Anybody have a preference on their favorite lightweight distro?

I was looking for a lightweight distro preferably Debian based. The computer is about 15 years old with 2gb of ram and a beyond outdated AMD processor(not sure which one exactly) any recommendations? I've tried Mint on it but it seems to not work so great. Any input is greatly appreciated. (Not really relevant but I think I can get the nerd award now that my phone autocorrects the word "is" to "os")

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Linux apps that are awesome

I’m running Fedora Workstation 33 on a 2014 MacMini and Ubuntu 20.10 on a Raspberry Pi 4. Here are a few apps that don’t come with the default Gnome desktop that you might want to pull down from the repos:

Microsoft VS Code: a gorgeous Visual Studio editor that’s perfect for writing Bash noscripts. You can split your screen and open a Bash shell within the app to test your current noscript.

Lollypop Music Player: Replace ugly Rhythmbox with Lollypop, which has a sharp interface and pulls down a lot of album art.

Photos: this photo viewer is available with Fedora Gnome, haven’t been able to find it for Ubuntu. Reminds me of Apple’s iPhotos.

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Checksums in cases of hacked sites

Hello, i have a question regarding the chain of trust for checksum-based verification of a download.


I want to download the correct version of go from their site, and they offer checksums (go is an example, that extends to many more). However, assuming the site was hacked and the packaged files were replaced with malicious ones, how exactly is the checksum still secure? If i was an attacker, i'd simply replace the checksum aswell and no one would find out.


gpg-verification does not have this problem since there is the public key ensuring trust, but i cant see how that would work for checksums.


How is it supposed to work?

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Best/practical aliases for ~./bashrc

Hey guys! I am looking for some customization in my \~/.bashrc file. Right now, I have the most basic stuff, such as using "retro" to launch cool-retro-term (with custom profile ofc ), edex for eDEX-UI ( very cool terminal, check it out) and various misspellings of "clear", such as "celar" so I dont have to re-do it when Im in a hurry. There would be a lot more but I still havent figured out a way to add spaces to the aliases.

I use PopOS , based on Ubuntu 20.04.

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Our game Can't Drive This is out today! Works on most Linux distros. To celebrate, we'll donate 100% of Linux-revenue on Launch-Day to South African penguins (https://sanccob.co.za/)
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convert Intel Compute Stick to Amazon Firestick via Linux?

I have an Intel Compute Stick. I installed Lubuntu, which worked okay, but my wife didn't like using a wireless keyboard and mouse to watch Netflix/Amazon movies.

Is there any way to convert my Compute Stick to a replacement for Amazon Firestick by using a different OS (with or without generic remote control)?

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Flameshot Not Starting On GNOME, No Errors – FIXED

Hi guys.

I saw some GNOME users have issues with Flameshot not stating on GNOME [with no errors in the terminal\]. So I made a small guide on **fixing this Flameshot issue** in case it happens to you.

I hope it helps.

Cheers.

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When this post is 15 minutes old, we hit Unix time 1616161616

If you want to follow it on the command line, this outputs the remaining time in minutes:

echo "( 1616161616 - $(date +%s) ) / 60" | bc

Wikipedia article on Unix time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix\_time

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Linux in the wild. Someone get some data on some USB storage, will ya
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When you haven't updated arch for 2 days
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Rust support for the kernel hits linux-next
https://lwn.net/Articles/849849/

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Response to flatkill.org
https://theevilskeleton.frama.io/2021/02/11/response-to-flatkill-org.html

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Software to index a large archive of Text?

What I am looking for is more or less some software that could make a reasonably quick, searchable database of more than 10GB of .TXT files. Most of the files have tags, none of it is standardized. I want to be able to type in some key words and have it return reasonable matches.

Thoughts?

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How to remove record from samba's tdb file?

I noticed big gap in winbinddidmap.tdb in UID/GID. It goes from 10000 to around 25000 and then jump to 1600000. I have checked that no user is using UID bigger than 25000. I wanted to remove UID 1600000 from tdb using tdbtool or dbwraptool but even when I delete it from tdb after starting winbind service I'm still getting incremented from uid 1600000 for new users.

Does anyone managed to remove UID/GID from tdb file?

p.s. I tried to remove mapping with wbinfo too... didn't work.

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Ihor E. Novikov, developer of sK1 & UniConvertor, has died
https://github.com/sk1project/sk1-wx/issues/282

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Speedtest-cli multiple servers

I installed the Speedtest-cli but I get consistently low speeds. 50Mbps vs 250Mbs via the browser.

Reached out to Ookla and they came back with this reply: "Speedtest cli uses a single server to test the internet speed of the client.
The portal uses more than one server to test the internet speed of the client."

Imo this would defeat the purpose. Or am I missing the usecase?

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Building sway-borders in gentoo?

I fucking love this fork but I can't build it on gentoo. It's one of the few things my system is missing, and something sway needs to add.

While trying to build [sway-borders from github](https://github.com/fluix-dev/sway-borders), it fails on my gentoo system running the stable branch's wlroots 12.0 package.

meson build says:

Neither a subproject directory nor a wlroots.wrap file was found.

Subproject wlroots is buildable: NO (disabling)

Run-time dependency wlroots found: YES 0.12.0

WARNING: Project targeting '>=0.53.0' but tried to use feature introduced in '0.54.0': internal arg in dep.get_variable.

WARNING: pkgconfig variable 'have_xwayland' not defined for dependency wlroots.
...
WARNING: pkgconfig variable 'have_elogind' not defined for dependency wlroots.

Then the ninja -C build fails:

undefined reference to `wlr_xdg_foreign_registry_create'

... `wlr_xdg_foreign_v1_create'

... `wlr_xdg_foreign_v2_create'

... `wlr_layer_surface_v1_for_each_popup_surface'

... `wlr_xdg_surface_for_each_popup_surface'

I compiled wlroots from github, but ninja -C build doesn't search for the headers in

/usr/local/include/wlr/

to link.

Can I use meson to fix this?
Can I use pkg-config to fix this?
Can I find a version of this fork that works with 12.0?

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Google ads editor on ubuntu via wine

Trying to run the above on my pc, successfully installed and ran, now I encounter a situation where i need to add an account, and google ads editor tries to open my browser unsuccessfully and freezes. Any ideas for a work around?

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is there a distro that comes with only posix compliant shell and no bash?

I use zsh and never touch bash. I can live without bash noscripts since most of them would work fine with /bin/sh anyway. I would really love a distro where the package manager or another core part of the system doesn't depend on bash so I don't have to have it installed at all times even if I never use it.

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edw · elementary Developer Weekend
https://edw.elementary.io/

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Rebuilding a "software development stack"

I'm the admin on for a small workstation/cluster used by my research group which manages it's software using Environment modules. I've just finished compiling a sequence of dependant software (e.g. gcc 9 -> cuda -> open-mpi -> FFTW) and am about to start the process again using a different starting compiler (e.g. intel compilers -> cuda -> ...).

I'm writing a BASH noscript to automate this process, but it's lead me to wonder how this scenario is typically handled?

I'm working in computational physics and have done a decent amount of software development for simulation packages in my particular niche. But I've no formal software development training. It be great if some could give/point me towards a high level overview so I could incorporate some relevant terms into my "Google-fu".

EDIT: To clarify, I'm wondering if it's typical to use BASH noscripts, make, or some other tool all together? Is there even a standard practice?

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