Joplin, Plasma Analyzer, OpenIndiana, and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 13, 2022

• The note-taking winner is... Joplin. For now: Dissociated Press

  A few weeks ago I posed a question about a note-taking app to beat Vim, Markdown and Git. So far, that winner is Joplin.

  I’d tried Joplin once or twice but bounced off of it for one reason or another. The UI is a little less compelling than other native apps, I’d like a bit more between-note linking features, but after a couple of weeks of sticking with it, it’s growing on me.

• Harald Sitter: Plasma Analyzer

  It’s a Plasma widget that visualizes what’s going on on your system, music-wise that is. I’ve started this project years ago but only recently found the motivation to get it to a somewhat acceptable state. It’s pretty amazing to have bars flying across the screen to Daft Punk’s `Touch`.

• What is OpenIndiana and why does it matter? | ZDNET

  Linux history is littered with successes and failures, as well as failures that then, once again, became successes. Countless open-source projects are created, of which some of them die. That doesn't mean, however, the projects remain dead permanently -- some of them are given a second chance simply because the project was awesome.

• Hibernation - Life of a Developer

  So, another day, another update. Today I managed to get hibernation working on my Dell XPS13 Plus (9320) running Debian.

  So, a quick recap. I’m running Debian testing. I set up the system with Guided – Use entire disk and Setup LVM. This leaves me with an encrypted root partition. What I want to do now, is to put a reasonably sized swap file there, and make the system hibernate to it.

  So, first, I created a 35 GB (35840MB) large swapfile as /swapfile. I prefer to create a swapfile slightly larger than RAM, to ensure that everything fits and my machine comes with 32GB of RAM. I used the instructions in the excellent Arch Wiki to set this up. I also edited /etc/fstab, commenting out the swap partition setup by the installer and adding the swapfile.

• Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux - Part 4 - Benchmarks - LinuxLinks

  This is a blog looking at a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux.

  In this article we put the ThinkPad T470 through some intensive testing. We’ve run a variety of benchmarks on the laptop and compared the results to a motley assortment of machines.

  The tests use the Phoronix Test Suite, unless otherwise stated. For ease of reference, the system’s specifications are listed on the final page. Together with the ThinkPad T470, we’ve run the benchmarks on two small form factor PCs (HP EliteDesk 800 G2 and Lenovo M93 Ultra Small PC), three mini PCs, and an Asus laptop. All of these machines are low-power. To put the results into context, we also benchmarked two more modern PCs hosting a 10th generation and 12th generation Intel processor.