Manjaro 21.0 Ornara released
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-21-0-ornara-released/59399

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Just got rid of the swap file on my new desktop. Was this the right decision?

I recently built my own PC. It's got a 2TB SSD with 64GB of RAM, and I'm dual booting Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS and Windows 10.

I just got rid of the swap file for Ubuntu, because I don't want to be continually writing to the SSD and I deliberately bought plenty of RAM. Was this the right decision?

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An open letter in support of Richard Matthew Stallman being reinstated by the Free Software Foundation

Those who disagreed with the attempt to remove Stallman from all posts published an open response letter from Stallman's supporters and opened a collection of signatures in support of Stallman (to subscribe, you need to send a pull request).

Actions against Stallman are interpreted as attacks for expressing personal opinions, distorting the meaning of what was said and putting social pressure on the community. For historical reasons, Stallman paid more attention to philosophical issues and objective truth, and was used to expressing his views head-on without unnecessary diplomacy, which did not exclude resentment, distortion of meaning and misunderstanding. However, these features have nothing to do with Stallman's ability to lead the community. In addition, Stallman, like anyone else, has the right to his own opinion, while others have the right to agree or disagree with this opinion, but must respect his right to freedom of thought and speech.

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Plan 9 officially becomes independent
https://www.bell-labs.com/institute/blog/plan-9-bell-labs-cyberspace/

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GNOME 40 Released
https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/

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GNOME 40 is released!

It is our greatest pleasure to announce the release of GNOME 40!

This release is the first to follow our new versioning scheme.

It brings new design for the Activities overview and improved support
for input with Compose sequences and keyboard shortcuts, among many other
things.

Improvements to core GNOME applications include a redesigned Weather
application, information popups in Maps, better tabs in Web, and many
more.

More information about the changes in GNOME 40 can be found in the
release notes:

**https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/**
**https://forty.gnome.org/**

GNOME 40 will be available shortly in many distributions. If you want to
try it today, you can use the just-released Fedora 34 beta or the openSUSE
nightly live images which both include GNOME 40.

**https://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/**
**https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/**

We are also providing our own installer images for debugging and testing
features. These images are meant for installation in a vm and require
GNOME Boxes with UEFI support to boot:

**https://os.gnome.org/download/40.0/gnome\_os\_installer\_40.0.iso**

If you are interested in building applications for GNOME 40, look for the
GNOME 40 Flatpak SDK, which is available in the **www.flathub.org** repository.

This six-month effort wouldn’t have been possible without the whole GNOME
community, made of contributors and friends from all around the world:
developers, designers, documentation writers, usability and accessibility
specialists, translators, maintainers, students, system administrators,
companies, artists, testers and last, but not least, our users.

GNOME would not exist without all of you. Thank you to everyone!

Our next release, GNOME 41, is planned for October 2021, after our yearly
GUADEC conference, which will be online again. Until then, enjoy GNOME 40.

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WindTerm 2.0: A Free Cross-Platform SSH/SFTP/Shell/Telnet/Serial Client
https://github.com/kingToolbox/WindTerm

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Sneak Peek of the Next PureOS Release on the Librem 5
https://puri.sm/posts/sneak-peek-of-the-next-pureos-release-on-the-librem-5/

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Libva (vaapi) 2.11.0 released with support for LibVA Protected Content API
https://github.com/intel/libva/commit/21c1867b29fa84181404e015146f4844b062ea58#diff-7ee66c4f1536ac84dc5bbff1b8312e2eef24b974b3e48a5c5c2bcfdf2eb8f3ceR5

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anyone know of a new project that does this?

So I looked it up and found this thing called AttackVector Linux. Basically it combines the capabilities of both Kali and Tails into one OS. Its old and outdated since the developers discontinued it:

[https://github.com/ksoona/attackvector](https://github.com/ksoona/attackvector)

Does anyone know if this project is gonna be brought back or if a similar one will be created anytime soon? Could you give more info please?

There’s this:

http://homeofbannedhacker.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_15.html?m=1

But has there been any other projects like it with prebuilt OS that updates to put on live usb?

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How to Boot ISO Files From GRUB2 Boot Loader
https://www.linuxbabe.com/desktop-linux/boot-from-iso-files-using-grub2-boot-loader

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google, are you f****** with me?
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A decent 15-minute overview of how a PC boots a Linux kernel using Grub2
https://moi.vonos.net/linux/Booting_Linux_on_x86_with_Grub2/

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What's the Linux Distro (or distros) you have fond memories of?

My first ever Linux was Kubuntu 8.10.

KDE 4.1... the Adept Installer...

OpenOffice.org...


But that's not the only one that I remember fondly...

Fedora 13.... openSUSE 11.3 (who remembers its Christmas boot screen?)


And the one I loved using the most: Mandriva 2010.2. It felt so professional and well-made....


What's yours?

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KFENCE - Detecting memory bugs in production kernels
https://thomasw.dev/post/kfence/

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Do you really want Linux phones
https://blog.brixit.nl/do-you-really-want-linux-phones/

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Anyone order a laptop from "Laptopwithlinux.com" ?

https://laptopwithlinux.com/

The laptops look very similar to the system76 line of products. I have heard that they are just rebadged clevo laptops and when I started googling "clevo laptops" I stumbled on these badboys. It seems like I have a cheaper alternative to system76 without the bios flashing and support.

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Windows <-> Liniux: 10 months in

This is not about a switch over, but rather using a Linux machine alongside several Windows machines, and trying to get a smooth and continuous experience and workflows across all systems at work and at home. This is based on my needs and preferences, so pretty subjective.

Just some high level points... hope it will help someone else. The more I use my Mint machine, the more I like it. While I wouldn't make it my main and only machine for a number of reasons, I far prefer it over Mac OS.

Systems used: Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Home, Linux Mint (just upgraded to 20.1 but was mainly on 19.x), heavily used alongside iPads / iPhones. So, in no special order:

|Feature|Windows|Linux|Comments|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Airprint from iOS devices|Not possible without installing a 3rd party app which may pose privacy and security risks|Linux CUPS print server is the same (or compatible with) AirPrint. Just share a printer and it will be discovered by any iOS device on the local network (and by Windows, of course).|A big plus with Linux|
|Encrypted file storage that works with iOS|Cryptomator|Cryptomator|Cryptomator offers the same experience on all platforms.|
|Cloud storage|Onedrive|Onedrive, synced via Insync (the only paid Linux app I have)|There are also free solutions for Linux, but Insync is often on sale for $15 and IMHO is worth the convenience.|
|Office suite|MS Office|MS Office web or Libre Office|LibreOffice is more than adequate for personal stuff. For work related documents that must follow a common format and get shared with others, need to use a Windows machine or Office on web, due to formatting getting sometimes lost in translation. This is a minor inconvenience.|
|Notetaker / Data organizer|Onenote|Onenote Web|Unfortunately there's no Linux Onenote client. (see *1 below)|
|Text & program automation noscripting|AutoHotKey|AutoKey, Custom keyboard shortcuts (via keyboard preferences)|Use examples: type "qqdt" to insert current date and time; using custom shortcuts to have the same key combination provide the same functionality between Linux and Windows even though the underlying apps are completely different|
|Extended clipboard (with history, support for images)|Built in Windows. Using Win+V to bring up clipboard history|CopyQ|Using custom keyboard shortcut to have the Win+V run CopyQ|
|Browser|Brave|Brave||
|Quick photo viewer / editor|Windows Photos|Pix||
|RAW photo editor|CaptureOne, Rawtherapee|Rawtherapee, Darktable|No loss of major functionality.|
|Photo editor|Paint Shop Pro, Gimp|Gimp|Gimp is sufficient for most tasks. No support for adjustment layers yet.|
|Email / Calendar / Task client|Outlook|Thunderbird|Thunderbird ecosystem had improved tremendously. Tbsync plugin syncs calendars, tasks and contacts, and works with Outlook and enterprise Exchange surprisingly well, with a very straightforward setup.|
|Media players|VLM, Foobar2000|VLM, Rhytmbox|Still looking for a perfect music player.|
|Password manager|Bitwarden|Bitwarden||
|Global / Desktop search|Everything, Windows Indexing, Onedrive / Onenote search|Recoll, Docfetcher|Windows Indexing search used to be great, now it's a mess. Recoll is pretty good. Docfetcher is also very good. All in all, there's a solution for both platforms. Using WIN+CTRL+E to run search on both systems.|
|||||

*1 Yes I am aware that there's Joplin, Evernote, etc. I prefer Onenote for a number of reasons, not really on topic for this discussion. The bottom line is, there's no Onenote client for Linux.

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Is three a way to add dim (\E2m) functionality to my terminal (URxvt-unicode/xterm/etc)?

I've been playing around with ncurses and I've found that none of my terminals support the dim functionality. From what I can tell after a bit of googling, the output of infocmp should have an entry that reads: `dim=\E[2m,` . While my goto terminal is URxvt, I was surprised to find that none of the terminal that I have installed support it.

Is it within the realm of possibility to get URxvt to support the escape sequence or do I need to find another terminal. I personally am rather fond of URxvt and would rather not abandon it for something else as it seems to play nicely with so many other things.

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AMDGPU Kernel Module Versions

If you are having trouble getting amdgpu or amdgpu-pro to work with any kernel after 5.4.0-56, check AMD's website for the newest driver 20.50.


Released March 22nd, 2021 (two days ago?!?!) AMD finally supports the most recent kernels used in RHEL, Ubuntu, and SUSE (sorry Arch guys).

I am not a developer or tester, but with slight edits to the "osrelease()" function in the install noscript, you can shift it to your distro.

For example, the Ubuntu 20.04.1 drivers support Mint and Debian, and adding "pop" to the case statement let me run on PopOS! 20.10 just fine w/ kernel 5.8.0-7642.

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RMS Open Letter - An open letter signed by Open Source (and more) Developers and other Persons for the removal of the entire Board of the Free Software Foundation, the GNU Project, and all leadership positions elsewhere
https://rms-open-letter.github.io/

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