Rhythmbox’s Much-Needed Makeover Might Not Be Happening

The sad state of Linux music players. 14 competing music apps all with major flaws and the 15th just around the corner. I wish rhythmbox would see some momentum. Lots of plugins have been broken at times. The feature requests pile up. But the devs seem to be fine to just keep it as it is, not even allowing new ideas and motivated devs into the process. It is frustrating.

https://redd.it/lplc92
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IgniteOS a tiny (LFS & MLL based) OS

Hey!

As the noscript says, I would like to share a project I'm currently working on. IgniteOS is built on top of MLL and the LFS guides. It's focus is speed and weightlessness, currently it idling uses less than 1% of my I5 7200U cpu. Spark is another project that is in the works for Ignite, its a small package-installer/auto-from-source-builder which will help automate many tasks and lessen the size of the iso greatly.

What works?
Well, at the moment it can boot from bare-hardware, can connect to the internet, installs applications from static-get as well as Spark being merged into it (should be available in the next release once I fix the OpenSSL issues). Installing the Ignite on a system works as well but requires another OS for the utilities (We will add all of the utilities to Spark as to remove the need for this). Tmux, Links, Vim, Nano, Python, Java as well as a few other applications/utilities work as well (For the full list please refer to either the fire_overlay/bundles/ directory or the README in the main directory of the repo).

What's in the works?

At the moment I am adding Xorg, Ninja and other utilities required for running the x server. Once I'm done with that I will move to adding more packages to Spark, we aim to reach about 1000 packages (including their dependencies) by the end of the year.

We need YOU!!!

At the moment our team has 3 developers with 2 of us working on the package manager for it (more like an auto-builder for different applications). I'm looking for any advice, ideas and testers. Anything helps!

OS GitHub link: **github.com/huski3/igniteos**

Spark GitHub Link: **github.com/huski3/spark**

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No regrets

I wanted to share my experience, as a first time Linux user. I'm a CS student and my laptop is old and slow. I decided a month ago to try Linux Mint as it runs faster than Windows and Linux is often used in CS classes. I absolutely don't regret it, it runs super fast, Linux Mint is pretty customizable. Installing it via Rufus was very smooth. Typing commands instead of using the interface saves a lot of time (and it's satisfying) I'm definetly not going back to Windows for work laptops. Loving it !

https://redd.it/lpnred
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Nextcloud Hub 21 released with up to 10x better performance, whiteboard and more collaboration features
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub-21-out-with-up-to-10x-better-performance-whiteboard-and-more-collaboration-features/

https://redd.it/lpnsph
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Building Your Mouseless Development Environment

Hello everybody!

One and a half year ago, I was wondering: would anybody be interested by a book describing how to build a system where the Linux shell would be the most important tool, from an empty hard disk to a complete development environment? Would anybody like some guidance to build their first Linux-based "Mouseless Development Environment"?

I began to poke around and I realized that, indeed, many were interested by the idea. But I was working full time and I also knew I wanted to travel, so I put the project on hold.

After some good old burnout due to my job, I began to travel in Asia in January 2020. And then... you know what's coming.

Covid hit. I had to come back in Europe without any flat (I was subleasing it to other people for 6 months). With difficulties and luck, I ended up with my girlfriend in a temporary flat. I didn't have any job, only the computer I was traveling with (Lenovo x220 for the win!) and some clothes.

Is there a better moment to write? :D

I want to write a book since I'm 10. And now... my first book is out for two weeks already, and I just shipped its first free update this morning! I'm so happy to write that, you have no idea.

Its lengthy name: Building Your Mouseless Development Environment, powered by amazing tools like Arch Linux, i3, Zsh, tmux, and Neovim.

I wasn't alone: I had the support of my family, my friends, my girlfriend, and the amazing subscribers of my newsletter. I shared with them, during the 8 months of intense writing, the process, the doubts, and the ideas I had for the book. They helped me a lot and provided the motivation to keep going. They even helped me proofreading it (I'm not a native English speaker, as you can see).

Long story short, you can now look at the result:

The [book's page](https://themouseless.dev/).
A sample of the book with the entire table of content.
A [quick video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67lbLKTm91U) explaining a bit the Mouseless Development Environment we build throughout the book.
The "behind the scenes": what tools I used to write this book.

This book is not free or open source. If you want to know why, I wrote a bit about it.

https://redd.it/lpnhub
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CubeGet - Portable package manager for Ubuntu/Debian
https://redd.it/lpmvsw
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Wine 32 bit using flatpak in Centos like distros

I've made a flatpak with wine-stable 6.0 for 32 bit using latest runtime 20.08. Centos does not provide wine i386 version. So this effort. I've tested this on Centos 7 x86_64, works on Fedora 33 and Centos 7. https://github.com/fastrizwaan/flatpak-wine32.

https://redd.it/lpssq1
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The Open Build Service now supports building Flatpak bundles, so you can build your own!
https://openbuildservice.org/2021/02/18/introducing-flatpak-builds/

https://redd.it/lpu91c
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First Look: ‘Spot’ is a Native Spotify App for Linux, Built in GTK & Rust
https://redd.it/lpwq9w
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Linux is running on the surface of Mars in the Perseverance rover!

I was just listening in on the livestream of the briefing on the landing of the Perseverance, and one question that was asked about the computer hardware on the rover. To my surprise, alot of the camera, microphones and onboard computers are commercial, off-the-shelf ( as they said). As for the operating system, they were using, as you might have guessed, is Linux!

Over the years, Ive casually read about Linux, and have looked in to learning about it, and I've also had heard about Linux being used in other important projects on Earth, but I never thought about the OS being used to power such powerful, and expensive, pieces of hardware, such as the rover, and have it run on another, alien planet. I feel, after hearing this, that I want to actually want to invest time on learning about Linux.

https://redd.it/lpyqcb
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OnionShare 2.3 adds tabs, anonymous chat, better command line support, and quite a bit more
https://micahflee.com/2021/02/onionshare-tabs-anonymous-chat-cli/

https://redd.it/lpuyuf
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NASA/JPL Thanks open source Community for amazing software in regards to Linux running on the new Mars rover 1:07:05
https://youtu.be/gYQwuYZbA6o?t=4025

https://redd.it/lq01sw
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How long have you been using Linux?

I'm old school, I've been using Linux for 18 years, I don't know why I remembered that, but it was a long time ago, when fedora come out only fedora for me red hat is the are linux masters all the most important things for linux the red hat is made, gnome, pulse audio........many think the cenonical did it but did not.....

https://redd.it/lq018x
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Convos brings the IRC experience into the 21st century
https://convos.chat/

https://redd.it/lq2486
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Lenovo's X1 Carbon Shows Why Linux Is Great on ThinkPads
https://www.wired.com/review/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon-linux-edition/

https://redd.it/lq4tiw
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Mozilla is testing ads ("Sponsored Top Sites") in Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy?as=u&utm_source=inproduct

https://redd.it/lq4m4c
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winepak32 - build wine32 bit flatpak bundle

https://github.com/fastrizwaan/winepak32

I've upgraded flatpak-wine (flapak runtime 18.08 i386) to winepak32 (flatpak runtime 20.08 Compat.i386). Now winepak32 is future proof when and if 1.4 and 18.08 32 bit runtimes go End-Of-Life.

It creates wine 32 bit bundles of windows apps/games from installation directory (we can copy the directory from \~/.wine/Program\\ Files\\<application>) This is useful for saving and using your paid windows apps/games in Linux.

Example NotepadPP windows application is packaged in flatpak sandbox with wine dependency.

For non-bundle games/software installers use https://github.com/fastrizwaan/flatpak-wine32

https://redd.it/lq67ue
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GitLab 13.9 released with a Security Alert Dashboard and Maintenance Mode
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/02/22/gitlab-13-9-released/

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IBM, Call for Code, and the Linux Foundation announce new open source projects to combat racism

The Linux Foundation last week announced it was hosting seven open source projects in partnership with IBM and David Clark Cause’s Call for Code for Racial Justice.

**Background:** Call for Code for Racial Justice launched late last year to solicit solutions from the global coding community.

The seven initiatives, per a Linux foundation blog post, include:



* Fair Change: A platform to help record, catalog, and access evidence of potentially racially charged incidents to help enable transparency, reeducation and reform as a matter of public interest and safety.
* TakeTwo: \[This project\] aims to help mitigate bias in digital content, whether it is overt or subtle, with a focus on text across news articles, headlines, web pages, blogs, and even code.
* Five Fifths Voter: This web app empowers minorities to exercise their right to vote and helps ensure their voice is heard by determining optimal voting strategies and limiting suppression issues.
* Legit-Info: Local legislation can have significant impacts on areas as far-reaching as jobs, the environment, and safety. Legit-Info helps individuals understand the legislation that shapes their lives.
* Incident Accuracy Reporting System: This platform allows witnesses and victims to corroborate evidence or provide additional information from multiple sources against an official police report.
* Open Sentencing: To help public defenders better serve their clients and make a stronger case, Open Sentencing shows racial bias in data such as demographics.
* Truth Loop: This app helps communities simply understand the policies, regulations, and legislation that will impact them the most.

https://redd.it/lqa5p4
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Linux has been ported to run on Apple’s M1 Macs

A new Linux port allows Apple’s M1 Macs to run Ubuntu for the first time. Corellium, a security firm that offers a virtualized version of iOS for security testing, has successfully ported Ubuntu over to M1 Macs and released a tutorial for others to follow. The modified version of Ubuntu boots into the regular user interface and includes USB support.

Apple hasn’t designed its M1 Macs with dual-boot or Boot Camp in mind. Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, has previously ruled out official support for natively booting alternate operating systems like Windows or Linux. Virtualization seems to be Apple’s preferred method, but that hasn’t stopped people from making their own ports.

https://redd.it/lqaaks
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Jailer, a Database Subsetting and Relational Data Browsing Tool.
https://github.com/Wisser/Jailer

https://redd.it/lpwfwn
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