ARM GPU drivers (panfrost&lima) landed in linux 5.2
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/8/1122

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What Programming Language(s) Would You Recommend a Linux System Administrator to Learn?



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The Wayland Itches project
https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/21387.html

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8 Ways To Contribute To The Desktop Linux Community, Without Knowing A Single Line Of Code
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/05/13/8-ways-contribute-desktop-linux-community-marketing-documentation-art-testing

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Understanding the MDS vulnerability: What it is, why it works and how to mitigate it
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/understanding-mds-vulnerability-what-it-why-it-works-and-how-mitigate-it

https://redd.it/bomluh
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An eBPF overview, part 5: Tracing user processes
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2019/05/14/an-ebpf-overview-part-5-tracing-user-processes/

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Upcoming news in Plasma 5.16
http://jgrulich.cz/2019/05/14/upcoming-news-in-plasma-5-16/

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Saint IGNUtius of emacs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubzS1j4vh9Y

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ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage - a new side-channel attack affecting Intel CPUs
https://www.cyberus-technology.de/posts/2019-05-14-zombieload.html

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ASCII Memory Blocks, Fifteen (and more games) for Linux console
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LuneOS running with hardware accelerated graphics on the Pinephone devkit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIok2W5fyk0

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After years of not having to touch office tools I tried to use LibreOffice writer. I'm sad to see it's light years behind its Microsoft counterpart.

Installing a language pack for spellchecking takes an awful lot of work. Truly sad to see.

There is a massive amount of work on Linux everyday and that's a great thing, but has the community lost its drive to make linux usable for the average (non-engineer) user?

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Linux printing

I'm putting together a design document for printing on Linux but the only exposure I have are with consumer inkjet and laser models.

The print driver support seems to better with the enterprise multifunction devices, I've looked into the Canon models in the current environment as its a fair assumption that the new environment will probably end up with Canons as well and they are fully supported with deb and rpm drivers available.

What I need to know is if there are any printer manufacturers that are actively ignoring Linux these days or is support pretty good across the board?

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Weekly Questions and Hardware Thread - May 15, 2019

Welcome to r/linux! If you're new to Linux or trying to get started this thread is for you. Get help here or as always, check out r/linuxquestions or r/linux4noobs

This megathread is for all your question needs. As we don't allow questions on r/linux outside of this megathread, please consider using r/linuxquestions or r/linux4noobs for the best solution to your problem.

Ask your hardware requests here too or try r/linuxhardware!

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Intel's Clear Linux OS Gets New Developer Edition And Installer
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/05/14/intels-clear-linux-os-is-getting-a-new-developer-edition-and-installer/#24337a863fdc

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I saw this in my university forum
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kde transparency

iv tried the desktop effect called "translucency" but it only does so much. the "special application settings" seems perfect to set the transparency settings i want BUT only seems to effect one app. i really dont want to have to do them individually as this will take me hours just for the apps i have and then if i install new things later ill have to set it for them later. is there a way i can set this for all applications in one go and make it the default for everything so new apps will have it automatically set?

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Visual Studio Code vs Jetbrains

I see a lot of folks are using VSC over other IDEs like Jetbrains, Eclipse, etc. I'm a python developer who switched to full Pycharm from VIM a couple years ago. I've tried VSC, but still can't get into it. For those who have worked with Pycharm, Jetbrains, etc, what made you choose one over the other?

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Plasma shipping WireGuard GUI in upcoming 5.16 release
http://jgrulich.cz/2019/05/14/upcoming-news-in-plasma-5-16/

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Linux Server benchmarking noscripts
https://haydenjames.io/linux-benchmark-noscripts-tools/

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KDE5 minimize to tray (solved with KDE4 ksystraycmd)

As you may know kde-4 had a very useful feature, you could minimize to tray almost any application.

It's useful for example for:

\- mailing clients (thunderbird, which doesn't have any extension for it now)

\- notes applications (treeline for example, I think no one uses it here, ha-ha)

\- any other types of application which you want to keep open permanently (spotify?)

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But kde-5 removes this option, there was a checkbox in some early versions, but it didn't work cause ksystraycmd was removed from the bundle.

But today I found, ksystraycmd still works!

You just need to extract this single file from "kde-workspace-bin" package from kde-4.

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So to run any application in "tray mode" you need just to modify shortcut, for example:

\- "/path/to/ksystraycmd --hidden /usr/bin/thunderbird %u" (for thunderbird).

\- "/path/to/ksystraycmd --hidden --window TreeLine treeline" (--window is for regexp which window should be used, treeline asks for password in a separated window)

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A lot of help is available by "./ksystraycmd --help-all" from console.

I'm using debian buster for now so for debian this deb could be downloaded from [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/kde-workspace-bin](https://packages.debian.org/jessie/kde-workspace-bin)

Not sure about kubuntu users, I was unlucky to find it in ubuntu packages, it looks like the executable name is changed there, any help for this?

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PS: Dear KDE developers, maybe this solution isn't good, but I have no other idea how to minimize my apps to tray and I needed it too much, alltray and kdocker works in general but much worse (artifacts, broken icons and so on), so I hope this way will work in KDE6 too :)

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I've posted this to r/kde too, not sure is it allowed to duplicate, sorry if so.

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