Weekly Questions and Hardware Thread - March 04, 2020

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Let's help find a cure for covid-19!!

I came across a project called folding@home in another sub which allows you to donate your computing power to help researchers find cures for covid-19 and some other terrible illnesses. I already had debian installed on a couple old laptops so I booted them up and installed the software. I hought this would be a great place to share it because the software is already packaged for a few Linux distributions and it's a great cause, also a cool way for you to put your old computers to good use.

If you'd like to check it out, you can find the project here: https://foldingathome.org/

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So I am trying to setup a wifi connection on my HP Laptop. It came with ubuntu14.4. Now its running Linux Mint 19.1 off the hardware is gone. I'm trying to set up a wifi connection, but having trouble getting the network controller up and running...
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GNU HURD Translators: How come Linux never got these?
https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator.html#index1h1

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Mobile NixOS February 2020 round-up
https://mobile.nixos.org/news/2020-03-03-february-2020-round-up.html

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PacVim: A interesting game helps you master Vim
http://ee-fans.com/pacvim-a-interesting-game-helps-you-master-vim/

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Podcast: The differences between Linux and BSD
https://ma.ttias.be/syscast/9-linux-vs-bsd/?v2

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Ecosim - An interactive ecosystem and evolution simulator written in C and OpenGL, for GNU/Linux.
https://github.com/connor-brooks/ecosim

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How to exit a cat << command in mobile terminal?

I have a C couse this semester, and we are taught Linux.
Anyways I downloaded this Linux CLI Launcher on mobile for practice. When I open a file to edit in PC, I use the CTRL D command, what do I do on mobile?

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ATOP for Linux server performance analysis
https://haydenjames.io/use-atop-linux-server-performance-analysis/

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One impact of the dropping of Python 2 from Linux distributions
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/Python2DroppingImpact

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Collabora Online 4.2.0 released
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/press-releases/collabora-online-4-2-0-released/

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Almost a week no restart, try this in windows :D lol
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Project Sandcastle: Linux with X windowing system and Android on the iPhone
https://projectsandcastle.org/

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Cockpit 214 — Cockpit Project
https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-214.html

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Why I consider switching back to Windows.

I have been using Linux for half a year now and it's wonderful and I really want to keep using it but there is something I struggle with for the last six months.
My switch to Linux wasn't spontaneous. I tried to find a replacement for every pice of software I used on Windows and when I though I found, I switched.
Despite that after all this time I think Linux lacks good creative software. I mostly do photo editing, digital art and video production. Now krita, gimp and darktable combined are a good enough replacement for Photoshop however the video editing software is just horrible, the only one that is working OK on my hardware is Kdenlive but it's not perfect and I miss very much adobe premiere.
There are many reasons why I want to keep using Linux though. I love the privacy and security, amazing and supportive community, lack of proprietary software and many more but since I'm not able to do my creative work as quickly and easily as I used to I'm seriously thinking about horrible windows 10. Please give me a reason to stay with Linux

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This might interest some of you: How to Instrument UserLand Apps with eBPF
https://sematext.com/blog/ebpf-userland-apps/

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Habitual Terminal Clearers: How to occasionally clear your terminal with animations
https://adammusciano.com/2020/03/04/2020-03-04-clear-your-terminal-in-style/

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Use KubeEdge to Collect the value of the Temperature Sensor connected to the RaspberryPi to Cloud



KubeEdge is an open source system extending native containerized application orchestration and device management to hosts at the Edge. It is built upon Kubernetes and provides core infrastructure support for networking, application deployment and metadata synchronization between cloud and edge. It also supports **MQTT** and allows developers to author custom logic and enable resource constrained device communication at the Edge.

Using the device management capabilities of KubeEdge, we can use the Raspberry Pi on the edge to transfer the value of the temperature sensor to the cloud.

A application called **Temperature Mapper** contains code to collect temperature from a temperature sensor which connected to a raspberry Pi through gpio. Depending on the expected state of the temperature sensor, the program collect the temperature.

The details for how to setup: [https://github.com/kubeedge/examples/tree/master/kubeedge-temperature-demo](https://github.com/kubeedge/examples/tree/master/kubeedge-temperature-demo)

[https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge](https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge)

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Folding vs coronavirus

Hey there,
I'm sorry for this OT and hope that this wpuld not be removed.

I read from:

https://foldingathome.org/2020/02/27/foldinghome-takes-up-the-fight-against-covid-19-2019-ncov/

Folding@home has many data to fight covid19. If you would help and share you power computation join folding@home to help to fight covid19.

Share this information with could share the cpu power.

If you can, join the project

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What open source tools do you use for monitoring clusters

I am wondering what all open source products are available for server monitoring.

Most of the open source products moved to freemium model leaving a knowledgeable gap in the market

Not asking for a recommendation, checking on the diversity.

What tools do you use and why you use them. Which tool does this one overruled?

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