Linux Mint 20.2 Ulma
The latest version of Linux mint [1] has now been released. I have downloaded the cinnamon edition to give it a go.
In my previous post [2] I gave a link to some suppliers of hardware, Linux mint is one of the OS's that can be pre-installed.
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1 Linux Mint 2 Elementry OS post
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Elementary OS 6
Elementary OS 6 [1] has been released. Looks like this has some nice new features.
I decided to write this post after following a link on their Mastodon [2] post to the Elementary OS store were you can buy Laptops with Elementary OS pre-installed. There are a few suppliers listed. I am picking out star labs here [4] as the are United Kingdom based. They appear to sell quite a few Linux friendly laptops and offer a range of OS choices. What is also great is they seem reasonably priced. I am not too sure how much these are fully freeOS friendly (e.g Debian) however it is nice to just be able to buy hardware without Windows for a start.
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Debian 11 – Bullseye
Debian 11 release day
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Support and help
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Debian 11 Release
Debian 11 (Bullseye) is due for release on the 14th August.
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Command and Conquer Red Alert
So having installed Debian 11, I have now installed the snap daemon and the C&C Red Alert game. So slowing getting back to some of what I had on my Debian 10 install.
A few screenshots are included below.
Please feel free to chat on Mastodon or on IRC (See links below)
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Ubuntu 21.04
The new features found in Ubuntu 21.04 [1]
A quick overview of the features of the latest release of the Ubuntu operating system (OS).
This video is provided via Invidious, which is a front end to Youtube, twitter etc that filters out tracking etc. This can be done automatically via Privacy Redirect plug-in [2] for Firefox.
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Devon and Cornwall GNU / Linux user group meeting – May 2021
The next Linux user group [1] meeting will take place, this Saturday at 12:00 on Meet.jit.si. Please see website, for more details and a link to the video chat. Our IRC channel is open 24/7 and can be found at [3].
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1 Devon and Cornwall GLUG 2 GNU 3 Freenode
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Alma Linux
AlmaLinux OS Sees First Stable Release as a Drop-In Replacement for CentOS Linux 8 – 9to5Linux
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Ansi Weather
Getting weather information is really useful. What happens if you're at the command line in Linux? I found a really little application that can help
ansiweather
apt install ansiweather
ansiweather -l Plymouth, UK
So what else can we do with this
This is a two step process
Will send the weather info to Mastodon.
However this does not include any date info
We can fix this with
then send the whole lot to Mastodon with
So, if we put this in to a final shell script we need:-
#send weather info to Mastodon
# current date
date > weatherinfo.txt
# current weather
ansiweather -l Plymouth, UK >> weatherinfo.txt
#send to Mastodon
toot post < weatherinfo.txt
# done
echo done
Again released under GPLv3
I tried to get festival to speak the weather, it is not perfect but this sort of works, you will need to direct to weather.txt first.
festival —tts < weather.txt
Looking in to this further, the issue is the brackets etc, so this stackoverflow post
strips out the colour formatting
sed 's/\x1b[[^\x1b]*m//g' weatherinfo.txt
Therefore
sed 's/\x1b[[^\x1b]*m//g' weatherinfo.txt > weatherinfo2.txt
Sends the newly formatted text to weatherinfo2.txt
So running back through festival
festival —tts < weather.txt
Is perhaps a little better, but not perfect
So going back to what we wrote earlier to send to Mastodon, the new script
1 #send weather info to Mastodon
2 # current date
3 date > weatherinfo.txt
4 # current weather
5 ansiweather -l Plymouth, UK >> weatherinfo.txt
6 # clean up output with sed
7 sed 's/\x1b\[[^\x1b]*m//g' weatherinfo.txt > weatherinfo2.txt
8 #send to Mastodon
9 toot post < weatherinfo2.txt
10 # done
11 echo done
Produces much nicer output. The top bottom part of this illustrates what was sent before we stripped out the colour formatting
However it still isn't perfect, as it removes part some of the wording, but it is hopefully getting there.
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