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Raspberry Pi OS Now Using Wayland By Default On All Models​

" Over the past year we have seen Raspberry Pi working a lot on Wayland support for the Raspberry Pi OS desktop and using it on their latest Raspberry Pi models. With today's new Raspberry Pi OS update, Wayland is being used by default across all Raspberry Pi devices.

The new Raspberry Pi OS update shipping today is using Wayland across all Raspberry Pi models. Labwc is also now the Wayland compositor of choice and those upgrading their existing Raspberry Pi OS installation will be prompted whether to switch to Labwc or keep using the prior Wayfire compositor. "

 
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boards of canada said:
Does anyone here have experience with Devuan? I'm currently using Artix, but I'm not happy with bleeding edge and I'd rather have something stable even if a little outdated. Devuan sounds good because I refuse to use anything systemd, but I'm still not sure.
Are there any better non-systemd (preferably shipping with openrc) distros for someone who doesn't have as much free time to "tinker"?
Sorry if there's been discussion on this before.
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I don't think I could give up the AUR after having moved to artix but I used devuan and still have a few systems with it around (including a pi zero w). It worked pretty well but as with all debian bases the jank or reinstall when upgrading to new releases is annoying. I am 99.7% sure they have an open-rc version.

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I think looking at it like, one is more trustworthy over another is a flawed way to see things. To me any government is going to be just as bad as the next. Doesn't matter if it's the US or Russia.
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Who would you rather have a back door into your computer:

Government that can and will use deadly force on you, considers posting here wrong-think, and has laws to destroy your life (250k per) for downloading "copywrited" works.
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Government on the other side of the planet with no power over you that has legalized piracy.

Unless you are so high up that blackmailing you is geopolitically relevant then the choice is clear.

TheDataHorder said:
anyways in other news, apparently snaps can be drivers, who knew?
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Ubuntu continuing to prove they're the blackest retard gorilla niggers in open source. I am a bit surprised by how far intel has fallen.
 
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SCV said:
I don't think I could give up the AUR after having moved to artix but I used devuan and still have a few systems with it around (including a pi zero w). It worked pretty well but as with all debian bases the jank or reinstall when upgrading to new releases is annoying. I am 99.7% sure they have an open-rc version.

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Who would you rather have a back door into your computer:

Government that can and will use deadly force on you, considers posting here wrong-think, and has laws to destroy your life (250k per) for downloading "copywrited" works.
-or-
Government on the other side of the planet with no power over you that has legalized piracy.

Unless you are so high up that blackmailing you is geopolitically relevant then the choice is clear.


Ubuntu continuing to prove they're the blackest retard gorilla niggers in open source. I am a bit surprised by how far intel has fallen.
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Like 5 years ago, my roommate ended up getting caught trying to download a pirated TV show. You know what happened? A warning popped up on their screen, then a few weeks later we got a letter in the mail from the Internet company saying to not keep doing that. That was literally all.

The other stuff. I mean, idk I feel like you either don't actually live in the US, or you spend way to much time looking at the world through image boards and here, if you think thats what it's like.
 
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Nice. Fedorabros, we eatin' good tonight.

 
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Even an open source program can be infiltrated by the CIA and Mossad just like any other western software and hardware company it seems. If the government is going to create compliance restrictions to control open source programs just like they do with everything else how can open source really preserve its own freedom and the freedom of its users? Would we need some based linux distro that has downloads hosted in a foreign country?

On another note, seeing Linus start repeating propaganda words to explain his compliance is just depressing. He is not a stupid man who suddenly forgot what open source means after spending his life creating it, we can only wonder what kind of leverage is being wielded against him. The pattern mimics Elon being dragged around to holocaust museums after he tried to take a hard line on free speech. Even the wealthiest elites are being controlled from the shadows and forced into submission in anticipation of our (((controllers))) new world war. Us goyim are expected to have our freedoms spit on if it provides even a slight benefit to them.

And to abstract even further, I hope this trend is a sign of the darkness before the dawn, it seems like the the united states government is weaker then it has ever been geopolitically. They are quickly running out of money, demand for us government bonds could collapse at any moment, we have fewer factories then our adversaries, and our military equipment that is our only asset left is probably not going to perform well against newer cheaper drones made in these new manufacturing powerhouses. These moves like infiltrating every technology company and banning the ones based in foreign countries now extending to open source might be a sign of desperation. When they're banning good tech that's how you know the US has fallen behind and is struggling to maintain its dominance. Good fucking riddance, let it burn to the ground.
 
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I finally got around to posting the write up in the Mad at the internet thread. I tried summing up up dispaly servers, desktop environments, and window managers in a way they can easily understand. Was pretty long winded, but to get an idea of how it works together it takes a lot. I tried making that as short as possible and fitting in a ton of different stuff, while not spending a ton of time on it. So hopefully its not too garbled. then at the end explain what drew was doing with sway. in context of the rest of it.

Betonhaus said:
Qustion, is the correct name for linux "Gnu/Linux" or "Gnu/Linux/Systemd"?
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Gnu + Linux.
 
 
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A flaw was found in the X.org server. Due to improperly tracked allocation size in _XkbSetCompatMap, a local attacker may be able to trigger a buffer overflow condition via a specially crafted payload, leading to denial of service or local privilege escalation in distributions where the X.org server is run with root privileges.
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The CVE-2024-9632 security issue has been present in the codebase now for 18 years and can lead to local privilege escalation...
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Xwayland is also affected...
Don't run xorg as root seems to have been a good practice for a looong time.
 
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Belisarius Cawl said:
Presumably yeah because ps -o user= -C Xorg came back with root. I can't say I'm incredibly worried but is there a quick fix?
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Look up 'xorg non-root,' there's plenty of guides on how to do so, although I myself haven't looked into the Linux Mint side of things. My particular method was setting it using SDDM, creating /etc/sddm.conf.d/rootless-x11.conf and editing it into the following
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[General]
DisplayServer=x11-user
This makes Xorg run as the currently logged-in user.
 
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