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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

is there a bookmark manager like jabref for linux url bookmarks?

I use Jabref for papers and books. I group and rate them and keep track of reading status. There are a lot of websites that also provide valuable information but firefox' bookmark manager can't be used to rate sites or make comments. I can manually add links which is cumbersome.

Is there a similar tool like jabref for internet links?

In the optimal case it would take firefox' bookmarks and work with them such that I can bookmark a site with Ctrl+D and do all the site related work within that manager.

edit: Bonus, if it automatically fetches the article to preserve it

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submitted 3 days ago by Tekkip20@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

So it's no secret that some parts of the army in the USA and my country (UK) sometimes use legacy software like DOS for niche roles as they're robust including older versions of Windows.

But.. where does Linux fit in this? It's a kernel OS that's used in top of the line supercomputers, workstations, medical equipment and weather stations.

I imagine some aspects of this would be military secrets but how do they use it? I know that Linux was used for certain space projects with NASA but I'm talking about army applications.

TLDR : Does the penguin OS power shooty shooty machines and tanks

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Sup penguin people.

I’ve been running various flavours and variations of Ubuntu for a while. I find I have to nuke and reset my laptop every 6ish months because things eventually stop working or I get weird bugs.

Recently I’ve been having this on and off problem where the computer just shows a black screen after turning it on. The only way to fix this is to tap keys repeatedly until a console shows up and it seems to kick the computer into gear and log in. Other times I have to restart 2-3 times before it logs me in.

I’ve had a lot of small issues like that (like having to jiggle the volume knob in the sound mixer to get sound working) and I’m wondering if switching to an immutable distro (like bazzite) would solve this apparent config creep.

I have a Steamdeck and it’s been solid and stable ever since I got it. I know it’s running an immutable distro and after researching a little bit it sounds like they can be more stable.

I’m no power user but I play some steam games and run a local 7b LLM and like to have a virtual machine or two for Windows XP emulation for some retro gaming.

Anyone have any opinions? What are your thoughts on immutable distros (like Bazzite)? Pros? Cons? Success/doom stories?

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I’m looking for a Fedora 38 workstation iso. I cannot seem to find one. Fedora 40 doesn’t seem to want to play nice with my surface pro 7. Any help would be appreciated.

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Just like the title says I want to turn an old tablet of mine into an ereader.

The tablet in question is samsung galaxy tab 3 in which I installed postMarketOS.

I installed the console version, and once everything was set up I ssd into the machine and installed the following packages :

greetd, greetd-openrc, cage, fuse

Downloaded koreader app image into /bin/

Activated the greetd service

rc-update add greetd default

and configured /etc/greetd/config.toml with the following

[terminal]

vt = 1

[default_session]

command="agreety -c sh"
user="greeter"

[initial_session]

command="cage -s -d -- koreader"
user="me"

and rebooted the tablet, however I am still stuck with the login prompt no matter what I do.

Any tips on how fix this or a other way I could accomplish my goal?

Update

Got autologin working by ditching out greetd and using agetty, and a simple fortune command to run on startup.

After this I went for the kill and tried to install KOreader using flatpak, due to App Images not playing alright with Alpine. However I noticed something there is no arm build of KOreader for linux arm so my plans were cut short.

Will try to compile KOreader to linux arm if not successful will just put a nice UI and use the little guy as a portable hacking machine.

New update

KOreader was mess to compile so I looked for alternatives and found out foliate which fits my criteria (opds, epub and pdf support) and is in the alpine repos.

Played around with cage and got the thing somewhat working, however no virtual keyboard support for now, figuring that out now.

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submitted 3 days ago by joojmachine@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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submitted 4 days ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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submitted 4 days ago by Tekkip20@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I've tried using my incredible (british) brain using Google to see if these open source titans ever engaged in a battle of "friendly conversation" with one another.

I was always interested what Stallman thought of the angry but smart finnish man who gave us the robust penguin kernel that breathes life into older machines and powers supercomputers for the weather.

The same with Torvalds thoughts on Stallmans GNU involvement and him as a person.

This is because you sometimes had different organisations in the FOSS and OSS community that take on different meanings so I wanted a better idea if these chaps ever spoke in an interview together.

TLDR : Does finnish man like bearded GNU jesus man and the same vice versa

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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) by TCB13@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

New GNOME dialog on the right:

Apple's dialog:

They say GNOME isn't a copy of macOS but with time it has been getting really close. I don't think this is a bad thing however they should just admit it and then put some real effort into cloning macOS instead of the crap they're making right now.

Here's the thing: Apple's design you'll find that they carefully included an extra margin between the "Don't Save" and "Cancel" buttons. This avoid accidental clicks on the wrong button so that people don't lose their work when they just want to click "Cancel".

So much for the GNOME, vision and their expert usability team :P

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by absentbird@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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submitted 3 days ago by Lime66@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I was planning on installing windows to my new ssd for a dualboot, but I noticed that windows installer didn't allow me to select the disk. I learned that it just installs to the drive that is marked as M2_1 in the bios. I thought that had something to do with boot order initially, but I'm not sure about that now. If it is boot order, my second ssd doesn't even show up in the boot order menu So:

  1. Does windows install to whatever is second in boot order or whatever is marked as M2_1 in the bios, and
  2. How can I edit this to prevent windows from nuking my main linux partition and using the empty ssd, and after the install, how should I make sure both drives are available to boot into?

Motherboard is MSI MS - 7E10

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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by flork@lemy.lol to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I have tried Linux as a DD on and off for years but about a year ago I decided to commit to it no matter the cost. First with Mint, then Ubuntu and a few others sprinkled in briefly. Both are "mainstream" "beginner friendly" distros, right? I don't want anything too advanced, right?

Well, ubuntu recently updated and it broke my second monitor (Ubuntu detected it but the monitor had "no signal"). After trying to fix it for a week, I decided to wipe it and reinstall. No luck. I tried a few other distros that had the same issue and I started to wonder if it was a hardware issue but I tried a Windows PC and the monitor worked no problem.

Finally, just to see what would happen I tried a distro very very different than what I'm used to: Fedora (Kinode). And not only did everything "just work" flawlessly, but it's so much faster and more polished than I ever knew Linux to be!

Credit where it's due, a lot of the polish is due to KDE plasma. I'd never strayed from Gnome because I'm not an expert and people recommend GNOME to Linux newbies because it's "simple" and "customizable" but WOW is KDE SO MUCH SIMPLER AND STILL CUSTOMIZEABLE. Gnome is only "simple" in that it doesn't allow you to do much via the GUI. With Fedora Kinode I think I needed to use the terminal maybe once during setup? With other distros I was constantly needed to use the terminal (yes its helped me learn Linux but that curve is STEEP).

The atomic updates are fantastic too. I have not crashed once in the two weeks of setup whereas before I would have a crash maybe 1-2 times per week.

I am FULLY prepared for the responses demanding to know what I did to make it crash and telling me how I was using it wrong blah blah blah but let me tell you, if you are experienced with Windows but want to learn Linux and getting frustrated by all the "beginner" distros that get recommended, do yourself a favor and try Fedora Kinode!

edit: i am DYING at the number of "you're using it wrong" comments here. never change people.

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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by t0mri@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

i didnt care about how i wrote my bash scripts, coz i know theyd ultimately be used just by myself. but for the past few day, i've been working on this project, mk-blog which uses some bash scripts, there are chances that others might look at them. besides in work they're asking me maintain a server. so why not learn the standards. but i couldn't find anything good online (i'm gonna blame my search engine lol). so...

i'd appreciate redirections to (official or community) bash coding standards

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submitted 4 days ago by petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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submitted 5 days ago by boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml

The Flatpak is already packaged and works well. It just needs to be maintained from a person that joins the Inkscape community.

This would allow further improvements like Portal support and making the app official on Flathub.

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submitted 4 days ago by Joseph_Boom@feddit.it to c/linux@lemmy.ml

So, this is my situation: I've forked this repository which contains dotfile and script for hyprland. I changed some files and now, if I want to sync all the commits made on the original repository to my repository github says "This branch has conflicts that must be resolved". My question is: can I merge only the commits that don't conflict with my files? What else can I do?

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submitted 5 days ago by atmur@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

So about 2 months ago I made this post about looking for an iPad replacement that runs Linux. I said I wasn't in a rush, but after thinking about it ever since and seeing the Minisforum V3 go on sale for just $1000, I pulled the trigger.

My impressions are still very new (I have used it for a total of 2 hours at this point), but I'm super happy so far. Installed Fedora 40 and almost everything works out of the box (including a Wacom MPP stylus). As mudkip mentioned in this blog, the volume buttons don't work when the keyboard is detached and auto-rotation doesn't work. The former isn't a big deal and the latter doesn't affect me in the slightest, but I can confirm those issues are still present on a stock Fedora install.

Anyway, there's not a lot of information about this tablet running Linux out there, is there anything anyone wants me to test or any questions I can answer?

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submitted 5 days ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17288716

This project is a port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS.

⚠️ Proxmox-NixOS is still experimental and we do not advise running it on production machines. Do it at your own risk and only if you are ready to fix issues by yourself.

📬 Help / Discussions

There is a matrix room for discussions about Proxmox-NixOS.

Thanks This project has received support from NLNet.

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submitted 6 days ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by GreatDong3000@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Edit: solved. Sorry guys, it was something silly. Instead of clicking shutdown on windows I just hard pressed the off button for some seconds on the laptop. So I booted back on windows and let it shutdown normally and then Debian was able to boot again. Hehe

So I've made a clean install of Debian 12 when it came out and have been using only it exclusively for this time. But I had Windows 10 on dual boot already since when I was using Debian 11, I just never booted on Windows until now.

I had to fill in some PDF documents and ended up having to go to windows and use Adobe Acrobat there because LibreOffice and google docs kept messing up the PDF files when I tried to add text to them.

So I did my thing on windows and finished it all just now and then rebooted and tried to boot my Debian 12 and it won't boot. All I see is:

/dev/sda11: recovering journal

/dev/sda11: clean [...] files, [...] blocks

And it is stuck here forever. I already tried to reboot multiple times.

I did nothing on windows to mess with the Linux partitions btw. Only chrome / acrobat / and I sent the files to google drive (so I didn't even try to copy them directly into the Linux partition or anything).

Please tell me I did not brick my OS and need a clean stall pls. What can I try? The answers I've tried from google don't work.

It is Debian 12 stable with nothing but software from the official stable repositories and flatpak.

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submitted 5 days ago by Archaeopteryx@kbin.run to c/linux@lemmy.ml

A new major version of Leap Micro is now available! Leap Micro 6.0 images can be found at get.opensuse.org.

Leap Micro 6.0 uses a brand-new codebase, comes with plenty of new appliances and, for the first time, enters images for public cloud.

About Leap Micro

Leap Micro 6.0 is a rebranded SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.0 which is an ultra-reliable container and Virtual Machine host by SUSE. Leap Micro is released twice a year and has support over two releases.

Leap Micro 5.4 is now EOL

With the release of Leap Micro 6.0, Leap Micro 5.4 reaches End Of Life; users will no longer receive maintenance updates and are advised to upgrade.

More conservative users can stay on Leap Micro 5.5, which will receive updates until the release of Leap Micro 6.1.

Understanding Image variants

All of Leap and SLE Micro generally come in two variants either Base or Default.

Both Base and Default have a container stack, but only the Default variant has the Virtual Machine stack.

If you do not plan to use VMs and you care for space, then the Base might be a variant just for you. 

All of our images offered at get-o-o are the Default ones (VMs+containers) as we expect they're suitable for most users.

All appliances including Base variants (without virtualization stack) can be downloaded directly from https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap-micro/6.0/appliances/

Explaining individual appliances

A general recommendation for everyone use is the self-install image. It's a bootable image with a quick wizard that writes the preconfigured image to your drive and grows the root partition. This process from boot takes about 5 minutes.

The preconfigured image is a raw bootable image you can manually write/dd to the disk or SD card. Images can be configured via Ignition/Combustion or will default to the jeos-firsboot wizard.

We have a Real-time image with kernel-rt, qcow image for KVM, VMWare image, and a brand new raw image with Full Disk Encryption.

Users who want to try our FDE image within a VM will need to make sure that they're using emulated tpm-2 chip and UEFI. This can be achieved easily with virt-manager.

SLE Micro 6.0 dropped the traditional installer in favor of self-install media, therefore Leap Micro 6.0 doesn't have it either.

The new Packages image is not a bootable media. This is just an image with an offline repository in case you need it.

Leap Micro 6.0 comes for the first time also with Public Cloud Images.

Images will soon be available with all major public cloud providers. 

Upgrading from 5.X

A recommendation is to make a clean install since this is a brand-new major version.

For those who'd like to try migration, please follow the upgrade guide.

Release Notes

Users can refer to SLE Micro 6.0 Release notes.

Leap Micro 6.0 uses openSUSE-repos for repository management. It is highly recommended to pay attention to this detail, especially for those who migrate. Here is an article explaining how openSUSE repos work.

Leap Micro 6.0 has no longer a dedicated SLE update repo. This has been merged into the main repository.

More Information about openSUSE:

Official

Fediverse

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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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A lot of people here seemed excited for these chips. It'll be very interesting to see the gaming performance as this could bring in an entire new segment of portable devices running Linux if powerful enough to deliver solid battery life and CPU performance.

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submitted 4 days ago by matrygg@lemmy.kde.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I was wondering if anyone could tell me where the location for the icons-only task manager settings file is for plasma? I have a number of custom icons I've made, and it appears that the default mouseover/hover effect does not work with them. For icons I have not changed, the icon "lights up" or gets a wash over itself when I hover over it, but the custom icons don't do that. There doesn't appear to be anything in the .svg files, so I'm wondering if there's a master list that I should add my icon files to or something, perhaps in the theme settings? I apologize for what is probably a fairly silly post, but I've been enjoying mildly customizing my desktop and this is a bit of a annoyance.

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