@lmemsm the closest I know is @landley 's writeups to his minimalist #Linux "distro" (or rather reference implementation of #toybox + #musl / Linux known as #mkroot.

• toybox on it's own is basically a clean, minimalist #Userland inspired by #BusyBox but licensed under #0BSD.

• mkroot then just is that, Linux Kernel and the necessary "wiring" to make it go brr in #QEMU.

He also releases his toolchain and has (by his own account) basically bootstrapped from there not just to #LinuxFromScratch but also 50% #BeyondLinuxFromScratch to evidence that it can be extended to arbitrary complexity.

• And that's why I chose that as basis for @OS1337 ...

Make the contents of a folder into an ISO and if that is successful, proceed to burn it to a blank CD. #Linux #05

genisoimage -r -joliet-long -o temp.iso temp && wodim -eject -tao speed=0 dev=/dev/sr0 -v -data temp.iso

@lmemsm basically the Idea behind it is to be a brutally simple #toybox + #musl / #linux distro that grew out of the necessity for me to actually think about #firmware for some projects.

• And lets just say I did saw @w84death 's #Floppynux and @landley did present a lot of convincing arguments alongside a literal walktrough to get started.

Basically I want something that is so simple and auditable that it's practical to make it pass any #verification demands for #SecureTerminal|s in #CriticalInfrastructure and #Communications.

• OFC one may point at my other projects and say: "Why don't you just put #RaspberryPiOS on a #microSD?" ignoring that the smallest image is >330MB in size and that seems kinda overkill for essentially my demands for a minimalist #Linux with very few programs in userspace.

Not to mention a #GNUfree - #Linux distro is the way to go if I want that thing to not get bricked constantly by minor #GlibC-changes...

• End goal is something akin to #MSDOS in it's brutal simplicity, but way more extendable.

I hope that answers your question...

• Sorry for the delay.

I hope these notes help someone else.

https://tomshiro.org/foswiki/ALE/Fail2BanFilterHowTo

#linux #security #fail2ban

KLatexFormula makes writing #Latex easy, but don't forget, you lose half of your potential book buyers with each equation you include. #Linux #L6

Me: I wanna rip what you're streaming like I did when I was a girl with a tape recorder and a radio.

Radio Station: Fuck you, no #streamripper because that's piracy pure and simple.

Me: Oh, silly me, I didn't mean rip, I meant I just want to listen on WinAmp.

Radio Station: Okay then. #Linux #J3

VMPK - Virtual #MIDI Piano Keyboard, set up the way I like it. #Linux #J1

@WinFuture statt solcher Hack ist's einfacher und flinker konsequent auf #Linux umzusteigen!

• #UbuntuLTS bringt z.B. alles notwendige direkt mit!

Trump: "The election was rigged!"

Print information for five imaginary voters:

$ rig -c 5

#Linux #I0

@wyatt I still have 3 gripes with what #Microsoft calls #WSL:

1. It's not a "#Windows Subsystem for #Linux", but a "Linux Subsystem for Windows". The real #WindowsSubsystemForLinux is called #Wine, as it provides #Win32 & #Win64 calls on Linux!

2. The "#Unix Subsystem for Windows" aka. "Unix Services for Windows" were to a degree better.

3. "WSL" is less of a compatibility layer and more of a #HyperV - #VM, which also results in issues with #VMware / #VMwareWorkstation and #VirtualBox.

• In short, I'd rather put Windows in a VM on Linux than the other way around...

@wyatt Personally I'd consider just doing some sort of "#FTP on demand" thing or just have a cheap storage VPS on hand for that (or some #Linux Server on the Network that once-a-day pulls the latest installer file and just redistributes it locally.

#Linux #17

@thomasfuchs and now you know why I want a brutally simple #Linux distro like @OS1337 !

• Because shit should he simple and there is no "legitimate excuse" for it to be worse...

@elfin @tantacrul exactly!

Either offer a simple field like #Nautilus in #Gnome (i.e. #UbuntuLTS #Linux) to just enter protocol://user@remote.server.example:/path/to/files/ or the classic "Remote Drive Connection Wizard" on Windows that asked all the parameter and stored them easily, including any "Mountpoints" like Z:/ …

Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" ist erschienen

Linux Mint 22.2 frischt die enthaltene Software auf, nimmt die Fingerabdrücke seiner Nutzer ab und stülpt Libadwaita-Programmen die eigene Optik über.

https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-Mint-22-2-Zara-ist-erschienen-10632731.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#IT #Linux #LinuxMint #OpenSource #LinuxDistribution #Updates #news

Conway's Game of Life with Golly (long time coders love this shit) #Linux #36

YouTube Downloader doesn't work anymore but Ultimate Media Downloader does. #Linux #55

Functy - 3D graph drawing package. Render Cartesian, spherical and parametric curve functions on the GPU. #Linux #34

Plots under #Ubuntu #Linux #Math #73

#Windows #31 running under #dosbox in #Linux with a topo map of Fairfax Bridge in #Washington, which is now closed, making the whole northwest quadrant of #MtRainier National Park inaccessible to anyone not inclined to loop up there on the #WonderlandTrail

@elilla yes!

#Linux is basically "failing to the top" like #BigHead from "Silicon Valley"…

@cryptgoat personally, I do hope for #Valve to make that push, since there's no reason to assume #Microsoft #Windows will be of relevance soon and #Apple #macOS is just doing thibgs different for no valid reason than that they can (see #Metal vs. #Vulkan)...

• #Linux is the future if #PC #Gaming and #SteamOS / #SteamDeck are the way to go about it!

#Windows11 #LinuxGaming #LinuxMasterRace #PCMR

@fuzzyface "Okay, I see a reasonable amount of understanding when I talk about #Linux to non or semi tech literate folks."

And they don't choose it, so your impression may be accurate in some sense.

ChromeOS

You forgot the real elephant in the room: Android. With version 16 it will have a standard desktop UI built-in.

Android especially doesn't want to be known as a Linux distro, and that's a reason why its so successful.

there is one thing I really really dislike about this laptop, though: the stupid fucking copilot key.

it can't possibly be rebound to anything else because it doesn't act like a regular key. it seem to press and also instantly release left meta, left shift, and "f23" all at the same time.

how the hell could something like that possibly function for anything else? it can't be held down to be used like a modifier key since it releases everything instantly, no matter how long it's held down. hell, KDE can't even handle binding it to anything because it can't seem to pick up the F23

just another example of Microsoft actively and aggressively making the entire world worse. and HP has some blame there too.

#microsoft #copilot #hewlettpackard #linux

Alt...

screenshot of output from `sudo libinput debug-events --show-keycodes` which reads: event4 KEYBOARD_KEY +1.507s KEY_LEFTMETA (125) pressed event4 KEYBOARD_KEY +1.508s KEY_LEFTSHIFT (42) pressed event4 KEYBOARD_KEY +1.509s KEY_F23 (193) pressed event4 KEYBOARD_KEY +1.511s KEY_LEFTMETA (125) released event4 KEYBOARD_KEY +1.512s KEY_LEFTSHIFT (42) released event4 KEYBOARD_KEY +1.513s KEY_F23 (193) released also, slightly visible in the background is the face of Nanaki (Red XIII) from Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, because my second husband looks great as a desktop background

Alt...

photo of the stupid microsoft copilot key between right alt and arrow keys, where a super/meta or ctrl key should be instead

I Switched to Linux for 30 Days - Samtime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ20JXCuK9k

#linux #fedora #privacy

Asking again. #Linux folks and #Nextcloud folks and #RaspberryPi folks - any good tutorials or help for someone with some tech experience who wants to set up their own cloud at home?

Please boost for reach? Thanks.

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New laptop has arrived.
Xubuntu is installing.
Windows <anything> doesn't stand a chance in this house.

#Linux #Xubuntu