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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Asus Linux status update Mar. 2021
https://asus-linux.org/blog/updates-2021-03-22/

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Can I open Linux log files under Windows?

I know this may sound like heresy, but I assure you, I have reasons :P

When I copy a messages logfile to a Windows machine and try to open it in a text editor, it displays only garbage. I thought notepad++ might be able to read the format, but alas, no luck. Do you know any better means?

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I made a new OS for my Kobo eReader

Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ6z\_-jO5UY

The Kobo runs Alpine Linux natively with a boosted-up kernel (although v2.6.35.3, and very difficult to upgrade) including SquashFS support, FUSE, kexec, etc. The main GUI uses Qt 5.15.2 for graphics rendering, which is very nice to work with.

The software is automatically started at boot with a daisy-chain mount sequence (update files are squashfs images, so I have to mount them to use the software) and it interacts with various parts of the OS.

It includes a Diagnostics mode, which can be booted up by sliding the power key, which the initrd detects in the first 3 seconds of boot. You can do factory reset/restore and update the software in it.

More details and download are available here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=337972

I hope you enjoyed it! :D

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A Linux with different os for every user

I've been using Unraid for some time to run windows or linux depending on the operating system I need, plus several dockers in the background, and it has always behaved perfectly. However, a few days ago, I found this video.

I Almost Lost My Virtual Machines...

Where SomeOrdinaryGamers explains quite simply how he runs virtual machines on Manjaro, watching the video I noticed that he basically manually reproduces what Unraid does under the hood. In summary, what he does to switch the video card from his manjaro to the virtual machine and vice versa is to prepare pre and post execution noscripts that take care of disconnecting and reconnecting the video card, allowing a smooth transition between one system and another. At this point it occurred to me that theoretically it would be possible to create a noscript that runs the virtual machine when the user login and disconnects the user when the virtual machine is turned off, if you join these noscripts to a stripped down linux it would be possible create a distribution that allows you to have a different and dedicated system for each user.

What do you think? would it be interesting as an idea or is it something that interests me only?

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Introducing ovpn-admin — a web interface to manage OpenVPN users
https://blog.flant.com/introducing-ovpn-admin-web-interface-for-openvpn/

https://redd.it/mcxzgd
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How Microsoft implemented and then removed a crucial Teams feature on Linux
https://www.thomasvanderberg.nl/blog/microsoft-removed-crucial-teams-feature-linux/

https://redd.it/mcv99r
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KDE e.V. is looking to hire a documentation writer
https://ev.kde.org/2021/03/24/job-documentation

https://redd.it/mcuwc2
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Meet PanVk, an Open Source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/panvk-an-open-source-vulkan-driver-for-arm-mali-midgard-and-bifrost-gpus.html

https://redd.it/md0oql
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Lenovo refuses a 42€ Windows licence refund, gets sentenced 20000€ for damages
https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210302-01.fr.html

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PINEPHONE – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone - PINE STORE
https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-beta-edition-linux-smartphone/?v=0446c16e2e66

https://redd.it/md19gq
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GNOME Shell 40 Port Guide - Part 2 (Overview)

https://redd.it/md2r72
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OpenSSL Security Advisory [25 March 2021]
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20210325.txt

https://redd.it/mczr89
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GNOME 40 Release Video

The GNOME release video for your viewing pleasure. It takes a different take than previous one - given that this is a major UX release it seems appropriate. Would love your feedback of course. Big thanks to FreeHive for producing this video. As usual, the video is made completely with Free Software.

https://youtu.be/vK-SwsWnEmo

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Would you buy an AMD/Intel board with coreboot?

Now, we have seen time and time again companies that produce coreboot friendly laptops, these laptops generally come from the likes of System76 (porting over coreboot to their AMD line).

It's great that we are seeing a push from the likes of protectli that produce coreboot friendly router boards which are used a lot use for pfsense.

Then you have you guys over at deciso doing some work with coreboot, on their netboard a10 boards.

If someone came out other than the likes of Asus..etc, would you be willing to buy a coreboot friendly board and if so would you play a little bit more considering it's a niche product but you also knew that it was intended to be used with Linux/BSD.

What features would you like to see for instance, board size.... ITX/ATX?

I'm not going to be building like this but I think having market research would allow companies to review the this thread.

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KDE & Qt Cooperation
https://kate-editor.org/post/2021/2021-03-24-kde-qt-cooperation/

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Using graphics card in headless Linux server?

Once upon a time, I had a "gaming" laptop with a ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 DUAL-GTX1060-O6G 6GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 in it. But then I installed Linux on it. It is primarily running a Plex server and a Minecraft server.

How might I put it to use?

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I've created a C++ application that uses pass to emulate gnome-keyring

Hello! I've created pass-secrets, a C++ application that uses pass to store application secrets!

This uses the org.freedesktop.secrets interface to store the secrets as folders and files in your password store, meaning you can freely change the PGP key for each collection or easily look at what the applications store!

You can find the Git repository on my GitHub, under GPL3: https://github.com/nullobsi/pass-secrets

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Just a concept that I've just made... Each 'workspace' is an application(or tiling view). Distro icon for applications window (top-left) and clock button (top-bottom) for notification/system things. What do you guys think?
https://redd.it/mdecwn
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Things that surprise my Windows Peers

I work for an org that primarily uses Windows, so we have a lot more staff used to Windows. They see me primarily in putty on my windows box but they are surprised when I did a few things from Linux.

I will share with you some of these things, but I am curious what you all have come across, that your Windows peers.

* Using port forwarding to access stuff via SSH on another network.
* Which leads to running a GUI over ssh like XWindows or X2Go (its just like "Citrix")
* Using mstsc.exe to connect to a Linux box via RDP, and having more than 2 people connect simultaneously.
* Running Google Chrome (not Chromium) in Linux
* Teams
* Authenticating using AD, but not having a GPO lock you down.
* Sync up OneDrive locally.
* Plex works just fine on Linux.
* Using screen, tmux and tmate to so I can assist them if they have problems.

What didn't surprise them was that a Linux distribution is free, nor do I claim that a Linux box is more secure than a Windows box. They both can can just as easily be hacked. Exchange getting hacked, man I was getting sendmail hacked decades ago. Only now you are getting DNS hacked, that happened to me with BIND in the early 2000's.

Anyway one final thing that caught me off guard, was when I was installing Nagios, Grafana, and some other packages and they were asking how much it cost for licensing and support, I told them you dont have to buy support unless you want to, and the org is willing due to the value those packages provide.

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Wich kernel do you use?

I wanted to see what kernel do you use and why, just for curiosity.

I always used the linux-lts kernel on all my devices, but last weeks I've been using linux-zen on my main pc, mainly because it's patched for fsync, and on my working laptop still linux-lts since I don't play games there and since I use it to work that little bit of extra stability helps, not having to worry about lossing stuff.

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