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1 • AlmaLinux (by Simon on 2024-04-22 00:47:25 GMT from New Zealand)
Great to see this RHEL clone filling that gap that Red Hat created when it sabotaged CentOS.
2 • Localsend - comparison (by sooth_sayer on 2024-04-22 01:11:10 GMT from United States)
Isn't it offering overlapping capabilities with KDEconnect?
3 • Missing word (by Allan on 2024-04-22 02:18:11 GMT from Mexico)
I think there the word "reproducible" is missing in the second Miscellaneous News about fedora reproducible packages:
"While some Linux distributions, such as Debian and Arch Linux, have made strong progress in making their packages (*) the Fedora project has not made reproducible builds a focus."
4 • LocalSend vs SyncThing (by Pumpino on 2024-04-22 04:36:46 GMT from Australia)
I hadn't heard of LocalSend, but I've been a happy SyncThing user for a couple of years. I assume I'm not the only one here. For those that have used both, what are the differences?
5 • Command not found (by LinuxMintUser on 2024-04-22 05:15:34 GMT from United Kingdom)
john@john-HP-Pavilion-g6-Notebook-PC:~$ ld.so --help
ld.so: command not found
john@john-HP-Pavilion-g6-Notebook-PC:~$
6 • @1 (Alma Linux) (by Microlinux on 2024-04-22 05:18:23 GMT from France)
Rocky Linux is already filling that gap perfectly. They remain bit for bit (and bug for bug) compatible with RHEL, and with the RESF the project has a strong legal foundation that prevents "paradigm shifts" like we've seen when CentOS pulled the rug from under our feet.
On a side note, I've been a CentOS user (in production) since 4.x and when CentOS made its infamous announcement, I had a brief stint with Oracle Linux after migrating all my stuff to Rocky Linux. They also have an extremely nice community.
7 • My CPU supports ...? (by Guido on 2024-04-22 05:50:06 GMT from Philippines)
The command "ld.so --help" is unknown on a typical Ubuntu/Mint installation!
What can we use instead?
There is /usr/bin/ld installed, but it will not show this information.
8 • re 5 & 7 (by Someguy on 2024-04-22 06:36:32 GMT from United Kingdom)
...same result - command not found. [Mint23.2].
9 • Sending files over local network (by Mint on 2024-04-22 06:39:46 GMT from Australia)
I use Warpinator and I reckon I have never been happier with any single piece of software as I have with it. Transfers large files quickly from phone to laptop and has allowed me to leave the much slower Bluetooth behind for this purpose.
Yet another of the great utilities developed by Mint, along with a top notch distro.
10 • @5 A better script to text x86_64 version (by Hellfire103 on 2024-04-22 07:28:23 GMT from The Netherlands)
Here's an awk script that should determine your x86_64 version:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN {
while (!/flags/) if (getline < "/proc/cpuinfo" != 1) exit 1
if (/lm/&&/cmov/&&/cx8/&&/fpu/&&/fxsr/&&/mmx/&&/syscall/&&/sse2/) level = 1
if (level == 1 && /cx16/&&/lahf/&&/popcnt/&&/sse4_1/&&/sse4_2/&&/ssse3/) level = 2
if (level == 2 && /avx/&&/avx2/&&/bmi1/&&/bmi2/&&/f16c/&&/fma/&&/abm/&&/movbe/&&/xsave/) level = 3
if (level == 3 && /avx512f/&&/avx512bw/&&/avx512cd/&&/avx512dq/&&/avx512vl/) level = 4
if (level > 0) { print "CPU supports x86-64-v" level; exit level + 1 }
exit 1
}
11 • LXQt (by Kazlu on 2024-04-22 08:04:36 GMT from France)
I must tip my hat to LXQt devs for successfully merging two already large enough projects (RazorQt and LXDE) and keeping such an active and pertinent developpment in the long term.
This project fills a nich no other project sits in (a lightweight DE using Qt). I am no longer using LXQt but I did for a while last year and I found it pleasant, quite to my taste, coming from the conservative Xfce user that I am. I am no longer using it because the theming consistency in a distro not thought for using it (Ubuntu Studio) eventually put me off and I am no longer ready to dig and solve this by hand. So, no fault of LXQt!
For the recors, this is exactly why I am actually happy to see spins of various distros here and there which focus on just using a new DE on an existing distro, as long as it's done with care of course. It is actually useful. Otherwise I stick with the defaukt (KDE is serviceable in Ubuntu Studio), Xfce being my #1 choice.
12 • LocalSend (by rayburn on 2024-04-22 08:18:01 GMT from United Kingdom)
Thanks for reviewing this tool Jesse, I had never heard of it before so I just installed it on Desktop and Android and it works perfectly - brilliant app.
13 • ld.so --help | grep x86-64-v output (by bassplayer69 on 2024-04-22 08:53:31 GMT from United States)
x86-64-v4
x86-64-v3 (supported, searched)
x86-64-v2 (supported, searched)
AMD 4 CPU Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
14 • Wayland (by Mike on 2024-04-22 09:53:05 GMT from The Netherlands)
I recently moved to Solus OS with Plasma. The default is Wayland, but I noticed my Nvidia 1050 doesn't play well with Wayland. When I use Youtube, the videos keep stuttering. Is this "normal"? It doesn't look like Wayland has matured enough to be the default. Does anyone recognise this?
15 • sending files; CPU level (by Anthony on 2024-04-22 10:15:02 GMT from Czechia)
I never yet heard of LocalSend, but after unsuccessfully trying Warpinator and croc (and after seeing
the unholy amount of dependencies for KDE Connect), I settled with magic-wormhole run in termux on my phone. It works, and I don't even need to set up firewall rules.
I, too, lack the ld.so program. For me, it seems to be `/lib/ld-linux.so.2 --help`, but it only mentions i686, tls and sse2. According to @Hellfire103's script, my CPU supports level 3. (i3-8100)
16 • LocalSend and ld.so (by Jesse on 2024-04-22 11:51:09 GMT from Canada)
@2: "Isn't it offering overlapping capabilities with KDEconnect?
"
Not really. KDE Connect is for managing two devices you own and linking them together. This requires pairing the devices, configuring which modules to use/allow, and then it will allow you to manage one device from the other. This happens to include sharing files between devices.
LocalSend is for just sharing files between two devices, one of which you don't control. It's for friends or co-workers to share files, usually when in the same room or office together. It requires no pairing, no setup, and no configuration.
@7: "The command "ld.so --help" is unknown on a typical Ubuntu/Mint installation!
What can we use instead?"
If ld.so is not in your path then there is probably an equivalent in /usr/lib64/. This will typically be something like "/usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2" or "/usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.3". Typically distributions, including Debian-based ones make ld.so a symbolic link to the full path.
17 • Alma, Rocky, Nobara (by Otis on 2024-04-22 11:59:16 GMT from United States)
@1 @6 Nobara as an alternative is a beginner friendly version of Fedora.. RHEL vs Fedora and resultant Alma, Rocky, Nobara, CentOS etc (many more) interesting discussions abound, but home users vary in their needs (just like true Enterprise users in the business universe).
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/red-hat-website-should-rewrite-their-relationship-with-fedora/47190/2
18 • ld.so on ubuntu/linux mint (by ferd on 2024-04-22 14:56:26 GMT from United States)
I found that if I run '/lib64/ld-linux-x86_64.so.2 --help' on my linux mint (ubuntu derivative) it'll do the thing that Jesse is explaining.
19 • Kanotix out of nostalgy (by Ennio on 2024-04-22 15:44:59 GMT from The Netherlands)
Thanks to Jörg Schirottke, whom goes by the artistic name of “Kano”, for bringing Kanotix again into the spotlight. Although Distrowatch stops the counter at the 2013 edition, Kano has never abandoned his scripts and builds, together with Andreas Loibl of Acritox fame (where you can find the nightlies). Wikipedia says it all...
20 • LocalSend (by Bernhard on 2024-04-22 16:13:41 GMT from Germany)
Thanks for introducing this gem. I used Warpinator for transferring some files from my laptop (Arch) to the desktop (Ubuntu). Although there's an app for mobile phones, I couldn't get it working on mine.
LocalSend on the other hand just works! Installed the AppImage version on my laptop and the version from FDroid for my phone. Great software.
21 • Local Send and Tailscale (by Gary on 2024-04-22 20:51:30 GMT from Canada)
Of interest to iOS users who also enjoy using Local Send is description by Martn Wimpress in episode 18 of the 'Linux Matters' podcast combining Tailscale and Local Send to expand it beyond being 'local' !
https://linuxmatters.sh/18/
From the show notes:
Snap, Crackle and Desktop
EP 18: Tuesday, Dec 12, 2023
Martin creates an Open-Source Apple AirDrop-alike for sending files around the aether with LocalSend
I'm not affiliated with this podcast but enjoy it's topics!
22 • Local Send and Tailscale (by Gary on 2024-04-22 21:10:58 GMT from Canada)
@21
Forgot to mention for anyone who listens to episode 18,
tune in at the 19 minute mark for Martin's description using
Local Send with Tailscale/Zerotier.
Also, it's easy to change the name of your device in Local Send settings
dialogue. Click the square to stop, highlight and change the name to what you want.
23 • RetroShare and OnionShare (by Random Experienced Void User on 2024-04-23 18:09:19 GMT from United States)
RetroShare runs on desktops only, OnionShare on everything. RetroShare handles LAN or Internet transfers, with tor being optional. OnionShare runs strictly over tor.
https://retrosharedocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/concept/topology/
The RetroShare project has some work done on a mobile app. All development talk happens on RetroShare channels, join if interested. The Void Linux RetroShare package is out of date and orphaned; use the AppImage or Flatpak.
24 • Kanotix keeping the faith (by Kingneutron on 2024-04-23 18:18:01 GMT from United States)
Really nice to see KANOTIX making the news, since KNOPPIX has kind of fallen by the wayside and hasn't had an official (torrentable) release in a few years.
25 • Fedora woes (by ThomasAnderson on 2024-04-23 23:20:54 GMT from Australia)
Just my thought for the day as Fedora40 released
Fedoras release cycle is a disadvantage for most users.
"The Fedora Project releases a new version of Fedora Linux approximately every six months and provides updated packages (maintenance) to these releases for approximately 13 months"
Why I think this?
With such an intense release cycle of 6 months for new versions and maintenance for only 13 months, having to upgrade becomes a never ending chore of backups and reinstalls.
Backing up an entire drive is a chore. Yes there are automated tools but if you want to have more control, you will do it yourself folder by folder and this can take an entire day depending on the size of your drive/s
If the new releases only provides maintenance to packages and kernel, why this has to be entirely new version?
Why can't packages and kernel be updated for longer? Is there some limitation on package and kernel updates in Fedora? Is their team not capable of updating packages and providing new kernels for more than 6 months? Packages and kernel should be able to be updated indefintely like on a rolling distro? Why is there then a need for a new version every 6 months? You can still "freeze" packages for 6 months for stability and then release new versions without having to create an entirely new version of Fedora.
26 • Fedora release cycle (by Otis on 2024-04-24 00:03:07 GMT from United States)
@25 Some of us have opted for rolling release iterations of our favorite release cycle distros. There are many rolling release forks/siblings of Fedora, and quite well done I might add.
27 • Detecting supported architectures : ld.so --help (by eb on 2024-04-24 09:51:48 GMT from France)
@18 : thanks, the same on Slackware :
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 is a symbolic link to /lib64/ld-2.33.so
28 • Fedora, Rolling (by Jan on 2024-04-24 10:26:23 GMT from The Netherlands)
@25 @26
I agree on comment 25.
@26 A rolling release version of Fedora I could not find. And if there exists one, it probably has not the solid backing/management/safety which Fedora seems to have.
The only alternative with a solid backing/management/safety i could find is OpenSUSE TW, and maybe MX,
29 • Command not found (by Relative on 2024-04-24 17:31:51 GMT from United States)
Running the command on a 2009 iMac with 64-bit version of Mate 21.3 gets:
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --help | grep x86-64-v
x86-64-v4
x86-64-v3
x86-64-v2
Does that mean the iMac is running v1?
30 • Fedora (by ThomasAnderson on 2024-04-24 23:18:30 GMT from Australia)
The problem with Fedora is that application delivery is coupled to operating system delivery, whereas ideally, these should be seperated.
Operating system delivery means primarily the kernel and "core system apps" and gnome.
Application delivery means user apps like Firefox, LibreOffice etc....
Fedora lumping both together, means they need to create frequent 6 month releases, which is causing the issues for users.
Why doesn't Fedora and other distros, have a seperation in place?
An example of such a distro would be that the release of Fedora 40 includes all the latest stable versions and updates for everything;
-user apps receive updates when apps updates are available
-security updates for kernel and gnome etc are provided when they are released
-the kernel remains the same for 6 months as do the versions for system apps
After 6 months of testing by Fedora, they release a new kernel and system apps in an update
That's it. No bleeding edge kernel, but it is stable and updated every 6 months and apps which the user needs which are updated to current when available.
No need for constantly messing with users every 6 months.
31 • Fedora, @25, @26, @30 (by Mr. Moto on 2024-04-25 05:48:40 GMT from Philippines)
I'm a long-term Linux user, but no expert, so maybe I'm missing something. Why go through full drive backups and reinstalls for every new Fedora version (@25) when they offer a very simple upgrade process? I had Fedora 39 running on a VM. This week I opened the software app and out came a popup -"A new version of Fedora is available, would you like to download it?" And a caveat: "Restart required." I downloaded and restarted and now I'm running Fedora 40 with the same settings I had on the old version. Not only that, but the old kernel is still available just in case. Granted, it took a good 10 minutes for a restart, and it looked very much like a Windows upgrade: "Do not turn off your computer or the world as you know it will end." But once done I was back to my familiar desktop as if nothing had transpired. Risk? No more than the frequent updates on a rolling release. I'm running Ubuntu 23.10 on my SSD, and plan to upgrade to 24.04 as soon as the update app allows. Just as simple as with Fedora. Linux Mint also offers upgrades from their own updates app, after they notify you of such availability.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-new-release/
I have nothing against rolling. I ran Endeavour and Garuda and like them very much. Also ran Tumbleweed for a while although it had more hiccups. Today, I have no need for the cutting edge, and the constant updates grew tedious. That's all. To each their own.
32 • Fedora (by ThomasAnderson on 2024-04-25 07:45:21 GMT from Australia)
@31
Why full drive backups?
In the case where you have your /home encrypted and installing new release.
Also just as a good habit for data protection the backups can be done when you do a reinstall.
If you don't have a NAS, it has to be done manually or automated, however automated backup there is always the chance that maybe you miss something or there is an issue with certain file types....but they are getting better.
Upgrading vs reinstall?
Personal preference is always to start from a clean slate. I had issues with upgrades and borked systems, which was a pain and I have a limit on my internet downloads
Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) released Oct 2023, end of support Jul 2024
This is a 9 month cycle. Better than Fedora imo.
33 • @32Fedora (by Mr. Moto on 2024-04-25 08:39:46 GMT from Philippines)
@32, "This is a 9 month cycle. Better than Fedora imo." Fedora releases are supported for around 13 months. That's longer than Ubuntu's semiannual releases, not in my opinion but in fact. Of course, Ubuntu LTS offers 5 years support.
Don't know what an encrypted home has to do with a full drive backup.
If reinstalling is a personal preference, you are not being forced, as has been stated in these comments and they are not "constantly messing with users."
"I had issues with upgrades and borked systems." I haven't had any, but I've had issues with rolling release updates. Twelve vs. a dozen, choose one.
"I have a limit on my internet downloads" I guess it depends on how the limits work. Over time, more bandwidth will be used with rolling.
34 • Fedora/Nobara (by Otis on 2024-04-26 14:17:32 GMT from United States)
@33 etc I'm an advocate for Nobara as it cycles/updates almost as a rolling release, along with being fitted with all that's missing in Fedora. I have mistakenly referred to Nobara as a rolling release. It just seems that way to me.
35 • Thoughts on Fedora and *buntus (by ThomasAnderson on 2024-04-26 23:51:46 GMT from Australia)
So good point about Nobara however for some reason you cannot skip versions. For example you cannot go from Nobara 37 to Nobara 39.
A whole bunch of *buntus just dropped which is cool however with Ubuntu Kylin, I can't help but wonder if anyone else thinks this is a spyware honeypot from China? Not the underlying base, but the Kylin desktop. Has it been audited?
Instinctively I don't trust any software from China.
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| • Issue 1125 (2025-06-09): RHEL 10, distributions likely to survive a decade, Murena partners with more hardware makers, GNOME tests its own distro on real hardware, Redox ports GTK and X11, Mint provides fingerprint authentication |
| • Issue 1124 (2025-06-02): Picking up a Pico, tips for protecting privacy, Rhino tests Plasma desktop, Arch installer supports snapshots, new features from UBports, Ubuntu tests monthly snapshots |
| • Issue 1123 (2025-05-26): CRUX 3.8, preventing a laptop from sleeping, FreeBSD improves laptop support, Fedora confirms GNOME X11 session being dropped, HardenedBSD introduces Rust in userland build, KDE developing a virtual machine manager |
| • Issue 1122 (2025-05-19): GoboLinux 017.01, RHEL 10.0 and Debian 12 updates, openSUSE retires YaST, running X11 apps on Wayland |
| • Issue 1121 (2025-05-12): Bluefin 41, custom file manager actions, openSUSE joins End of 10 while dropping Deepin desktop, Fedora offers tips for building atomic distros, Ubuntu considers replacing sudo with sudo-rs |
| • Issue 1120 (2025-05-05): CachyOS 250330, what it means when a distro breaks, Kali updates repository key, Trinity receives an update, UBports tests directory encryption, Gentoo faces losing key infrastructure |
| • Issue 1119 (2025-04-28): Ubuntu MATE 25.04, what is missing from Linux, CachyOS ships OCCT, Debian enters soft freeze, Fedora discusses removing X11 session from GNOME, Murena plans business services, NetBSD on a Wii |
| • Issue 1118 (2025-04-21): Fedora 42, strange characters in Vim, Nitrux introduces new package tools, Fedora extends reproducibility efforts, PINE64 updates multiple devices running Debian |
| • Issue 1117 (2025-04-14): Shebang 25.0, EndeavourOS 2025.03.19, running applications from other distros on the desktop, Debian gets APT upgrade, Mint introduces OEM options for LMDE, postmarketOS packages GNOME 48 and COSMIC, Redox testing USB support |
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Refracta is a Linux distribution based on Devuan GNU+Linux (a systemd-free fork of Debian), designed primarily for home computer users and also for use as a system rescue and recovery disk. It provides a simple and familiar layout using the Xfce desktop. Other desktop environments and additional software packages are available from the Devuan package repository. Besides providing a Linux distribution on a live CD, the project also develops useful tools, such as refractainstaller, refractasnapshot and refracta2usb which allow users to customize the installation and create custom live CD or live USB images.
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