreq
, exim
, hddtemp
, load\_average
, mem\_apps
, mysql
, nginx
, phpfpm
, postfix
, squid
, tomcat
If you were still using one of these collectors with custom configurations, you can find the new collector that replaces it in the [supported collectors list](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/collectors/).
* Modified the Ne

tdata updater to prevent unnecessary updates right after installation and to avoid updates via local tarballs [\#7939](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/7939). These changes introduced a critical bug to the updater, which was fixed via [\#8057](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/8057) [\#8076](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/8076) and [\#8028](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/8028). **See** [**issue 8056**](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/8056) **if your Netdata is stuck on v1.19.0-432**.

## Improvements

### Host Labels

* Added support for host labels
* Improved the monitored system information detection. Added CPU freq & cores, RAM and disk space
* Started distinguishing the monitored system's (host) OS/Kernel etc. from those of the docker container's
* Started creating host labels from collected system info
* Started passing labels and container environment variables via the streaming protocol
* Started sending host labels via exporting connectors
* Added label support to alarm definitions and started recording them in alarm logs
* Added support for host labels to the API responses
* Added configurable host labels to netdata.conf
* Added Kubernetes labels

### New Collectors

* eBPF kernel collector
* CockroachDB
* squidlog: squid access log parser

Check out the [full release notes](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases/tag/v1.20.0) and our [blog post](https://blog.netdata.cloud/posts/release-1.20/) for full details!

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Any hash checker tools that utilize all cpu cores/threads?

Would it be possible to create a sha256sum tool that can utilize all cpu cores and threads?
When one has huge files as input, it can take forever on one thread/cpu core.
I was wondering if it was possible to generate a .sha256 file through all cpu cores and threads?

Thank you in advance.

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[OC] I Wrote a Window Manager, sara. It's Done (v1.0)
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Looking for opinions/experience Kubuntu vs Ubuntu for gaming/Steam

I am planning on switching my main desktop over to linux. I have narrowed it down to Kubuntu vs Ubuntu. I really really like KDE over Gnome but, I am wondering what the issues are when it comes to gaming or steam. From everything I have seen everything leans towards gnome but, I am wondering if that is just due to that is what Ubuntu and Debian use as default or if there is a real reason for it.

Other things I plan on doing on this install is: cybersecurity tools, office, programming, running virtual machines, small amounts of video recording and editing, possibly some streaming in the distant future. So if you know/experienced issues with any of these feel free to chime in.

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