Immortals wrote on March 14, 2024 at 6:18 PM

Reply to Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits by z3d

Interesting and a bit dangerous.

kolyzzy wrote on September 10, 2023 at 9:13 AM

Reply to So, I decided to give KDE Plasma a whirl... by Rambler

I use KDE Plasma and by my experience it works pretty great with two monitors.

righttoprivacy wrote on September 9, 2023 at 4:19 PM (edited on September 9, 2023 at 4:22 PM)

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Super cool looking as well. Always appreciate the practical SIGINT / radio based ones.

Things that make you love technology again.

not_bob wrote on September 7, 2023 at 7:15 PM

Reply to So, I decided to give KDE Plasma a whirl... by Rambler

That's cool and all, but I'm going to stick with fvwm2. I like a window manager that uses less than 200k of ram.

someoneonarchlinux wrote on August 29, 2023 at 3:33 PM

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Damn... 30 YEARS OLD???

someoneonarchlinux wrote on August 29, 2023 at 3:32 PM

Reply to So, I decided to give KDE Plasma a whirl... by Rambler

I have currently installed cinnamon, xfce, gnome, lxde, lxqt, mate and plasma on my Debian PC. Most often, I find myself using lxde and plasma. I admire plasma's looks! I primarily use lxde because it is so lightweight, and my computer is 15 years old. However, it does struggle a bit when running plasma...

Barnacle wrote on August 28, 2023 at 12:19 AM

Reply to So, I decided to give KDE Plasma a whirl... by Rambler

I used XFCE from 2006 until around 2011 and it was pretty nice and lightweight. Then I switched to a laptop running Gnome for a few years, but noticed later versions became a bit sluggish. On my current machine (a laptop based on Ryzen 7 with 40 GB of RAM) I switched to KDE Plasma because its performance is pretty good, it's compatible with Wayland and it has a lot of built-in applets and stuff. And it didn't have the frequent CPU activity spikes I was seeing with Gnome.

Despite the lack of Wayland support, XFCE is really nice, although I'd consider LXDE or Enlightenment on a low RAM machine. Enlightenment looked amazing last time I tried it on an old laptop.

expiccione wrote on August 27, 2023 at 8:34 PM (edited by a moderator on September 8, 2023 at 1:44 AM)

Reply to comment by Rambler in So, I decided to give KDE Plasma a whirl... by Rambler

You can try to strip some part of Plasma to make it less heavy on resources. Still, if your hardware's shit, there's nothing doing. I've got a laptop which barely runs bspwm xd.

What you are looking for is baloo and PIM shit, which is almost useless. if you take a look at htop, you can see what is chugging RAM and other resources.

Anyway, what hardware do you have to not run Plasma?

Rambler OP wrote on August 26, 2023 at 11:14 PM

Reply to So, I decided to give KDE Plasma a whirl... by Rambler

Update: Tried running in on my workstation. It's performs like dog shit.

Back to XFCE fulltime.

shrug wrote on August 16, 2023 at 7:51 AM

Reply to How To Install Multiple Linux Distributions on Your Hard Drive by HMTg927

you can install linux on a btrfs subvolume.

during the installation you have to manually mount it on /target and skip the partitioning process. after continuing you'll probably get an error message where you hit 2xback and suddenly it continues. i could expand on this. is there (still) demand ?

Rambler OP wrote on July 14, 2023 at 5:33 AM

Reply to comment by noptic in Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by Rambler

This.

I work in the web-hosting industry, and there are a handful of common and popular proprietary software used that used to require CentOS / RHEL as the base OS. Then most of them now support AlmaLinux, which I've got on a handful of servers as a requirement. Haven't really used Rocky Linux, but have used AlmaLinux a lot now, and I run CloudLinuxOS which is/was RHEL based but it's a commercial Linux OS geared towards this industry.

Anyway, FINALLY some of these companies are producing statements that they're releasing Debian/Ubuntu betas or have it on their roadmap for making their software work on these OSes. Which is great.

noptic wrote on July 14, 2023 at 4:03 AM

Reply to Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by Rambler

There are so many quality alternatives now that this decision will only lower their market share. They are trying hard to be the new Microsoft.

Qball wrote on June 27, 2023 at 4:51 PM (edited by a moderator on June 28, 2023 at 5:13 AM)

Reply to Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by Rambler

I knew it! Digital masochists are embedded in this network. I was Fed-up for a decade and when the typewriter shills took over, I knew they will backdoor the crap out of Red Hat. Silver Blue rawhide was my last use around 2018 before I considered Red Hat used toilet paper.

idk wrote on June 25, 2023 at 11:12 PM

Reply to Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by Rambler

Sad to see it happen but it was pretty clear that they were getting worse at ATO in Raleigh, which was basically a FAANG convention. Bunch of depressed Google employees actively trying to get people to steal merch. Shit was weird.

not_bob wrote on June 22, 2023 at 10:03 PM

Reply to Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by Rambler

Red Hat was only ever my choice when I was young and didn't know any better. Best to avoid them entirely.

spektor wrote on September 15, 2022 at 8:23 PM

Reply to comment by Rambler in AlmaLinux vs Rocky Linux, are you using either? by Rambler

It's been a long time since I used anything Redhat maybe around 5.2. Alma I was using on a server, but I vaguely remember it had some issue detecting the RAID so I switched over to Mageia linux and it did quite well. I am trying to get myself more comfortable with Nix as I think that is the direction things ought to go, but I really haven't had much time to fool around with it lately.

Rambler OP wrote on September 15, 2022 at 6:28 PM

Reply to comment by spektor in AlmaLinux vs Rocky Linux, are you using either? by Rambler

I'm using Alma 8.x on about a dozen production servers now, where a RHEL based OS was required or because the software or stack doesn't play well or isn't supported with recent Debian or Ubuntu flavors. I like Alma, though. Seems to have a great community behind it. The only other RHEL based distro I use would be CloudLinux, but it's a commercial OS and sort of niche.

spektor wrote on September 15, 2022 at 5:02 PM

Reply to AlmaLinux vs Rocky Linux, are you using either? by Rambler

I've used alma in the past, and rocky went out on a limb the other day and said what happened to centOS won't happen to us. Usually, when someone says that, it is because the same shit is LIKELY to happen, so I haven't used it yet.