Are there any distros that could run on a pentium 2?
Edit: I am trying to put linux on a compaq armada 1700.
In praise of Linux.
I just need to gush for a minute. I am about to shutdown my server in order to move it to the basement. This off the shelf $300 desktop running Pop!_OS is my self-hosting server that has dutifully done it’s job without a single complaint. It has been rebooted maybe three times since 2020 and it currently has an uptime of 840...
[Help] How do I word my grant application to keep my software FOSS?
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Has anyone achieved using their laptop as their only device?
I’ve been trying to get rid of my cellphone for awhile now. I switched to JMP.chat, I have Pidgin set up to make calls/texts, etc....
Want to manage music on an old school iPod
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Touchscreens, Debian, and Having Fun - Ideas?
I got my hands on a Lenovo ThinkSmart Hub 500 - you may have seen these in conference rooms, its a small Teams Room or Zoom Room device, based off their Tiny lineup, with a built-in touch display thats about 11" in diagonal....
Making PipeWire default option for Firefox camera handling in Fedora 41 – Jan Grulich (jgrulich.cz)
2GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $50 (www.raspberrypi.com)
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Java uses double ram.
Let’s be honest: I only use Java for Minecraft. So I only debugged with it. But all version, server or client, all launchers. All of them use double (or more) RAM. In the game the correctly allocated amount is used, but on my system double or more is allocated. Thus my other apps don’t get enough memory, causing crashes,...
Successful move over after years of trial and error
Finally got tired of my Windows 11 install, and I considered a Linux move. For years and years, I tried to move over, even all the way back in the Ubuntu 16.04 days, even daily drove for a few months, but there would always be something that would make me move back (including but not limited to HDR, support for my old iPod,...
[CLOSED] after any any pacman manipulation my layout set up is broking
I using sddm and installed awesomeWM. And using /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup for my dvorak layout(setxkbmap us -v dvorak). But after each pacman update or installation my configuration is not working. I’m new to artix/arch, so can you help me?
What is the largest file transfer you have ever done?
I’m writing a program that wraps around dd to try and warn you if you are doing anything stupid. I have thus been giving the man page a good read. While doing this, I noticed that dd supported all the way up to Quettabytes, a unit orders of magnitude larger than all the data on the entire internet....
New Mozilla Logo Spotted (lemmy.world)
Spotted by: soeren-hentzschel.at/…/exklusiv-sehen-wir-hier-da…
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Troubleshooting a desktop that does not go into sleep mode/suspend
Hello all, for a few weeks/months now, my computer has stopped going into suspend mode. Here is what happens when putting it to sleep (using GNOME’s power menu) or using systemctl suspend:...
Running Arch in chroot
I am using Debian for long time and really like it for stability. Recently I wondered if it is possible to run Arch Linux from chroot. I want to run full Wayland session from Arch. I found Archbox project and it is worked for me, but I couldn’t start any Wayland compositor from tty (Error: can’t connect to Wayland socket ....
Linux Network Performance Ultimate Guide (ntk148v.github.io)
Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/33 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
"In The Beginning Was The Command Line" An essay by Neal Stephenson that talks about proprietary operating systems and FOSS operating systems. Written in 1999. (archive.org)
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Why Wayland adoption to have official support in programs is so slow? (wayland.freedesktop.org)
Wayland seems ready to me but the main problem that many programs are not configured / compiled to support it. Why is that? I know it’s not easy as “Wayland support? Yes” (but in many cases adding a flag is enough but maybe it’s not a perfect support). What am I missing? Even Blender says if it fails to use Wayland it...
Release labwc 0.8.0 · labwc/labwc (github.com)
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Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.04 Linux Performance For The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Review (www.phoronix.com)
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How to anonymize logs before sharing?
Many projects ask to share lots of logs when reporting issues. It’s difficult to go through all the logs and redact informarion such as usernames, environment variabled etc....
Archinstall 2.8.2 Arch Linux Installer Speeds Up Mirror Loading and Download (9to5linux.com)
Archinstall 2.8.2 menu-based installer for the Arch Linux distribution is now available with various improvements and bug fixes....
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This week in KDE: System Settings modernization and Wayland color management (pointieststick.com)
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