Krita Weekly #11 | Bi weekly from now - A Nerd's Tale
https://www.hellozee.dev/kw11/

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Trying to set and old computer for my mom

Hello, My mom is a kindergarten teacher and is in need for a computer where she can edit some .doc, .ppt and images that she uses for the kids to paint, write, etc. I have an old laptop that has very low specs, problably 1gb ram and some Pentium processor. The thing is: I tried installing some light ubunto that looks like windows, but I\`m not being able to donwload and install some softwares that read ppt and .doc. I very new to linux in general, and would like some help to find and isntall the software.

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Please, can someone provide me some info on which and how to download and install, bec most softwares that i\`ve tried I failed to download or install.

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thanks

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Linux Monitoring Freeware

Hey there,
I've been looking for some Monitoring Freeware lately that i could install on my raspberry. I've been thinking about something like PRTG... but you know... for linux. Anybody got some good solution? Thanks for any answers/advice you could give me.

https://redd.it/fc09ew
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Booting into external ssd Kali Linux help

So I’m trying to install Kali Linux on an external ssd and run it on a 2014 mbp . I have the Kali live install on a flash drive and when both of them are plugged into the computer it doesn’t show the Kali boot option. Any help will be appreciated!

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grand unified package manager

hello everyone

i write a cli program that works as front end for your distro package manager

for exampe you have 3 distro's and you get confused in package manager for example one is arch and another is ubuntu you get confused and in ubuntu you write pacman for installing packages but this app will will convert its own commands and based on your setup it will use your distro's package manger

[http://github.com/hoomanist/gupm](http://github.com/hoomanist/gupm)

sorry if there was a grammatical problem or typo i'm not English speaker

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Syncing podcasts between iOS and Linux - ideas?

Note - this isn’t a support request, I’m looking for ideas or suggestions.

I’m in a somewhat untenable position of using iOS for my mobile device (I’ve got no intention of going back to Android anytime soon, please don’t suggest this) and Linux on my main laptop.

When I used to have an Android I could use gPodder on the phone and on my desktop, but having an iPhone makes this impossible because no iOS apps can sync with gPodder.

Has anyone else ever figured out a way to use an iOS podcast client with a desktop Linux application, could be a media player etc? I’m using Spotify as a workaround at the moment but I don’t like their interface for podcasts.

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I bought a new HP laptop and installed POP OS on it and well my results are a little mixed.

So I'm in the process of trying out Linux again and before I install anything on my main rig I wanted to try it out again on a cheap laptop. POP OS being my preferred to try right now.

Well POP OS installed okay just one problem is that the Wifi didn't work. Apparently my WiFi card was the realtek rtl8821ce and that one apparently has issues with Linux from what I read. I could get the Ethernet to work but that kinda defeats the purpose of a laptop in some regards.

So I did try to install a realtek driver for my laptop but nothing worked. If I can't get it to work I'm just gonna return the laptop. Any help is nice.

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Linux++ (March 1, 2020)
https://medium.com/linux-plus-plus/linux-march-1-2020-b00ba0812098

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Linux Experiences/Rants or Education/Certifications thread - March 02, 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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How to edit menu items openELEC 8.0.4

Trying to take the YouTube Add-on, and put it on the sidebar.

This is for my grandfather's new media center PC, so trying to make things as intuitive and simple as possible.

I found [this video on customizing the home screen](http://youtube.com/watch?v=esPTXwTxljA) however I don't get these same settings on the version of Kodi I'm using.

Not sure if I need a skin change, or im missing some crucial setting option.

All help is greatly appreciated.

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Introducing the Stear Prime
https://invidio.us/watch?v=3l1W5KliXaI

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Want to get rid of windows for more space.

Hey all. I was given an HP Stream 14 but the thing only has 32GB of storage. Windows 10 basically takes up all the spaces and leaves me with just little to nothing. I have never used Linux but heard it used less space but also that there are many types of Linux.

I was wondering if anyone can help me out to choose which one to install on this laptop. I will only be using it for web browsing and watching YouTube, Netflix. Storing documents and photos.

Thanks if anyone can help.

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Firefox: How Mozilla wants to fight against Google
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000115095254/firefox-how-mozilla-wants-to-fight-against-googles-dominance

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Can BorgBackup restore hardlinked files correctly?

If I have 1 file hardlinked to 5 different folders which are all backed up, and then I attempt to restore them from backup, will hardlink associations also be restored, or will I end up with 5 separate copies of the file?

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How we optimised our build system using umake

Over the past few months we worked on a project to improve our build times. We wanted to replace our makefile based build with something modern and fast. We compared multiple tools such as google bazel, facebook buck, ninja and plain old cmake. At the end of the day we figured that none of them matched our exact needs.

Eventually we reached tup, which looked very promising. The issue with tup was the lack of strong remote caching. Initially we wanted to improve tup to match our needs. After a while we figured that we should just build something new. With all the good stuff that we took from tup and strong caching like sccache from mozzila. The result was a brand new tool - umake. It is fast (really fast), easy to use and correct. No more building the same binary in the office if someone else already built it. No more running make -j10 and getting broken results. It just works, and it works fast.

I'll be happy to hear your thoughts on the topic.

For more details check out: https://drivenets.com/blog/the-inside-story-of-how-we-optimized-our-own-build-system/ https://github.com/grisha85/umake/

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One of the biggest #FOSS misconceptions is that there's an army of contributors supporting every project.
https://twitter.com/bluesabredavis/status/1232274701264785409

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Slax is so much more than I first thought.
https://redd.it/fcases
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[OC] SpotPRIS2: Control Spotify Connect devices using MPRIS2
https://github.com/freundTech/SpotPRIS2

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A mysterious calendar entry

I suspect many of us are aware of the `calendar` command, which lists various things - historical events, holidays etc., on that day or upcoming days. For a bit of fun, I have the following line in my .bashrc

`grep $(date +%m/%d) /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history`

Which lists the history related items on that day only at the start of every terminal session. Today it gave me

`03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England) (Does anyone know what this is?)`

I did not know what that meant. So I did a few internet searches. "Blackthorn Winds", "Blackthorn Winds New England", "Blackthorn Winds 2nd March", and so on. The sole information I could find was from this LDS site

[https://www.deseret.com/2000/2/27/19493013/blackthorn-winds-make-bushes-bud](https://www.deseret.com/2000/2/27/19493013/blackthorn-winds-make-bushes-bud)

Which merely ties "Blackthorn Winds" to New England and the 2nd March - no other info is given.

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I'm aware that this isn't a history subreddit - but this doesn't seem to a notable event in history, but rather some GNU easter egg. Does anyone know more?

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Revisiting stable-kernel regressions [LWN.net]
https://lwn.net/Articles/812231/

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fluid gestures

Hey y'all, wanted to share something I have been cooking up for the last few months. A fluid gesture application for both touchscreen and touch-pad. I finally got it to be more or less customizable (a few weeks ago actually) and I think it is ready for prime time. You may need to mess around with to get it running but I have tried to make it as easy to start with as possible (just run the install noscript). Check it out at [github](https://github.com/natask/gestures).

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