Dear @JoeRessington of #LateNightLinux I heard your episode 73 and I can't allow some comments you did.

Let me also say to you that you speak about #Linux, #opensource and #freesoftware but you don't have even a federated/fediverse account, for the sake of what you profess it would be nice having you here for a real confrontation.

You stated that #RMS failed on all the fields he challenged, but this a lie as well as a misconception. Without RMS we would not have #GNU, the #GPL and consequently #Linux. He doesn't failed at all, however he hasn't win either. But it has been the main source of pressure against what Linux has became today, and today Linux sucks.

The #fsf movement is a mosquito among the elephants, too small but still able to annoy! In the good or the bad, RMS has been an unwieldy character, despite its stubbornness and attitude, because he created the impulse that launched everything we talk about daily and because his stuck with his ideals while all the others stakeholder have been trying constantly to hide the most important thing the: freedom.

Freedom is a true value while open source just means a developing method. Please don't overlap you personal feeling against him with the actual facts.

Thanks.

┬─[devuan@devuan:~]─[03:27:34 PM]
╰─>$ ls .config/fish/functions/
aliases.fish  fish_prompt.fish
┬─[devuan@devuan:~]─[03:28:00 PM]
╰─>$ cat .config/fish/functions/aliases.fish 
### Alias

function updt --description 'alias updt sudo apt update'
    sudo apt update $argv;
end


function safe --description 'alias safe sudo apt upgrade'
    sudo apt upgrade $argv;
end

function full --description 'alias full sudo apt full-upgrade'
    sudo apt full-upgrade $argv;
end

function instl --description 'alias instl sudo apt install'
    sudo apt install $argv;
end

function asearch --description 'alias asearch apt search'
     apt search $argv;
end

function aasearch --description 'alias aa

Hi Fish Shell users,

I have a question, I am trying to create a config file where I stored all my recurrent actions however it doesn't work. I don't understand why, the only hypothesis I have is that you have to create each command separated which will be pretty annoying.

┬─[devuan@devuan:~]─[03:27:34 PM]
╰─>$ ls .config/fish/functions/
aliases.fish  fish_prompt.fish
┬─[devuan@devuan:~]─[03:28:00 PM]
╰─>$ cat .config/fish/functions/aliases.fish 
### Alias

function updt --description 'alias updt sudo apt update'
    sudo apt update $argv;
end


function safe --description 'alias safe sudo apt upgrade'
    sudo apt upgrade $argv;
end

function full --description 'alias full sudo apt full-upgrade'
    sudo apt full-upgrade $argv;
end

function instl --description 'alias instl sudo apt install'
    sudo apt install $argv;
end

function asearch --description 'alias asearch apt search'
     apt search $argv;
end

function aasearch --description 'alias aasearch aptitude search'
     aptitude search $argv;
end 

function show --description 'alias show apt show'
     apt show $argv;
end 

function psgrep --description 'alias psgrep ps ax | grep'
     ps ax | grep $argv;
end 

function story --description 'alias story history | grep'
     history | grep $argv;
end 

function nano --description 'alias nano nano -x -m -i -c -S'
     nano -x -m -i -c -S $argv;
end

function html2pdf --description 'alias updt sudo apt update'
     wkhtmltopdf $argv;
end 

Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance!

#linux #shell #fishshell #gnu #opensource #freesoftware #bash

Web Server Information

Find out which web server is running a specific site.

This is a cyclic topic however I can't find a proper answer for this but:

If #ColdFusion is so damn better than #PHP why does almost no one use it?

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all

I read a lot of very enthusiastic comparisons on how good is #CF and eventually I can't avoid to think that most of those are paid (by Adobe) reviews...

If a thing is better and and help you to make your work faster doesn't matter if it is expensive. It has also available an open source alternative. Facebook doesn't use coldfusion but a modified PHP, not even Adobe uses ColdFusion:

Web Server Information

Find out which web server is running a specific site. See information like web dedicated server name, operating system, available modules, etc.
Header 	Value
Web server 	Apache
HTTP response code 	200
Server Address 	http://adobe.com
accept-ranges 	bytes
cache-control 	max-age=900
connection 	close
content-encoding 	gzip
content-length 	11940
content-type 	text/html; charset=UTF-8
date 	Tue, 06 Aug 2019 21:55:52 GMT
expires 	Tue, 06 Aug 2019 22:10:52 GMT
server 	Apache
server-timing 	cdn-cache; desc=HIT,edge; dur=1
strict-transport-security 	max-age=86400
vary 	Accept-Encoding
x-adobe-content 	AEM-Offers
x-adobe-loc 	uw2
x-akamai-transformed 	9 - 0 pmb=mRUM,3
x-content-type-options 	nosniff
x-frame-options 	SAMEORIGIN
Time to contact web server 	0.857391 seconds

This is also pretty ridiculous...

Oh man this drive me crazy... /(*0*)\

#webdev #webdevelepment #server-side #web #webserver

tl;dr I think this is something that happens from time to time but I think I need to change distro for a while. And I just realized this long post is for me, because I have to deal with my ideals and I am not really happy to do that, but I am not having fun with Debian recently and I need to solve it.

After ten years of #Debian I see Debian changing in something that I don't recognize or I don't feel comfortable with it. Many years ago Debian was also synonymous of innovations, on every fields, today what happens in Debian is, along to slow, behind the scene, like the Risc-V port but for the Desktop area there is nothing exciting and since the #systemd debate I had the feelings that Debian simply refused to lead in favor on just following the events. I mean I am really prone to think if tomorrow Ubuntu is shipped with Just snaps that Debian will follow the same, honestly DEB/DPKG/APT are just old as sysvinit and if you changed the latter there is no reason why you can't change even the former.

Today there are a tons of very good Desktop oriented distros, it is just me and Debian that we are stick like ten years ago. Today we have community project like #ElementaryOS, #ZorynOS or #LinuxMint, and sponsored distros like the same #Ubuntu, #PureOS and #Pop OS!. Without forgetting #ArchLinux, #Fedora and #Opensuse #Leap and #Tumbleweed. I probably will not choice the last three big; and among the ones I quoted early only PureOS is a Debian (testing) based distro, and the #Purism is also the only company that gives back to Debian, which makes PureOS a really strong candidate however because my laptop is a System76 one probably I will end to install Pop_OS!

When I bought my laptop the first thing I did was to erase any trace of *buntu... I really can't handle Canonical, it is from when Ubuntu just meant "I am unable to install Debian", I really don't like the behavior of Canonical in every sense, this is why I would not ever use a distro based on Ubuntu.

What, from my point of view, makes Debian superior respect the other distro available is because the DSFG, because it can't be only about technology! Technology without ethic is dangerous for all us and produce pollution, weapons, etc... Technology with an ethical approach produces wellness for everyone and produces also free software and distros like Debian.

This is why I am really reluctant to leave Debian even if for a while; and #GuixSD is not ready yet for a desktop use, and probably it is not even desktop oriented. But in Debian there is not space if you aren't a devs and the Debian users aren't really prone to accept changes and every debate in Debian fall down because Debian must be Debian as is known while you can change constantly if you respect your ideals.

The informatics is my entertainment and today I am not really happy with Debian, hence I am looking around. I am watching Pop_OS! closely.It is based on two of the pieces of software that I like the lesser, Ubuntu and #Gnome3, however it is modern and it works as a modern distro should do. For example it was able to install the "virtual box guest additions" out of the box, it recognized the executable file inside the "virtual cd" automatically. That was pretty impressive, at least for me. With Pop_os!/Ubuntu I can install all the QT applications as snap by default and keep my system clean while I have the snap software always updated.

Those are cool things, that aren't important in order to make your computer or OS usable, so I don't pretend that Debian must follow the same path, but, as a matter of fact today Debian is not following any path if not just collecting upstream software to produce a stable distro (IMHO). I am confident that in the future Debian will shine again, probably the competition with GuixSD will trigger this change, but in the meantime I will install Pop_Os!

#gnu #foss #floss #linux #freesoftware #linuxdesktop

Last time I tried GuixSD, I was unable to install it on Virtual Box, but with the latest build I was able to install it as any other distro...

This is already a big success and then I tried to explore a bit how it works... The main goal for now is to install the "guest addition" in order to have better performance on the VM.

The first limit I found is the documentation, actually I always have been finding the Linux man pages uneasy to understand, somehow cryptic, with improbably examples. Anyway, First thing I tried to understand if there were collections that can help to get all the packages I needed for the build from source but I didn't find any. I found some packages that download with them a lot of others packages, so basically I had should be ready.

Then I inserted the virtual cd but there wasn't any virtual cd. I checked the setting of the DE, I installed XFCE4, and everything was already properly set up then I thought maybe was a matter of permits and groups. Actually I wasn't in cdrom group so I tried to add my user but there wasn't the package, then I installed the package but it didn't work as well. Thus reading the documentation, I understood that you have to edit or modify a configuration file (https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/guix.html#Using-the-Configuration-System), where it lies it still a mistery for me, but I admit that was my fault, I am not so smart. However after a while reading many times the documentation I gave up temporarily.

My second objective was to uninstall GDM3 for installing SLIM, I don't need GDM3 with Xfce4, thus I tried to figure out if a package is installed or not, so far I saw you can know almost everything about a package but not if this is installed. So far I saw, I said, so probably it was my fault again.

After that I decided to install an editor, to start I would install Geany, but not available, then I said that even Mousepad was fine, but unavailable. This made me suspicious... And I queried again through the terminal to see how many gui and user friendly editors were available on GuixSD and... and... and... panic!

As I might be expected from the official FSF Linux distro, it is practically wrapped around Emacs... That was too much for me, and hence I power off the VM and decided to take at least another week before to launch GuixSD again; but I am still confident eventually I will be able to use it.

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/

#linux #guix #guixsd #fsf #freesoftware #opensource #foss #floss #noob #LinuxDesktop #linuxdistros