Weekly Questions and Hardware Thread - June 05, 2019

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Yet another reason to run Linux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k66p-raVkdU

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Maintaining bzip2 (needs your help, too!)
https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/maintaining-bzip2.html

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NVIDIA and Red Hat: Simplifying NVIDIA GPU Driver Deployment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
https://news.developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-and-red-hat-simplifying-nvidia-gpu-driver-deployment-on-red-hat-enterprise-linux/

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PCLinuxOS Community Magazine - June 2019 [epub-pdf-mobi-html]
https://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,149219.0.html

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Some upcoming security features of MacOS Catalina are interesting. Is there something similar being worked on for the most used Linux distro?
https://twitter.com/rootkovska/status/1136217887440625664

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Updated KDE applications site now contains denoscriptions of and direct links to more than 200 apps
https://kde.org/applications/

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Your favourite linux tools/applications?

What are the must-have packages that you would first install when you have a fresh system?

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Pencil2D Animation - Opensource animation software
https://www.pencil2d.org

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KDE's privacy team plan to anonymize connections of KDE apps with the outside world, make encrypting folders easy (coming in Plasma 5.16) and sandbox KWallet
https://dot.kde.org/2019/06/05/kde-privacy-sprint-2019-edition

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Made my first guide for installing Ubuntu on the Lenovo Thinkpad E585. [Ryzen]

Made my first guide for installing Ubuntu on the Lenovo Thinkpad E585 on GitHub. Manjaro Gnome is also coming up. I'm new to GitHub and figuring out how to make a nice guide for these kind of things.

I hope that this clears things up.

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https://github.com/StellaArtuois/Installing_Linux_on_ThinkPad_E585/blob/master/Installing_Ubuntu_on_E585.md

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Eternal September of the Corporate Open Source Project
https://michaelwashere.net/post/2019-06-04-eternally-corporate-september/

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KDE Usability and Productivity: Are we there yet?
https://pointieststick.com/2019/06/05/kde-usability-and-productivity-are-we-there-yet/

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Gthree is alive in GTK
https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2019/06/05/gthree-is-alive/

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Librem 5 vs Android -- Which boots faster? - Purism
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-vs-android-which-boots-faster/

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A flow chart for anyone choosing a distro!
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ask.krita.org going away
https://www.reddit.com/r/krita/comments/bx0503/askkritaorg_going_away/

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What Linux SHould I use?

Hi, I have ben usin Windoze 4 over a decade, and I saw the Free Software song from Richard Stallman, which brought me here.

I want games and freedom. What is a good Lunix I start with?

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After hearing the new of Apple killing iTunes, I'm really glad I made the switch to Linux 3 years ago.

I was a full blown Mac user for 8 years, and then one time my Macboook Pro was stolen, with all of the music projects/graphic design stuff gone. I was crushed. So when that happened, I went to get a loaner laptop.

There was a local computer refurbishment store where I was living, and they refurbished old laptops and pcs with Linux Mint installed. I was a bit 'meh' at first, but then I tried out Mint and thought "Well, this kind of feels like Windows. I can roll with this for a bit."

Sure enough, I discovered the value of open source software and free software, and the great alternatives to the pricey and popular programs people tend to get tricked into using. One program that caught my attention, **VLC Media player**, changed everything I thought I knew about software and the people who put blood, sweat, and tears into making product, and sharing with the world free of charge.

Linux is the best thing that ever happened to me. I use **Mixxx** for DJing, I've made flyers/posters in **Krita**, **Libre Office** is just as good, if not better than MS Office, and the **'cmatrix'** command in the terminal is fun is want to feel like Neo!

I feel like a lot of people are missing out on what Linux has to offer, but at the end of the day, I'm glad I made the switch.

**'sudo apt-get install gratitude'**

Capt. Broverdose. :D

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journal print or online

Hey everyone,
I hope this subreddit is the right place to ask.
So I‘am searching for a journal about Linux, IT-Security/Hacking.
If possible not just news also technical inforamtion and practical examples.
If there is a print journal it should be possible to get it in Germany per post or in store.
Language should be german or english.

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My {shell,perl}noscript controlled RGB lights
https://gir.st/blog/esp8266-ledberg.htm

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