Anyone tried Kodachi?

A friend mentioned this one to me as featuring encrypted persistence like TAILS, but also with VPN abilities (unlike TAILS) and with a decoy encrypted persistence which wipes your real encrypted persistence when logged into.

It seems it is based on Debian (also like TAILS).

Viewing the latest reviews on distrowatch don't really inspire confidence, however.

Does anyone have experience with it? Yay or nay? Pros/cons?

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The HUD is not dead yet

So many people have this nostalgia for the HUD, but how many still use it today? Let's be honest, unity is dead, but [mate-hud](https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-hud) and [plasma-hud](https://github.com/Zren/plasma-hud) are options today. I have made a post on /r/kde I think some time ago but seems like most people still don't know about these things. **So let this change today!**

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FreeCAD BIM development news May 2019
https://github.com/yorikvanhavre/BIM_Workbench/wiki/FreeCAD-BIM-development-news-26---May-2019

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It's Time To Pay Attention To Intel's Clear Linux OS Project
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/05/13/its-time-to-pay-attention-to-intels-clear-linux-os-project

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earning a bit of income with linux?

I really love Linux and was wondering if I could use my skills part time at home to earn a bit of income with it? My day job is remote windows/mac os technical support from home but my passion is linux, is there any servers/vps/daemons or other services i can run? or maybe do some programming? or any companies/methods that are linux related? any help would be nice.. i never had any luck with freelancing sites

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Thanks Linux

For giving me freedom.

For making my computer my own.

For giving me an alternative to the big manipulating greedy companies.

For giving me an OS where I decide every little thing in it, what should be in it, and what I should do with it.

For making the world a better place.

For keeping me safe with no spyware and tracking infested in the OS.

For keeping me anonymous with no need for identification in any way to use the OS.

For not making me a product for ad companies

For not data mining the heck out of me

For not pre-installing a ton of useless bloatware and sponsor garbage on my PC.

For being so flexible and able to run on everything.

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I know many companies try to take you down and get a full monopoly on the IT industry, but they have no loyal fanbase as you do!

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Teaser Plasma 5.16 (I) - Plasma does 2001 [video]
https://peertube.servebeer.com/videos/watch/c5e11bad-d4b8-4f49-afb9-bcd4c08c8078

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Zorin OS 15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vg6kwdEHGY

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Is there any linux command line command to see the most recent version?

I'm writing a bash noscript on Kali Linux to compare the current version with the most recent. I cannot find any way to assign the most recent outside of fat fingering it, but I was able to assign the current version using CurrentVersion=$(lsb_release -r | cut -f 2).

Any ideas?

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Friendly-Reminder: Bunch of Hacking books including Linux are discounted for 48hours more

I just saw this bundle full of hacking and net security books and guides being on discount for only 48hours more. It has good material in it, so worth a read.

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Check it here: [https://twitter.com/AssortMaoo/status/1137391652761415685](https://twitter.com/AssortMaoo/status/1137391652761415685)

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Any thoughts about this?
https://youtu.be/fteXSV8r1YE

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Thanks Arch Linux

For teaching me to appreciate the (true) beauty of Linux.

For teaching me to handle my own operating system issues on my own.

For making me want to experiment more with my new found freedom.

For making me learn the beauty of different desktop environments from the starting point.

For making me realize that world is a better place with Arch Linux.

No other distro stands the ground. Arch Linux users stand bold and tall with our might. Strength in unity and power of the underdogs of freedom.

Arch Linux liberation movement will make Arch the only Linux distribution to hold the flag of software freedom.

Proud to use Arch Linux. You should too.

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Debian based distros

Hi group,

In your collective opinions, why are Debian-based Linux distros the most prevalent in the Linux desktop world?

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GSequencer - Linux Apps on Flathub
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.nongnu.gsequencer.gsequencer

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A story about how Linux helps my wife take her medication at the right times

My wife is a transplant recipient and so she has to take her immunosuppressant drugs 4 times a day.

Initially we have used our phones (Android) to alert us of the times, but over time we found that the Android Alarm app is unreliable, it works most of the time but there were times it failed to trigger the alarm.

Being a Linux user and a programmer for almost 20 years I thought there was something I could do, I remember looking for existing solutions, but most of them were too limited or expensive.

I resorted to using the `at(1)` command at first, which worked fine for a while but I never found a way to make the timer as accurate as possible.

After trying different things we ended up with this solution:

A timer file:

~/.config/systemd/user/alarmclock.timer

[Unit]
Denoscription=Run alarm clock daily

[Timer]
OnCalendar=8,9,20,21:00
AccuracySec=1us

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

`AccuracySec=1us` is important to get the best accuracy, which is what lead me to use systemd timers in the first place (I couldn't find how to do this with `crond` before).

And the corresponding service file:

# ~/.config/systemd/user/alarmclock.service
[Unit]
Denoscription=Alarm Clock

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpv --no-terminal --loop-file=3 /home/user/Downloads/sedna_ringtone.mp3

It's by no means a perfect solution, but it's reliable and works for my wife, the important thing to remember is to never close the laptop lid.

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Libreoffice Bug 123831 - Remove access to Firefox Persona in favor of self-hosted extensions
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123831

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KDE Usability & Productivity: Week 74
https://pointieststick.com/2019/06/09/kde-usability-productivity-week-74/

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What graphical CLI applications do you like to use?

I spend a fair bit of time in the shell and always appreciate tools that make some tasks a little easier, wondered what everyone else likes using and why?

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Thunar on GNOME by default?

So as the noscript suggests, i am trying to curve out a new distro of my own based on Ubuntu. I was thinking of keeping GNOME as the default DM. But, i really like Thunar File Manager's minimalism and power.
So my question goes, can I include Thunar by default in my distro which has GNOME as it's default shell? And the same, can i include OPEN SOURCE APPS (may or may not from other DMs or distros) on mine?

Advices will be appreciated
TIA

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GNOME Software, the software center application used by most distributions, still has major issues because of lack of developers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzofsNf8yvk

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What happend to Btfs?

As far as I know then EXT 4 was only stopgap unto Btfs was ready. But it seems that Btfs never took off. What did happend ?

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