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I have just provisioned a new dedicated #Linux server. It's been deployed running #Ubuntu 22.04.3. I SSH'ed in as root, given the provided credentials. ๐ค
QUESTION: What's the very first command I typed after logging in? ๐ค
Gravity is not just attraction to the closest thing but also the heaviest thing.
As the galaxies โpassโ each other, all stars will be attracted to the dense cores of each galaxy. That is going to change the trajectory of individual stars and, as an aggravate effect, the overall shape and distribution. Unless the galaxies are aligned on the same angle, this is going to drag stars off the primary plane.
As the galaxies approach, the arms will stretch out to each other. As they pass through each other, the planes will tug on each other, and after they โexitโ, the arms will reach back.
All this new motion will disrupt the natural shape and trajectory of the galaxy as a whole. Depending on the momentum, it could get pulled back and the whole process could happen again ( and again ) with greater disorder each time.
Just an update because I just figured what happened: I booted the iso through Ventoy, and just saw today that by default Ventoy injects register entries to bypass the online account requirement (as well as the hardware checks). Good to know.
@neil First for me was Red Hat 5.1 in the 90's. It came on a CD in a book. (It's possible it may have been thinly rebranded as Mandrake or something. Can't quite remember now.)
After that was Debian, then Ubuntu, then back to Debian, and still with Debian. I also have several machines running OpenBSD, including a laptop I use daily.
@neil I did the Slackware stack of floppies in 93(?). Moved to Redhat 2 when it had rpm but before it had any dependency management (ie manually iterate installing rpms until it stopped complaining). Still on Fedora.
If we're counting dual-booting, then around the time of Windows ME.
If we're talking about when I wipe all drives and left Windows in the dust, then around Windows 8.
Windows 7 was the last Microsoft Windows OS that I truly used as a daily. I dual-booted between Windows 8 and Linux and finally got fed up and wiped the system clean.
@nixCraft On that note, imagine my surprise when Gnome started looking like Windows 8.
It was no loss on my end. I have been a KDE and previously XFCE user. Today, I still like KDE, but also have played with LXQT. -- strange as it sounds, I find if you install both, they tend to compliment one another.
Poll: Have you ever run the command "rm -rf /" as a root user on your #Linux, #FreeBSD (or *BSD), #macOS, or #Unix system? Please share if you have and how it happened. Let's be honest. Please boost for reach. TIA.
@nixCraft had something like this happen just the other day, unit tests in my go project look for a folder named "Extensions" up the dir-tree, when it find it it deletes everything from the parent of extensions down. I accidentally ran the unit tests while I had the package outside it's normal location and nuked my entire projects dir. All my persistent container data, cloned repos, all gone.
Iโm gonna dip my toes into volunteering as a Flatpak/Flathub developer advocateโbasically, providing a human contact at a real company that can help larger apps/companies get their apps in front of Linux (and thus Steam Deck!) users.
What are some of the biggest apps you think are missing from Flathubโor for apps already there, which are the ones youโd like to see verified?
I'm happy to report that thanks in part to my efforts (but mostly thanks to TingPing doing tons of up-front work, feaneron's constant help, and employees using Linux internally):
I've taken out a VPS from Ionos (formerly 1and1). It has 1 vCore, 1 GB RAM, 10GB SSD, unlimited traffic, root access, and a choice of distros, including Debian, Ubuntu & CentOS. Plesk is also offered free, but, I've not used it.
All for the ridiculously cheap price of ยฃ1 (ยฃ1.20 incl. VAT) per month. At this price it would be rude not to test it, which is what I'm doing.
The spec is limited, but, I can think of hundreds of uses at this price point.
So, this morning, after years and years of using the GUI in Linux, I gave up. The state of the GUI does nothing but deteriorate over time for accessibility, and it's exhausting. It's only getting worse. We're far, far away from what it used to be, years ago. Certainly, the QT framework has improved since 5 and now 6 came out, but GTK? Oh dear, oh dear... So, let's dive into it. #linux#xorg#wayland#a11y#accessibility#blind
When GTK 4 came out, on the other hand, things had shifted. No longer were the GTK people happy to provide accessibility for us. No longer did they care about it. Their grand plan was to remove accessibility from GTK altogether, claiming that it was up to the applications themselves to become accessible. It took several weeks, and even days during fosdem for them to recognize this wasn't the way forward, thanks to the orca developer and the Hypra folks, but they got the idea. Or did they?
@xogium the AFB (American Foundation for the Blind) was forced to withdraw support and funding for various projects that worked on GTK/gnome 2 blind accessibility by an AFB corporate donor, and forced to fire the AFB CTO who ran these programs, Janina Sajka. The corporate donor that did this? Microsoft.
I would like to help an open-source project with UI design and UX design. I have over 18 years of experience in the field and have worked with desktop and mobile software on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Windows Mobile/Windows Phone. Unfortunately my knowledge of Linux is very limited but I'm eager to learn. Could you help me find a project? @thelinuxEXP@linux@macrumors@windowscentral@windows
You could help us at Organic Maps. We are in need of UI designers. Contact me or biodranik on Matrix if you are interested: @g_mate8:matrix.org and @biodranik:matrix.org
Looking to dip my toes into Linux for the first time. I have a 2016 Intel MacBook Pro with pretty solid specs collecting dust right now that I think Iโm going to use. Research so far has indicated to me that the two best options for me are likely Mint or Elementary OS. Does anyone have any insight? Also open to other OSโs. I would consider myself decently tech savvy but I am not a programmer or anything. Comfortable dipping into the terminal when the need arises and all that.
Mint is full easy-mode. Definitely try that for your first. You can even run it off the USB as a live distro and get a feel for it. Go for the Gnome desktop version, it is prettier than XFCE, just a little heavier.
Mess around with that, break it, fix it, have fun.