linux

How do you discover system builtins for C functions? The man pages for the C functions on Linux are great, but only if you know the name of the function. Is there a way to see a detailed table of contents, or to browse Manpages on a Linux distro?

Just curious to see what people are up to. I’ve been using Nixos for a while. It’s fabulous and I have absolutely no reason to switch, but part of me is itching to hop to Debian or maybe OpenSUSE. How about you?

cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/2644853...

There exist a few linux hardware vendors (laptops, pcs, phones) out there. Is the community using them?...

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/2768533...

Yeah, ChromeOS is a linux distro that boots chrome and is now being officially split into Lacros (Linux and ChromeOS), but honestly, we should be able to make a “distro” that just starts a DE with firefox or chromium as the main window. Extensions could be written that present the filesystem in firefox or chromium and most...

Something like pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun where I can see the popularity of the packages by category, but with many more categories and being able to see which packages are trending....

Hi, does anybody know the state of recent (2020 and onward) FX releases regarding supporting Wayland? Thank you.

Everything I read says it’s a feature enabled in what ever compositor you choose, if your compositor supports it. Why isn’t there a general purpose keybinding program like setxkbmap? Does it just not exist yet or must it be built into the compositor?...

One can boot into the command from grub by editing kernel parameters....

So I’ve been running Windows on my gaming system and Linux on my laptop for Uni for a while. I chose this to discourage working instead of relaxing, or gaming instead of working. However, I am finding that I often get the opportunity to work from home and I find it easier to just use my laptop on the go (I have a dual monitor...

Does anyone have a recommendation for distros that would work well on a 2011 MacBook Pro? It’s in decent shape and as far as I know there’s nothing wrong with it. I figured I could use this as both a learning opportunity for myself and a way to give the laptop a second life. I’ve done some research the past few months and...

I was curious as to what prompts people find are the best for development? I’m looking for a change from the generic debian:...

Recently my manjaro linux laptop had a pretty bad meltdown. My solution would usually be plugging in the live boot drive and fixing whatever happened, but that takes to long and I lost a working day because of it. I need a more brute-forcy way of backing up and recovering my machines. I’m thinking daily disk image backups that...

I'm seeing a lot of old posts about how Linux has poor support for OLED. Is this still the case? Should I avoid OLED laptops?

Is BSD, More “Free” than Linux?

I just had extreme pain with this....

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/15162087...

Edit: solved since then...

Let’s say, I have a python script which handles ACL:...