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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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Tax prep software that runs on Linux?

I moved off Windows late last year. But now it's tax time, and none of the major tax prep packages run on Linux. I haven't found any dedicated open source software for this (not sure I'd trust it anyway). Maybe there are sources I've overlooked -- any suggestions?

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[Quick noob guide] How to set up Folding@Home on Linux

I thought I'd make a quick noob guide/tips for getting Folding@Home to install and run on Linux, as I had a bit of trouble myself getting it running, and not everyone has a sibling, whose Linux-fu surpassed your own withing a week of them starting to use Linux, to lean on for such things :) Not all Linux users are super-wizards, and my wizardry is likely on level Rincewind, compared to many (most?) Linux-users.

**So here goes:**

Download the .deb (assuming you're running a Debian based distro, like Ubuntu and it's flavours and derivatives) from the Folding at Home website: https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/


Assuming you've downloaded it to ~/Downloads, run the following command:

sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/fahclient_7.5.1_amd64.deb


Change the package name according to which version. Your's might be newer than mine.

This should make the terminal turn into a "installer" type view, where you set if you want to start automatically, input credentials (not needed, only if you're interested in the Folding points) and team (for points).

I'd recommend setting it to auto. You can check the status and set team, username, passkey, which disease and what load to run on by going to https://client.foldingathome.org/ in your browser. This is a web interface for the local client running on your machine (like the Pihole interface).

Web view:

https://client.foldingathome.org/

If you want to fold for COVID-19, then set "I support research fighting" to "Any disease", and you'll be given, among others, computing tasks for the Corona virus.



To check status, and start if not running:

Status

sudo /etc/init.d/FAHClient status

Start:

sudo /etc/init.d/FAHClient start


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If you want to remove it, as far as I know this is the way to do so:

sudo dpkg -P fahclient

That's the fonly entry I get when doing a package search:

apt-cache pkgnames | grep "fah*"

And just to state the obvious here, "fah" = **f**olding**a**t**h**ome

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Postamble (if that's a word):

Yes, the noob in question here is your's truly ;) Imo, I think the F@H page should have a little more info on the install process, and the [Guide](https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/installation-guides/linux/) didn't help, since I got none of the steps there by installing via the .deb. Only via terminal was I given the proper "setup". I wasn't given any info about the webview or it's address via the .deb install. The lack of visual feedback of any kind still has somewhat of a "now what" effect on me, especially when installed through a .deb or equivalent. At least in the terminal you usually get some sort of output back (backput?) that a process did happen, and possibly some info too. Maybe the F@H install process (and Guide!) on Linux should be a bit better, or perhaps I should be a bit better at Linux, who knows :) Anyway, happy Folding, and if anyone spots any errors here, please give me a shout and I'll fix'em right up.

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Composable Tupperware that does one thing and does it well.
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Should I be worried? Linux Mint command of the day desklet.
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Remake – GNU Make 4.3 with profiling, a debugger, and .

In a recent article on GNU Make 4.3 (link deleted because reddit seems to think this is post is advertising for that) I read that GNU Make 4.3 can speed up GNU/Linux builds greatly.

Has anyone verified this?

As a result, I updated and released the fork of that I have which includes hooks to profile a build, and has a complete debugger in it (although most of the time the better tracing that is in there is enough).

The most recent version has a feature though that I really like and use a lot which is adding an option to look in parent directories for a Makefile if none is found in the current directory.

You can download the sourcecode from either [sourceforge](https://sourceforge.net/projects/bashdb/files/remake/4.3%2Bdbg-1.5/) or from [github](https://github.com/rocky/remake/releases). Both have a full list of the release notes.

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Custom software log analyzer tool

Hi,

My job is to analyze log files of custom made programs in Linux on Linux

I am the first and for now the only one in the company that does this....

I mostly use ack/grep and vscode for viewing and analyzing. These log files.

I was wondering if there was a tool in which I can search for multiple keywords and these lines would be displayed in a different color per keyword. And where I could save list of keywords for faster analyzing the same log files from different accounts....

Or if anyone here has another suggestion on how to tackle this or be more productive...... ?

Other programs? Self made noscripts? .....

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Are there any Magic Mouse alternatives for Linux ? AKA: is there an escape strategy to the mouse scroll wheel ?

Hi everyone! I am going back to Linux as my main desktop operating system, after several year of OSX, anyway I always used Linux as the main development env.
Now, while the trackpad has a very nice pixel precision scrolling that’s not the case of the mouse scroll wheel, which is always fixed to the scroll by lines tick also on more advanced devices like the Mx master and it’s free spinning wheel, which under Windows works smoothly.

So, I think that the only solution to have a more granular wheel scrolling is using an external trackpad or a touch mouse, do you own or you know some Linux compatibile devices like this one ?
I know that the Magic Trackpad 2 or the Magic Mouse 2 should be compatible, the question is: Is the emulates wheel scrolling by pixel (like the laptop trackpad) or it will be driven by the mouse subsystem emulating the scroll wheel ?

Thanks in advance for your replies :)

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KDE Plasma Windows Draw Off-Screen

Hey there everyone,

I've had an issue I can't solve and I can't find an explanation for:
Sometimes I get windows drawn outside the screen area ... and I can't drag them back.
This is a bigger problem when the noscriptbar is drawn too high.
No amount of \[alt\]+Drag has worked and there's no 'move' item in the taskbar context menu.

No screenshot, unfortunately, as this has been happening when working on classified stuff.


My specs (from KInfocenter):

Debian GNU/Linux 10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5

KDE Framework Version: 5.54.0

Qt Version: 5.11.3

Kernel Version: 4.19.0-8-amd64

OS Type: 64-bit


I'd love a solution but any info could be useful - all help appreciated :)

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Weekly Questions and Hardware Thread - March 18, 2020

Welcome to r/linux! If you're new to Linux or trying to get started this thread is for you. Get help here or as always, check out r/linuxquestions or r/linux4noobs

This megathread is for all your question needs. As we don't allow questions on r/linux outside of this megathread, please consider using r/linuxquestions or r/linux4noobs for the best solution to your problem.

Ask your hardware requests here too or try r/linuxhardware!

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Can we actually measure the popularity of Linux distros for desktop usage ?

I know distrowatch and sites like are TOTALLY inaccurate(it's like saying BMW is the most popular car just cuz you live in Russia).Anyway, the most obvious thing to me at least is to compare their popularity and for that I used Alexa siteinfo(what Amazon bought and stole their name for their Virtual assistant) and I found it to be pretty good detailling some stuff:

1.Ubuntu is the most popular BY FAR!Who'd have thought ?(the 2715 most popular website in the WWW)-[https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ubuntu.com](https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ubuntu.com) . The derivatives are a LOT lower except Ubuntu MATE for some reason

2.Debian(the 8932 most popular website)- [https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/debian.org](https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/debian.org)

3.Linux mint(10483th place)- [https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/linuxmint.com](https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/linuxmint.com)

4.Kali Linux (10366th place, all those indians youtubers maybe, I dunno. I never thought the Cyber Security fied is so big)- [https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/kali.org](https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/kali.org)

5.and shockingly, the 5th place, gathering all the Linux gurus out there Arch Linux(12750th most popular website)- [https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/archlinux.org](https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/archlinux.org)

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What shocked me is that Manjaro is actually less popular than Arch by quite a bit( [https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/manjaro.org](https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/manjaro.org) 23402th place) BUT the most important thing out there: Fedora is shockingly low in terms of website statistics, the chosen distro for the GNOME project AND Wayland, [https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/getfedora.org](https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/getfedora.org) at 90512th(at least it's a nice binary number) place

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Can’t connect Ubuntu server to WiFi or Ethernet

For some reason, during setup and after set up I can’t connect my new Ubuntu server to the internet. It says Ethernet disconnected. Could it be a driver issue? I can’t even use ifconfig, netstat, of rfkill cause the packages aren’t natively installed. I’ve set up an Ubuntu server before on an raspberry pi 3 B+ and never had this issue

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Switching distros

Hello everyone


I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 for a year. I'm thinking about switching my distro to fedora. Do you guys have any tips switching a distro easily without losing too much files ?


Cheers guys!

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Windows Virtual Machine to completely replace Windows

Hello everybody,

thanks to this and other similar subs I recently installed ubuntu to the side of windows 10 on my laptop. I am really liking the linux experience and I would completely switch to ubuntu if I could. The only problem is that I really need some programs that only runs on windows (adobe stuff, fusion 360 and a few others memory-greedy programs).

My question is:

could a virtual machine running windows 10 on ubuntu be good enough for my needs?

Could I obtain comparable results in terms of performance?

Thank you very much for your help (**again :)**)

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