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1 • Tracking Internet bandwidth : vnstat (by Omar on 2023-04-24 01:39:29 GMT from Indonesia)
Tracking bandwidth using vnstat is like installing deb using apt.
2 • Snap performance (by Pumpino on 2023-04-24 01:40:19 GMT from Australia)
Given that Ubuntu announced that it's ditching Snaps next year, it would make sense to shift popular packages to standard DEBs in the main repo for the time being. Otherwise, why not switch to using flatpaks? Working on Snaps seems like a waste of time.
3 • Tracking bandwidth usage: DE applet (by Vinfall on 2023-04-24 01:51:16 GMT from Hong Kong)
On KDE there are several desktop widgets that can track real-time network speed and bandwidth, along with a system-level data limit IIRC. On Xfce you can use internal netload plugin (https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-netload-plugin/start). Or if you do everything inside terminal, you can try plugins in tmux. Or in the lowest level, write a script from scratch by parsing stats in `/sys/class/net/*/statistics/rx_bytes` & `/sys/class/net/*/statistics/tx_bytes`.
4 • Re. 2 Pumpino: Ubuntu is NOT abandoning Snaps (by Heinrich on 2023-04-24 02:32:32 GMT from United States)
That was an April Fools Day joke.
5 • Qubes "security" (by Head_on_a_Stick on 2023-04-24 05:08:16 GMT from United Kingdom)
From Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD lead developer):
"> Virtualization seems to have a lot of security benefits.
You've been smoking something really mind altering, and I think you
should share it.
x86 virtualization is about basically placing another nearly full
kernel, full of new bugs, on top of a nasty x86 architecture which
barely has correct page protection. Then running your operating
system on the other side of this brand new pile of shit.
You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a
worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating
systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around
and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.
You've seen something on the shelf, and it has all sorts of pretty
colours, and you've bought it.
That's all x86 virtualization is."
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119318909016582
6 • Qubes security (by Andy Prough on 2023-04-24 06:13:33 GMT from United States)
HOAS - I wonder if Qubes could be run using openBSD's virtualization, vmm, instead of Xen. I assume de Raadt must approve of vmm? Although de Raadt made it clear in his later comment in the thread that what he was opposed to was making any security claims at all for virtualization.
7 • snap (by Didier Spaier on 2023-04-24 07:09:18 GMT from France)
Snap, the universal package format only used by Ubuntu... Thanks, but no, thanks. I can understand that a distribution with few contributors do not package all software, but Ubuntu, who can benefit of Debian packaging system and the funding by Canonical? This is beyond me. In any case I provide flatpak in Slint (while recommending to use it only "if everything else fails") but will not include Snap in a foreseeable future. That's OK as anyway "everyone should use Ubuntu"?
8 • Qubes (by Dr.J on 2023-04-24 07:15:52 GMT from Germany)
It is not so easy with security. If anyone makes this clear time and time again, it's the countless people working on projects like Tor, whonix, Tails, Qubes, and so on.
I think the most appropriate way of looking at it starts with the question what you need for what purpose, because of course it makes a huge difference if you are writing as a journalist in China and similar countries or if you just want to fake your IP address and user agent to mislead Google.
Here in Germany, it is unnecessary to worry about whether there are still any gaps in the operating system, virtualization technology or wherever else, which may be exploited by NSA, CIA or whomever. Even if they do, you don't risk your life.
Nevertheless, I am not a friend of the transparent citizen, whose every second on the Internet is analyzed by someone and summarized to useful user profiles. For purposes you are not even aware of. You do not have to be paranoid to reject this. And this is where the products around Tor do a good job (they do much more, of course). You also don't necessarily have to deal with new operating systems (like Qubes). I use my usual Arch system (in a virtual machine) and route all of the system's Internet traffic through a Whonix gateway. The gateway uses a Debian-based OS (Kicksecure), but otherwise does little work. As usual, you have to set the security so that you can still work and not be blocked by every mail server and internet side. You also have to compromise on principle, because turning off javascript completely (which would be desirable from a security point of view) makes no sense, because then almost no website will work.
9 • Bandwidth checking (by Romane on 2023-04-24 07:47:50 GMT from Australia)
For my connection, I can only say "Why bother?". I have purchased sufficient bandwidth that to check on its usage would be an act on innanity (or insanity).
On the very rare occasion I do check, it is via my members page at my ISP. purely to check if I may need to purchase more. Only ever seem to use about 60% of my allocation a month, based on about just two checks at my ISP over about two years.
10 • Tails, XFCE (by Neo on 2023-04-24 08:04:16 GMT from Netherlands)
"Qubes mostly looks like a typical Xfce desktop distro"
I wish Tails Linux would switch of XFCE. I hate Gnome and there's no reason for bloat for such a distro.
11 • Qubes (by Hank on 2023-04-24 08:06:05 GMT from Netherlands)
Regarding Qubes,
Quote: I had no trouble finding answers to my questions, even when I used DuckDuckGo to search
Main Duck Duck Gone search engine is google, they have an association.
Many virtual machines, based setup on fedora, a us capitalist designed system, I assume using System D to boot,
good bye...
12 • Google search association (by Dave Postles on 2023-04-24 08:32:32 GMT from United Kingdom)
StartPage has an association with Google, I believe. It is quite transparent about it.
13 • Solus updates now available (by Uncle Slacky on 2023-04-24 11:47:48 GMT from France)
For those still running Solus and hoping for updates, there is an intermediate solution here: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/9180-want-a-cdn-powered-repo-check-these-instructions
14 • Ubuntu - Flatpaks or Snaps (by RetiredIT on 2023-04-24 13:35:07 GMT from United States)
Whether using flatpaks or snaps both are painfully slow and memory hogs. Sometimes the packages they install don't even work at all, which I have noticed with using different distros, not just DEB based. Using the command line or through Synaptic or GDebi are THE very best ways to install or uninstall packages. Using flatpaks or snaps is the "lazy man's" approach in Linux!
15 • Qubes (by Bill Dietrich on 2023-04-24 15:24:41 GMT from Spain)
> a Windows-like system (called Whonix)
Could we have a little explanation of this, please ? I don't see the similarity. Unless you mean WSL2 ? Even then I don't quite see it.
> Firefox, Tor Browser, and Thunderbird e-mail client
Can these (mainly FF and TBird) be removed so I can run Flatpak versions of them instead ?
I wish base images wouldn't include big apps by default. Kinoite has FF in the base image, for example. As I distro-hop, I use Flatpaks and carry my dot-files over, so it's important to me that an app's version number doesn't decrease as I hop. With Flatpak, I can be sure that will not happen.
16 • Useful browser MUST be in base (by newnameoldbloat on 2023-04-24 15:49:13 GMT from Germany)
Nowadays, a useful browser is an essential piece of software. Making people download over 3GB of flatsnap or whatever (apparently including almost a complete additional OS) just to get a usable browser is unacceptable. Thats why any distro, even a "lightweight" one, should provide a useful browser. And any SANE distro will provide means for obtaining software that do not depend on these extremely bloated "universal" frameworks.
17 • base images (by flatsnapbloat on 2023-04-24 15:54:22 GMT from Germany)
I wish all distros would include a useful browser in base images. If any piece of software is essential nowadays, it is a functional browser. And downloading over 3GB of bloat (apparently including an almost complete extra OS) just to get a browser seems the very definition of waste and inefficiency.
18 • Browser (by Bill Dietrich on 2023-04-24 16:31:07 GMT from Spain)
Easy enough for someone to use software store or package manager or container-manager to install the browser of their choice, in the format of their choice. Why should the distro make this choice for them ?
Anyway, the question was, in Qubes can FF and TBird be removed so I can use Flatpaks of them ?
19 • Bandwidth monitoring (by Steve on 2023-04-24 16:56:28 GMT from United States)
When I still worked for a living I swore by MRTG for monitoring various network connections... along with other stuff that fit nicely with MRTG.
But then my last job title was Network Administrator for a smallish library consortium, so it was what I did for a living. My other favorite tool for keeping an eye on stuff was Nagios.
I don't know if those tools would scale for a large ISP but they worked great for what I needed. Neither was simple to use, but they weren't all that complicated either. It all depends on how much you grok to begin with.
Now that I'm retired I just monitor my network use (along with other stuff) at the individual machine level. I don't have nearly as much to keep an eye on these days so that's all I really need now.
20 • Steam Installer in Ubuntu 23.04 Repos. (by Dean on 2023-04-24 18:50:25 GMT from United Kingdom)
I normally use the Steam Installer from the Repos, but switched over to the Snap version as the deb failed to install. I found it problematic as I regularly back my games up to a NAS. Unfortunately, the Snap and the Flatpak versions don't recognise my NAS when I mount it. In addition both will not pick up my external HDD drive either.
Bearing in mind both "sandbox", I'm wondering if it's a bug or by design.
21 • Re. 4 Heinrich: Ubuntu is NOT abandoning Snaps (by Pumpino on 2023-04-24 21:00:04 GMT from Australia)
April Fool's Day joke? Damn. I thought it was the most sensible decision Canonical had made in years. I guess not. At least Mint disables Snaps.
22 • qubes vs others (by de boss on 2023-04-24 23:39:47 GMT from Netherlands)
Qubes' security model is basicaly "everything is a VM"; while others like Rancher OS is "everything is a container". But it's still Linux underneath - a now 20+ years-old OS - with whatever security limitations it has built in. BSD is also a decades-old system that, like most OS's, relies on configuration for security.
A different security model is employed by open source - 3 years old - DBOS. It is being developed by MIT and Stanford researchers, and employs a database as its foundation. It claims to be ransomware (and presumably malware) resilient. In its case, "everything is a record". So, since everything has been recorded, if it gets a ransomware infection, it's a simpe case of rolling back to the previous non-infected state - no backups required. This sounds like a more promising "security-by-design" model. Hope it does well, coz we need a new OS approach - against hackers who think that "everything is a steal".
23 • Misc news - Manjaro and Solus (by Hoos on 2023-04-25 10:52:35 GMT from Singapore)
Manjaro - Seeing as how I posted last issue that the Manjaro iso I tested in Virtualbox less than a year ago had a crashing installer, similar to Jesse's experience, I decided to test the latest 22.1.0 iso to see if the Manjaro developers had indeed fixed the bugs in the installer.
Yes, the installer worked fine this time round and I had no problems installing Manjaro in Virtualbox again.
Solus - the blog post referred to indicates that they will be rebasing the future Solus 5 on SerpentOS (Ikey's current project). Hmmm. I wonder what that will mean for current users on version 4. Will it automatically roll over to the new version without intervention from the user? Is tying Solus to SerpentOS wise in the long run? Time will tell.
24 • @18 • Browser (by Bill Dietrich from Spain) (by Cubehead on 2023-04-25 18:06:53 GMT from Netherlands)
If I feed Google with 'install flatpak app + cubes os,' it instantly spits out the answer.
The first four links are probably all you need to know.
https://micahflee.com/2021/11/introducing-qube-apps/
https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/flatpaks-in-templatevms/15570
https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/best-way-to-install-update-flatpak-packages/7934
https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/best-practices-for-installing-flatpak-snap-appimage-packages-in-qubes/373
25 • @5 • Qubes "security" (by Head_on_a_Stick from still United Kingdom) (by Cubehead on 2023-04-25 18:33:29 GMT from Netherlands)
Poor Theo. He might be a very good programmer, but he should rather stick with what he can and not try to think, as that's not necessarily his strongest side.
What he claims is all correct but irrelevant, as when we talk about 'security' and protecting ourselves from the 'bad guys', we are not necessarily talking about protecting ourselves against the CIA, GRU, Mossad, or world top ten hackers.
If one sets up 'Firefox VM' only for surfing, 'Thunderbird VM' only for mailing, and a 'no-need-for-internet-access-ever-VM' for all other applications, it'll take a damn good hacker to jump out of FF or TB, infect the VM OS, and jump out of the VM OS to infect the host, so one could jump into 'all-my-life-VM'.
26 • @7 • snap (by Didier Spaier from France) (by Cubehead on 2023-04-25 18:47:04 GMT from Netherlands)
Not that it's very relevant what you will or will not include in your OS that nobody sane would ever touch with a stick, let alone install.
But on a serious note, be it Flatpak or Snap, sometimes they might be an advantage too.
For example, if the repositories contain some old program versions but Flatpak or Snaps are available in the newest version; one can install both versions at the same time or choose which one to keep.
I, for example, have two different Inkscape versions installed: one old 0.92 and one that is the latest.
27 • @11 • DuckDuckGoQubes (by Hank from Netherlands) (by Cubehead on 2023-04-25 18:57:24 GMT from Netherlands)
DuckDuckGo was mainly relying on a combination of Bing (Microsoft) and its own DuckDuckBot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo
https://www.makeuseof.com/google-vs-bing-vs-duckduckgo-ultimate-search-engine/
28 • @23 • Misc news - Manjaro and Solus (by Hoos from Singapore) (by Cubehead on 2023-04-25 19:05:32 GMT from Netherlands)
Whenever you hear "Ikey" in conjunction with some OS or DE, all you want is to make as wide a circle around it as you can.
Ikey is a synonym for fail. ;)
29 • @26 snap (by Didier Spaier on 2023-04-26 11:53:22 GMT from France)
You wrote "Not that it's very relevant what you will or will not include in your OS that nobody sane would ever touch with a stick, let alone install."
I wonder what your opinion about Slint is based on ;)
30 • @29 • @26 snap (by Didier Spaier from France) (by Cubehead on 2023-04-26 16:46:31 GMT from Netherlands)
You wrote, "I wonder what your opinion about Slint is based on."
Is Slint "The fast and easy UI Toolkit" or "Slint is an easy-to-use, versatile, blind-friendly Linux distribution for 64-bit computers"?
Is Slint based on Slackware or does it have backing from some multimillion-dollar or billion-dollar company?
Etc.
Please don't get me wrong; I do respect you, your knowledge and abilities, but if it's not from Apple, Canonical, Microsoft, or Red Hat (in alphabetical order), and if the GUI comes without Gnome and auto-upgrade, thanks, but no thanks.
My mom is happy with Ubuntu, and my grandma is happy with Fedora.
They "just work," as in "Linux for Human Beings."
P.S.
And my blind friend has Windows, of course. More software, and no fiddling.
31 • @30 Slint (by Didier Spaier on 2023-04-26 20:23:50 GMT from France)
I confirm that Slint is based on Slackware and is not financially backed by any company (or individual, so far).
It has several GUIs (blackbox, fluxbox FVWM, i3, LXQt, Mate, WindowMaker, XFCE can be easily added) but not GNOME (although MATE be inspired from GNOME2). You like GNOME, I don't.
And no auto-upgrade. Upgrade can be done through simple commands, but under the control of users.
So, it is not for you, which is fine. If a distribution pleased everyone, everyone would use it and there would be only one.
PS Not all users of Slint are blind, but among the blind ones some are former Windows users, or use Windows only when their duties need it.
32 • NVME SSD reliability (by Jim M on 2023-04-27 14:43:10 GMT from United States)
Like many others, I try out a lot of versions of Linux on my PCs. I've noticed that the ones with M.2 NVME style SSDs are very fast, but seem to be very fragile. I've 'broken' three PCs with them... won't power up. I've tried unplugging everything to reset them, but I've lost all three. It makes me reluctant to try new versions, not good for DistroWatch. My SATA style SSDs seem fine. Any suggestions?
33 • @32 NVME SSD reliability. (by Didier Spaier on 2023-04-27 22:36:46 GMT from France)
Jim, you could ask on IRC, channel #btrfs server irc.libera.chat. I had quick answers to similar questions in this channel from people using a lot of SSD and NVMe including in data centers, also bridged on #btrfs:matrix.org (I access it through Element).
34 • @32 (by Brian on 2023-04-28 14:58:13 GMT from United States)
Jim M, I plan to buy a new computer in the coming months but hadn’t thought to consider the issue of NVME reliability. Thanks so much! (Puget Systems, a custom “systems integrator,” did recently report issues with newer Samsung SSDs.) Perhaps you could keep us posted about your findings.
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| • Issue 1110 (2025-02-24): iodeOS 6.0, learning to program, Arch retiring old repositories, openSUSE makes progress on reproducible builds, Fedora is getting more serious about open hardware, Tails changes its install instructions to offer better privacy, Murena's de-Googled tablet goes on sale |
| • Issue 1109 (2025-02-17): Rhino Linux 2025.1, MX Linux 23.5 with Xfce 4.20, replacing X.Org tools with Wayland tools, GhostBSD moving its base to FreeBSD -RELEASE, Redox stabilizes its ABI, UBports testing 24.04, Asahi changing its leadership, OBS in dispute with Fedora |
| • Issue 1108 (2025-02-10): Serpent OS 0.24.6, Aurora, sharing swap between distros, Peppermint tries Void base, GTK removinglegacy technologies, Red Hat plans more AI tools for Fedora, TrueNAS merges its editions |
| • Issue 1107 (2025-02-03): siduction 2024.1.0, timing tasks, Lomiri ported to postmarketOS, Alpine joins Open Collective, a new desktop for Linux called Orbitiny |
| • Issue 1106 (2025-01-27): Adelie Linux 1.0 Beta 6, Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha 5, detecting whether a process is inside a virtual machine, drawing graphics to NetBSD terminal, Nix ported to FreeBSD, GhostBSD hosting desktop conference |
| • Issue 1105 (2025-01-20): CentOS 10 Stream, old Flatpak bundles in software centres, Haiku ports Iceweasel, Oracle shows off debugging tools, rsync vulnerability patched |
| • Issue 1104 (2025-01-13): DAT Linux 2.0, Silly things to do with a minimal computer, Budgie prepares Wayland only releases, SteamOS coming to third-party devices, Murena upgrades its base |
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