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lxer.com has been compromised for years and it's barely gone without mention. Is it due to a lack of popularity or something? The website doesn't have a valid SSL certificate and has been prone to URL redirects for a long time. I made a thread on there a long time ago that they should secure their website, but nothing came of it. If you do use Lxer... Don't. Getting redirected to an advertisement or dodgy website is minor, but what's not minor is visiting the lxer page, everything appearing normal and you login with your username and password. What you don't realise, is that there could be an invisible overlay right over the "username" and "password" sections you have just been typing in, and that's been sent off to who knows where. Don't use Lxer.

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I think this is a really cool in light of increasing interest in immutable distros for work and home, or even if you don’t know how to tune things yourself and want it to just work.

Hello there!

After some lurking on r/Unixporn and its Discord, I'm more and more tempted to try Linux as a daily driver. While I'm by no means a pro, I've been using WSL at work the past year and generally I can fiddle around finding solutions when something doesn't work.

These being said, the main requirements I would have from a distro is to be able to run League of Legends (saw that it's pretty straight forward using Lutris) and not be insanely complex from the get-go (wouldn't want to jump straight into something like Arch), I intend to use something like Hyprland.

So far I am split between OpenSuse Tumbleweed, NixOS, Fedora and EndeavourOS, but would gladly hear alternatives.

LE: Read (and tried to reply to) most messages. I will come back with an update once I decide my pick and see how it goes. Thanks everyone!

Our subscriptions mostly pay for the salesmen and the ads. They sell ads first, IT second. So I'm not gonna cry for RedHat. The image of the poor developers working in a cave, struggling to make money is only in our mind. They had a perfectly functional model but decided to sabotage some of it to try to squeeze even more money.

Operating expense, in thousands (2019,2018):

Sales and marketing 1,378,278 1,195,286

Research and development 668,542 578,330

General and administrative 304,766 239,316

Total operating expense 2,351,586 2,012,932

Let's stop talking about Fedora/redhat, we are literally doing their job for them, for free.

Oh, btw, their gross profit is mentioned here.

Gross profit (thousands) 2,863,818 2,488,664

Net income (thousands) 433,988 261,851

That's why I had such bad support experience, because they chose to hire sales people instead of engineers. You have a better chance of being hired by redhat if you are a salesman. It's as Steve Jobs said, when the sales people take the power in the company.

"If you were a ‘product person’ at IBM or Xerox: so you make a better copier or better computer. So what? When you have a monopoly market-share, the company’s not any more successful. So the people who make the company more successful are the sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the ‘product people’ get run out of the decision-making forums."


The core of their business is made by the open source community. If they need our help for something, it's from saving them from drowning into money.

We need to jump ship from redhat just like we did from reddit. This is also the perfect opportunity to think about technical solutions on how to use the fediverse to finance the developers of the open source community.

KDE Plasma picture of the day wallpaper fail :D

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I've been running an HPC system for a science group for a while now and have built a couple of different systems based on common HPC infrastructures (ROCKS or Open HPC). These have been built on top of the rebuilt RHEL distros (mostly CentOS), but I don't really need the level of stability that these provide and would actually like the sort of updates that you get from something like CentOS stream, so this seems like a time to try this.

The problem is that I haven't found an HPC framework which would natively support this so I'm potentially going to have to roll my own. I don't need anything fancy just some way to automatically deploy nodes and set up slurm to get jobs queued.

Any pointers to suitable frameworks or tools which would help with this and which aren't tied to older distros?

I've been hearing about it a lot over the last few days, but I don't exactly understand what's going on. What's going on with Red Hat, and how does it affect Linux users?

Red Hat's Mike McGrath (VP of Core Platforms Engineering) responds to the backlash from closing RHEL public source code access

I don't get it enough what is immutable Linux and how it is useful, but want stable & secure desktop distros for everyday use and hope that immutable os would help it.

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Immutability is a concept in trend. Take a look at what are the options you have for an immutable Linux distribution.

In this post we are trying to answer some of the typical questions that help understanding Immutable OSes principles and we will dive a bit in what solutions are out there, and what are the challenges in the field

Attached: 1 image To view the open file limit for a Linux process, you can make use the prlimit command: prlimit -p {PID} prlimit --pid {PID} For all other option and usage see https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/viewing-open-file-limit-for-linux-process/ my page. #linux #debian #ubuntu #sysadmin

Upsetting many in the open-source community was Red Hat's announcement last week that they would begin limiting access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources by putting them behind the Red Hat Customer Portal and publicly would be limited to the CentOS Stream sources

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for June 25th, 2023, brings news about Linux 6.4, Linux Mint 21.2 beta, Nitrux Update Tool, and more.

More about Red Hat's decision to make CentOS Stream the primary repository for RHEL sources.

I am not sure how i feel about it in general so far, nixos package manager seems pretty powerful. But im not one to jump on flatpaks. Is this the future of linux though?

As expected Linux 6.4 is out today as stable as an on-time release following a relatively quiet cycle the past two months.

Another exciting milestone has been reached on Mozilla's long journey of improving the native Wayland support for the Firefox web browser on Linux.

Hey yall, newb here. For some reason my Debian 12 installer doesn't prompt me if i wanna install grub or not. I'm doing a clean install. I've tried like 20 times, and nothing. Could someone help me? I'm installing it on a Lenovo ThinkCentre Q190.

The diff command is excellent for comparing two files in Linux terminal. But its output could see super complicated. We uncomplicate the things by explaining the diff command output.

With Linux 6.4 expected for release today the Linux 6.5 merge window will then open

Screensaver quit working?
I have a box running Kali with the MATE desktop. I just switched to a new wiiiiiide monitor, and my screensaver no longer kicks in, ever.

I have tried refreshing its settings, etc. If I invoke it manually with Super+L it starts. But it never powers off the monitor.

What could cause this? What else might I try to at least isolate the cause?

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