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Illecors, in Newbie with questions about Debian

I’d like to respond to 3.

My suggestion would be to setup a keyfile to unlock the partition automatically. You can use your EFI partition to store the keyfile, which makes no sense from security perspective; or you can keep it on a usb drive. Machine will ask for password if usb is not present, or boot straight up if it is.

worldofgeese, in Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android
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I’m devastated they didn’t choose to pick up webOS for this.

squaresinger,

Well, they don’t want a mobile Linux. This is going to be a minimalist, locked-down distro that does nothing more than start a webrenderer.

Nobody’s gonna see the underlying Linux system.

It’s kinda like how my car entertainment system is running Linux. You wouldn’t know it if you don’t read the license file that comes with it.

worldofgeese,
@worldofgeese@lemmy.world avatar

WebOS powers TVs now and, from the article, Amazon intends this replacement to cover their Fire tablet line. WebOS ticks all their boxes, especially since apps in Amazon’s new flavor are intended to be delivered as React Native web apps.

asexualchangeling, in Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android

This is not what I meant when I said we need more Mobile OS competition…

ErKaf,

I literally said this to a friend just two days ago… And yes… Also not what I meant.

nawordar, (edited ) in Fonts

Sans: Cantarell
Serif: Linux Libertine
Monospace: JetBrains Mono and Fira Code

Presi300, in This week in KDE: Wayland by default, de-framed Breeze, HDR games, rectangle screen recording
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Ayo no more ugly frame in dolphin, less goooo

Schorsch, in Fonts

I use Recoleta (in the alternative version) for my personal stuff. I just like the look of it and it’s IMO good for both body text and headlines. I also like the slight 70s vintage style.

Strit, in Screencasting tools with Wayland support
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OBS can capture wayland output just fine. At least in recent versions 29.X for sure. I don’t know how the Debian/Raspberry Pi OS repositories updates them. Hopefully they have a newer version these days.

ryannathans,

Crashes wayland for me, known bug according to issues

amoroso,
@amoroso@lemmy.ml avatar

Interesting suggestion but possibly overkill.

Maoo, in Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android
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Surely this other monopoly will save us

roo,
@roo@lemmy.one avatar

It’s a new management objective.

Atemu, in Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android
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TL;DR Amazon is building a Linux distro that starts a chromium to run react native apps. Apparently, you need hundreds of people for that.

muelltonne,

TBH Amazon has a whole zoo of devices. Even if they are putting a small team of 2 or 3 people in charge for porting this to each device, they might end up with a few hundred people

Mereo, in GitHub - SerenityOS/serenity: The Serenity Operating System 🐞

The story behind Senerenity OS is quite amazing:

It was October 2018 and I had just completed a 3-month rehab program at a state addiction clinic in Sweden. I was unemployed, staying with family, and had basically nothing going on.

With no drugs or other vices to pass the time, the days seemed impossibly long. I struggled to find activities to fill them. I enrolled in school for a while, but it wasn’t for me this time either. Eventually I turned to programming, since it’s always been my big interest in life.

Until that point, my career had been focused on web browsers (WebKit at Apple & Nokia). However, I had always been interested in low-level things so I began tinkering with some of that. I wrote a little ELF executable parser… And an Ext2 filesystem browser… And a little GUI framework with an event loop…

Out of this tinkering, an operating system began to take shape. I chose the name SerenityOS because I wanted to always remember the Serenity Prayer. I was quite worried about my future at the time, and I figured that this name would help me stay on the good path.

My general idea was to build my own dream system for daily use. It would be a combination of my two favorite computing paradigms: the 1990s GUI and the no-nonsense command-line of late-2000s Unix.

Source: …substack.com/…/i-quit-my-job-to-focus-on-serenit…

moreeni,

The author was a guest on the Changelog podcast. The episode was an interesting one, I highly recommend it

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source: The serenity of building your own OS

Episode webpage: changelog.com/podcast/554

Media file: op3.dev/e/https://…/the-changelog-554.mp3

chunkyhairball,

I will never not be impressed with people who get themselves off drugs and have endless respect for that.

Cysioland,
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Sounds like Terry Davis but the good ending

Vincent, in GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure

Great work by Sonny and Tobias. Really happy to hear that more effort will be invested into accessibility, as I feel it's really been lagging over the past couple of years.

barryamelton,

Accesibilty is also key for automated end-to-end tests, too.

TheGrandNagus, in Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android

I’m confused, why not just continue with AOSP?

It already has most of the Google stuff stripped out and any remaining parts will be easy to replace in comparison to rebuilding and maintaining a much larger software stack while also simultaneously retaining compatibility with all the android apps already on their app store.

guitarsarereal, (edited )

They want to throw this OS on smart home/automative/IoT type things. Android works in these situations, but it’s not necessarily ideal. Thing was designed for phones. It’s likely the only phone firmware in history that’s also been put in cars, espresso makers, washer/dryers, microwaves, and TV’s.

I completely get why the first waves of smart devices tended to just use Android – it’s easy to develop on and “lightweight enough” that the tradeoffs involved were generally acceptable. But those qualities only take you so far. Companies moving on to develop their own in-house OS’s for all these devices was the obvious next step.

mellejwz, in GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure

I hope they’ll ever fix the backspace issue for the on screen keyboard.

Cossty, in GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure

Will we finally get properly working system tray? Man can dream…

TheGrandNagus,

They’ve been trying to make a cross-desktop standard for a little while now, but progress is certainly slow :/

GustavoM, in Best distro for my Laptop?
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Mint if you are a newbie.

ZorinOS if you have no idea what you are doing.

Gentoo if you hate yourself.

Debian for that false sense of security (Its motto is “outdated packages = more security”).

Synopsis0795,

Sorry, I had forgotten to mention in my post, i am looking for a distro for max performance.

backhdlp,
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Arch or Gentoo, depending on if you have the time to compile everything.

muhyb,

If what you really seek is the max performance, then the answer is easy: Gentoo.

RagingToad,

Debian actually does security updates on those old packages.

Debian is more a “stable and boring” kind of thing :-)

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