ThSince last Sunday, I've been trying to install Debian 12 as a server OS on a Dell XPS 8900. I've seemingly been so close and yet so far. I've gotten 2 errors repeatly. One is one I can't avoid, the other one I can.

The one I haven't been able to avoid is "fclose: no space left on device". I have tried changing grub settings to 'pcie_aspm=off'. I tried changing the actual pcie for the hard drive, maybe I had a faulty one. The only thing I can think of is that I took the hard drive out, plugged it into a laptop via USB to check if it had anything important and put it back in to install Debian.

The other issue is an out of memory kernal panic but that's been fixed.

This has been a pretty major source of frustration all week. If anyone can suggest something that might help. I'll try it, cheers

Have a dog with a melon, look at him with his melon, so proud

I'm using linux mint 21.3, and a process (brave aka chrome) sometimes memory leaking, so eats all the RAM, and then linux goes into swap death loop, when everything freezes (sometimes the mouse cursor is moving), and nothing can't be done, i can just see the HDD led blinking, and do a reset. Is there a way to make the system automatically detect swap death loop, and close the biggest ram user process, and so on?

Thanks to /u/[email protected] for mentioning KDE window rules. In KDE, we can add rules for windows so that they behave in specific ways. One rule that can be added is the position: remember rule, and it's possible to make that rule apply to all windows by removing the match field. This way, closing and reopening windows keeps them where they were.

This is a very typical complaint about wayland that a lot of people have, something that apparently worked natively with X11 and annoyed me to no end since I had to position all the windows every day when logging into my desktop. No more! I hope this helps :)

https://imgur.com/a/zrvbRPI

There's a Python program that I update regularly. Every time I update the program, I need to modify a specific Python file to change its functionality. Instead of manually patching the file each time, I'd like to automate the process.

I'm looking for a way to automatically apply a patch to a Python file whenever the program updates or if the file doesn't have the desired modifications.

Any advice or suggestions on how to automate this process would be greatly appreciated!

More comments to read : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166670

Some tl;dr takeaways :

I was shocked that nobody had ever noticed this bug in the mainline kernel, but that’s what happened. I guess to be more accurate, the OLPC project did notice it at one point, but since they had a workaround it wasn’t a huge deal. I decided to go ahead and fix the underlying problem.

I first submitted my fix for this problem in September 2022, but I didn’t receive any responses. I ended up resubmitting it later that year and CCing the main SoC maintainers the second time, and they took care of merging my fix. It was finally released with Linux 6.2 and was also backported to several 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x kernels. Ever since I implemented this fix, I haven’t noticed any problems with CPU time reporting on my Chumby.

It was very satisfying to be able to fix the problem! The time I spent was totally worth it too. I learned all about how procfs works and how top gets its info about CPU usage. I still feel like I know almost nothing about the internals of the Linux kernel, but solving a problem like this was a fantastic way to dip my toes into it.

The last device I own that doesn't run an open source operating system is an iPad. I basically use it as a laptop most of the time with a keyboard case, but I do like being able to take just the screen to use as a drawing/note-taking tablet. I treat it more like a "convertible" device rather than a tablet alone.

I'm not in a rush to replace it, iPadOS is, eh, usable, but there are things that get on my nerves often. I definitely wouldn't be upgrading to another iPad model if this one died. I'm curious on what kind of hardware is available out there with good Linux support that I can keep in mind for the future. My only requirements would be that it runs normal Linux distros (ideally Fedora) and has a pen/display that supports pressure sensitivity.

The Minisforum V3 looks pretty damn cool. There's also the Microsoft Surface devices that ironically seem popular with Linux users. Anyone have any experience with these kinds of devices? What do you think? What's your favorite device in this class?

I am trying to figure out how I can retain personal SSH keys (probably the most important part, or at least important to have an alternative connection method) while also having modern tools like SSO or at least SAML, some way to federate to different ADs.

I know there are a few things out there like Authentik and Authelia, but not 100% sure Authentik covers those needs above. Does anyone have experience with these or other modern LDAP alternatives that work well with Linux?

Curious from people who follow its development closely.

• What protocol are about to be finally implemented?
• Which ones are still a struggle?
• How many serious protocols are there missing?

https://arewewaylandyet.com/

I'm looking for a timer applet that can go in the system tray where I can put in a time and it will count down and give me a notification when the time is up.

A Shell DSL that transforms into Python.

I created this IDE to spin up Tkinter UIs or anything Python with less boilerplate and rich cognitive and efficiency shortcuts: for me, I think this tool helps me prototype GUI apps quicker with less characters typed so less effort.

I would love to take this further if I could get anyone interested. Thanks.

https://github.com/dislux-hapfyl/shimky

I've had this same issue on Gentoo and now on Alpine, both with plasma 6 (Wayland). Pipewire and plasma 6 seem to be working as intended other than that... Any help would be appreciated!

E: the issue is plasma 6 exclusive, I have hyprland installed along side it and screensharing works just fine there

Ive been wanting to upgrade from Plasma 5 to 6 for some time, but I don't want to manually upgrade, risking breaking everything.

So, does anyone know when they will release Manjaro with KDE Plasma 6?

New Major Features for 3.0

• Upgraded to Fedora 40
  • KDE Plasma 6 - GNOME 46 - Linux Kernel 6.8 - AMD/Intel GPU driver upgrades
  • Ayn Loki Max Pro support
  • Ayn Loki Zero support
  • Improvements for supported handhelds
    • HHD Overlay is now stable
    • Gyro support parity with Lenovo Legion Go
    • Charge limits set for Lenovo Legion Go
    • ASUS ROG Ally custom TDP that use the kernel driver
    • Custom fan curve support for ASUS ROG Ally
  • Added CDEmu
  • Added Ollama ujust command
  • Added fastfetch
  • Added zoxide

All of that, and more details about the rest can be read on the announcement page here ---> https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/announcing-bazzite-3-0/1218

MX Linux, Xfce 4.18

Closing the laptop lid suspends the system, opening it resumes it, but the screen is black. I'm guessing it's related to powerup because suspending through the logout menu and systemctl suspend both work as expected. When it's black, switching to a different tty works, as well as C-M-Backspace to logout.

Same results with both lightdm and sddm, when replacing suspend with hibernate, and I've tried a few solutions like disabling lock on sleep.

Seems like this issue has been around for years, but had a whole bunch of different causes since every other thread has a different solution.

XFSETTINGSD_DEBUG=1 xfsettingsd --replace --no-daemon > /tmp/xf.log 2>&1

ps -ef | grep -E 'screen|lock'

xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -lv

dmesg, cleared it before trying to suspend

updates:

I'm not seeing a black screen, instead it turns on the display and then turns it off.

Additionally, I tried closing and opening the lid a few times, and it woke up correctly.

I tried it in i3wm with the xfce power manager to suspend after closing the lid. It woke up correctly 10 times in a row.

Solution: start an xrandr config and the monitor turns back on.

After five months since the last patch and almost two years since the 0.2.0 release, version 0.3.0 of the minimalist Wayland tiler river has dropped last week.

The new version improves rendering performance and damage tracking, adds several quality of life features, such as resizing windows from all sides, extend the rules system, and supports several new Wayland protocols like text-input-v3, input-method-v2, fractional-scale-v1 and more.

Full change log can be found here.

Please don't get me wrong, this is not meant to be rude slander. MX Linux is not a bad Distro at all (even tho I've always opted for Debian instead) and peops are free to use what suits them best.

But compared to other Distros (like Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian or Mint) there doesn't seem to be much excitement about it. I hardly see articles about MX and I have barely seen people outing themselves as MX users which makes me wonder:

Are MX users just low key quiet, am I escaping their presence or is there a different reason for MX' high HPD score?

Btw: feel free to take a shot every time I write MX :p

Hello everyone, I have a weird problem with my mouse: when I switch the window focus, e.g. by alt tabbing to another window, or by closing a window, and the newly focused window is on my other monitor my mouse will jump to that monitor without me doing anything. It is not a deal breaker or something, but it is very annoying...

I am using Fedora 39 with Gnome 45 with xorg, nvidia 2070 super, running the nvidia drivers and a Ryzen 3600.

I looked in my control center for mouse options, but they are very much limited