csBooks 5.6.0 Release

Hot new improvement - Themes for comfortable reading for ePUB and MOBI files.
https://github.com/caesiumstudio/csBooks-updates/releases/tag/5.6.0

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Themes for book viewer

https://redd.it/kxizak
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USB Gadget Boards?

I've used a BeagleBone Black to create a USB gadget in the past. I'm currently contemplating a project that would want to create several gadgets controlled by a single PC, though, and I've not been able to find a board that allows that.

Does such a thing exist--either as a singleboard product like the BeagleBone or as an add-on card like a PCI card? Has anybody heard of someone attempting to do something like this with off-the-shelf hardware? Simple googling has not been effective.

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Debian 11 - Bullseye - Freeze Started
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/01/msg00002.html

https://redd.it/kxlv9v
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Willing to pay someone to help me trouble shoot tonight - Linux Mint

I’m having a lot of trouble and I need help getting this setup.

I have a ton of work due, and an interview tmrw.

I would love if someone could just trouble shoot with me and guide me through this shit.

It’s really basic level stuff, but even sitting on google researching for 10 hours hasn’t yielded the results I expected.

So if anyone’s out there, please be my savior

https://redd.it/kxlkmg
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Best snippet sharing platform with syntax highlighting?

Usually, in IRC and elsewhere, an external link with the snippet under discussion is used.
What CLI/noscript/webapp do you guys use which supports syntax highlighting?
Personally, I have found these:
http://ix.io/client
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/pastebinit.1.html

https://redd.it/kxc2su
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Coming from windows and missing some features in common desktop environments. Can you help me find them ?

Hi, these features are:

Drag&drop of URLs from the browser bar into a folder which automatically creates an URL shortcut there. I use this to create and manage bookmarks.
Quickly create shortcuts (symlinks) via right-mouse drag&drop-> create shortcut.
Shell here (not from windows, but a must have imho! I don't know why MINT Mate's file explorer doesn't offer this)
Dock windows to the left, right, maximize, restore, move them to another monitor via keyboard shortcut (this is so easy and intuitive in windows with just win+arrow keys)
Allow copy and&paste of the current location in the file explorer AND file chooser dialog. Mate has is in the file explorer only.
An easy way to create shortcuts to favourite folders (in windows you can just right-mouse drag them on to the task bar, then you have a 2-click access to them from the task bar)

These are so basic things that improve productivity and i care about them so much more than any new fancy widgets or themes. Can you point me some tips where to find them ?

Also a dektop wide (DPI) scale factor would be nice.

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The Linux Foundation and The WINE project

As far as I know, WINE is developed by a group of volunteers and coders that only gets financial support by codeweavers. It is a VERY important project for Linux and IMHO it's probably the best way to increase the desktop market share.


Does the Linux Foundation provide any funding to the project? The Foundation has a budget of $15mln last year. Or are the commercial interests too big (lobbying from a Platinum member called Microsoft maybe?) to allow such a funding?
Same goes for Canonical: are they just developing WSL and Linux SW for Microsoft, or do they think that could be nice to have Windows SW on Linux?


Is it time that 600.000 /linux users start complaining with Jim Zemlin and Mark Shuttleworth???

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Just saw this RMS wallpaper on /r/wallpaper. :-)

His light, through the heresy \[3840 x 2160\] https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpaper/comments/kx8976/his\_light\_through\_the\_heresy\_3840\_x\_2160/

https://redd.it/kxpz55
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rx - a modern and minimalist pixel art program
https://rx.cloudhead.io/

https://redd.it/kxoit0
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emba, a Linux firmware scanner for embedded devices, got a big update - new static version detection, improved emulation module and the final aggregator with CVE and exploit detection - https://github.com/e-m-b-a/emba - check it out!
https://redd.it/kxtqru
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The terminal, the console and the shell - what are they?
https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/the-terminal-the-console-and-the-shell-what-are-they.html

https://redd.it/kxree5
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A free and open-source command-line calculator
https://github.com/Benni3D/cmdcalc

https://redd.it/kxqil5
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GNU nano 5.5 released
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-nano/2021-01/msg00000.html

https://redd.it/kxyue2
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Booting from Kubuntu live USB, when suddenly... Matrix!

https://redd.it/kxzj6a
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What is the best PDF editor for Linux?

Is there any good pdf editor in Linux(Other than Libre)? I'd like to switch to Linux but the problem is I can't find a good pdf editor like Adobe Acrobat pro DC. Libre hangs when I load a big pdf file. Now editing pdf is essential for me for some reason and I'm familiar with Adobe Acrobat. In Adobe Acrobat there are many options which Libre lacks. So what do you suggest?

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Announcing the PinePhone Mobian Community Edition
https://blog.mobian-project.org/posts/2021/01/15/mobian-community-edition/

https://redd.it/ky1sbd
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Mozilla DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Comment Period: Help us enhance security and privacy online – Open Policy & Advocacy
https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2020/11/18/doh-comment-period-2020/

https://redd.it/ky1qay
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Coming in glibc 2.33: Reloadable nsswitch.conf
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/15/coming-in-glibc-2-33-reloadable-nsswitch-conf/

https://redd.it/ky1gd6
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How to share a Linux distro between two machines?

I've been using an HP522tx laptop for the past 4 years. This laptop has a Kingston 2.5" SATA SSD(512GB) and a standard 5400RPM HDD. I prefer my coding on Linux and hence, I installed Windows 10 on the SSD and Linux Mint on the HDD. That way I had access to both my OSs in a dual-boot environment.

Recently, I upgraded to an MSI GL-65 Leopard because the HP was now failing to keep up with my video editing/gaming demands. At first, I was considering converting the HP into a full-blown Linux machine so I'd have different machines for coding and multimedia work.

However, I soon realised that I'd need to be able to access my Linux installation on both the systems. Since I can't really carry two laptops around everywhere I go, I now need to find a way to share the Linux installation between my two machines.

Here's what I have in mind: Install Linux on the SSD and use it in an external enclosure with both my laptops. That way I'd have access to the same OS(and hence the same files) on both my laptops and I can use the HP's HDD as a data dump.

I'm wondering if there are any better approaches out there to this situation? Also, if I do in fact go ahead with this, would running Linux off of an external SSD impact the performance in any way?

https://redd.it/ky5ybu
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Linux for early 2011 MacBook

Title more or less says it all, looking to boot my old MacBook on Linux. Any recommendations for what version to use that looks similar to Mac OS, or tips? I upgraded it recently with 16 gb of ram and a 240 gb ssd

https://redd.it/kyb81n
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Food on the table while giving away code (curl)
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/01/15/food-on-the-table-while-giving-away-code/

https://redd.it/kybv6h
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