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1 • Remove files with special characters (by Dennis on 2022-12-05 01:57:46 GMT from Hong Kong)
It can be easily done with cli file manager like nnn or fff.
Or more universally, you can always do file operation using the unique inode number. Use `ls -i` to list the inode number (use `\ls` if it's an alias), then just do `find -inum 12345678 -delete` for files and `find -inum 12345678 -exec rm -rf {} \;` for directories.
2 • OpenSuse x64 support (by Ben Myers on 2022-12-05 03:21:14 GMT from United States)
I would not expect DistroWatch to get into the weeds of CPU support. But you would think that the OpenSuse project would have the good sense to tell us all what these x86-64-v1 processors are. I have worked with Intel and AMD processors since the 8088 and I have no idea what the various x86-64 versions are.
Instead of actually telling us, the link referred to in the article above simply repeats x86-64-v1 and does not bother to tell us more.
https://news.opensuse.org/2022/11/28/tw-to-roll-out-mitigation-plan-advance-microarchitecture/
Hello, OpenSuse! Can you hear me now?
3 • Obsolete x86-64 processors (by David on 2022-12-05 04:32:17 GMT from United States)
OpenSuse had this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Microarchitecture_levels embedded in the article. From which, all I got is that level 2 processors (-v2) are circa 2009. Therefore my old Pentium D processor (circa 2005-2006) is too old. Sadly, it is land fill time for it. Or else, I might continue not using OpenSuse...
4 • more security (by antihack on 2022-12-05 04:47:40 GMT from Netherlands)
Good to see some distros still seeking to improve security:
* Gnoppix (reborn): "encrypts communications, Internet anonymity. Not just a Tor Web browser where you ISP still can profile your behavior. Gnoppix ships with several own developed applications, all pre-configured with security in mind, ALL traffic is anonymized."
* NixOS: "we plan to disable weak password hashes in NixOS 23.05. We consider password hashing methods weak. Software that uses the crypt password hashing API is now using the implementation provided by libxcrypt instead of glibc’s, which enables support for more secure algorithms."
Would like to see more security configuration options in the Settings menu of Linux distros - especally for wireless devices, networking, remote connections, etc.
5 • Strange filenames (by Chris on 2022-12-05 05:00:57 GMT from South Africa)
'mc' is my goto app. Been using it ever since I can remember, from Dos days.
6 • Special Characters (by MeHere on 2022-12-05 06:36:27 GMT from Spain)
I find Detox through a custom action in Thunar the most convenient way in my Xfce desktop to get rid of those pesky characters (mostly coming from Windows files I think).
7 • CachyOS BORE scheduler (by Blue on 2022-12-05 09:03:44 GMT from United States)
I'm surprised the CachyOS team haven't updated the information about their default scheduler. They no longer use CacULE by default but BORE (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) which I've seen very few people talk about outside of their distro and the Garuda Linux forums (where some CachyOS team members also frequent).
I'm surprised this scheduler seems to be obscure given that it seems to be more performant than CacULE under similar tasks/workloads and also possibly more power efficient compared to CacULE.
8 • special characters (by Dr.J on 2022-12-05 09:57:45 GMT from Germany)
I made my first experiences with computers in the 80s (DOS, UNIX) and never really dived into the Windows world. So handling special characters was always a matter of course. Especially since the German language with its letters called "Umlaute (ä,ü,ö)" always contains many special characters. My file system always took this into account when naming files and folders. Imports (such as downloads, digital media files and the like) are adapted accordingly. For single files this is no problem and is done manually when saving. For a large amount of files I use various tools (like renamer), but also aliases (for example to remove spaces) based on the Linux utils (rm, find, sed etc). The latter is meanwhile tailor-made for my system and the German language. Some of them are integrated in my file-manager (emelfm2). Detox can't do that out-of-the-box, I would have to change too much in the detoxrc.
9 • Special characters (by james on 2022-12-05 11:32:31 GMT from United States)
I use a Graphical file manager, but then I use a GUI for everything.
10 • x86-64-v1 support (by penguinx86 on 2022-12-05 12:45:03 GMT from United States)
This is the first time I heard of x86-64-v1, and now it's obsolete?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Microarchitecture_levels
11 • x86-64 CPUs (by Glenn Wallace on 2022-12-05 15:14:51 GMT from United States)
The providers of the excellent xanmod kernel have a bash script available which will identify which version of the x86-64 CPU you have installed:
https://dl.xanmod.org/check_x86-64_psabi.sh
12 • special characters (by john on 2022-12-05 15:56:52 GMT from United Kingdom)
My way to remove special characters from file names.
Using two Lazarus programs which I compiled, change all special characters in a file(s) name(s) to either hyphens or underscores and remove them if leading or trailing.
john
13 • special characters (by MrSparkleWonder on 2022-12-05 22:10:30 GMT from Mexico)
My way to remove special characters from file names rm -rf /
No more special characters
14 • CachyOS became my favorite Arch-based distro (by 1-DOT.com on 2022-12-06 03:21:42 GMT from United States)
I had none of the problems mentioned by the reviewer but I did have an unusual one not mentioned. I installed the "online" KDE GUI version on an old multi-Linux Lenovo notebook. Once installed, you get login options for both Wayland KDE Plasma and X11 KDE Plasma. Unlike some recent KDE distros, my KDE Wayland sessions worked quite well.
It is my impression that CachyOS is based on ArcoLinux B but someone else will have to verify that.
I came to CachyOS after trying out Endeavour KDE, Garuda KDE and ArcoLinux KDE. CachyOS became my favorite despite my disappointment that the generated GRUB boot menu was incomplete, missing entries to my existing Linux distros. This was caused by not enabling OS-Prober when building the CachyOS GRUB menu (a relatively easy fix for multibooters).
The one unusual SNAFU that I encountered was that the newer CachyOS ISOs would not install using my handy Ventoy multiboot USB stick. Instead, I had to write the ISO to a single USB stick, using the MX Live USB Maker app (aka Linux dd command) to successfully get CachyOS to install.
15 • x86_64 Levels (by Justin on 2022-12-06 20:11:48 GMT from United States)
I thought the "community" had found that the benefits from architecture-specific compilation didn't provide much gains nowadays. Gentoo maybe was great a couple decades ago but now general-purpose binaries are fine. This move by OpenSUSE suggests something different? I had never heard of these levels, but now I'm wondering if I should care about compiling all my source since I have a Level 3 processor.
Maybe it's just a way of weeding out hardware they don't want to support.
16 • replace special characters in filename by an equivalency table (by Victor on 2022-12-06 21:34:17 GMT from United States)
using routinely Cyrillic letters, I find a lot of files named like "абвгде.txt" which the early systems had changed into "??????.txt" thus making it impossible to copy multiple files with the same length of filename into a folder. I still have to find a copy utility that would rather rename them into equivalent Latin characters, "abvgde.txt"
17 • @16 Transliterations (by Joe on 2022-12-08 02:22:24 GMT from Luxembourg)
Victor, your goal can be achieved by prename (it comes with perl) and the "libtext-unidecode-perl" package. To transliterate non-ASCII characters it should be possible to run something like "prename 'use utf8; use Text::Unidecode; $_=unidecode($_)' *.txt" (I've not actually tried it so please do not run this command blindly).
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StratOS Linux is an Arch-based Linux distribution which uses scripts from Bedrock Linux to include various packages and repositories from other Linux distributions. It provides several desktop variants featuring the GNOME desktop as well as the Hyprland and the Niri Wayland compositors. The project also develops several custom tools, such as StratVIM (a fork of the Neovim text editor), Rockers (a custom package manager wrapper able to fetch and install binary and source packages from other Linux distributions and from Flatpaks), Stratmacs (a custom Emacs configuration), grab (a fetch script), and Maneki-Neko (a Welcome application).
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