Sub $200 (CDN) Linux PC Success Story

So a little while back I decided to get back into tinkering with PC's and wanted to set up a dedicated box for trying out Linux distros. (didn't want to bother with dual booting the family PC)

Eventually I came upon some cheap Thin Clients, and after a little research, figured out they were upgradeable.

So I ended up grabbing a Dell Wyse 5060 Thin Client (check on eBay).
It came with 4GB of RAM and a little 8GB SATA SSD module.

The SSD module uses a laptop style 22 pin connection on the motherboard, but there isn't enough room for a standard 2.5" drive to fit, so I had to use a 22 pin SATA Extension I grabbed off Amazon for a few bucks.


The RAM I didn't intend to touch, but when I popped off the heat shield I saw it was 1x 4GB SO-DIMM, with a second DIMM slot open, so I dropped in another 4GB DIMM that I had from an old laptop that I'd upgraded on the past.


So I'm now sitting with a system that has:

[AMD GX-424CC SoC](https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+GX-424CC+SOC&id=2291) - (performs similar to a 4th Gen Core i3 on benchmarks, but with a better iGPU)

240GB SSD

8GB RAM

2x DisplayPort

4x USB 2.0

2x USB 3.0

1x Gigabit LAN (looking to add maybe add Wi-Fi and move this box to the living room)





Setup itself wasn't too bad, just had to get into the BIOS (the default password for these from the factory is "Fireport")

Once in I was about to adjust the boot order to get my USB stick to boot and install Linux!

One note for anyone trying this, you'll have to disable LAN boot as even when I changed boot order the box would try to boot from the network... Must be hardcoded in somewhere as its a Thin Client after all.


I'm now running Linux Mint perfectly!
Deciding what Distro to try next...

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On being productive with your tools
https://blog.magnum.graphics/meta/being-productive-with-your-tools/

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Reproducible Builds aiming for bullseye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQv4fxDMMPs&feature=youtu.be

https://redd.it/caov2o
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How User Revolts Shaped the Linux Desktop
https://fossforce.com/2019/07/how-user-revolts-shaped-the-linux-desktop/

https://redd.it/car0h5
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The Ryzen 3000 Boot Problem With Newer Linux Distros Might Be Due To RdRand Issue (no benchmark)
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ryzen-3K-RdRand-Systemd-Maybe

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Linux, Netlink, and Go - Part 1: netlink
https://mdlayher.com/blog/linux-netlink-and-go-part-1-netlink/

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How to Install Prime OS on ANY PC
https://youtu.be/ODXOzzd6xF8

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I made a simple xinput GUI!
https://redd.it/catykx
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Turn any file storage into a Full Private Cloud - looking for Linux users to try out our app!

Hi everyone!

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With my co-founder we've developed an app that gives you your full private cloud/private Dropbox, with no complicated installation, and no server required. Just one app and one storage and that's it. It converts any file storage into a full private cloud/private dropbox. And we're currently looking for Linux beta users!

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It's a new kind of app that simplifies the concept of a private cloud. Basically, the entirety of your private cloud is contained inside a single folder called a repository folder. This folder can be stored anywhere: USB hard drive, NAS, cloud file storage, Raspberry Pi, etc... In order to use your private cloud, Duple needs to be able to access your repository folder. On your devices (where Duple is installed), you get a second folder called Duple (inside your "My Documents" folder). This folder contains the readable data, it's where you work with your private cloud: add, modify and remove your files there.

Your data is always at least in two places at the same time: inside the Duple folder (present on every desktop device where Duple is installed) and in the repository folder.

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It is so far available on Linux, and we're looking for Linux fans who would be interested in beta testing!

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Here's the website: [www.duple.io](https://www.duple.io)

The beta page to download and use the app: [https://beta.duple.io/en/](https://beta.duple.io/en/)

And the documentation (explaining what is Duple, how it works, how to use it): [https://doc.duple.io](https://doc.duple.io)

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If you have any questions about Duple, please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks!

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Fuchsia on the horizon

I love me some Linux, but I am eying the Fuchsia project suspiciously. It's design seems to align it well for server usage just as much as mobile or desktop (not to mention IoT). Unfortunately it is not a copyleft license...


However, I am wondering how the potential introduction of a micro kernel in the mainstream can change the community of Linux. Hurd has been around for a while, but there isn't much adoption.


Anyway, I'd love a discussion around this. If you're unfamiliar with Fuchsia, check out [https://fuchsia.dev/](https://fuchsia.dev/)

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Does anybody else remember the old gnome shell?

apparently these are the principles of the design. and still are used today..

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[https://people.gnome.org/\~mccann/shell/design/GNOME\_Shell-20091114.pdf](https://people.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/design/GNOME_Shell-20091114.pdf)

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Creating a SSH/Telnet utility?

Hi, I would like to ask if possible to create a SSH utility. In where user can input just a hostname then translate to IP address using our internal tool then remote to the device?

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Example:

rtr01 is equivalent to [1.1.1.1](https://1.1.1.1) recorded on our internal tool.

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Target noscript: (to create a utility for example gossh)

user will just input **'gossh rtr01'** and noscript will get the managed ip(our internal tool) and proceed in remoting and use the local user acct. in linux.

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then the noscript will do this,

1. get the mgmt ip of rtr01 using this command get rtr01 | grep IP
2. then proceed in connecting 'ssh <localuser>@<x.x.x.x>'

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Is this possible? should I do it on bash or in allias?

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Thanks

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Currently Using LibreOffice. Is there a reason I shouldn’t switch to OnlyOffice?
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/cat5c7/currently_using_libreoffice_is_there_a_reason_i/

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Printing a Star Wars Scene in Terminal with Bash [towel.blinkenlights.nl]
http://nicholasfarrow.com/Printing-a-Star-Wars-Scene-in-Terminal-with-Bash/

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Help with Digital Art and Distro.

Hey, I am ordered a Ryzen 3600 and MSI B450 A Pro. I am planning to run Linux on it mostly the Ubuntu 18.04. I am kinda new (I have used Linux well before been years since I last used it need to get on again).

I am new to Digital Art, I am planning to buy a Wacom One Clt 672/K0-CX or Huion H950p.

I am planning to start with Krita. Which Graphic Tablet should I buy.

Please suggest a new distro too if you have a suggestion.

Thankyou.

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FSF and the Linux community should put more effort in defending the freedom of internet

I know as a normal user I don't have too much right to complain, but I still have to say some of my personal opinions. It is 2019 right now, and it is not the good old days of 386 machines. Internet is empowering government and big organizations to censor people and invade people's privacy. The enemy of free internet is becoming stronger year by year, but the freedom world rarely complete something very powerful. Mobile phones start to replace PCs for normal users. Linux is losing on the mobile devices(don't tell me that Android uses a linux kernel).

Until 2019, we still do not have a handy and powerful phone(Don't tell me Nokia n900, maybe purism is a good phone, but it's performance it is also very poor compare to smart phones in 2019). Big firms like Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei put tons of proprietary blobs and spyware in their phones and lock down the hardware to prevent any DIY. It is impossible for a normal person to not to use a phone in the modern world, and we have to be punished by all the closed source software and spyware on the phone. Also all the products that claims to protect people's freedom comes with a much higher price than normal products. If we want to many people to use these free devices we need a really cheap price. Most people even do not care about privacy, how can you expect them to buy something cost more than $600?

I think the Linux community maybe need to have some more radical and brave projects. Here is some of my ideas:

1.A privacy respectful phone, it needs to be highly modularized, high extendable, very friendly for DIY, supports large RAM and REALLY POWERFUL processors even some low power consumption i3 processors. It is better if supports security focus system like Qubes OS(even an old T400 can run Qubes OS, why not) It can be very bulky, ugly and heavy, but I think this is acceptable.

2.GNU Hurd? Any idea for future development? Is GNU Hurd prepared to become the kernel of the federation starships? Google fushica will soon become mature, and it will become the kernel of mobile devices in the future.

3.Some radical and organized maybe potentially illegal reverse engineering project to discover the backdoors in the proprietary software, and post them on the media

This is just some of my personal ideas about the future, if it bothers you I am very sorry about that, but I think we really need some new projects to liberate us from the tyranny of phones filled with closed source spywares and locked down disposable junk hardware.

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We all have favourite editors here at work. So when I started to print out a Vim cheat sheet, others decided to join in.
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Firefox now recommends extensions: These are not paid ads
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-program

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How important is TPM?

I've ordered a laptop that doesn't seem to be equipped with TPM. How important is TPM for securing Linux?

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[Official]: IBM Closes Landmark Acquisition of Red Hat for $34 Billion; Defines Open, Hybrid Cloud Future
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future

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Bash AI ;-)

I have been working on [Bash function 'FuzzyMatch\(\)'](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ca70ay/bash_function_fuzzymatch/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x), and I am quite chuffed with the results :-)

This humble bash noscript:

cat guess
#!/bin/bash

# Import functions.
source <(PrintLibraryFunctions FuzzyMatch) || exit $?

Out=""
for W in $@
do
Guess=$(
while read DW
do
echo "$(FuzzyMatch "$DW" "$W") :${DW}"
done </usr/share/dict/words | sort --reverse --general-numeric-sort | head -n 1
)
Out="$Out ${Guess##*:}"
done
echo "$Out"

believe it or not, can turn gibberish into Queen's English. This is its first run:

time ./guess "the fst cnnng fx radd the chkn cg nd fckd th fttest hn"
the fist cunning Fox raided the chicken cog Nd fucked Th fittest Hun

real 25m0.909s
user 20m39.697s
sys 6m38.660s

To run it in your system: copy noscript above, replace lines:

# Import functions.
source <(PrintLibraryFunctions FuzzyMatch) || exit $?

by [function 'FuzzyMatch\(\)'](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ca70ay/bash_function_fuzzymatch/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x) code and run:

./guess "string with words"

("string with words" should not contain punctuation marks).

Be ready to wait for a long time (~2 minutes per word). If you get any funny 'guesses', please, post them here.

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