Linux Mint 22.1 Slated for Release in December with Revamped Cinnamon Theme
The Linux Mint 22.1 distribution was slated for release in December 2024 with a revamped Cinnamon theme and better package management.Slated for release in December 2024, near the Christmas holidays, Linux Mint 22.1 will ship with the soon-to-be-released Cinnamon 6.4 desktop environment featuring a revamped theme that’s much darker and contrasted than before, rounded elements, redesigned dialogs, and a gap between the applets and the panel.
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The transition towards Aptkit and Captain is now finished. Starting with Linux Mint 22.1, set to be released this December, none of our projects will depend on aptdaemon, synaptic, gdebi or apturl anymore.
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Can't boot Clonezilla image from Surface Go 1 to Acer Apire 5737z
Hi everyone,
I have a finely tuned Fedora 40 image that I cloned using Clonezilla (see: sh.itjust.works/post/25762756)
I wanted to deploy it on my old Acer Aspire 5737z but it won’t boot. It’s just displaying a — on a black screen for hours.
I’m not so knowledgeable but I guess it means I would have to reinstall the GRUB or whatever.
I’ve booted into my Fedora Live USB and tried the lsblk command people were talking about on the web (I don’t understand the terminal). Here's the result.
I think the SDA disk is the one I would like to boot from.
Can anyone help me understand what I have to do 😇🙏
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Hey there!
It sounds like you’re on the right track! The black screen with a dash usually means the bootloader (GRUB in this case) might need some love. So, you’ll likely need to reinstall GRUB on your old Acer.
Here's a simple way to do it from your Fedora Live USB:
- Open a terminal (if it’s not already).
- Run
lsblk
to confirm that your old Acer’s drive is/dev/sda
. - Mount the Fedora partition with something like:
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
(Make sure/dev/sda1
is the correct partition; adjust if needed). - Install GRUB by running:
sudo grub2-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda
- Then create a new GRUB config with:
sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /mnt/boot/grub2/grub.cfg
- Reboot and fingers crossed, it should work!
It sounds a bit like magic (or some weird old ritual), but it should help your Acer find its way. Give it a shot! If it doesn’t work, let us know exactly what you see. We’ve got your back!
Thanks for the precise answer adapted to a rookie like me😇😅
Sadly it ain't working. I guess the GRUB installing part which is problematic.
Yes, Actually, Individual Responsibility Is Essential to Solving the Climate Crisis
A fixation on system change alone opens the door to a kind of cynical self-absolution that divorces personal commitment from political belief. This is its own kind of false consciousness, one that threatens to create a cheapened climate politics incommensurate with this urgent moment.
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Because here’s the thing: When you choose to eat less meat or take the bus instead of driving or have fewer children, you are making a statement that your actions matter, that it’s not too late to avert climate catastrophe, that you have power. To take a measure of personal responsibility for climate change doesn’t have to distract from your political activism—if anything, it amplifies it.
The thing with 99% leverage sadly has only a chance of 1% to happen while the 1% leverage thing you can just make happen. And if you make the 1% thing happen in more people the votes for the 99% thing start to go up as well. And eating less meat does have an impact. For years now i read headlines that year n had less pig meat being eaten in total than year n-1 (pork being the focus as my country afaik does not have a big beef industry so it's not as relevant to report about it)
We have very little influence on the industry as a whole but if you buy less meat, the meat industry actually becomes smaller over time. The alternative products also become more and more. Super markets over here all have a vegan shelf at least and there's more vegan only restaurants opening up in my city that even made my meat eater colleagues go there to eat from time to time.
if you buy less meat, the meat industry actually becomes smaller over time.
that has never happened.
Målet med kriminalpolitiken måste vara att minska brottsligheten, inte att spärra in så många som möjligt i fängelse. En kriminalpolitik inriktad på att fängsla så många personer som möjligt för så lång tid som möjligt är en misslyckad kriminalpolitik. Det minskar nämligen inte brottsligheten vilket tydligt kan åskådliggöras av exemplet USA.
Man som bedrev juristverksamhet dömd till fängelse. Hovrätten över Skåne och Blekinge har dömt en man som bedrev juristverksamhet för brott mot många klienter. Mannen dömdes till fyra års fängelse för bland annat grovt bedrägeri, grov förskingring och grovt bokföringsbrott.
Strax efter klockan tio på söndagskvällen kom det in larm till polisen om skottlossning i Rissne, Sundbyberg. När polisen kom till platsen anträffades två personer i 20-årsåldern med skottskador. De fördes med ambulans till sjukhus. En av dem ska vara lindrigt skadad medan den andre är allvarligt sakdad.
Interstate is closed outside Atlanta as residents evacuate due to a chemical plant fire
Some residents east of Atlanta were evacuated while others were told to shelter in place Sunday to avoid contaminants from a chemical plant fire that sent a massive plume of dark smoke high into the sky that could be seen from miles away.
Interstate 20 was shut down in both directions in the area, the Georgia Department of Transportation said in a post on X. Reports said traffic was snarled as vehicles backed up in the area after the closure.
The fire ignited when a sprinkler head malfunctioned around 5 a.m. Sunday at the BioLab plant in Conyers, Rockdale County Fire Chief Marian McDaniel told reporters. The malfunction caused water to mix with a water-reactive chemical, producing a plume of chemicals.
Interstate is closed outside Atlanta due to chemical plant fire
Some residents east of Atlanta were evacuated and others told to shelter in place after a fire at a chemical plant. Fire Chief Marian McDaniel told reporters that a sprinkler head malfunctioned around 5 a.m. Sunday at the BioLab plant in Conyers.AP News
Yep. While simple to prepare, this will affect almost nobody, as it requires the user to perform an increasingly rare action in a world that's often going paperless.
Also, the likelihood that a regular user will expose port 631 to the internet is probably close to zero. There's several uncommon pieces that have to be in place for this to work, to the point that it's not a simple matter to execute this exploit.
this will affect almost nobody
Is that really true? From evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/Atta…
Full disclosure, I’ve been scanning the entire public internet IPv4 ranges several times a day for weeks, sending the UDP packet and logging whatever connected back. And I’ve got back connections from hundreds of thousands of devices, with peaks of 200-300K concurrent devices.
The very next sentence:
Note that everything that is not Linux has been filtered out [in this filtered list of unique IPs]. That is why I was getting increasingly alarmed during the last few weeks.
They said they were getting duplicates and non-*nix hits with that 300k number, which doesn't help them (i.e. the hundreds of thousands of hits was artificially inflated). So yes, the threat is overblown.
Coupled with the fact that patches are already out, and it's easily mitigated by closing 631, and I don't expect this will be much of a problem for most people.
How's that? If I'm running a Windows machine, how would a CUPS exploit affect me?
I'm not asking maliciously, but I genuinely don't grasp how that could be a viable attack vector.
Say I host a malicious server with ipv6 only. You visit the site without NAT. I get your ip and ip:631 is open (unless firewall and listen is restricted to prefix). Usual attack afterwards.
Edit: You need to have ipv6, for example many mobile networks.
I have full IPv6, none of my ports that I haven't explicitly whitelisted in the firewall can be accessed from the Internet. I can open a host completely, but it's not default. This is on the most common brand of consumer routers here.
Just because it's not NATted doesn't mean there's no firewall in place.
Yeah ofcourse firewall is the good idea here. I personally have firewall on on every device so that I can manage what can connect and from where.
The point is though often people just disable firewalls (some distros do not install/enable by default too) to workarround certain issues quickly like kdeconnect not connecting, bridge not working and such.
That's how I think the whole 'ipv4 NAT is the best (consumer) firewall' concept came popular.
I don't know why the guy just assumed every linux and BSD machine runs cups-browsed by default?
It took me literally 5 seconds to check that it's disabled on Fedora by default.
Then he wrote a whole paragraph about how no one should use CUPS for printing because based off of his own analysis, it's some insanely crappy and insecure system.
Which is actually stupid because the only alternative is windows?????????? Which is universally known for printer driver and spooler vulnerabilities.
Then he got mad the the maintainer for patching before his disclosure.....
I made a script that configures Ubuntu (mainly its GNOME) the way I like it. I also made it work in Debian and Fedora.
It doesn't do any crazy ricing, as I mostly focused on usability tweaks and automatic installation of my must-have extensions. (Tiling, clipboard manager, dash to dock, desktop icons)
Most notable tweaks include:
- clicking on a running app minimizes it
- clicking on a group of apps brings up their previews
- adds minimize, maximize buttons to windows
- installs flatpak, adds flathub
- install flatpak and snap plugins into gnome-software (doesn't work on Fedora)
- installs snap
- installs mtp-tools and gvfs-backends on Debian to be able to transfer files from a connected phone
- adds right click > New File
- Super + Shift + S brings up the area screenshot
- Super + E opens the file manager
- Ctrl + Alt + T opens the terminal
(Those already configured on Ubuntu don't get configured again, obviously.)
I also recorded a short showcase to prove that it works without errors youtu.be/xf739ivb9hg
GitHub - Tsu-gu/tsubuntu: Tweaks for Ubuntu 20.04 - 24.04
Tweaks for Ubuntu 20.04 - 24.04. Contribute to Tsu-gu/tsubuntu development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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flathub.org/apps/io.github.vik…
Seems very user friendly and can do everything except for installing software.
Cleveland Clinic Discovers Bacterium Causing Gut Immunodeficiency
Cleveland Clinic Researchers Discover New Bacterium that Causes Gut Immunodeficiency
Findings lay the groundwork for potential new treatments for variety of diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis.Cleveland Clinic
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Anyone know if the MX creative console from logitech works on Linux (and to what degree?
I kinda want to hook one up to raspberry pi for some home control, but I'm not sure if the software to configure it works on Linux (or how it even presents itself HID-device wise)
I'm sure it'll eventually be reverse engineered and have some custom drivers on github soon, but a quick google came up empty for this new device.
Edit: Oh I just realized this hasn't been released yet, I saw the "buy now" button and assumed it was.
MX Creative Console - Customizable Dial and Keypad | Logitech
Streamline your creative workflow with intuitive controls. Maximize precision with the dialpad and access countless customization through the LCD keys of the keypad.www.logitech.com
It's $269.99 and has 9 programmable buttons. It's designed to control rent-seeking apps like Photoshop.
The Streamdeck XL costs $200 and has 32 programmable buttons. I'm using it to control my dorm room through Home-Assistant, and my robot camera through Bitfocus Companion.
Logitech does not support Linux.
Most of the current compatibility of Logitech devices comes from, Linux devs reverse engineering their software, USB standards or from default programing stored in the device.
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Mandelbrot Viewer: a cool program that renders the Mandelbrot Fractal
Hello everyone! This is a small program I made yesterday to render the Mandelbrot Fractal with beautiful colors!
It isn't as fast as other programs (e.g. XaoS) but it is the first good program I have made using OpenGL. I may update it to render some other fractals too in the future (e.g. The Burning Ship).
I hope you like it!
GitHub - Vitaspiros/mandelbrotViewer: A program written in C++ and GLSL that can render the Mandelbrot Fractal using OpenGL.
A program written in C++ and GLSL that can render the Mandelbrot Fractal using OpenGL. - Vitaspiros/mandelbrotViewerGitHub
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in reply to IHave69XiBucks • • •I installed an emoji quick search app (not sure what one). It freezes Wayland/mint.
I tried Wayland once and didnt realise I was still logging in with it.
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in reply to BlanK0 • • •This is my grandpa time, but I love Cinnamon for the less modern UI.
The new UI won't bother me a cent, but I really disliked KDE for no apparent reason, and Cinnamon hit right what I like about a UI.
I understand that a lot of things can be customized, but I am talking about OoB experience.
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in reply to BlanK0 • • •I don’t think this new design will be used in Linux Mint by default. I believe this is just for distros that use Cinnamon’s default theme, which is different from Linux Mint’s default theme.
But who knows, maybe it could also become default in Linux Mint.
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in reply to Leaflet • • •First sentence of the article
"new default Cinnamon theme coming to Linux Mint 22.1 later this year."
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in reply to thanksforallthefish • • •It says that in the 9to5Linux article, not the original source. The blog post simply says "becomes ready for inclusion in the next version of Cinnamon."
Not to say that the 9to5Linux article is wrong since Linux Mint very well could ship the new theme as an option, but not the default theme.
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in reply to pnutzh4x0r • • •I love Mint 22 so far, it really has matured where my home computer is running Mint is more stable than my work computer running Windows 11, luckily my company uses CrowdStrike so nothing to worry there.
But really I now recommend Mint to my non tech savvy friends and family, as a person who uses Linux should! But joking aside took my sister's old laptop running Windows 7, slapped a SSD and upped the ram to 8 GB into it with Mint and she has been happy
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