My Samsung netbook (single-core dual-threaded CPU [email protected]) listed in my signature below, runs too slowly with 64-bit LL 3 & 4 series to make this worthwhile. However, it's the same story with other 64-bit OSes, like Manjaro-xfce which is currently installed on it. Does anyone have any ideas on what distros would run smoothly with a single core Intel Atom CPU, like the one I have? Combing the internet, I  have seen Puppy Linux suggested, while others recommend a 32-bit xfce desktop system, even though it has a 64-bit architecture.

I was wondering what your thoughts were on this, here at the LL forum ...

Just installed Linux Lite as a dual boot on it's own SSD.  I have three monitors.  The two additional monitors are displayed through USB to VGA adapters (EVGA UV+16).  I can get them configured and working properly, but every time I reboot I lose the settings and start with only one monitor.

I am a Linux NEWB.  Need help - THANKS!

Hi.

The scanner is not accessible from Vuescan (nor simple scan - at least before installing xsane)

I have used Vuescan on the same computer successfully with other scanners:

• Epson Stylus DX4250 (USB / no additional driver installed)
  
• Epsson expression home XP-432 (USB / no additional driver installed)
  
• Epson Perfection 4490 Photo (USB / Driver from 2015 installed)
  
• HP Officejet Pro 8610 (USB / no additional driver installed)
  

• Ran lsusb -v to make sure that the OS can see the device.
  
• Included the scanner in the 40-libsane.rules -file
  
• Looking in LQ list of hardware. Found it there and a post from 2005 suggest it works with xsane.
  
• Installed xsane (xsane can communicate to the scanner but Vuescan cannot)
  
• Searched for driver for the scanner - no one (if any) found when searched online.
  
• Tried to run Vuescan as root (just to exclude the possibility that the 40-libsane.rules somehow fails to allow the program to access the scanner w/o administrative privilegies)
  

I would like to point out some icons available for the desktop taskbar are of various sizes, therefore messing up the aesthetics of the utility. Secondary of importance if to mind only functional appeal, nonetheless, in the end, coherent overall image is also certain sign of proper polish. I do understand, though, that lack of any fixed standard in the Linux world does not help to improve the matter.

Linux stands for individual independence in the realm of personal computers. The diversity only within the Linux world is self evident as a proof towards a hypothesis that Linux opposes any form of digital monopoly or centralized control, within and without. Linux means thinking for oneself, ideally speaking.

Cloud services introduce a new quality to the playground. Even though there is little doubt whether the cloud services are a universal future, especially for the miniaturization of personal hardware - thus allowing to push technological boundaries further, freeing people from at least a certain deal of the limitations imposed by local equipment, resultantly making a step forward in the process of technocratic transcendence and user emancipation - it also implies a different type of mindset. The crucial hardware is no longer on the user. The thinking part, is no longer on the user. The control, is not on the user. It is elsewhere. The chance for dominance of external control is granted.

Linux has always thusfar existed on the margin of mainstream appeal. Even though with the rise of cloud services, the Linux based systems themselves may become a more attractive medium for accessing web only solutions, it happens at a cost - the cost of having Linux limited to the position of a middleman. Linux may easily outperform many commercial offers in the range of comparable tasks, for zero monetary cost to be added, nonetheless, every conscious Linux enthusiast should answer oneself a question: what is the role of awareness in having Linux as the primary or the only operating system? Is Linux just a tool of some sort or is it an expression of certain shared moral values? Is my computer still personal or is it simply a husk without distinctive identity?

Cloud services, is a mind external. Personal computers - in the traditional sense - is a mind internal. The war thusfar has been fought over the ownership of the mind internal. But a new face of war may emerge sometime ahead. The war over having a personal mind at all. The war over having anything at all. The war of thinking for oneself.

The war is lost for the majority of actual and potential userbase. The industry dynamics, the ways of infrastructure unfolding, the business mentality, predicts that. But the fight goes on, as long as there is anyone still willing to pick it up. The fight is for realization of the cost at which future comes. Sometimes it is not what we have that defines us, but it is what we loose or mindfully give up, which does it. Priorities remain the same. Individuality, freedom, autonomy.

Linux, is a turtle, a vicious turtle.

I do not say, loose it. I say, dive, but know when to resurface.

Simultaneously, Linux must take the chance of becoming better, evolving, responding to the time, as local infrastructural conditions - which thusfar have kept it behind the competition, isolated - become weaker.

In the digital age, it is the consciousness factor, which differentiates those swimming from those drowning.

What particular digital activity can you name, that generates the highest prolonged use - and thus the heat - of either the CPU or the CPU and GPU both?

[Edited for stylistics]

Came across this.... Look who 1st
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Best rising Linux distros | TechRadar
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I noticed a while back that AlphaVantage has discontinued the BATCH_QUOTE function. So in the process of explaining how to work with the new GLOBAL_QUOTE function and manipulate its .csv downloads to get and tabulate multiple quotes together into one output file I thought I'd go ahead and incorporate using conky to display quotes as an option. Below is a link to my tutorial on how to do this with a BASH script and a little basic NIX like cut, tail, cat and output building of delimited files. You can basically replace the missing BATCH_ function of the API this way and build and columnize a single output from multiple outputs and wget operations. There are plenty of images and unfortunately I couldn't get imgur to work right today, who knows why, to display one. Check out the tutorial if you want to see how it looks.

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Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life!

Today I'd like to share with you how to create your aliases in fish as well as in bash shell. As some of you probably already know, aliases are like "nicknames" for those commands, often long, we use the most and by "aliasing" them we make them short. In bash, one creates aliases like this

First time user.Installed Linux lite in VIrtualbox and worked flawlessly.However I am not able to share folders between guest and host.I am a newbie but google and tried to put  some commands for example "sudo mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS]My Shared "
mount bad usage..request some help in sharing folders.thank you