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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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So, this is my situation: I've forked this repository which contains dotfile and script for hyprland. I changed some files and now, if I want to sync all the commits made on the original repository to my repository github says "This branch has conflicts that must be resolved". My question is: can I merge only the commits that don't conflict with my files? What else can I do?

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I've tried using my incredible (british) brain using Google to see if these open source titans ever engaged in a battle of "friendly conversation" with one another.

I was always interested what Stallman thought of the angry but smart finnish man who gave us the robust penguin kernel that breathes life into older machines and powers supercomputers for the weather.

The same with Torvalds thoughts on Stallmans GNU involvement and him as a person.

This is because you sometimes had different organisations in the FOSS and OSS community that take on different meanings so I wanted a better idea if these chaps ever spoke in an interview together.

TLDR : Does finnish man like bearded GNU jesus man and the same vice versa

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I was wondering if anyone could tell me where the location for the icons-only task manager settings file is for plasma? I have a number of custom icons I've made, and it appears that the default mouseover/hover effect does not work with them. For icons I have not changed, the icon "lights up" or gets a wash over itself when I hover over it, but the custom icons don't do that. There doesn't appear to be anything in the .svg files, so I'm wondering if there's a master list that I should add my icon files to or something, perhaps in the theme settings? I apologize for what is probably a fairly silly post, but I've been enjoying mildly customizing my desktop and this is a bit of a annoyance.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by t0mri@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 
 

i didnt care about how i wrote my bash scripts, coz i know theyd ultimately be used just by myself. but for the past few day, i've been working on this project, mk-blog which uses some bash scripts, there are chances that others might look at them. besides in work they're asking me maintain a server. so why not learn the standards. but i couldn't find anything good online (i'm gonna blame my search engine lol). so...

i'd appreciate redirections to (official or community) bash coding standards

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Edit: solved. Sorry guys, it was something silly. Instead of clicking shutdown on windows I just hard pressed the off button for some seconds on the laptop. So I booted back on windows and let it shutdown normally and then Debian was able to boot again. Hehe

So I've made a clean install of Debian 12 when it came out and have been using only it exclusively for this time. But I had Windows 10 on dual boot already since when I was using Debian 11, I just never booted on Windows until now.

I had to fill in some PDF documents and ended up having to go to windows and use Adobe Acrobat there because LibreOffice and google docs kept messing up the PDF files when I tried to add text to them.

So I did my thing on windows and finished it all just now and then rebooted and tried to boot my Debian 12 and it won't boot. All I see is:

/dev/sda11: recovering journal

/dev/sda11: clean [...] files, [...] blocks

And it is stuck here forever. I already tried to reboot multiple times.

I did nothing on windows to mess with the Linux partitions btw. Only chrome / acrobat / and I sent the files to google drive (so I didn't even try to copy them directly into the Linux partition or anything).

Please tell me I did not brick my OS and need a clean stall pls. What can I try? The answers I've tried from google don't work.

It is Debian 12 stable with nothing but software from the official stable repositories and flatpak.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by flork@lemy.lol to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 
 

I have tried Linux as a DD on and off for years but about a year ago I decided to commit to it no matter the cost. First with Mint, then Ubuntu and a few others sprinkled in briefly. Both are "mainstream" "beginner friendly" distros, right? I don't want anything too advanced, right?

Well, ubuntu recently updated and it broke my second monitor (Ubuntu detected it but the monitor had "no signal"). After trying to fix it for a week, I decided to wipe it and reinstall. No luck. I tried a few other distros that had the same issue and I started to wonder if it was a hardware issue but I tried a Windows PC and the monitor worked no problem.

Finally, just to see what would happen I tried a distro very very different than what I'm used to: Fedora (Kinoite). And not only did everything "just work" flawlessly, but it's so much faster and more polished than I ever knew Linux to be!

Credit where it's due, a lot of the polish is due to KDE plasma. I'd never strayed from Gnome because I'm not an expert and people recommend GNOME to Linux newbies because it's "simple" and "customizable" but WOW is KDE SO MUCH SIMPLER AND STILL CUSTOMIZEABLE. Gnome is only "simple" in that it doesn't allow you to do much via the GUI. With Fedora Kinode I think I needed to use the terminal maybe once during setup? With other distros I was constantly needed to use the terminal (yes its helped me learn Linux but that curve is STEEP).

The atomic updates are fantastic too. I have not crashed once in the two weeks of setup whereas before I would have a crash maybe 1-2 times per week.

I am FULLY prepared for the responses demanding to know what I did to make it crash and telling me how I was using it wrong blah blah blah but let me tell you, if you are experienced with Windows but want to learn Linux and getting frustrated by all the "beginner" distros that get recommended, do yourself a favor and try Fedora Kinoite!

edit: i am DYING at the number of "you're using it wrong" comments here. never change people.

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A new major version of Leap Micro is now available! Leap Micro 6.0 images can be found at get.opensuse.org.

Leap Micro 6.0 uses a brand-new codebase, comes with plenty of new appliances and, for the first time, enters images for public cloud.

About Leap Micro

Leap Micro 6.0 is a rebranded SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.0 which is an ultra-reliable container and Virtual Machine host by SUSE. Leap Micro is released twice a year and has support over two releases.

Leap Micro 5.4 is now EOL

With the release of Leap Micro 6.0, Leap Micro 5.4 reaches End Of Life; users will no longer receive maintenance updates and are advised to upgrade.

More conservative users can stay on Leap Micro 5.5, which will receive updates until the release of Leap Micro 6.1.

Understanding Image variants

All of Leap and SLE Micro generally come in two variants either Base or Default.

Both Base and Default have a container stack, but only the Default variant has the Virtual Machine stack.

If you do not plan to use VMs and you care for space, then the Base might be a variant just for you. 

All of our images offered at get-o-o are the Default ones (VMs+containers) as we expect they're suitable for most users.

All appliances including Base variants (without virtualization stack) can be downloaded directly from https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap-micro/6.0/appliances/

Explaining individual appliances

A general recommendation for everyone use is the self-install image. It's a bootable image with a quick wizard that writes the preconfigured image to your drive and grows the root partition. This process from boot takes about 5 minutes.

The preconfigured image is a raw bootable image you can manually write/dd to the disk or SD card. Images can be configured via Ignition/Combustion or will default to the jeos-firsboot wizard.

We have a Real-time image with kernel-rt, qcow image for KVM, VMWare image, and a brand new raw image with Full Disk Encryption.

Users who want to try our FDE image within a VM will need to make sure that they're using emulated tpm-2 chip and UEFI. This can be achieved easily with virt-manager.

SLE Micro 6.0 dropped the traditional installer in favor of self-install media, therefore Leap Micro 6.0 doesn't have it either.

The new Packages image is not a bootable media. This is just an image with an offline repository in case you need it.

Leap Micro 6.0 comes for the first time also with Public Cloud Images.

Images will soon be available with all major public cloud providers. 

Upgrading from 5.X

A recommendation is to make a clean install since this is a brand-new major version.

For those who'd like to try migration, please follow the upgrade guide.

Release Notes

Users can refer to SLE Micro 6.0 Release notes.

Leap Micro 6.0 uses openSUSE-repos for repository management. It is highly recommended to pay attention to this detail, especially for those who migrate. Here is an article explaining how openSUSE repos work.

Leap Micro 6.0 has no longer a dedicated SLE update repo. This has been merged into the main repository.

More Information about openSUSE:

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Fediverse

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Can anyone pIs point me into a direction or actually has a solution to install #libbdplus on #endeavouros / #archlinux without getting error of missing #libgcrypt-config?
See: https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1972760.html
@linux

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17288716

This project is a port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS.

⚠️ Proxmox-NixOS is still experimental and we do not advise running it on production machines. Do it at your own risk and only if you are ready to fix issues by yourself.

📬 Help / Discussions

There is a matrix room for discussions about Proxmox-NixOS.

Thanks This project has received support from NLNet.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by boredsquirrel to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 
 

The Flatpak is already packaged and works well. It just needs to be maintained from a person that joins the Inkscape community.

This would allow further improvements like Portal support and making the app official on Flathub.

Update: One might have been found!

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Hello guys! sometimes I watch movies with friends over jitsi meet, and in order to share just a single window with just its own audio I use chromium, that has the "share tab" option. However, I'd like a more general solution (I cannot play mkv files on browser, for example). I'd like a compact way that creates a virtual device sharing the window (even if the window gets minimized or hidden behind other windows!) and its audio, without the audio of all other windows (I don't want my notification sounds to be shared too). a quick online search gave me only "complex" answers, that I'll try only if a more convenient way is not available.

[I'm running EndeavourOS KDE Wayland]

Thank to everyone in advance!

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Chromium has had experimental support for Wayland for some time, and is moving towards stabilizing it. Let's take a look at how we got to where we are now, and at what's still missing before it can be stabilized.

Slides available at:

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/the-journey-towards-stabilizing-chromium-s-wayland-support/269744362

Web Engines Hackfest 2024

https://webengineshackfest.org/2024

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Personally I believe this is a very poor take

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So about 2 months ago I made this post about looking for an iPad replacement that runs Linux. I said I wasn't in a rush, but after thinking about it ever since and seeing the Minisforum V3 go on sale for just $1000, I pulled the trigger.

My impressions are still very new (I have used it for a total of 2 hours at this point), but I'm super happy so far. Installed Fedora 40 and almost everything works out of the box (including a Wacom MPP stylus). As mudkip mentioned in this blog, the volume buttons don't work when the keyboard is detached and auto-rotation doesn't work. The former isn't a big deal and the latter doesn't affect me in the slightest, but I can confirm those issues are still present on a stock Fedora install.

Anyway, there's not a lot of information about this tablet running Linux out there, is there anything anyone wants me to test or any questions I can answer?

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Not sure if this is the right place to ask or if anyone can help me, but today, I installed the ubuntu ISO & converted it to a bootable format on an 128GB SD card (All my USBs are too small) I ran the installer as normal & here's where I think I messed up. I allocated a 27GB partition for linux but that option didnt apper on the installer upon being asked where to install to. Thinking nothing of it, I ran the installer clicking on the install to drive option & halfway through it failed saying something like Error16 Drive is busy & the installation was only half done. now on attempt to restart windows is completely gone & all I can do is boot up a very fragmented Ubuntu without internet & firefox works very slowly. If anyone can help, then it's appreciated. I've always wanted to try Linux & just got an SD card large enough to do it, but now this happens.

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Using a new laptop with a confirmed healthy battery, do you typically need to do battery calibration after a fresh distro install? Or is that only used when replacing a battery on an existing system?

By battery calibration I mean the multiple cycles of letting battery drain to 0% and then recharging back up to 100%.

Thanks in advance!

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A lot of people here seemed excited for these chips. It'll be very interesting to see the gaming performance as this could bring in an entire new segment of portable devices running Linux if powerful enough to deliver solid battery life and CPU performance.

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I have 2 different resolution monitors (2560x1440 and 1920x1080) and I dislike that my mouse gets stuck at the transition where the smaller display is not aligned with the bigger one. I use cursr to fix that but I can't find an alternative that works on wayland and that's pretty well the only thing stopping me from making the full transition.

Thanks in advance to any recommendations!

Edit: this reddit post outlines my exact problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/wayland/comments/1bcnj6l/mouse_trapped_dual_monitor_with_different/

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