Toxicity in Linux Community (Link)
The Linux For Everyone channel, founded by Jason Evangelho today posted an excellent commentary, written by Alan Diggs on the recurring challenges of the toxicity in the Linux community.
RSS: Controlling Your Feed (Link)
This article is a concise summary on RSS, and why it is a great way to syndicate content. It also hits the nail on the head for why it’s being “killed” (marked as dead) by the content providers most are familiar with. (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) In short, with RSS, everything is chronological from when it was published, no algorithims deciding what you should read. Generally, when a site I have followed has removed RSS, I don’t intentionally stop reading it (aka: I’m not boycotting it), it mostly just falls off my radar, as there are very few sites I directly visit on a regular basis.
PaperSpace and Future Hyper-Converged Computing (Link)
Through an old article in my RSS, I came across this very long twitter post. I found it worth sharing as it expands one of the directions tech is moving in, rapidly. Will we all welcome it? Will it blend well with FOSS? Will it run EMACS or VIM?!? …
Source Twitter Post
Copied in full below for easier reading
Paperspace and Rollapp have my head spinning. It’s so clear this is the future and so clear hardly anyone sees it.
The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan (Link)
This story already circulated plenty in months past, but I decided to link it today after a good co-worker discussion on who writes history, and always being willing to learn facts. In our case, our discussion started with referring to Hunting Hitler, and understanding at the close of the war, people needed to hear we got him!, even if it wasn’t accurate, and he was actively being searched for. The same goes for Japan in 1945, the American public, at least in the short term, needed to hear that the Atomic Bomb developed at great expense and sacrifice ended the war.
Arch Linux – Conflicting Files and the Arch Wiki
It is no secret that my favorite distro for Linux after much trial and error, landed on Arch Linux.
I found I prefer the rolling release model vs major version upgrades and the AUR (Arch User Repository) is incredible for finding and installing packages. That being said, it’s biggest win is the Arch Wiki. I find however, that no matter how often that is repeated in the Arch circles, you still find forums full of solutions that the Arch Wiki covers better, or even conflict the Wiki.
Running i3 Desktop with WSL on Windows 10
While all my personal systems are exclusively running Linux, as is the nature of working in most IT Support roles, the base of my shared company workstation in the office is Windows 10.
After a bunch of article reading, research and testing, this is a quick summary of what I use to have what has worked for me as a fully functioning i3 graphical desktop, running via WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) on a functioning X-Server. For me at least, I’ve found it works much better than when I tried to have a VM running on the workstation, as it’s far from new or high performance.