New Onboarding app by elementary OS with design insights
https://medium.com/elementaryos/get-settled-into-elementary-os-with-onboarding-49a3e7031895

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Why do people want to install Linux on Macs?

They're more expensive, and it seems like people have more trouble trying to install Linux on them than PCs. It seems like it would be more efficient to just buy a PC and put Linux on that. So I can only assume that there must be a good reason for people putting Linux on a Mac.

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Is it true that in the early 90s proprietary companies used to send the mob after open source devs to retain their monopoly?

I recently watched the movie, [Antitrust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust_(film\)) which is a fictional story based on the 90s era when personal computing as we know it had just begun.

The NURV project loosely resembles Microsoft Windows and its owner and main antagonist Gary Winston is like a Bill Gates. But basically, this could also be any other proprietary company of that time such as Oracle, Apple or AoL. Its really horrifying to watch the kind of things he and his company did, even in a movie! (like sending the mob to houses of open source devs to steal their code and get them killed)

Did these kinds of things really used to happen back then? Is the history of open source really so dark and dismal?

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Why my zsh taking so much time in initial loading, How can i fix it ?
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VLC Media Player Has Critical Security Flaw.
https://fossbytes.com/vlc-media-player-has-critical-security-flaw-uninstall-now/

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The year of the Linux Desktop

I would say that we are very close to that goal with the release of Debian Buster. I have only a few legacy programs that does not currently works well. And I expect them to work soon thanks to the work Valve puts into Proton. We are so close that I can feel the finish line approaching.


Good work everyone

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Introducing Fedora CoreOS
https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-coreos/

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Use plaintext email
https://useplaintext.email

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EvilGnome: Rare Malware Spying on Desktop Users
https://www.intezer.com/blog-evilgnome-rare-malware-spying-on-linux-desktop-users/

https://redd.it/ch6yas
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Free Courses to Learn Linux Commands in Depth
https://dzone.com/articles/5-free-courses-to-learn-linux-commands-in-depth

https://redd.it/ch957c
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Laptops with good GNU/linux compatibilty?

I'm a soon-to-be college student and I need a new laptop that can reliably run Arch.

Can't wait to see my glorious exwm setup run on a non-potato machine

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Up-to-date PreBuilt GCC Cross & Native Compiler ARM Standalone Toolchains for Raspberry Pi
https://sourceforge.net/projects/raspberry-pi-cross-compilers/files/

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‘There are only three open-source operating systems in the entire world that really pull it together on having a complete, modern, SMP kernel: Linux, DragonFlyBSD, and FreeBSD.’ (DragonFlyBSD Project Update — colo upgrade, future trends)
http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2019-July/358226.html

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Technical details on linux swapping

Can anyone give some insight on why linux swapping is such a shitfest?

Really. We have SSDs now. 4 core cpus. And kswapd stays there at 100% (if I'm lucky enough to get to top)

Why the system thrash to death when writing gigabytes to disk takes a couple of seconds?

Why having an annoying dedicated swap partition does no shit? This was not an issue on windows as far as i can recall.

Why I cant even type keys to an already running bash session on another already logged tty? Is bash (dash) reaaaally swapped out that it cant be used? I don't think so, because I can do a simple echo (provided enough minutes) so it is running, so it's loaded to memory, but is still un usable. Why. Bash is not asking for more memory while I'm tiping "hello" and the "h" stands there (correct me if I'm wrong)

Why a fully loaded on memory process using really few megs like dash in a non ui tty can't run on a 4 core system wih gigabytes of ram ? Does kswapd really need all my cores to fullfill 4 browser tabs i just opened? Do it really need to stop all processes and new logins to copy worst case scenario 1gb of unrelated ram on an ssd dedicated swap partition not running any filesystem with locks/logs/etc ?

Rant aside I really want to know WHYY this happens from a kernel design perspective. Two whys: why it takes so long when a ext4 journaled cp of gigabytes takes seconds. Why. And why programs not asking for memory get unresponsive. Why. Engenieer here with years of experience, gimme the technical reasons. I did try to STFW but its flooded with swappines and tips and howto. Not what Im looking for. I'm looking for reading material (with a sane starting point, dont be funny by pointing me to the kernel git repo)

:Thank you:

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Polybar 3.4.0 Release - A Featureful Tool for Creating Custom Status Bars
https://polybar.github.io/2019/06/28/Release-3.4.0.html

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Pinephone updates, quoted from telegram group
https://ameridroid.com/blogs/ameriblogs/upcoming-product-more-pinephone-details-from-tl-lim

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help with tshark filter to display window size for each packet

Hi Guys,

Is it possible to use tshark to display the window size of a packet in a pcap? For example, I’d like to use tshark -r to read the pcap file, and display each packet with source up -> destination ip <tcp.window_size_value>

I’d like to do this to get a feel where client or server issues are occurring via a pcap. Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

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Is there a way of setting an .xml file as a wallpaper?

I wanted to set an .xml file as a wallpaper to make them change during the day (as it is on MacOS Mojave), but instead it shows black screen. I've tried to find 3rd party apps, but I haven't found any

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Help with finding a distro for a 16 year old pc

Hi all, a few months back i found a pc sitting on the curb abandoned and picked it up, it currently is running the 2002 service pack 3 branch of win xp home edition.


I was wondering if i could get help finding a linux distro that might be good to kinda revitalize it, the hardware specs are:

Intel (R)

Pentium (R) 4 CPU 2.80 ghz and 2.79 ghz

512 mb of ram

Its a dell dimension from the year 2003, im not quite sure which model

If there aren't enough details ill do my best to research more to try and clarify

Thanks for the help in advance

Cheers! :)

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Teaching My Wife Linux
https://youtu.be/QT9ZZmKlTLU

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Programming projects that highlight the strength of linux

I have been using linux for a few years mainly for school. I am familiar with the majority of the basics. I have experience in a variety of languages and I am looking to start a small - medium size project. I want this project to highlight the strength of programming in linux. At school we use linux in all our programming classes, but at my job I work exclusively in windows. Furthermore, all the projects we do at school can just as easily be done in windows and I don't really see the benefit in programming in linux over windows (apart from bash). If anyone could suggest some projects and some material to read over to start them, that would be great. Also, whats "kinds" of projects are best done in linux (I.E. Game Development is more geared towards windows instead of linux).

If this is the wrong subreddit to post this in, please link another subreddit that would be better suited for this post.

Thanks!

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