Two new ISOs images for Artix: Plasma/LXQt and MATE/LXDE

Artix is a fork of Arch **\[without systemd\]**.
Originally pure LXQT, installer & installed system, you can always install later on any other DE.

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**Artix Linux is a rolling-release distribution, based on Arch Linux.**
**It uses OpenRC as init because PID1 must be simple, secure and stable.**

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**The news is that 2 new ISOs, community supported.**

A QT-based ISO featuring the KDE Plasma and LXQt desktop environments and a GTK-based ISO with MATE and LXDE are [available for downloading](https://artixlinux.org/download.php). Both ISO images come equipped and ready for general use (multimedia, office, internet, productivity), offering the latest software available and are, despite their general DE/toolkit orientation, preconfigured for completely uniform look between QT and GTK applications, allowing for aesthetically pleasing integration of the best apps from both worlds. Read [the forum announcement](https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,1010.0.html) for more information and screenshots.

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A cure for distro hoppers?

Just found this via Google News on Forbes. Once they get it working again, it will be a boon for anyone who wants to try Linux, but lacks the time, means, or expertise to install it on a USB drive or virtual machine.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/06/15/how-to-test-drive-200-linux-distributions-without-ever-downloading-or-installing-them/

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Slim – Build 23MB micro-VM from Dockerfile, boots in seconds

**Meet Slim: Docker without the containers**

* Create a micro-vm from a Dockerfile (23MB image)
* Boots in 3 seconds on hyperkit (also works in kvm/vbox)
* Can ssh in and use like a real vm

GitHub repo: [https://github.com/ottomatica/slim](https://github.com/ottomatica/slim)

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How To Test Drive 200+ Linux Distributions Without Ever Downloading Or Installing Them
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/06/15/how-to-test-drive-200-linux-distributions-without-ever-downloading-or-installing-them/

https://redd.it/c0zn6j
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In case you were wondering, SysV init is still alive and improving
https://www.patreon.com/posts/27654007

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PaperWM: Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell
https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM

https://redd.it/c102j9
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Map midi signals to shell commands

I searched and noticed an absence of programs to translate midi signals to shell commands, so I made one

Repo: [https://github.com/zawwz/zmidimap](https://github.com/zawwz/zmidimap)
It's still early dev but should be 100% functional without any major issue


Feedback and bug reports are welcome, thanks.

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Can we have a KDE Neon flair?

Talking about user flair, not post flair.

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I just found a use for ed.

You know those people that make horseshoes by hand, usually at some sort of historical exhibition. I sorta feel like those guys, except with computers. I love studying old computer technologies. I've spent dozens of hours learning about old 8 bit architectures, weird one-off computer systems like the Apollo Guidance Computer, and also old unix utilities.

Now, of course, the unix utilities are still with us, and I'd argue they are here to stay, but some of them have become more obscure than others. For instance, ed isn't even installed by default in many linux distros. I spent a bit of time learning about it, mainly for the legacy it has in the way vim works (also, grep gets its name from ed).

Today I was not actually in my historical mood, I was working on another project involving book length flat html files generated from markdown. I wanted to generate a table of contents with an entry for every level 2 heading in the document. Now, there are many ways to crack an egg, but it occurred to me that this was actually a problem that I could solve with ed! It seemed like an interesting challenge at least. In a surprisingly short time, I had a working ed noscript to solve the problem. It's only 17 loc and even has the distinction of containing my most knarly looking line of code written to date.

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How To Install Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu
https://www.itsmearunchandel.co.in/linux/ubuntu/steps-to-install-visual-studio-code-on-ubuntu-18-04.html

https://redd.it/c0ypk1
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AudioStellar: Open source data-driven musical instrument for latent sound structure discovery and music experimentation

A couple of weeks ago we released the first public version of our open source project: AudioStellar.

We've put together a basic machine learning pipeline for visualizing a collection of short audio samples in an interactive 2D point map we like to call "sound space".

Any sound artist can create a sound space using his/her own sounds and explore AI learned representation. We propose three creative modes for playing samples including casting moving particles and creating constellation loops.

It's made in c++ using openFrameworks and Python

Code and binaries:[ https://gitlab.com/ayrsd/audiostellar/](https://gitlab.com/ayrsd/audiostellar/)

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This is the first project open source project I actually spread.

Any feedback very well apreciated.

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Friends ask why I prefer GNU/Linux. What's your answer?
https://redd.it/c15eh9
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Opinions on Manjaro Deepin?

What's everyones opinion with Deepin on Manjaro?

Satisfied?

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KDE Usability & Productivity: Week 75
https://pointieststick.com/2019/06/15/kde-usability-productivity-week-75/

https://redd.it/c16h3m
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Calendar management dialog, archiving task lists, Every Detail Matters on Settings (Sprint 2)
https://feaneron.com/2019/06/15/sprint-2/

https://redd.it/c15t45
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How do I defrag my hard drive?



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2 years ago, installing linux on baytrail systems was a nightmare. Yesterday i tried it again and (almost) everything worked out of the box

Hi,
I hope this is the right place to post this. I just wanted to share my sheer amazement.

TLDR: Two years ago it took an usb keyboard, a usb ethernet adapter, digging around in efi variables, wanting no sound at all and lots of patience and crashes to get an [ASUS X205TA](https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/ASUS_EeeBook_X205TA/specifications/) (or F205TA for that matter, but they seem to be the same) to boot. Tried it yesterday with xubuntu and besides an initial x86 UEFI loader for the x64 system it required no extra tinkering.
I want to say thank you to everyone involved on making this magic happen every day.

For context:
My wife is currently in the hospital and needed a device to pass time and to better communicate with people as her phone didn't really do it for her.
Remembering that a lot of time had passed since my last installation of this [monster](https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/ASUS_EeeBook_X205TA/specifications/) and that i had to refer to two wikis ^[1](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ASUS_x205ta) ^[2](https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/X205TA) to get this thing remotely working before, i said fuck it to myself and tried it again.

After making an x86 efi grub standalone and patching a xubuntu iso to use it the thing just ran. Sure it crashed mid-installation because of the fucked up cstates on baytrail, but the well documented fix (refer to the wikis) did its job. After that it was just one config file to edit to make the headphone jack work and done. The xubuntu ubiquity installer even installed the right x86 grub onto the system. Something i had to do manually after the initial installation last time. It all just works out of the box.

And boy the performance difference to back then. It's like it is another notebook. Bundled with zswap you don't even notice the 2GB of RAM till you try [Banished](https://store.steampowered.com/app/242920/Banished/) in Steam's Proton now that they killed the native linux support for it. But even then, the game runs way more smoothly than it did before. It's just amazing how much work has gone into each and every component of this beautiful ecosystem.

So wrapping up i want to say thank you to all of you for making this experience possible and making my wife's time in the hospital a little more endurable for her.

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Any companies that deal with free/open-source software and have programs for autistic people (and for LGBT ones)?

In about one more year, I will graduate from college and be expected to find a job to support my family. However, I want to add working with FOSS to this mix. I already know most of the big-name organizations that work with them, but what I may not be able to discover easily is if they have support programs for autistic people and/or LGBT people, since I am both of these traits (gay/homosexual male for the latter).
I have a tendency to be slow on certain tasks (due to my autistic personality), which may impair my ability to work within shorter time constraints, and possibly get me fired if this gets bad enough. Additionally, while I haven't encountered bullying related to my homosexuality for my entire life so far, it is possible that this can change in my later life. If this bullying or similar happens in a work environment, it may discourage me from doing my work. I could try to find all this with web search engines, but I am unable to phrase my search query clear enough to get any relevant results.
TLDR/Summary: I am seeking for information about any companies that satisfy the three things below:
* Works primarily with FOSS
* Has a program for helping autistic people
* Has a program for helping LGBT people

I really don't want to sacrifice any of the three to get another, such has having to work at a company that primarily puts out proprietary software, or having to work at a pace that I am unable to keep up with.

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where does gdebi download packages?

Hi!
I need to make offline instalation for nagios + chcek\_mk according to documentation I need to use gdebi to install check\_mk.deb and I want to know where does gdebi download required packages to lately copy them for offline instalation.

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Linux-powered System76 Gazelle laptop allows users to avoid the Windows Tax
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-powered-system76-gazelle-laptop-allows-users-to-avoid-the-windows-tax/

https://redd.it/c198tb
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OpenMandriva 4.0 released. Clang 8.0, LTO by default, PGO, Znver1 ISO with optimization for AMD ZEN CPU and much more
https://www.openmandriva.org/en/news/article/the-best-until-openmandriva-does-better-released-omlx-4-0

https://redd.it/c19doy
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