Oh, she probably got 'tech support' from some 'geek' or kid next door, who figured she had a virus or some other malware, or otherwise live in an alternate universe where everyone shares their opinion and is adept at learning new systems and software. If you don't know the type I'm talking about, some day you will - it is how a lot of old people end up with Ubuntu and can't understand why they can't install Microsoft Word or load their software for their Cricut machine. Their particular 'kink' must've been MenuetOS, and they decided to 'evangelize' and have her 'adopt' it.

This page should point you in the right direction. Requires Windows 7 or 8, so you might be out of luck if you're one of the 10 gamers still using XP or Vista.

Hey all! Exciting news today, and something many of you have been asking about ^_^

Microsoft Edge for Android will be available soon - you can sign up to test it here

Microsoft Launcher is available in preview today! Would love to hear your feedback if you try it out

Here was the previous code of conflict:

The Linux kernel development effort is a very personal process compared to “traditional” ways of developing software. Your code and ideas behind it will be carefully reviewed, often resulting in critique and criticism. The review will almost always require improvements to the code before it can be included in the kernel. Know that this happens because everyone involved wants to see the best possible solution for the overall success of Linux. This development process has been proven to create the most robust operating system kernel ever, and we do not want to do anything to cause the quality of submission and eventual result to ever decrease.

If however, anyone feels personally abused, threatened, or otherwise uncomfortable due to this process, that is not acceptable. If so, please contact the Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board at <>, or the individual members, and they will work to resolve the issue to the best of their ability. For more information on who is on the Technical Advisory Board and what their role is, please see:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects/linux/tab

As a reviewer of code, please strive to keep things civil and focused on the technical issues involved. We are all humans, and frustrations can be high on both sides of the process. Try to keep in mind the immortal words of Bill and Ted, “Be excellent to each other.”

What was wrong with this one? How is the new one better?

edit: just noticed it's 32gb inbuilt nice!!

official specs on product page https://www.android.com/one/india/

5.5” HD IPS display 13 MP rear camera images (software-enhanced 8 MP sensor) 8 MP front camera images (software-enhanced 5 MP sensor) 1.3 GHz quad-core processor Full HD (1080p) recording and playback 2GB RAM, 32GB internal storage (expandable to 32GB) 2650 mAh Li-Polymer battery 3G dual-SIM Android 5.1 Lollipop (and gets the new version soon after it’s released)

ideally everyone should not only use tor but also run tor exit nodes from their home computers so that we can all retain our online anonymity. unfortunately, normal human beings won't ever do that because they're too easily convinced by others to give up their freedoms. phrases like "you'll only be protecting criminals" or "if you have nothing to hide blah blah" actually resonate with a lot of people.

and so we're all fucked and nice things are ruined.

edit: should probably link this stuff for people interested:

~~privacy-centric operating system https://tails.boum.org/~~ too advanced for reddit
tor project https://www.torproject.org/

https://www.archlinux.org/retro/2002/

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Interestingly, Windows 10 Home only supports 128 GiB of RAM while Windows 10 Pro supports 2 TiB.

In comparison, Linux supports up to 128 TiB.

You can move pretty much everything. The android site will walk you through how to do it all.

Media	How to move
Photos	Download Google Photos app to iPhone, hit Sync
Music	Install Google Music Manager on your computer. (Up to 50,000 songs)
Contacts (iCloud)	A bit more complicated, but basically yes, export the contacts from iCloud then import to Gmail
Apps	You're SOL here for paid apps. Most free apps (Candy Crush, Boom Beach, etc.) have an option to link it with your Facebook or other Social Media account. If you want to save your progress, then you sync them via that, otherwise you start over.

if you like that, you'll love man hier

edit
Seems people find this helpful.
This is supplied by the Linux man-pages (a side-project of the Linux kernel)
I think most distros install this by default, but if not it's almost certainly available in your package manager.

Their website is here (as a useful overview of what man-pages they provide)
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/

I personally find the stuff in section 7 invaluable.

Wow if only someone invented a router where the software code was truly open, didn't infringe on the GPL, was well coded and the devs weren't sketchy as fuck and named it say https://openwrt.org/

Rockbox is better than most firmware on portable media players. My Sansa Clip Zip went from barely being able to play an MP3 to playing most everything perfectly including DOOM.

OpenWrt is better (and more secure) than most consumer router firmware.

It's always been accepted that you're better off downloading an entire encrypted OS on an offline computer that's never touched the internet before.

Things like TAILS exist for this purpose. Your security is only as good as the user and the system you're on.

Edit: This gained some traction. If you're interested check out:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tails_(operating_system)

https://tails.boum.org/

P.S. This is a great way to store Bitcoin on a USB stick. It'll allow you to basically have 2 layers of security before you even reach the BTC.

The author may want to check Qubes OS and its domains with colored borders.

They even mention fake prompts and alerts in their doc.

Smartphones as PCs was already tried several years ago, and we saw how that one turned out. And for those that want to point out Samsung Dex, it's not doing much better in terms of actual usage as far as I know.

Did the stream end early because I was expecting a little bit more from a reveal with so much build up and talk on the website.

Additionally, the "explore more" button on android.com/o currently 404's which is annoying. Oh well, still looking forward to o

Edit: Less than a minute later and it's fixed, it links to: https://www.android.com/oreo

I find it amazing that people keep forgetting that github is for-profit company.

Kernel is hosted at kernel.org, which actually is a company as well. Key difference being it is Public Benefit Corporation where github is regular LLC.

On the subject of modifying the CoC Linus used, note it's inspired by the more extreme Geekfeminism CoC:

https://geekfeminism.org/about/code-of-conduct

This one is worth reading to see what the future could have in store as more and more projects introduce these codes.

The Geekfeminism document states their Anti-Abuse Team will not act on complaints regarding: "‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’ (because these things don’t exist)" and "Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial". So under their enhanced CoC, someone can repeatedly post messages full of screaming abuse or insults targeted at, for example, non-transexual people and that would be absolutely fine - and that's what the people pushing the concept of the CoC onto the open source world want.

For reference here is the old Code of Conflict which was previously present in the kernel since 2015 and is now removed:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/code-of-conflict.html

This is just reactionary and useless word salat. Like seriously, take two steps back and figure out what problem you are trying to solve in the first place. Than figure out if having that document would be helping with that. Take this bit:

> Individual characteristics, including but not limited to, body, sex, sexual preference, race, language, religion, nationality, or political preferences are irrelevant in the scope of the project and will not be taken into account concerning your value or that of your contribution to the project.

What problem is that trying to solve? None of those things have ever been a problem in any project I have seen. Writing down "These things that never mattered, don't matter" isn't helping anything, it's useless waste of ink.

> Authority or position in the project will be proportional to the accrued contribution. Seniority must be earned.

So if you a really useful person comes along they can't get into an authority position due to not being long enough involved in the project? Not very Meritocratic.

For a good Code of Conduct see Debian. It tells you how to behave, what to expect and gives you a rationale for why. It's a project specific set of rules that tells you the philosophy behind the project is already running it at and things that have proven useful, it's not trying to reshape the community by means of authoritarian rules.

A Code of Conduct needs to be minimalistic and actually address problems a project is having.

New stuff in Debian 8:

systemd is now the default init system.
arm64, 64-bit port for ARM machines and ppc64el, 64-bit little-endian port for POWER machines are now supported on Debian 8.
Gnome 3.14
Cinnamon & mate-desktop
You can easily install audio, midi, graphics, video, using the tasksel interface.
New updated documents including video tutorials.
More info here.

I hate to be that guy, but Linux is a less consumerist alternative that really just requires a bit more time and patience. You can always start with Ubuntu.

Sorry I just had to please don't hate me

*Arch Linux

Arch Linux is the sweet spot between the two.

Have you heard about Arch Linux?

I use Arch Linux.

I think you should try Arch Linux.

Arch Linux is the best.

Did I mention Arch Linux already?

Everybody should use Arch Linux.

You should use Arch Linux.

Arch Linux is the way to go!

Arch Linux^Arch Linux^Arch Linux^Arch Linux^<strong>Arch Linux</strong>

Edit: Disclaimer: I ^do ^^actually ^^^use ^^^^Arch...

"The answer to that is that if you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you’re screwed anyway, and should fix your program"

Linux kernel style guide

To be fair, unattended-upgrades is actually a good idea because it only cares about security updates, so this shouldn't take long and afaik it should usually not happen during shutdown.

But I personally think that this makes a lot more sense on a server than on a desktop computer, because of the exposure of the server to the open internet.

Android One is a name for phones that have stock Android and since the manufacture is working with Google, they get fast security updates, all the while packed in an (most of the time) inexpensive phone. Correct me if I made a mistake or didn't elaborate enough.

https://www.android.com/one/

download linux desktop
install on USB drive using universal usb installer
download SNES roms (1gb for every game ever including fan games)
open up terminal and type: sudo apt-get install zsnes
buy 8 dollar usb controller off of amazon

you now have a what you want.

want it portable? buy an raspberry pi and an hdmi chord.

Syrian atheist living in Turkey,

As a NETSEC guy, and fellow atheist, PLEASE TAKE MY ADVICE. Follow the preceding tips on online anonymity, even in Turkey. Atheism can get you killed.

IF YOU USE ANDROID, download Orbot/Orfox from "The Tor Project" on the Play Store.

After installing, add the add-ons "HTTPS Everywhere", "uBlock Origins", and "noscript".

IF YOU USE WINDOWS, don't. Download the OS Tails from "https://tails.boum.org/" and create a bootdrive with a USB thumb drive (instructions on site). Boot the machine into Tails, and use the preconfigured Tor Browser. (PS, if you are IT literate, Tails is good to run in a VM)

IF YOU USE iOS, OR INSIST ON WINDOWS, be aware of the risks. You are not protected. I'm tired of seeing freethinkers die.

This will provide you a reasonable level of privacy while discussing atheism.

WHEN ON TOR/ORFOX:

Visit "https://www.propub3r6espa33w.onion/" to anonymously report any human rights abuses where you are. Especially regarding your atheism.

Well, no, VPNs are absolutely not a start toward anonymity. At most you'd make it look like your traffic is coming from one fixed address instead of another. If it's a shared VPN service, sure, your traffic might be mixed in with other people's traffic. However, there are far more unique identifiers that identify you than just your address. See EFF's Panopticlick to see just how unique you are, even when using a VPN.

What a VPN is good for is encrypting your data when it's in transit between your computer and your VPN provider. This makes it great for securing your data on a public WiFi network or from people who may otherwise be snooping on your Internet traffic (read over-reaching governments or American ISPs).

Securing your data in transit != anonymity. There is a very important distinction. One implies your data can't be read if observed, the other implies one can't tell that it's you doing something.

Edit: If you need anonymity, I'd look into using something like Tails. It's actually designed to help you be anonymous, unlike VPNs.

Yea. I read the article, and I read the spec sheet where it specifically says "Windows 11 Home edition requires internet connectivity and a Microsoft account to complete device setup on first use...For all Windows 11 editions, internet access is required to perform updates and to download and take advantage of some features. A Microsoft account is required for some features." which sounds perfectly fine.

I'm an older dude as well, I, too, remember Windows 3.1. But this article reminds me of Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud. This is not the place to take your Custerian stand against the march of progress. I kinda want most Windows Home users to be protected against themselves as much as possible.

It's probably not what they meant, but yeah that could use some re-wording.

You may as well remind them that torrenting Ubuntu Linux or a Humble Bundle purchase is not illegal & won't break any copyrights.

You're definitely onto something.

The patch also contains other people who used only their nicknames - mog422 and poma, yet the guide to submitting patches (section 1, subsection 12) clearly states you should >(...) just add a line saying > > Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <> > >using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)

(emphasis mine)

Those are not among the Google Mobile Services apps that comes preinstalled on all Google-approved Android phones. OEMs normally have their own apps for those. The current list is, from https://www.android.com/gms/

Google Search
Google Chrome
YouTube
Google Play Store
Google Drive
Gmail
Google Duo
Google Maps
Google Photos
Google Play Movies & TV
Google Play Music

> Good thing the Tor Browser is free, open source, and easy to use for decent protection against mass surveillance on the web.

The Tor Browser isn't foolproof. If you're ever doing something seriously subversive (like quoting the section of the Declaration of Independence that calls for overthrowing tyrannical governments), you'll want layered security. I'd suggest Tails on someone else's computer (library, net café, etc).

> And don't forget: warrantless spying against innocent Americans is unconstitutional, and the cowardly pieces of shit pushing it should be considered traitors and thrown in jail.

I agree 100%. But they won't prosecute themselves.

Under the Ubuntu font license, you are not allowed to make changes to the font even for your own personal use unless you also change its name, and you are not allowed to distribute the font without changes unless you keep the name the same.

This is considered a violation of freedom one, so the software is not free.

This is why I use an audio normalization filter.

Movies constantly do this shit. I don't want quiet dialog and super loud explosions. I just want to listen to things at a normal volume.

EDIT:

If you're on arch, install swh-plugins, then create the file ~/.config/pulse/default.pa and add the following lines:

.nofail .include /etc/pulse/default.pa load-module module-ladspa-sink sink_name=ladspa_sink plugin=dyson_compress_1403 label=dysonCompress control=0,1,0.5,0.99 load-module module-ladspa-sink sink_name=ladspa_normalized master=ladspa_sink plugin=fast_lookahead_limiter_1913 label=fastLookaheadLimiter control=10,0,0.8 set-default-sink ladspa_normalized

Reload pulseaudio (pulseaudio -k) and presto, now all your audio is normalized. You can quickly toggle the filter on and off through the pulseaudio GUI or even set it to only run on certain streams. I have the filter set to my Chromium and VLC streams, but not my music player stream because that's the only one where I appreciate the higher dynamic range.

Edit2:

VLC has a built-in normalization setting. You can just use that if you're not on Linux or don't feel like fucking with pulseaudio.

Because nothing underlines the concept of 'humanity to others' like a tribute to persons that are responsible for the killings of millions of people, right?

Former Manjaro user here. In the 2 years it was my daily driver, my system broke twice. I'm all for a 2 week delay to make a more stable system. But what is the point if you are never going to act on the issues reported upstream?.

Unlike Arch, they include an distro automatic updates by default. Yet they don't act on major bug. And they don't rush those bug fixes. So you have to wait 2 weeks for the fix to automatically be applied.

Funny this bug is getting so much attention. Far more serious issue have gotten through their nonexistent QC.

Linux kernel coding style: "Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3."

God... Reading that link, I disagree with basically every one of Linus' style preferences.

Yes, comrade:

>Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It is often described as reminding us that ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. We bring the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers and software. The Ubuntu distribution represents the best of what the world’s software community has shared with the world.

Short version is the kernel uses swap space for paging and other general maintenance and well being activities. Without it, the kernel memory allocator will not be as efficient as it should be, leading to worse performance for certain operations in certain conditions.

Like /u/soupersauce says, about 2GB should be sufficient to handle this usecase, the only justification for larger for most users if you want to support hibernation, where you need your swap to equal your RAM so you have enough room to store your memory image.

The long answer is in the book of the kernel memory manager, written by Mel Gormen from SUSE - https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/pdf/understand.pdf

there are different kinds of suspend

> Connect the hdd to another machine, change something on it (root password etc).

you really don't want to change anything on it

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt

BIG FAT WARNING ********************************************************* *
If you touch anything on disk between suspend and resume...
...kiss your data goodbye. *
If you do resume from initrd after your filesystems are mounted...
...bye bye root partition.
[this is actually same case as above] *
If you have unsupported (*) devices using DMA, you may have some
problems. If your disk driver does not support suspend... (IDE does),
it may cause some problems, too. If you change kernel command line
between suspend and resume, it may do something wrong. If you change
your hardware while system is suspended... well, it was not good idea;
but it will probably only crash. *
(*) suspend/resume support is needed to make it safe. *
If you have any filesystems on USB devices mounted before software suspend,
they won't be accessible after resume and you may lose data, as though
you have unplugged the USB devices with mounted filesystems on them;
see the FAQ below for details. (This is not true for more traditional
power states like "standby", which normally don't turn USB off.)

Check https://www.archlinux.org/news/ before running an update and 99% of those problems are gone. I'm an arch user since 2013 and had only a couple of problems since and most of them were fixed by a later update. Had more trouble with Ubuntu to be honest.

Oh, it's not reviewers and reddit that made Intel drop this idea. In fact Debian devs straight out said they refuse to publish this microcode update... and that means no patches to a SHITLOAD of companies and government agencies all over the world:

https://www.debian.org/users/

Heck, depending on how it would be interpreted it would be illegal to use monitoring software on servers. As in - any half decent company must be using something to measure CPU load over time. Now, they would also install this microcode update and see it possibly CHANGING from the original data. It could even make them consider having to buy additional servers if the load increased too much. That's the very definition of "benchmarking".

Intel dropped a ball on that one alright and could possibly find itself under a rain of lawsuits since this would effectively make system administration not compliant with their license terms, that's ONE HELL of a fuck up to fight bad reviews.

> Why did you post this here /u/exjr_?

I did it because whatever Google announces for their next OS, can and will directly (or indirectly) affect Apple and iOS. We should "be together, not the same"

Website for Android 8.0 Oreo: https://www.android.com/versions/oreo-8-0/

There was a merge in kernel 5.11 where system calls from Windows applications can be delegated to other handlers in user space. This was implemented specifically by Collabora (requested by Valve) for supporting anti-cheat software.

Edit: More info: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/syscall-user-dispatch.html

No, a lot of people don't like the specific CoC that they introduced (I'm fairly certain nobody would have a problem if they used the Ruby CoC or the Debian CoC) and the baggage that comes with it (the writer of the CoC they chose has a habit of going into GitHub issues and demanding that certain people not be allowed to contribute to a project because of something they said on Twitter, views that specific CoC as a political document, and views it being adopted by Linux as having "won," whatever that's supposed to mean.)

I prefer a good explanation of the concepts of Git more useful than shortcuts or cheatsheets. This one's particularly good: http://www.sbf5.com/~cduan/technical/git/

Once you've finished the above, you'll have a pretty good grasp of how Git works. After that you may check out the official Git User's manual to gain even more insight: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html

Anyone that does so should consider using Tor or Tails and an alt account. You have the right to free speech, but that doesn't help you keep your job if you speak out in violation of policy.

The kernel has support for a few different binary formats.

On most systems you will only encounter two of them: ELF executables and #! scripts.

There are a few slightly more esoteric formats. The a.out format predates ELF, and has only been deprecated very recently. There is also a FLAT format used by uClinux.

Of particular note, there is also a "misc" binary format handier, which allows new formats to be registered by userspace. You could use this to run Windows PE executables via Wine, for instance.

"...and centered the taskbar and Start button so you always know where home is.”

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/event

Ironically this means that the start button can be in different places in contrast to always being left bottom corner for the last couple of decades.

Some people aren't eligible for the promo, at Google's discretion.

Official rules: https://www.android.com/pay/tap-10-rewards/terms-and-conditions/

edit: It seems to be somewhat random with regards to who gets the promo, and even then, the rewards aren't the same for everyone.

If you have AP set up, you will get an in-app notification about the promo, and a green "punch card" will show up as one of your cards. Then all systems are go.

This, I think is something most people who already use Linux don't get. Like, think of the iPhone. Imagine if it had repos. How the hell would a new developer get traction on his software? The App Store team collates, editorialises and promotes software. I can literally go on the App Store, look at the programs there and download/buy one if I like it. If I were to go on the App Store and find nothing but a list of software available organised either alphabetically or date last updated, well, why the fuck would I want to even open the app store? Case in point: if the App Store looked like this, I'd be one of the first to nope out and I like to think I'm pretty tech savvy.

Sure, you could build a GUI like synaptic, but the point is that the App Store model is built on top of the repo model to ensure discoverability, something most ordinary people need, and even tech nerds on occasion appreciate. Synaptic attempts to do it, but it doesn't have traction because people in this realm don't really see the need for discoverability. There's other channels in the FOSS world for that, and there aren't enough new programs coming up for one to require curation.

You are forgetting the trusted users.

Developers maintain [core] and [extra]. They also do the decisions regarding the distribution.

Trusted Users maintain [community] and the AUR. https://www.archlinux.org/people/trusted-users/

>How can such a small team support so many packages and make sure everything works?

[core] and [extra] are tested while [community] is not. We also do close to none patching and mostly package whatever upstream gives us. Most of the bugs/problems are usually related to the software from upstream, and not us doing something wrong with N number of patches.

There was a better one in 2012: https://www.archlinux.org/news/the-lib-directory-becomes-a-symlink/

It was nice when pacman deleted everything in my /lib except for two items, preventing me from even opening a shell.

A lot of people use the word "open source" to mean "the source is publicly available."

A lot of people use the word "open source" to mean "complaint with the OSI's Open Source Definition," a document which is essentially the Debian Free Software Guidelines edited to remove specific mentions of Debian.

GP is one of the former group, which confuses everyone in the latter group whose definitions of "open source" software and "free software" are basically the same. (So I've largely stopped using the term "open source," personally, unless the meaning is clear from context.)

Then, of course, there are the people who use "open source" to mean "the same rules about licensing as free software, but describing a profitable business practice and not an ethical ideal," which gets super fuzzy....

I don't know what you're talking about. Microsoft is just trying to help us poor consumers try to navigate the vast world of proprietary software. There's literally no better alternatives, so we should just accept Windows as the standard, fellas.

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I can understand your attitude, but that goes against the kernel coding style guidelines. Ultimately, when you have 3000 developers working on a codebase, it is more important that everybody is using the same style than it is what particular style they use.

You're not used to reading it, but kernel developers only look at C code styled like that. They know what to expect from if blocks. Fundamentally, that's what makes the code readable or not - "how much effort do I have to put into looking at it to not be tripped up by the formatting." Read enough kernel code and that cost drops to zero, and that's all that matters.

However. Lest we forget:

if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0) goto fail; goto fail;

That's not to say "they had this bug because they didn't use curly braces" when really they had this bug because they didn't write unit tests or didn't use/care about static analysis.

But I think in Apple's case, where you're dealing with a copy-and-paste-happy codebase, requiring curly braces might have helped.

It depends by what metric you're after. Fastest CPU? Well you can put OpenWRT on a standard 64-bit PC, so I guess that

Fastest Wi-Fi is pretty much impossible to objectively measure, since it depends on so many factors. I guess if you want "newest". Wi-Fi 6 devices mostly aren't yet supported due to drivers lacking FOSS friendly chipsets

If you simply want the "well what do you use?" I have a WRT3200ACM/WRT32x

Copying files off my NAS to my laptop with an Intel AX200 chip I routinely get up to about 103MB/s over HTTP transfers

I feel like the bigger point of this story is that Microsoft has elected to monitor your computer use.

https://www.ubuntu.com/

Edit: An additional link for all my haters to help them turn off windows 10 key logger, which monitors your computer use.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2974057/windows/how-to-turn-off-windows-10s-keylogger-yes-it-still-has-one.html

Eine für mich verständliche Kritik an dem Linux CoC ist, dass er sehr viel Spielraum in der Auslegung lässt. Das kann dazu führen, dass ernstgemeinte Kritik am Code nicht mehr stattfindet, weil Leute Angst haben, dass ihre Kritik als persönlicher Angriff aufgefasst wird. So etwas lässt sich mMn vermeiden wenn man eine Unschuldsvermutung in den CoC übernehmen würde. (Wie z.B. bei Debian)

The Debian Social Contract. Ubuntu is run by a company, Canonical. They are motivated by profit, and so they make decisions that are not best for users or for free software as a whole.

No, Tails is not as easy as burning a CD. I just tried to run Tails for the first time. Wouldn't boot. Why? Because my new laptop has UEFI Secure Boot enabled by default, as all new machines that come preloaded with Windows 8 do. That means knowing how to go into the BIOS settings to turn it off, and then turn it back on to get back into Windows 8, which also requires re-loading the Secure Boot security policy settings.

Edit: To the OS snob down voters "That's what you get for buying a Windows 8 laptop!!!" That doesn't invalidate GP's point. Windows 8 is here, and Windows 8 hardware is here and here to stay. More and more computers by default will have this enabled. And Tails has no plans to support UEFI secure boot (next to last bullet under the "non goals" section). Tails will become harder and harder for average computer users who don't want to screw with their BIOS settings to use. Downvote all you want, but that's the sad truth of the state of modern hardware thanks to Microsoft.

The kernel, just like any other software project has a coding style, and when collaborating it's much more important to stay consistent with the agreed upon style than to use your own

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html#placing-braces-and-spaces

> Who uses bleeding-edge systemd anyway? Arch?

Core is at 239, https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/systemd/

240 is available in the testing repo, but I'm guessing it won't be moved to core because of this.

So their license no longer meets the Open Source Definition

> 5) No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

> 6) No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

These came from the Debian Free Software Guidelines

Makes perfect sense. Canonical sells ESM support already, it's really just extending it a couple of years and maybe providing the packages to everyone to try and gain adoption (details haven't been published yet). Both Red Hat and SUSE have ten year support with additional addons available that extend it to 13 years.

Hybrid Sleep support - "hibernate" and suspend the system

Hybrid Sleep initially only writes hibernation image to SWAP space, it does not power off the machine, as a whole Suspend To Disk (S4) does, it rather Suspend To RAM (S3).

The benefit of this combination is pronto RESUME from S3, whilst in case of battery drained or interruptions in power supply of any kind, you ain't gonna lose your work.

Hybrid Sleep is the feature of the Linux kernel. To test it directly via cli: echo suspend > /sys/power/disk ; echo disk > /sys/power/state

However to make this feature work, both Suspend To RAM (S3) and Suspend To Disk (S4) must be provided by the hardware dmesg: ACPI: (supports ... S3 S4 ...) in working order.

Furthermore Suspend To Disk (S4) requires a relatively simple configuration an appendix to kernel command line: resume=<path to resume partition> i.e. directive to utilize particular SWAP space man 7 dracut.cmdline

Ref. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt

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Use Tails Linux off a USB flash drive for the ultimate in privacy. Also, feel free to read up in /r/VPN about other things you can do, new privacy laws in the US (Rule 41, which just passed, though this is an old article) and the UK have really kicked up the conversation over there on hiding your tracks. I highly recommend you hide anything you think might ever be used against you, and just to be safe, hide everything else as well. US and UK legislation is so deep and all over the place that all they need to do is start an investigation in order to find a reason to jail your ass, no matter how law abiding you think you are.

I know I sound like a crazy person, but to be fair, you should absolutely be afraid of your government nowadays. They stopped serving you a long time ago, it's only recently we've started to notice.

3.4 is a LTS kernel version..the last update to up was only a few months ago according to kernel.org. So no, it's not a security risk...security patches are still backported to that kernel version. At the same time it's a highly tested version and known to be stable. Updating to anything newer would probably hurt stability a lot and be a major issue.

The 4.4 kernel series is another LTS kernel series by the way...but still far too new to be trust it for anything stable. In some years that series will probably be one you find in a lot devices.

My advice:
Install newsbeuter (RSS feed reader).
Put

https://www.archlinux.org/feeds/news/

in your ~/.newsbeuter/urls file
Put

alias update='newsbeuter && sudo pacman -Syu'

in your ~/.bashrc
now typing

update

will start newsbeuter so you can read the Arch news about current updating issues, then as soon as you quit it, start pacman.

Spot on point about Debian's shitty download page. Clicking through several links looking for an ISO for making a bootable USB drive got me here...just a list of files. Do I need all of them? Just one? Several links back there's long-winded a guide that might have the answer buried in it somewhere.

Compare this to Ubuntu, where you can just download the ISO directly from their download page and then use the "Make Startup Disk" tool to install it. Debian would be #1 if they spent some time on their usability.

The Linux community has been running fine for nearly 30 years. If you throw in a Code of Conduct it should mainly be about documenting existing best practices, tell newcomers what to expect and how to behave. The old Code of Conflict did that more or less.

The new Code of Conduct is the complete opposite. Not only does it fail to document how things are currently run, it opens up issues that never where a problem to begin with. Nobody in the Open Source world cared about race and gender and stuff like that. Everything operated essentially under "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog". Yet the new Code of Conduct makes race, religion and gender a centerpiece. It tries to actively divide people where there was no division before.

In essence the Code of Conduct is trying to enforce a law that wasn't reached by consensus of the community, but created by outsiders. It's job is to divide and destroy, not unify and diversity. It's job is to enforce groupthink, not the free exchange of ideas.

And if there is any doubt left, just read the The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto by the same author.

From https://kubernetes.io/:

> Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Imagine you have a computer and you want to run a piece of software on it. So you just do.

Now imagine you have a thousand computers and you want to run the piece of software on a hundred of them --- and your coworkers have a different piece of software and they want to run it on some computers too and so on.

Instead of having a whiteboard and reserving computers, you run kubernetes, tell it what to run and how many (and some other constraints) and it figures it out for you.

From then on one does not worry about specific computers and what goes where, you just run your software on your cluster.

Yup, there's a new sheriff in town. And her name is Jessie :) On a related note:

Grab pre-built OpenStack images ready to use here.
And, you are just an apt-get dist-upgrade away from Jessie! Find how, reading the official installation guide

If you’re really interested:

Debian Administrators Handbook (PDF)

Securing Debian (HTML)

Even the Debian project leader agrees:

> We should always be asking ourselves the difficult questions such as why the Debian Wiki did not become the much-lauded Archlinux Wiki

Kind of fun to watch the zealots twist themselves up over this. Started out as strident "apple would never do this".

Then when Apple itself came out and said "Yep, we're gonna scan your phones, ipads, laptops and desktops... Um.... For the children!!!! Yeah, that's it. For the chiiiiiildren!!".

Now the zealots are all gushing and weeping with joy that Apple is policing them. "Scan me harder, Daddy!!! For the children!!!"

It is kind of heart warming that there's starting to be a bit of push back over in the apple subreddit. I'm tempted to venture over there and tell them about qubes OS.

The Arch Wiki has database backups but it's also distributed in a couple forms via Arch Linux packages.

Even if the wiki and all the backups were wiped out, the rendered formats (lite, html) would still be present on many people's machines and archives of old packages.

You have complete control over your system with pretty much any distro. This isn't something exclusive to Arch. You can choose your window manager, DE, core apps etc. on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and so on.

Similar story with pre-installed stuff. Arch is only more minimal than the default install image for other distros, but most of those other distros also offer very minimal install images. For example: Debian's netinstall for amd64 is ~250MB, compared to Arch's 476MB image. This is only the install image so it doesn't exactly reflect the size of the system once installed, but I hope you get the point regardless.

People who don't understand much about Linux often tout customisation and non-bloat as advantages of Arch, because they don't understand that those points apply to most other distributions as well. In fact, I'd argue that Arch is less customisable than most. It's a shame, since Arch has quite a few actual advantages that people tend to skip over.

Your points about the AUR and the wiki are exactly the biggest selling points of Arch, in my opinion, on top of its bleeding-edge rolling-release nature. Closely tied to the AUR, I also like the package build system - it makes it very easy to compile a package yourself, for example if you wanted to patch it or adjust a compile-time option. It's hard to grasp exactly how great the AUR/wiki are until you switch from Arch to another distro and realise that a once-trivial task has suddenly become a pain, or that the concise and accurate wiki pages you're used to no longer perfectly apply to your system.

Don't undersell Arch as being "the customisable distro" - Gentoo has that title, and even among binary distros Arch isn't as customisable as some. No point giving people misleading information about customisation when there are plenty of real reasons that Arch is awesome :)

Terminator runs off of linux kernel 4.1.15, which we're approaching.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-W_apgVmij20/VOAvvgpevvI/AAAAAAAAO3A/fPG5gFS2Rg8/w953-h536-no/mate_2015.02.15.051456.utc-smplayer-2009-terminator-salvation-mp4_16-9.jpg

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/

Current stable version is 4.1.2

Are they running Windows 7 Enterprise? If so, the KB does not apply to that version, and the users will never see notification.

EDIT: You can find nearly all your answers about this update at the link below. Microsoft gives very detailed information regarding applicable versions. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-faq

Linus Torvalds disagrees: > > Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the > individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together really well. Anyway, some of us can't even read all our personal email, simply because we get too much. I do my best. What I'm getting at is that if you have the patch, then please re-post. In fact, cc'ing me is a good idea. And if at first you don't succeed, try and try again..

And about the development process:

>There is exactly one person who can merge patches into the mainline kernel repository: Linus Torvalds. But, of the over 9,500 patches which went into the 2.6.38 kernel, only 112 (around 1.3%) were directly chosen by Linus himself. The kernel project has long since grown to a size where no single developer could possibly inspect and select every patch unassisted. The way the kernel developers have addressed this growth is through the use of a lieutenant system built around a chain of trust. > > [...] > > When the merge window opens, top-level maintainers will ask Linus to "pull" the patches they have selected for merging from their repositories. If Linus agrees, the stream of patches will flow up into his repository, becoming part of the mainline kernel. The amount of attention that Linus pays to specific patches received in a pull operation varies. It is clear that, sometimes, he looks quite closely. But, as a general rule, Linus trusts the subsystem maintainers to not send bad patches upstream.

DirectStorage requires 1 TB or greater NVMe SSD to store and run games that uses the "Standard NVM Express Controller" driver and a DirectX 12 Ultimate GPU.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifications

You can actually use your credit card instead of a virtual Mastercard (thus preserving rewards and cashback opportunities). And it offers tokenization of transactions like Apple Pay making it more secure.

https://www.android.com/pay/

Actually, it is often the best practice to not rebase. There are a set of rules of thumbs regarding rebasing by Linus himself:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/maintainer/rebasing-and-merging.html

Abuse of rebasing is extremely dangerous

>Following 9 months of deprecation period, support for the i686 architecture effectively ends today. By the end of November, i686 packages will be removed from our mirrors and later from the packages archive. >For users unable to upgrade their hardware to x86_64, an alternative is a community maintained fork named Arch Linux 32. See their website for details on migrating existing installations.

Ever? The bug introduced into the RNG used for key generator one was pretty bad, and came from a Debian patch.

Tabs don't have a specific width and those style guides specify column limits (79 +/- 1 or 100).

The Linux kernel uses 8 character tabs. The width is specified because otherwise you'll wrap in the wrong place.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle

>Stable kernel versions are a relatively new thing. I believe the first one was 3.10, before that it was essentially "whatever one redhat picked".

How can that possibly be true? Look at the frontpage of kernel.org even:

longterm: 3.14.14 2014-07-28 longterm: 3.12.25 2014-07-22 longterm: 3.10.50 2014-07-28 longterm: 3.4.100 2014-07-28 longterm: 3.2.61 2014-07-11 longterm: 2.6.32.63 2014-06-18

That's on kernel.org, not Redhat's site. Unless you mean that Redhat chose them, in which case, I'm not sure what you're trying to say about longterm branches.

I develop Linux drivers and we use the stable kernels. We haven't made it to 3.4 yet.

Use an alt and post it. If you are concerned about your IP being figured out, use a VPN. Or you know, install TAILS on a USB and make an alt and post if you are that concerned about losing your precious karma.

e: https://tails.boum.org/install/win/usb/index.en.html That tells you how to make a bootable tails stick. For a VPN, use PIA. If you really want the truth to come out, let it the fuck out.

> First off, I'd suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and NOT read it. Burn them, it's a great symbolic gesture.

Source

I think the best representation of how it will look and feel is using a live usb. First create a live usb. Then give it a try by booting from the USB. Just be sure to select the live session instead of installing. When you're ready to dive completely in you can install using the same usb drive.

I keep [this]( https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/cheatsheet/ ) (official k8s docs) bookmarked, mostly for all the filtering/formatting options.

Here's my long-ass alias that I use:
alias pac='curl -s https://www.archlinux.org/feeds/news/ | xmllint --xpath //item/title\ \|\ //item/pubDate /dev/stdin | sed -r -e "s:<title>([^<]*?)</title><pubDate>([^<]*?)</pubDate>:\2\t\1\n:g" | colout "^.*$" 205 && sudo pacman -Syu'
Through the second pipe fetches the latest news on updates from Arch. Gives you the heads up if there is an issue with a pkg that might be coming your way. The 'colout' part is a program that adds a bit of color to the output from Arch news, so not necessary. And lastly the actual update part. It's a long one-liner, but pretty useful.

E: Took out an extra space out that was causing it sed to error out. Thanks /u/ronjouch

It's strange because you wouldn't think there's anything to see there. It's just the first commit of the current repository, the project had already been in development for more than 10 years at that point. The commit even straight up states that he's chosen not to include earlier history because it makes it balloon to 3.2GB.

Wouldn't you find this way cooler? https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/

A quote that I find quite funny (from the 0.01 release notes):

> Sadly, a kernel by itself gets you nowhere. To get a working system you > need a shell, compilers, a library etc. These are separate parts and may > be under a stricter (or even looser) copyright. Most of the tools used > with linux are GNU software and are under the GNU copyleft. These tools > aren't in the distribution - ask me (or GNU) for more info.

Or the famous one from comp.os.minix: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.minix/dlNtH7RRrGA%5B1-25%5D

> Hello everybody out there using minix - > > I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and > professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

Brush up on your operational security and get a grasp on the core concepts before attempting any test runs. Assume your hardware and software is vulnerable. Use a secure live cd as your operating system. Air gap your encrypting hardware, and don't use that hardware for general purpose computing.

http://cdsetrain.dtic.mil/index.htm

https://tails.boum.org/

Quite a question, one that I'm not sure can be entirely answered in a reddit comment, but I'll give it a go.

Generally, I'm very disturbed about the lack of diversity in not only Debian, but the free software movement generally (and even more so in STEM subjects). The Debian Women project has helped foster a more welcoming atmosphere in the project and I applaud it for that. We also have a diversity statement.

The main way I'd alter the programme would be to offer more funding, which we now do via an outreach team.

> I mean things casual developers could use in any meaningful way?

Not really, unless you're casually running a large scale distributed system.

You can look at the major users of existing container managers like Kubernetes and Apache Mesos to get a sense of who would actually use this.

Why not? On Arch at least, the Intel microcode is managed through pacman, as is the more generalised linux-firmware package which includes AMDs ucode and WiFi chip firmware among other things. There's zero reason to force people to do it through the software center when the distributions package manager and maintainers can do all the work and make it just another update.

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