Code Shelter: collective to help maintain popular OSS whose authors need a hand or don't have the time any more
https://www.codeshelter.co/

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Using Linux on an old Acer Laptop



I have an old Acer 4530 running Windows 7. The OS is extremely laggy and with the end of support from Microsoft, I was thinking of trying out Linux. Mostly to see if it performs better and also because it is free.

Unfortunately, I have no clue how to do it. My concerns are getting the drivers needed. I am not entirely sure where to look for it. I have not experince using or installing linux on a computer. Have been a Windows user all along. Thought this might be a good opportunity to dip my toes in linux.

FYI, i would like to be using microsoft office on the computer. If it can run office 365, either online or offline, that would be great.

Any help, suggestions or direction on the above would be greatly appreciated.

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grubfilefilters not found

I was trying to install the Ubuntu 20.04 and I already had the Ubuntu 18.04 but without any backup. When I restarted my laptop, the following error appeared error: symbol grubfilefilters not found

my pc: Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows

Please, someone can help me ?

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Deepin privacy

I know this has been asked a million times. I am not someone who automatically assumes that anything chinese is bad or spyware. But after watching this https://youtu.be/MSi2Y_u-ToM i am not sure if deepin is something i want to use. What do you people think?

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does any 1 know why this keeps popping up.

i keep having this show up. some of my friends say it's a cryptominer. but when i did some research it say's, it's for swap mem. but i have swap mem disabled. when i kill it, it appears back within 3-4 hours. and all my apps are stopped. any help on how to stop this without fully re-installing linux would be great :)

https://preview.redd.it/alnjlxv4i5961.png?width=893&format=png&auto=webp&s=7aae944826ab173d2a08f6a08e2773282dc60ea0

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I made a simple diagram on history of OS, feel free to comment

I tried to make the details as simplified as possible.

Please confirm if I gave justice to each linux distributions by correctly summarizing the key characteristics. :)

Also unsure how exactly POSIX or GNU comes into play for these distributions other than giving a general rule/philosophy, can anyone give tips?

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https://preview.redd.it/kyskzpost5961.png?width=6675&format=png&auto=webp&s=df66b7eb03347b370c98a911674365ea5a5ca4ef

// edit: changed MS branch to proprietary, minix and ms dos is not unix derivative, included cp/m.

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Kernel 5.11 will have driver support for the ax210, in case you've been thinking about upgrading to it. It'll still use the iwlwifi module.

I jumped on the bandwagon too soon and wound up with an endless dmesg error spam about the wifi card not working. I'm just glad to see that there will be support soon.

The most interesting things I look forward to are:

\- rtw88: major bluetooth co-existance improvements

\- iwlwifi: support new 6 GHz frequency band

You can find a comprehensive list of all the networking fixes that will come with 5.11 here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2012.1/07779.html

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Libreddit: Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust
https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit

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Linus Torvalds: ECC matters.
https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=198497&curpostid=198647

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Your Favorite laptop for running Linux in 2021? Recommendations

Hey guys,

So, apparently it's time to switch to Linux after using Mac OS for 10+ years. Privacy issues, glitches and removing compatibility with each single release makes me think that Linux is a better choice.

I'm currently using Macbook 2014 and while I can run Linux on it - I don't really want to. I tried that and there are some things that other laptops will handle better and 2014 was 7 years ago (damn!). I'm not new to Linux and pretty much understand what distro I'll use there (but any recommendation based on your subjective opinion are welcome too).

Thinking about laptop with those features:

1) Intel or AMD x86 processor. Doesn't really matter - just some future-proof

2) HDMI, USB and all other standard ports. Not looking for a modern Mac that doesn't have much ports

3) 32 Gb of RAM and more supported. Since my current Mac has 16 Gb of RAM I'm looking for something better, not worse

4) At least some upgrading is possible. Again, not a modern Mac where you can't change anything

5) New or used, but I guess not more than 2 years old model

6) More or less balanced price. I want to use it for at least 3-4 years. Again, something future-proof is preferable.

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Apart from all that, what's your personal pick for this year? Will you wait for a specific model?

Thanks! And Happy New Year!

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nvidia color space output

I have desktop with 2 monitor, sometime i prefer playing on tv but every time i have to manualy put ycbr444 on the color range for the tv i would like to know if i can configure my xorg files to automatically put the tv on ycbr444 every time i connect the hdmi. This is my xorg files

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Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "Layout0"

Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0

InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

Option "Xinerama" "0"

EndSection

​

Section "Files"

EndSection

​

Section "InputDevice"

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\# generated from default

Identifier "Mouse0"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "auto"

Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection

​

Section "InputDevice"

​

\# generated from default

Identifier "Keyboard0"

Driver "kbd"

EndSection

​

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "Monitor0"

VendorName "Unknown"

ModelName "HPN OMEN by HP 25"

HorizSync 240.0 - 240.0

VertRefresh 42.0 - 144.0

Option "DPMS"

EndSection

​

Section "Device"

Identifier "Device0"

Driver "nvidia"

VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"

BoardName "GeForce GTX 1080"

EndSection

​

Section "Screen"

Identifier "Screen0"

Device "Device0"

Monitor "Monitor0"

DefaultDepth 24

Option "Coolbits" "28"

Option "Stereo" "0"

Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-1"

Option "metamodes" "DP-4: 1920x1080_144 +0+0, DP-2: 1920x1080_240 +1920+0, HDMI-0: 3840x2160_60 +3840+0"

Option "SLI" "Off"

Option "MultiGPU" "Off"

Option "BaseMosaic" "off"

SubSection "Display"

Depth 24

EndSubSection

EndSection

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Erik Kurzinger (NVIDIA) comments that driver support for dma-buf is in the works
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428089#c2

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If a linux/unix was rewritten today, what would be different?

If we could write a whole new unix-like operating system from scratch today, such that nothing in it has to be backwards compatible with old hardware or standards (only has to support modern hardware to reduce complexity), what are the "lessons learned" and unnecessary baggage?

By operating system, I mean everything from the kernel to the final applications that your desktop environment comes with by default. For example, would it be a microkernel? Would terminal emulators follow a different standard? Would ascii be abolished and replaced by unicode? Would the kernel be written in something other than C? It would certainly need an X11 equivalent, and maybe gui libraries. Or maybe even libraries work differently, too. Maybe bash is outdated and something crazy like lua, lisp, or even a hot code reloading compiled language replaces it. (Yes I realize the purpose/usage of bash and those other languages are totally different, but I want to allow OS designs that are so totally different that something crazy like this might make sense)

I realize this question has a huge scope, so go wild with the answers. Any opinions you have about anything could lead me down an interesting rabbit hole as I try learning more about linux.

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Maemo Leste - Fourteenth Update (July, August, September, October, November, December) 2020
https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-fourteenth-update-july-august-september-october-november-december-2020.html

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Bash Script for expressvpn users
https://github.com/powerhousepro69/xvpn

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[OC] QuickWall - Set wallpapers and theme from Unsplash directly from the commandline. v0.0.4 released

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recommended headsets for ubuntu 20.04.?

Hey

recently i installed ubuntu 20.04 on my surface and now my headphones (bose qc 35II) have problems with playing audio and a proper microphone function at the same time.
Because of corona my lectures are all online, so this is a really big issue for me!
On ubuntu 18.04 the audio and micrphon didn't work good at the same time, but they worked on an acceptable level.
I'm really annoyed of using the qc 35II with ubuntu, so i'm searching for an alternative.

Do you know some good alternatives, which actually work?

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Linux-native TPM-backed Bitlocker
https://github.com/noahbliss/mortar

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Taking FOSDEM online via Matrix
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/01/04/taking-fosdem-online-via-matrix

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jc v1.14.0 just released with new parsers for date, wc, cksum, hash, and various hashsum commands (md5, md5sum, shasum, sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum, sha512sum). Over 60 commands and filetypes supported.
https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2021/01/01/jc-version-1-14-0-released/

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Gnu Guix just got bootstrapped from a 357byte binary
https://www.freelists.org/post/bootstrappable/wipfullsourcebootstrap-from-a-357byte-hex0-to-hello

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