Exclusively Using Terminal Apps

For those of you who almost, if not, exclusively use terminal applications, how have you been finding the experience as opposed to using a DE/GUI? What distro is best to use for this? What are your reasons for doing so?

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What is fsck up to now?
https://toroid.org/what-is-fsck-up-to-now

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How NixOS Is Enabling Edge and IoT Projects - Armv8 Collaboration
https://www.worksonarm.com/blog/how-nixos-is-enabling-edge-and-iot-projects

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What's the closest you can get to "pure" GNU as Stallman intended?

AFAIK all distros include various third-party software: the kernel, systemd, a custom package manager, and so on. Let's say I don't want any of that. https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html says GNU software is available by several different methods, but all of them are either "use a distro that's a mixed bag of GNU and third-party" or "here's a list of packages, download the ones you want."

So I'm seeing 2 options: download every GNU package (including hurd or linux-libre) and assemble my own distro, or download an existing distro and uninstall everything that isn't GNU. My question is, would either of those result in a functional OS?

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Fedora community and the COVID-19 crisis - Fedora Magazine
https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-community-and-the-covid-19-crisis/

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Government ist trying to ban encryption again
https://act.eff.org/action/protect-our-speech-and-security-online-reject-the-graham-blumenthal-bill

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It’s Almost Too Easy to Install Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi!

The release of an official Raspberry Pi image writer tool means it now easier than ever to install Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi device.

Ubuntu recently revamped its Raspberry Pi downloads page (and very pretty it looks too)

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NewFormattedFile Utility

Hi guys! Just finished the first release of my program `nff`. It creates a new file with contents specified in a config file for that file extension. No more endlessly typing out shebangs and `if __name__ == "__main__":` statements! Documentation on the GitHub repo.

Link: <https://github.com/oliversandli/NewFormattedFile>

Thoughts/improvements/things-I-did-terribly-wrong welcome!

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How to configure mailx to send mail from

I'm trying to configure a noscript to send mail through [gmx.com](https://gmx.com)

When I run the following settings with a login account of 'uuu' (username matches the email address I'm sending from) it works. When it doesn't match, then I get 550 Sender address is not allowed, because it's trying to use from:username@gmx.com. I've looked through settings but can't find the one that lets you update the account name. Lots of things seem like this, but they trigger the same error (example FromLineOverride=YES and then -r '[uuu@gmx.ccom](mailto:uuu@gmx.ccom)'... triggers the same friggin error. I've tried putting the username into the hostname, the mailhub, etc).

So I can get it to work by just setting up a user account with the same username as the email address, but it seems like there should be a way to.. not do this, and I can't find it in the documentation. Is there any way to do this?

echo Login to server! | mailx -s "Message!" -r [uuu@gmx.com](mailto:uuu@gmx.com) [rrr@mail.com](mailto:rrr@mail.com)

[`root=uuu@gmx.com`](mailto:root=seemslegit@gmx.com)

[`mailhub=mail.gmx.com:587`](https://mailhub=mail.gmx.com:587)

[`rewriteDomain=gmx.com`](https://rewriteDomain=gmx.com)

[`hostname=gmx.com`](https://hostname=gmx.com)

`FromLineOverride=NO`

[`AuthUser=uuu@gmx.com`](mailto:AuthUser=seemslegit@gmx.com)

`AuthPass=xxxxx`

`UseSTARTTLS=YES`

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Jumpdrive - A utility that help users flashing OS directly to eMMC easier on PinePhone/PineTab.
https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive

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Trying my hand at writing blog posts: Here's my attempt at convincing newbies to switch to Linux.
https://www.andredantas.me/blog/posts/why-linux/

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PSA: Spread awareness of "EARN IT Act", our privacy is at risk, again.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/13/earn-it-act-threatens-end-to-end-encryption/

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Librnoscript accepting interns for Summer of Code 2020
https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/librnoscript-soc-2020.html?woops=true

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[GNOME] How to use Sysprof… Part II
https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2020/03/15/how-to-use-sysprof-to-part-ii/

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What is the best compatible Linux distribution of the HP Pavilion 15 series?

i don't know it's right place to ask kind of questions or not. but i think i need that to do.

Actually i used many linux distribution and from almost 6 years. till now i have no problem. just some month ago, i started hp pavilion series laptop for just programming. but till now i didn't find right distribution for my laptop.

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The year of Linux Desktop is here!

The moment is nigh my brethren!

I've installed Linux on all the machines I can touch - my gaming rig, my grandparents laptop, my new laptop, my friends laptop, heck, even my school computer!

We're at 5+ new Linux desktops and still counting. It's really starting to have an effect on the Linux desktop market share. Don't believe me? Go look for youself at [netmarketshare.com](https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22%24and%22%3A%5B%7B%22deviceType%22%3A%7B%22%24in%22%3A%5B%22Desktop%2Flaptop%22%5D%7D%7D%5D%7D%2C%22dateLabel%22%3A%22Trend%22%2C%22attributes%22%3A%22share%22%2C%22group%22%3A%22platform%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22share%22%3A-1%7D%2C%22id%22%3A%22platformsDesktop%22%2C%22dateInterval%22%3A%22Monthly%22%2C%22dateStart%22%3A%222019-03%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222020-02%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D)

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Libre Game Night will be daily now

During this isolation times we want to invite you to join us on IRC #libregamenight

We are a small community who enjoys playing online FOSS games. We may not have the best graphics but we are a friendly and we want to offer a bit of fun during this hard times.

Playing FOSS games can also help to detect bugs, think of new features and improve the small ecosystem of gaming. So we can have fun and help FOSS projects.

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How relevant is Desktop Linux for the foresee future?

At Windows, Microsoft is betting big on WSL and even on the new interface (Win UI). Apple always had a really good OS and it's improving with time.

The question is, where is Desktop Linux on all that? I'm saying this because I think with time we're gonna see even more "exclusive" features on modern laptops and devices. And they will offer a way better experience that we can get from Desktop Linux that most of the time support only basic features.

I was a heavy Linux user but switched to Mac about 3 years ago because I was just tired of keep tuning and fixing my distro so often. But there is something inside me that always wanted to return to Linux. I'm feeling torn at the moment trying to decide if I keep investing in Mac or switch back to Linux.

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This week in KISS Linux (#15)
https://k1ss.org/blog/20200316a

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Moving Red Hat Summit 2020 to a virtual experience

Red Hat® Summit is a celebration of our customers, partners, community members, and Red Hatters themselves. Recognizing that the safety and wellbeing of these attendees is of utmost importance, we are canceling the physical Red Hat Summit presence and rebuilding it as a free, multi-day, virtual event from April 28-29, 2020.

We are taking this precautionary measure after closely monitoring developments with coronavirus (COVID-19) and guidance from the CDC, WHO, and other health authorities.

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Shell noscript to get public ip from VPN docker container

trying to create a shell noscript to schedule and run. But with what i have it keeps putting the local ip of the box in my txt file and leaving me at the bash prompt in my console. (commands work perfectly outside of the shell noscript so i know what the ip should be). here is what i have, thoughts?

docker exec -it vpn /bin/bash

curl [icanhazip.com](https://icanhazip.com/) \>>vpn\_publicip.txt

exit

also new to this so sorry if im way off.

thank you in advance.

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