Linux For The Rest Of Us #252 – So Much Truth and Beliefs

Guix
Guix comes with thousands of packages which include applications, system tools, documentation, fonts, and other digital goods readily available for installing with the GNU Guix package manager. Read some stories about how people are using GNU Guix in their daily lives.

https://guix.gnu.org/
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The Worst Form of Government
‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’

https://www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form-of-government/%20
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DietPi – Lightweight justice for your SBC
DietPi is extremely lightweight at its core, our images start at 400MB in size (3x lighter than ‘Raspbian Lite’). With features of low process/memory footprint and DietPi-RAMlog installed by default, DietPi allows you to get the maximum performance from your device.

http://dietpi.com/
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A morality cabal of Debian users tried to knife Torvalds
The documents show a group of Linux developers who were so shocked that Torvalds swore at a conference they were attempting to use the Debian code-of-conduct to get him ostracised from the Linux mother church.

https://www.fudzilla.com/news/51489-a-morality-cabal-of-debian-users-tried-to-knife-torvalds
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“Linusgate” Leaked: Over 250 Messages About Code of Conduct Complaints Against Linus Torvalds
Debian ‘canceling’ the founder of Linux is no “small potatoes”; and considering the reason (or what this is done for; an expression of an opinion) we probably should be alarmed about ramifications for free speech Original story by techrights.org. Published 2020-09-03.

https://linuxreviews.org/%22Linusgate%22_Leaked:_Over_250_Messages_About_Code_of_Conduct_Complaints_Against_Linus_Torvalds
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Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth makes peace with Ubuntu Linux community
Of the three major Linux companies, Canonical, Red Hat, and SUSE, two have separate community Linux distros: Red Hat with Fedora, and SUSE with openSUSE.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-ceo-mark-shuttleworth-makes-peace-with-ubuntu-linux-community/
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MS Office Online Server as document editor in Nextcloud – Nextcloud
With today’s release of the Office Online Integration app, enterprises can use a self-hosted Microsoft Office Online Server to view and edit documents from within Nextcloud.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/ms-office-online-server-as-document-editor-in-nextcloud
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A New Open-Source Tool for Tracking Disinformation
The conversations that trend on internet platforms shape our world in consequential ways, from who we vote for, to what news we read, to how we respond to a pandemic.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/new-open-source-tool-tracking-disinformation/
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Android AOSP Can Boot Off Mainline Linux 5.9 With Just One Patch
The Android open-source project “AOSP” with its latest code is very close to being able to boot off the mainline Linux kernel when assuming the device drivers are all upstream.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Android-AOSP-Close-Linux-5.9
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Lenovo Launches Fedora-Powered X1 Carbon With Linux In The Spotlight
Lenovo began teasing its new Linux initiative several months ago (refresh your memory here and here). Just in time to meet its “Summer 2020” promise, the first wave of Fedora-powered ThinkPads are now up for sale on Lenovo’s webshop. But it’s not merely this expected launch that has me excited; it’s how refreshingly visible they’re making the Linux option.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/08/30/lenovo-just-launched-the-linux-powered-thinkpad-x1-carbon-gen-8/
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Google Is Still Striving To Upstream Incremental FS In Linux
After originally publishing the Incremental FS patches back in May of 2019, Google’s Android kernel team is still working to upstream this virtual file-system into the mainline Linux kernel and at this week’s Linux Plumbers Conference was working to drum up support for it.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-2020-Incremental-FS
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ddgr – A Command Line Tool To Search DuckDuckGo From The Terminal
Bash tricks are really awesome in Linux that makes everything is possible in Linux. It really works well for developers or system admins because they are spending most of the time with terminal. Did you know why they are preferring this tricks?

https://www.2daygeek.com/ddgr-duckduckgo-search-from-the-command-line-in-linux/
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Start page – collectd – The system statistics collection daemon
collectd gathers metrics from various sources, e.g. the operating system, applications, logfiles and external devices, and stores this information or makes it available over the network. Those statistics can be used to monitor systems, find performance bottlenecks (i.e.

http://collectd.org/
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Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD
For some companies, infrastructure is the heart of its business. Specifically, I am referring to those companies which need to manage data and applications located on more than one server.

https://serhack.me/articles/monitoring-infrastructure-grafana-influxdb-connectd/
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Red Hat And Lenovo Want To ‘Evolve Linux’ As A Laptop OS
The first consumer-facing Lenovo laptop shipping with Fedora is available to purchase, with several additional forthcoming featuring Fedora, RHEL and Ubuntu.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/09/01/red-hat-and-lenovo-thinkpad-linux-fedora-laptop-os/
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AWS introduces Bottlerocket: A Rust language-oriented Linux for containers
Earlier this year, Linus Torvalds approved of adding drivers and other components in Rust to Linux. Last week, at the virtual Linux Plumbers Conference, developers gave serious thought to using the Rust language for new Linux inline code.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-introduces-bottlerocket-a-rust-language-oriented-linux-for-containers/
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HP Releases Z Series Laptops with Official Ubuntu 20.04 Support
Computer maker HP announced its latest offering Z series of laptops with certified Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Named ZBook Fury G7 15 and 17 – the new HP workstations are for professionals who want to work on ML and AI with a combination of powerful hardware and rock-solid Ubuntu 20.04 LTS base.

https://www.debugpoint.com/2020/09/hp-z-series-linux-laptop/
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Linux Jargon Buster: What is a Linux Distribution? Why is it Called a ‘Distribution’?
In this chapter of the Linux Jargon Buster, let’s discuss something elementary. Let’s discuss what is a Linux distribution, why it is called a distribution (or distro) and how is it different from the Linux kernel.

https://itsfoss.com/what-is-linux-distribution/
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Bottlerocket OS
Welcome to Bottlerocket! Bottlerocket is a free and open-source Linux-based operating system meant for hosting containers. Bottlerocket is currently in a developer preview phase and we’re looking for your feedback.

https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket
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Bringing together audio and video, PipeWire for Linux is really coming along
PipeWire, the next-generation of modern Linux audio and video appears to be coming along nicely and it appears it’s ready for wider testing. Writing in a blog post, Red Hat’s Senior Manager for Desktop, Christian F.K.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/09/bringing-together-audio-and-video-pipewire-for-linux-is-really-coming-along
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Shutdown Taking Too Long? Here’s How to Investigate and Fix Long Shutdown Time in Linux
Your Linux system is taking too long to shut down? Here are the steps you can take to find out what is causing the delayed shutdown and fix the issue. When you shut down your Linux system, it sends the sigterm and politely asks the running processes to stop.

https://itsfoss.com/long-shutdown-linux/
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Open Source VR Headset For $200
We’ve seen homemade VR headsets before, but, often they are dependent on special software or are not really up to par with commercial products. Not so with Relativity, an open source project from [Max Coutte] and [Gabriel Combe]. [Max] says it best: Relativty is not a consumer product.

https://hackaday.com/2020/09/13/open-source-vr-headset-for-200/
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Linux terminal trick: Hack the cd command to remember where you’ve been
I was just on a system that didn’t have this hack, and it reminded me how useful it is, so I thought I’d share it for others. Maybe you all can reply with your own shell tricks. Some of you may know about the pushd and popd commands. pushd is like cd, but keeps track of where you’ve been.

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/cd-command
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What is LaCrOS for Chromebooks and why does it matter?
Earlier this year, 9to5 Google caught code changes about something called LaCrOS. Work has progressed on this enough to the point where LaCrOS is available in the Canary Channel of Chrome OS 87, appearing as another Chrome browser icon.

https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/what-is-lacros-for-chromebooks-and-why-does-it-matter/
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baowenbo/DAIN
We propose the Depth-Aware video frame INterpolation (DAIN) model to explicitly detect the occlusion by exploring the depth cue. We develop a depth-aware flow projection layer to synthesize intermediate flows that preferably sample closer objects than farther ones.

https://github.com/baowenbo/DAIN

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