This week we had some really great software releases, starting with both the Mozilla Thunderbird 102 email client and Mozilla Firefox 102 web browser, continuing with the Plasma Mobile Gear 22.06 software suite for mobile devices, new NVIDIA graphics and HP printing drivers, the OTA-23 update for Ubuntu Touch, a new major Unity7 desktop update, and ending with Darktable 4.0 RAW image editor.
Below, you can enjoy these and much more in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for July 3rd, 2022.
China is now one step closer to eliminating Windows from its government endpoints, an effort it has been pursuing for more than two decades now.
As reported by The Register, the country has been laser-focused on switching to Linux (opens in new tab) entirely amid conflict with the US, but has thus far lacked the support of developers. But now, all of that might change with the launch of the openKylin project (opens in new tab).
The project’s goal is to speed up the development of the Kylin Linux distro, an OS distribution that’s entirely China-made. The project’s participants will include developers, but also colleges and universities.
Unveiled two years ago, the TUXEDO Pulse 15 Linux laptop is now in its second generation with a newer AMD Ryzen 7 processor, namely the 35W Ryzen 7 5700U with only 15 watts TDP, a single-fan/single-heatpipe cooling system, and integrated AMD Radeon RX Vega graphics, which promises to offer virtually the same performance as the Ryzen 7 4800H processor used in the first generation of the laptop but with much less power draw.
Now is a wonderful time to be in the market for a laptop that comes pre-loaded with a Linux-based operating system, as there are many great options. Linux laptops used to be a bit of a rarity, but as Linux gains popularity, these computers are becoming more commonplace. Currently, my recommendation is the HP Dev One which runs System76's Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS, as that notebook is affordable, well-built, and offers an overall excellent experience.
Today, yet another new Linux laptop is announced, this time by TUXEDO Computers. Well, technically it isn't entirely new, but actually, it is the second generation of its Pulse 15. Yes, after two years, the company has decided to refresh the computer with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U processor (with 35W TDP) and 15.6-inch 165Hz WQHD (2560 x 1440) IPS display.
Add your favorite DOS games to the Steam Deck with DOSBox! I'm really proud of this tutorial and I hope you find it useful.
0:00 Cold Open 2:00 We're Open Source Denizens 12:23 Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes 15:58 Mozilla Watch (feat. Brave) 33:02 OMG OOMD 48:51 Community Focus: The Postmarket OS Podcast 52:25 App Focus: Amberol 1:02:30 Next Time: Ubuntu 1:04:16 Thank you 1:05:10 Stinger
If you have been for (or against) Rust in the Linux kernel, get ready for a Linux kernel module written in… Scratch. That’s right. Scratch, the MIT-developed language with blocks popular for teaching kids to code. We didn’t mean “from scratch.” We meant IN Scratch. The bootstrap code and Makefile is out there on GitHub.
Of course, it is a simple module and the reason it is possible is because of the scratchnative system that lets you compile Scratch into C code. If you want to look at the decidedly simple code, you can open it in your browser.
We don’t t think anyone is seriously suggesting you start doing this kind of development in Scratch, but it is sort of amazing that you can do it at all.
The 5.19-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "So everything looks ok - we certainly have some issues still being looked at, but on the whole 5.19 looks normal, and nothing particularly bad seems to be going on".
If a tool makes things faster and efficient, that is a life-saver for many developers.
While there are different services and platforms that try to make the coding experience quicker, you still have several other options to consider.
For instance, a code snippet manager. With a snippet manager, you aim to save a section of code that you want to quickly access. It is more like assigning shortcuts to add the required code in your program.
This is not a new concept, but the tools available for the job may not be entirely open-source.
Fortunately, I stumbled upon a decent project that provides you with a free and open-source snippet manager, i.e., massCode.
Food-Tracker is a free open-source Android app that helps you track calories in thousands of food items. The app is available to download, use for free from F-Droid and Google Play application store.
Beside the search, the user also can save the items and bookmark them in a simple straightforward interface.
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The Project is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
Perf trace is a versatile, flexible powerful option in the perf toolbox, allowing to combine the power of strace with additional capabilities, which give you a multi-dimensional view of your system's behavior. For instance, by default, strace is a bit more difficult to follow and analyze, whereas perf trace helps more easily bucket results per thread, filter out unnecessary information, and conversely, zero in on the specific data you need.
Hopefully, this tutorial is a good reference point for getting started with perf trace. You do need some background knowledge, you need to know how your software behaves, but then you can use it to figure out possible performance bottlenecks, and improve and optimize its execution. Perf may also need some tweaking to run well in userspace, and you have tons of flags and options to narrow down the troubleshooting to what you need. And that would be all for today.
Website speed, often called website performance, refers to the amount of time a web browser renders web pages from a specific site.
A site’s loading speed can significantly affect user experience (UX). For example, a slow website response time (SRT) can lead to high bounce rates. Subsequently, having a poorly performing website can harm your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts.
This article will cover three tips for testing a website’s speed, including how to do it in a Linux Terminal. By identifying the areas for improvement, website owners can optimize website speed more efficiently.
This detailed Docker tutorial covers the essential Docker commands, such as how to create a new container, run the container, remove a container and so on. In addition, this guide also explains how to build your own Docker image from an existing container and how to remove containers and images. Without further ado, let us get started with Docker basics usage!
React (also known as React.js or ReactJS) is an open-source JavaScript front-end library for creating web frontend and UI components.
It is developed and maintained by the Facebook and a large community of developers. This is also useful for creating mobile applications.
In this tutorial you will learn to install and create ReactJS Application on a Ubuntu 22.04 OS.
Plex Media Server is a piece of software that allows you to store all your digital media content in one place. It is extremely popular with people who have large TV and movie libraries, as it allows them to share their content with friends and family. Plex Media Server organizes your files and content into categories, making it easy to find what you are looking for. It also supports a wide range of client applications to access your content on your TV, NVIDIA Shield, Roku, Mobile App, and many more platforms. If you have a good enough connection, you can share your content with friends and family. Plex Media Server is a great way to keep your digital media content organized and accessible. It is worth considering if you have a large TV or movie library. It supports a wide range of client applications and allows you to share your content with others.
The DISA and SUSE have authored a STIG (Secure Technical Implementation Guide) that describes how to harden a SUSE Linux Enterprise system.
The STIG is a long list of rules, each containing description, detection of problems and how to remediate problems on a per rule basis.
Learn the commands to install XAMPP on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy JellyFish Linux using the terminal for setting up Apache web server and MySQL environment quickly.
With the free software collection XAMPP, preconfigured web servers based on Apache can be conveniently set up. For this purpose, the open-source package also includes the database program MariaDB as well as the scripting languages PHP and Perl combined in one installation routine
Also on board are useful tools such as the FTP server FileZilla, the mail server Mercury Mail Transport System, Tomcat for Java applications, phpMyAdmin, the analysis tool Webalizer, the mail tester Fake Sendmail and OpenSSL encryption. The modules are conveniently operated via the XAMPP Control Panel.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Dashlane Password Manager on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Dashlane is one of the popular password managers that is available in both free and premium versions. Dashlane is more than just a password manager. It fills all your passwords, payments, and personal details wherever you need them, across the web, on any device. It’s the app that makes the internet easier. Do note that Dashlane can only be used on one computer or device for free. To enable cross-platform sync you have to stump up $39.99 per year.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Dashlane Password Manager on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.
Fedora 36 is released for desktop, server & cloud environments, and the Internet of Things, and in this tutorial, we shall go through the various steps on how to install the Fedora 36 server with screenshots.
There are some crucial improvements in the server edition, before we proceed to the installation steps, we shall look at some of the new features and improvements.
This series highlights essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. For details of all tools in this series, please check the table in the summary section.
gWakeOnLAN is a small graphical utility that lets you wake up machines using the Wake on LAN (WOL) feature. WOL lets you wake a computer from a low-power state when a network adapter detects a WOL event. Typically, such an event is a specially constructed Ethernet packet, often known as a “magic packet”. When the packet is received, the target machine’s network device (Network Interface Controller or NIC) wakes up the rest of the machine.
Kimpanel is a plasma applet that uses plasma and dbus to display the input method popup window. In X11, people who want to have native plasma theme based input method window may use it to provide a nice integration with plasma.
So you might ask, we already having kimpanel in Plasma desktop, what’s point to have this feature in Fcitx 5?
Well, if you use the wayland.. you will notice that kimpanel does not work properly in terms of window positioning. The input window is a small popup window used by input method. It needs to be shown at the cursor position in order to make user eye focused at the point where they are typing. This popup window is critical for CJK input method users.
And you might ask again, why can’t we just fix kimpanel? Unfortunately, it’s hard to fix.
KDE PIM is the set of applications that helps you manage your email, contacts, appointments, tasks and more.
In the months since the KDE PIM March-April report there have been two patch releases for Kontact, and over 1300 changes made by more than 30 contributors have been integrated. Here are some of the highlights.
Rick reported that the "apps" icon on the desktop, "Graphics -> 3D-CAD" does not work. It is supposed to run SolveSpace, and it does work from the menu.
I found a typo, fixed. The version of the EasyApps PET is now 3.1.2.4.
Rick also reported that none of the pupTelly (see pupRadio/puptelly entry in "Multimedia" menu category) work.
makefs(8) now supports HAMMER2 on DragonFly, so you can create HAMMER2 file system images, same as a CD image or a DOS disk.
No pun, but lots of links in this week’s BSD Now, including a link to EuroBSDCon 2022, happening in Austria.
Today, we will start a logo competition for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2022. A logo is an essential material for the successful summit. As you have seen, the former openSUSE.Asia summits have their unique logos reflecting the communities where the summit took place. Following tradition, we have logo competition to collect great logo for this year’s summit. Notably, this year summit has two parts. One is Asia Summit Main Track with Virtual Online Conference, the other is Local Part which will be held in each local area. This logo is for Asia Summit Main Track. So this logo will represent Asia.
The competition is open now and ends on 23 July 2022. The organizing team will send “Geeko Mystery Box” as an appreciation for the best logo designed.
It is a pleasure to announce the call for papers for openSUSE.Asia summit 2022 Main Track starting today, the openSUSE.Asia Committee is looking for speakers from different avenues of life, representing and advocating Free and Open Source Software. openSUSE.Asia Summits are organized every year to promote the use of free and open source software and have been appreciated events for the openSUSE community (i.e. both contributors and users) in Asia. Following the last Asia Virtual Summit hosted by India team, the eighth openSUSE.Asia Summit 2022 will be held by openSUSE online volunteer team on Late September. The past Asia Summits received major participation from Indonesia, China mainland, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and India.
This year’s event will consist of the two parts: the Asia Summit Main Track and local online/offline parts held in several Asian countries/regions. This call is for the Asia Summit Main Track. The event is going to be completly virtual and use online conference tools. Talks will be live, but you can record video in advance if you want it.
Based on Slackware 15.0 and powered by the latest and greatest Linux 5.18 kernel series and BusyBox 1.35, Porteus Linux 5.0 is here more than four years after version 4.0 to offer you more recent GNU/Linux technologies and a choice of no less than eight desktop flavors as standalone and live ISO editions.
These eight flavors include some newer desktop environment releases like Xfce 4.16, LXQt 1.1.0, Cinnamon 5.4.2, and MATE 1.26, but also some older ones like the KDE Plasma 5.23.5 and GNOME 41.5. In addition, you’ll find live editions with the older LXDE desktop environment and the lighter Openbox window manager.
To automate with Ansible, you must be familiar with YAML, the human-readable language used to define the logic in Ansible playbooks. YAML stands for "Yet Another Markup Language" or "YAML Ain't Markup Language" (a recursive acronym). YAML is often used for writing configuration files. Although YAML is considered simple and easy to understand, the YAML syntax can be quite confusing. This article digs a little deeper into some YAML basics.
With more than 40 million units sold and a powerful community of makers and fans behind it, Raspberry Pi is more than a single-board computer; it's a huge platform with an even bigger ecosystem behind it. Whether you want to build your own robot, create an A.I.-powered security camera, or just set up a simple computer for programming and web surfing, the Pi is for you.
The Raspberry Pi is an awesome platform for learning and experimentation. We can learn to code, build robots, monitor the location of the International Space Station, and so much more. But to make the most of the Pi, it helps to have the right HAT (hardware attached on top). HATs are expansion boards, introduced along with the Raspberry Pi B+ in 2014, that connect to the Raspberry Pi’s set of 40 GPIO pins and easily add functionality such as lights, motors, sensors and fans without a mess of wires.
‘Handheld retro games console’ and ‘crowdfunding’ seem to be pretty common words around here these days, but the Creoqode Lyra+ (opens in new tab), about to start crowdfunding for a new model over at Kickstarter and brought to our attention by Liliputing (opens in new tab), is different.
Different in that, instead of being a shrunken PC (opens in new tab) in a Switch-like case (opens in new tab), as is the fashion (except for the PlayDate (opens in new tab)), it’s a Raspberry Pi (opens in new tab) Compute Module 4 in a Switch-like case. This makes it a machine for streaming and emulators rather than for playing games directly, but what’s interesting about the ’+’ is that it’s a second-generation device.
Developer Maciej Kobus is a huge fan of Nintendo consoles and has developed a Raspberry Pi Pico-powered modchip for the Nintendo GameCube called the PicoBoot (opens in new tab). This modchip is an initial program loader (IPL) replacement that tells your GameCube to boot into whatever system you like. Of course, the most popular platform chosen by most modders is Swiss (opens in new tab), a homebrew system for the GameCube that can run other emulators.
The modchip is run entirely on the Pico, but you will need a secondary chip for storage. According to Kobus, it can replace or run in tandem with the XenoGC modchip—another popular modchip used for running homebrew on the Nintendo GameCube. Once installed, users can boot into Swiss and launch anything from GameCube titles to GameBoy Advance ROMs.
The Raspberry Pi might be hard to get ahold of right now but it’s not hard to find incredible projects and mind-blowing creations from the maker community. From AI-powered systems to retrogaming gadgets that use original hardware—we’ve got the coolest developments to share with you that we hope can inspire your own projects this summer.
These makers pull out the best Raspberry Pi accessories, and Raspberry Pi HATs to bring their clever designs to fruition. We’ve already featured each of these once individually in the past month and we think it’s time to do it again. These projects are the best of the best and deserve a second wave of love from the maker community at large.
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so it seems that Elecfreaks latest board, the Pico:ed, is a homage to the micro:bit range of boards. Pico:ed features the Raspberry Pi RP2040 SoC in a more educational form factor, and the $13 price tag is certainly enticing for those wishing to start their coding journey.
Pico:ed shares the same form factor as the micro:bit, and at a glance it looks like a distant cousin. Instead of a 5x5 LED matrix, Pico:ed has a rather odd 7x17 matrix and two simple button inputs. At the bottom of the board are a series of GPIO “pins”, broken out to an edge connector that looks like a set of gold teeth. Some of the pins can be used with crocodile clips, which are very useful for educational environments where soldering and working with small pins and jumpers isn’t always practical.
Microsoft’s new service for automatically writing AI-based code, Copilot, has sparked outrage in the Open Source community.
“Microsoft loves open source.” So much has been put on this slogan recently, only to change the Open Source community’s perspective toward the Redmond company.
And while Microsoft was no longer demonized as the worst thing that could happen to the Open Source, certain of the Redmond tech giant’s tactics remained regardless of the times.
It must be said unequivocally, now and forever, that Microsoft loves open source! However, with one additional qualification: when it can generate a profit from it.
While this may appear to be perfectly acceptable from a business standpoint, it is quite the opposite regarding moral violations. And Microsoft did it again.
Put this in your agenda: the second Raku Conference will be held on 13-14 August 2022, online!
ORICO has sent me a sample of a USB 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSD enclosure for review, which was timely as I did not have a fast USB storage option for testing. In this post, I’ll check out the hardware, show how to install an NVMe SSD, and test performance in UP Xtreme i11 mini PC since it happens to come with a USB 4.0 port.
The latest beta of the popular Windows USB creation tool Rufus adds some handy features, such as removing Microsoft account requirements and turning off TPM chip detection – and there are others too.
In olden times, PCs used to come with recovery disks so that if your hard disk died you could fit a new one and reinstall. Then optical drives started to fade away, and PC makers found it saved money if they didn't include the disks and just put a recovery image on the hard disk. Happily, though, Microsoft made downloads of ISO images of Windows free on its website.
If you try to download on another copy of Windows, it tries to push the Microsoft Media Creation Tool at you, but you can refuse and use your own. If you do, Rufus is a good alternative.
The latest beta version of Rufus, which in future will be version 3.19, has some interesting new additions. While it writes your ISO, you can optionally disable some of Windows' more annoying features.
I had a curiosity driven excursion into the public clouds of AWS and Azure to find what is publicly hosted and who by. As anticipated, the results were extremely broad and interesting as I found PII, various web applications, login portals, source code, and adult material.
Please note that this blog will not include all steps of reconnaissance as that is a topic for another blog.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gnupg2 and kernel), Fedora (golang-github-apache-beam-2, golang-github-etcd-io-gofail, golang-github-intel-goresctrl, golang-github-spf13-cobra, golang-k8s-pod-security-admission, and vim), Oracle (.NET 6.0, compat-openssl10, compat-openssl11, cups, curl, expat, firefox, go-toolset:ol8, grub2,, gzip, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, kernel, libarchive, libgcrypt, libinput, libxml2, pcre2, postgresql, python, rsync, rsyslog, ruby:2.6, subversion, thunderbird, vim, xz, and zlib), Scientific Linux (firefox and thunderbird), SUSE (python-nltk and salt), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-hwe-5.13, and linux-oem-5.14).
Access Now is demanding the immediate end to an information vacuum that is exacerbating social unrest in Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan. In response to the decision by Uzbek President, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, to amend the constitution and curtail the autonomy of the Karakalpak people, protests erupted on July 1, 2022, that were reportedly swiftly met by an internet shutdown.
“Internet access gives people power,” said Felicia Anthonio, #KeepItOn Campaign Manager at Access Now. “And that’s why authorities are likely targeting it in Karakalpakstan. We call on the government of Uzbekistan to ensure an open internet for all, and allow freedom of expression across the region.”
While the President dropped plans to curb Karakalpakstan autonomy from his constitutional reform plans, the situation is far from stabilized. The state of emergency that has been implemented in the region, and set to run until August 2, 2022, means people are denied freedom of movement. This has the potential to provoke further clashes. According to some reports, Karakalpakstan has experienced connectivity issues with mobile internet since June 27, 2022, followed shortly after by the loss of fixed-line internet.
When talking, most people expect that the cooperative principle is in play.
For no particular reason, I’d like on this day to reassert my belief that all systems of minority rule are illegitimate.
Hello! Happy 4th of july for fellow americans. Hope you are celebrating the 'murican way! Indulging on yummy food and watching colorful magnesium compounds explode in the night sky. I myself plan to get terribly intoxicated and listen to music on top of those things but thats optional.
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I had a job interview at a winery/renaissance faire for the position of Electrical Helper. The guy who interviewed me was the single electrician the company had. Apparently he had been working there a decade and only now they decided it was time he could use a helper. I really liked the guy and the work doesn't seem too terrible all things considered, a lot better than my work in the printing press as a maintenance tech.
He walked me around the faire grounds and showed the electical boxes and how they were run. Cleverly disgused in places the average faire goer would never notice walking by. In a place thats supposed to look historical and stuff its important to hide the electrical wires else it kills the vibe lol.
For some reason the prospect excited me. It wouldn't be making me a lot of money but its different. Outside work around cute castles and checkerboard gardens instead of being trapped in an industrial complex having to wear hearing protection all the time just to not go deaf.
It is probably safe to say that everyone hanging out on the smol Internet has experience in the precise cycle that I am about to discuss, and it has been causing me to pause and wonder if it is even worth addressing. But as this is my very infrequently trafficked space and probably the only place on the web that is specifically for me to be entirely self-indulgent, I will roll with it.
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It is sad to consider not looking in on people I have encountered who live on the other side of the globe or those in my local community who I have only met through online spaces. I feel like I am losing the only way I know to find what was the beautiful promise of the Internet way back when.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.