At 7:31 a.m. UTC on Monday, April 19th, the Linux-powered Mars helicopter will take its first flight. A live stream starts at 10:15am UTC to watch the team see the data live!

At 12:31 a.m. PDT on Monday, April 19th, the Linux-powered Mars helicopter will take its first flight, which will also be the first powered, controlled flight done on another planet. An official stream for live updates is below. The stream will start at 3:15 a.m. PDT (6:15 a.m. EDT/10:15 a.m. UTC) as there will be a delay for the data to arrive.

https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Watch-Online

More from their official announcement here:

"At 12:31 a.m. PDT on Monday, April 19, 2021, the Ingenuity helicopter team is going to attempt the first ever powered, controlled flight on another planet."

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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part III -- Prototype Mesa compiler can now spin a cube
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-3.html

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I'm switching over to Garuda as my first Linux distro!!! Might be the same amount of bloat to you guys but I'm happy that I can control my updates now...
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Tips for protecting files from yourself
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20210419#qa

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DOOM (Vulkan) + lavapipe
https://airlied.blogspot.com/2021/04/doom-vulkan-lavapipe.html

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Vircadia 2021.1.1 "Eos" Released!
https://vircadia.com/2021/04/2021-1-1-eos-released/

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Pangolin UI, a Desktop Shell, Written in Flutter, for Linux and Zircona
https://web.dahliaos.io/

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Troubleshooting Linux: Problems That Drive You Mad and Solutions to Save the Day!
https://blog.storagecraft.com/troubleshooting-linux-problems-that-drive-you-mad-and-solutions-to-save-the-day/

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First picture from the Linux powered Mars helicopter
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The multi-generational LRU
https://lwn.net/Articles/851184/

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OpenAI-powered Linux shell uses AI to Do What You Mean
https://riveducha.onfabrica.com/openai-powered-linux-shell

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UK invokes national security to probe Nvidias ARM deal
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-intervenes-nvidias-takeover-arm-national-security-grounds-2021-04-19/

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Theming my Salient OS
http://ludditus.com/2021/04/16/theming-my-salient-os/

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What is best Linux Backup Server ?

Hello ,

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I have three machines with three different IP addresses they have MYSQL data and I want to make a backup server for all three machines I mean backup the data on those three machines in one machine to be my backup server and of course I will give this server an IP address that I can reach using those three machines.

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Honestly I don't know where to begin ? and which one to use ? I'm using Debian


1- bacula-server
2- borgbackup
3 - deja-dup
4 - rsync


I have to choose one of those and my question would it be easy to restore the data on a new machine ?


Best Regards

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Linux timeline website

Hi guys,

I am trying to find something. Couple of years back (maybe around 15... ufff), there was a site that have published the Linux timeline - distorts, main events, etc. In a file, that you print, then hang on your admin room wall and take a photo with it. Then they publish it and that’s it.
They published our photo - 3 young admins, proud that they can install (and then use) Slack, Gentoo & OpenBSD... one of the three is no longer on this earth and I want to find this photo and show it to his kids - in his most natural environment ...
So anyone remember this. It was a long print of A4s that you put together snake-like.

Thank you all!

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Here is what is new and changed in Firefox 88.0
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/04/19/here-is-what-is-new-and-changed-in-firefox-88-0/

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Since today, linux is the first OS to fly on a different planet.

I just learned that Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter, runs linux, making that the first OS to fly on another planet.

That's one for the history books alright. Makes one feel proud to use it. Also, it shows the sheer versatility and reliability of the OS.

Mr Torvalds, you created something very special.

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eProcessor is a project that will create a open source RISC-V core for High Performance Computing (HPC)
https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/bsc-working-towards-first-completely-open-source-european-full-stack-ecosystem-based-on-new-risc-v-cpu/

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pkger - build RPMs, DEBs and other packages (soon...) using one recipe
https://github.com/wojciechkepka/pkger

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Well boys, we did it. Native windows is no more. ( On a real though, Im proud of my self finally compiling arch)
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Based on a thread in /r/linuxmemes, I made an interactive challenge in docker to test if you can delete files with weird characters safely

If anyone wants to be the first to try it and give me some feedback:

docker run --rm -it public.ecr.aws/p5e0b0g4/kjpgit/linux-jedi-challenge:latest

That's it. It's ubuntu 18.04 based, no tab completion :-)

Sauce at https://gallery.ecr.aws/p5e0b0g4/kjpgit/linux-jedi-challenge

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