have you noticed there don't exist any good old distros of linux

I always thought that was a weak point of linux. it has the ability to run on very old (100mhz / 32mb ram) hardware but doesn't really exist for it in any meaningful capacity.


I think windows 95-98 had thousands of games and programs compatible for it along with hardware support. But as far as linux distros for mid 90's machines..... you got maybe the long abandon puppy linux but thats it.


I'd be rediculously interested in seeing old hardware run new software as a retro pc enthusiast. But it pretty much just never existed in the linux universe it seems.

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First time trying Linux! I’m using a lightweight easy-to-use distro to revive my old Windows 7 laptop.
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stegano-rs tool packaged for linux

I finally made it and packaged my stegano tool as a snap for linux.

It supports png and wav files as a source and target to hide und unveil data from.

demo

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Linux Distro for old Netbooks

I've been using a few lightweight distro for my aspire one, Intel Atom 1.66Ghz 1.33Ghz, 2GB RAM, 32-bit OS. Most of them kinda failed idk such as zorin os lite, peppermint os, lxle, lubuntu, bodhi.

any alternative than that?

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Deploy your own Matrix server on Fedora CoreOS
https://fedoramagazine.org/deploy-your-own-matrix-server-on-fedora-coreos/

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Control LIFX devices in terminal

Hey all, I'm not sure if this is a place to share this. Mods, please let me know and I'll remove if so.

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Anyway, I'm exceedingly lazy and sometimes can't be bothered to use my phone to control my LIFX light, so using the wonderful api from https://github.com/mclarkk/lifxlan, I threw together a tiny python noscript that you can drop in .local/bin and use to control your light. (Note, this is essentially designed for one light, but of course I could expand this since the wonderful python library supports it.) Cheers!

Gist: https://gist.github.com/SomethingGeneric/4696e5a84567d6b60b54ce1ce1b0dfb9

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Linux Mint constantly crashing on laptop from WW1

Hello! My computer that has bee passed down from generations (This was actually Woodrow Wilson’s personal laptop during the Great War) is having problems running Linux mint (the newest one). I was able to get the wifi working and google chrome installed but it constantly crashes trying open tabs and especially trying to watch YT

My specs:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo at 2 Ghz

Ram: 3 GB DDR2 667Mhz

GPU: Nvidia GeForce 8800GT

Display 900p 60HZ laptop display


What are some way I can improve the performance abd make it to where I can watch YouTube? Do I have to change to an even lighter OS or is there another way?

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JingOS: The World’s First iPadOS-style Linux Distro.
https://www.jingos.com/

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Idea for a Gentoo Book

My idea for a Gentoo book.

A book all about Gentoos history, support, development, etc. Tips on installing and basic troubleshooting.

Each purchase includes
- One paper / hard cover and
- Cover and back sticker
- All typed out pages and noscripts
- Paper glue
- Book cover
- Insutructions on how to assemble the book

Edit: I do take constructive critisism

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Home of sctp.h

These lines are a wart in one of my programs:

#ifdef linux
#include<linux/sctp.h>
#else
#include<netinet/sctp.h>
#endif

Is there anything wrong with netinet/sctp.h? Is there anyone that can make this change for me to Linux?

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RANT?Some issues that make Linux based operating systems difficult to use for Asian countries.

This is not a support post of any kind. I just thought this would be a great place to discuss this online. If there is a better forum to discuss this type of issue please feel free to point me in the right direction. This has been an issue for a long time and it needs to fixed.

Despite using Linux for the past two or so years, if there was one thing that made the transition difficult(and still difficult to use now) is Asian character input. I'm Korean, so I often have to use two input sources, both Korean and English. On Windows or macOS, this is incredibly easy.

I choose both the English and Korean input options during install setup or open system settings and install additional input methods.

Most Linux distributions I've encountered make this difficult or impossible to do. They almost always don't provide Asian character input during the installer to allow Asian user names and device names or make it rather difficult to install new input methods after installation.

The best implementation I've seen so far is Ubuntu(gnome and anaconda installer in general). While it does not allow uses to have non-Latin characters or install Asian input methods during installation, It makes it easy to install additional input methods directly from the settings application. Gnome also directly integrates Ibus into the desktop environment making it easy to use and switch between different languages.

KDE-based distributions on the other hand have been the worst. Not only can the installer(generally Calamaries) not allow non-Latin user names, it can't install multiple input methods during OS installation. KDE specifically has very little integration for Ibus input as well. Users have to install ibus-preferences separately from the package manager, install the correct ibus-package from the package manager, and manually edit enable ibus to run after startup. Additionally, most KDE apps seem to need manual intervention to take in Asian input aswell. Unlike the "just works" experience from Gnome, windows, or macOS.

These minor to major issues with input languages makes Linux operating systems quite frustrating to use for many Asians and not-Latin speaking countries. Hopefully, we can get these issues fixed for some distributions. Thanks, for coming to my ted talk.

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Rant: developers use the disk way too often, for things that don't need to be persistent.

Rant Time!


Developers have no respect for the problems that hammering the disk causes. It can bog things down, and very easily wear out small cheap SSDs in a few years.

Here's some of the stuff I found in just a few minutes.

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A wallpaper cache.

Apparently, whenever the wallpaper changes, csd-background creates a line like:

W /home/daniel/.cache/wallpaper/0_5_2560_1440_b5e2261cb2e334769359b91f7e72ff0a


These files, according to Nemo, are JPGs. For what horrific reason would you need to cache a JPG, by writing it to another JPG file somewhere else, every time you change backgrounds?


Google Chrome

I'm not even going to list anything, there are way too many miscellaneous and constant writes to mention individually.

But even when it isn't actively doing anything user visible, you see lines like:

chrome(298775): CW /home/daniel/.config/google-chrome/Default/TransportSecurity

and

W /home/daniel/.config/google-chrome/Default/Cookies-journal

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Etcher

Writes a few things like: /home/daniel/.config/balena-etcher-electron/Partitions/success-banner/Code Cache/js/a1c860f01781cfb0_0

Gnome-terminal
Racked up 30GB of stuff like this in a day, because some compilations made a bunch of output, and they write scrollback to the disk.

W /tmp/#5242926 (deleted)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/778872

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apt-check

Not a lot of data, but still unneccesary, cluttering up fatrace logs, increasing risk of fs corruption if you lose power, etc.

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Why would someone make a distro only to change the appearance?

I can't get my head around why there are so many linux distros. And I am not talking about the handful major distros. I mean more niche distros. Like the first distro I tried was LinuxLite and after a couple of months of using I don't get what's light about it other than it comes with xfce4, and you can change the Desktop Enviorment on most distros so it just feels like a reskin. And that's what I don't get about creating distros that appear to be a reskin. Why do they exist because Linux allows you to customize the appearance how you like, why bother creating an entire distro for that.

A couple of meme examples. Hanna Montana and anime Linux. The only unique thing about them is the wallpapers and splash screen. And most distros I have seen seem to be like that. And the same thing goes with preinstalled programs. I don't care if a distro comes preinstalled with steam. If I needed steam I would have installed it.

I get someone using arch because they want to have access to the AUR. But only a handful of distros have things that change the user experience

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Linux Distros should be tailored towards a specific user group.

No not all Distros are the same. There are stable distros bleeding edge distros with rolling releases Distros tailored towards smaller weaker PCs. Distros that offer a lot of Bling etc.

So I am not saying all Distros are the same. But lots of Distros can be grouped and within that Group they are pretty interchangeable. Like what is the difference between Pop OS and Manjaro.

Yes one is based on Ubuntu and one on Arch and Pop needs a bit more memory than Manjaro, but other than that? Unless you are missing out on some package you absolutely need that pops or Manjaros repositories do not have not a whole lot. The user sits in front of either OS and both are an OS where you setup your wifi your start menue and then install whatever you need.

There is one exception though, Kali Linux which is a Distro tailored towards a suit of specific tasks.

Why is Kali Linux a thing and the graphic designer equivalent of Linux is not? Or the Office equivalent?

The answer is simple, while the Venn diagram of people who could compile their own Linux distro and people who do hacking of any kind or are interested in tinkering with the tools Kali offers is not necessarily a circle it isn't 2 separate circles either. There is quite a bit of overlap.

When it comes to graphic designers and their ability and motivation to set up their own Linux distro, for graphic designers and 3D artists, very different situation of course. The people who are very knowledgeable in the area of graphic design and also very versed regarding the technical side when it comes to computers, are seldom the same people.

This is where the Linux community could come in, but of course the Linux community would have to care what a graphic designer wants or needs. Not an easy to task for RTFM, "this is not a support forum" elitists.

Distros that offer additional real value to everyday people would be such a strong selling point to get people away from MacOS or Windows.

Imagine a Linux distro for graphic designers developed after performing requirements engineering by talking to interviewing and getting graphic designers involved. Yes I know there is gimp, but a distro could do so much more than being a bad version of an industry standard software.

What requirements could an artists have? Power on the cheap for example. Imagine a distro that makes it for graphical artist relatively easy to harness several of their old machines into one unit to render a project.

Or the ability to pipe what you did in one program directly into the next and if necessary into the next again and having it automatically processed according to a preset. No more endless importing and exporting. A commercial solution would be hampered by licensing issues.

What else could an 3D artists, graphical designer or Photo editor need? I don't know I am not any of those things. That's where requirement engineering comes in.

Linux grows very very slowly because with all the different flavours out there at the end of the day most of them are pretty generic operating systems which you pick based on what your machine can handle and then you just install what you need. But Windows and MacOS does most of that already and people prefer to live with a bit of bloat due to drivers etc. they will never need than to have to do anything by themselves. 20 flavors of Linux distros that all aim to be a standard generic OS do not offer additional value.

By putting out distros that appeal to different needs Linux could offer real additional value to a large chunk of users, commercial providers can not offer because of licensing issues when it comes to having different tools interacting with each other, or because they do not want to because it is more profitable to deny customers an easy way to bundle their legacy hardware into a single powerful unit.

The Linux community needs to take Requirements Engineering and Usability more seriously to set itself apart from commercial Desktop OS and go beyond and above what they offer. Not try to compete with them

and be like them. But to achieve that the people who can do need to know what the people who can not do want and need. Linux needs to go big with requirements engineering to be able to create the Linux programmers, Visual artists, Musical artists, office fighters want.

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converting webcam input to solid color desktop background in GNOME. Could be your shirt! (sorry for screen glare)

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Why I switched to Pop_OS and How to Co-exist alongside Windows?
https://thekrishna.in/blogs/blog/pop-os/

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Samba - only allow users access their folder (and custom dirs)

Currently, users in our samba directory can access any folders, including each others so I've found that by including this line in the config file valid users = %S uncommented, users can only access their home directories.

Now the only problem is that there's a folder that needs to be accesible for everyone and I can't seem to have it working.

Does anyone happen to know how to do it?

Thanks ahaed.

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Electron apps

Hi,
Maybe it's a really easy question to answer, but i'm going to post it anyway.
We have many electron apps like Discord, which are based on online version of themself.
We have Visual Studio Code based on Electron, and some smart guy made it work in web browser.
So, theoretically, there should be no problem with porting webapps to electron.


Then why Google can't or don't want to port their office suite?
I understand why Microsoft is not doing it, but Google could get more users of their product, by releasing a desktop app that has the same functionality. Even porting paid GSuite shouldn't be a problem, just make user log in before accessing the app.

Maybe there is a possibility for community to port desktop version of G suite?


Making such a move could possibly gain google more users, make their app way more comfortable to use and finally make a lot of people change their OS from windows, because many of them are using windows just to have Office Suite.

And sorry for possible misinterpretations, i'm not a programmer.

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Can i run Servers on Linux from an Android Phone?



Dont know much about Linux but i just followed a guide and i can now run Linux (Kali) from my Mobilephone. Basically you run an app Called LinuxDeploy and then vncviewer and connect to Localhost and you know got a Linux Distro running from your phone.

https://www.androidauthority.com/install-ubuntu-on-your-android-smartphone-765408/

Dont know much more than that, and my question is, can i install and run Servers from there like a Plex Server, a VPN Server etc, that other devices can connect to on my Home Network

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GNOME 40 Will Now Handle XWayland On-Demand By Default
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1673

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