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>>52954687
Dennis Ritchie
GOAT or not?

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>current year
>not loving the redhaired qt

Dennis Ritchie has nothing to do with linux.

>>52954765
pretty sure he's human

>>52954782
>2^11 + (2^5)i^2
>still Makiposting
I like too, but she doesn't belong here.

>>52954814
Dennis created C, a language that Linux used.

>>52954848
>using a letter as a number

>>52954782
>>52954848
>Liking Love Live at all
Their series was shit, their movie was trying too hard to be a K-ON Movie ripoff but failed.

>>52954865
Microsoft used C as well.

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>>52954865
this, my personal computer related personalities are:
rms
ritchie
alan cox
linus
and pic related

>>52954935
Ritchie would have slapped the shit out of you for associating him with those commies.

Currently in uni and our prof has given us the choice of running any linux distro on a removable hard-drive or laptop, most of the class runs centOS on hard drives as a standard and I do too.
I decided to get a laptop just for convenience and because some of the removable bays in the class dont work, and was wondering what distro I should run on it. I'm thinking about dual booting, might also change the OS on the hard drive too if you guys have any suggestions. I have laptop specs and I'll post them in a minute.

Thanks.

>>52954935
>feminist shit
Fuck off

>>52954977
>I have laptop specs and I'll post them in a minute.
Please don't

>>52954915
But not all of them.

Literally all essential components a GNU/Linux system must run made of C.

>>52954951
i don't care, i still hold respect for him.

>>52954998
Who the fuck cares?

>>52954997
Well its running 12gb ram i7-6700 and 960m

>>52954977
Fedora, of course.

>>52954983
>bcrypt
>feminist
what?

>>52955081
I was looking at fedora and opensuse, any opinions on the latter?

>>52955103
I wouldn't install either of them, debian testing and arch are better imo.

>>52955066
You can put anything you want in there.
If you're a college student and don't want to waste time fiddling with weird errors, you should go with Mint/Xubuntu/OpenSuse.

>>52955103
Fedora is the base of RHEL (the industry standard distro), so I would recommend it.

Guys, since when was the installation of deluge-web so much hassle?

I don't think I had to write my own init.d scripts the last time I did it. But now everywhere I look on the web, people are writing init.d scripts. Weird.

(I had to reinstall Debian because I fucked up a bunch of dependency and broke apt quite badly)

Installed Xubuntu Core
Now what?
Where are all the programs?

>>52955179
>deluge
your fault, use transmission

>>52955194
I tried transmission, it was a miserable piece of shit.

>>52955179
if you didn't want hassle why did you bother with linux?

>>52955103
Well, you're using centos in classes.
centos is based on rhel.
and rhel is based on fedora.

You'll get a very "consistent" experience.
The only difference will be the package versions (obviously) and the fact that since F21 Fedora uses dnf instead of yum.

But both yum and dnf command syntax stays the same

so

dnf upgrade

gives you the same result as

yum upgrade

but is a lot faster.

But that's just how I'd do it.

Not to mention that with Fedora you get access to all rpm development tools like rpmbuild which makes development for epel easy as fuck

And obviously
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/fedorapeople.org

>>52955179
what did you do?

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>>52954935
>grrrllll
This is now a Linux girl thread.

>>52954935
>>52955232
OP here, share your Linux girl, she might get featured in the next thread.

>Must be real people
>No Sarah Sharp

>>52955246
>wanting 3DPD

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>>52955232

>>52955259
Quoting the Red Hat guy earlier:
>not everyone is a neet, anon

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>>52955246
>No Sarah Sharp
y u hatin

>>52955274
I wish I could be a neet

>>52955263
Pretty sure she didn't understand jack shit about what rsync is.

I'll add
>must have connection with Linux/Linux related development

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>>52955246
Fedoras coming in.

>ssd
>ext4 root partition with home
>extra 50GB behind it
can I easily enlarge in gparted as I would with ntfs?

>>52955282
https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137391223711946&w=2

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>ctrl+f nixie pixel
>not found
For justice!

>>52955214
>>52955164
>>52955148
>>52955133
>>52955081

Did some more research and looks like im installing Fedora, thanks for the help.

>>52955303
>>52955348
>>52955232
Who the fuck are they?

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I know the Linux chics as a community is pretty big, so here is a link.

>LinuxChix is a community for women who like Linux and Free Software, and for women and men who want to support women in computing.
http://www.linuxchix.org/

Also here is one for debian.

>>52955385
holy shit she's qt

>>52955282
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2989588/linux/linux-is-sarah-sharp-a-social-justice-warrior.html

>>52955094
open sores => communism => feminism

not that hard m8

>>52955385
Who the fuck is she?

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All hail our savior Joanna Rutkowska, developer of QubesOS and protector of privacy!

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Reminder that *BSD is crap, and the license shit.

>>52955430
I may feature her.

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>>52955470
Nice choice.

>>52955416
fuck you, yan zhu is a qt3.14
https://www.eff.org/about/staff/yan-zhu-0
>>52955430
she's pretty cool aswell.

>>52955530
she's a gook libtard slut

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>>52955468
reminds me of this

>>52954935
>>52955530
Yan Zhu has no relation to Linux and Linux related development, so I don't think I'll ever feature her.

>>52955550
got anything to prove that? she's working on TOR, feminazis hate TOR and brave.
https://usesthis.com/interviews/yan.zhu/
>>52955575
wouldn't make sense in a flt anyway.

>>52955550
you are either a bsd/microdick cuck, or gay

You know what? I'll feature Mark Shuttleworth next thread. :^)

>>52955530
Rutkowska is such a classy pretty woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEAvqlW3dbg
>dat gloves

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>>52955646

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I am trying to use Pitivi to edit a short video I took with my phone, and I am trying to use the 'squareblur' effect to blur out my license plate. It says it it a resizable square blur, but I can't figure out how to use it. Anyone know?

i want to make it so every time i open a new terminal window it runs the screenfetch command. how do i do this?

>>52956023
echo screenfetch >> .bashrc

>>52956058
what exactly do i do with this?

Winfag here. What should my first distro be if I want to learn linux

>>52956069
>>52956058
wait nevermind its just a command. thanks

>>52956069
Print it on a A4 sheet, roll it and stick it up your arse.

Neck yourself.

>>52956081
i recommend debian non-free

>>52956100
I recommend to fuck off.

>>52956081
mint or an ubuntu fork (regular ubuntu is spyware) if you wanna start out easy but if you really want to learn how to use the command line you could try installing arch. even if you dont actually use it it helps you get familiar with the command line

>>52956118
wow that was pretty friendly

>>52955598
>brave
whiteknights pls go

>>52956155
what?

>>52956135
But I heard Arch was for intermediate users

>>52956199
it is, don't let him fool you

Why isn't bitcoin-qt or bitcoin in the official debian repositories?

Do i have to compile from source or is there a trustable repo for it?

>>52956199
im just saying it helps you learn the command line fast if thats what you want to learn. if you want to stick with gui try mint or an ubuntu fork

>>52956100
>recommending nonfree software to newfags
This is not how to teach Microsoft refugees not to such cock.

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I'm trying to build ahoviewer but it appears I'm missing EGL

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lEGL

despite having all of these installed

$ dpkg-query -l | grep egl
ii  freeglut3:amd64                       2.8.1-2                           amd64        OpenGL Utility Toolkit
ii  freeglut3-dev:amd64                   2.8.1-2                           amd64        OpenGL Utility Toolkit development files
ii  gegl                                  0.3.4-1+b1                        amd64        Generic Graphics Library Test Program
ii  libegl1-mesa:amd64                    11.1.1-2                          amd64        free implementation of the EGL API -- runtime
ii  libegl1-mesa-dev:amd64                11.1.1-2                          amd64        free implementation of the EGL API -- development files
rc  libgegl-0.2-0:amd64                   0.2.0-7+b1                        amd64        Generic Graphics Library
ii  libgegl-0.3-0:amd64                   0.3.4-1+b1                        amd64        Generic Graphics Library
ii  libgegl-dev:amd64                     0.3.4-1+b1                        amd64        Generic Graphics Library (development files)
ii  libva-egl1:amd64                      1.6.2-1                           amd64        Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux -- EGL runtime
ii  libwayland-egl1-mesa:amd64            11.1.1-2                          amd64        implementation of the Wayland EGL platform -- runtime

What gives? I would have to link it, no? There's loads of them on /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu.

>>52956257
install gentoo

>>52956275
I know the future me has done it already, no rushing now.

>>52956224
https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/bitcoin
it's only in sid compile it from source.
>>52956255
it's better than recommending them mint or buntu. most people need non-free microcode unfortunately.

>>52956257
>>>/desktopthread/

Best distro to start with when switching to Linux?

>>52956304
Manjaro, Xubuntu.

>>52956304
microsoft powerpoint

>>52956304
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/8.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/
if you can read
http://xubuntu.org/
if you can't

>>52956304
manjaro linux

>>52956302
>desktopthread
>clearly not running arch

>>52956356
>clearly a weeb

>>52956304
You make your own.

>>52956323
>>52956348
http://archive.is/JeOLo
http://allanmcrae.com/2013/01/manjaro-linux-ignoring-security-for-stability/

>>52956304
Go with Manjaro, it's base is Arch and when you're save enough, the switch to Arch is easy.

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>>52956376
you forgot to attach your pepe

>>52956363
>implying that shit even matters
I just want an image viewer to read my chinese cartoon comics. Mcomix is good, but I'd like to have ahoviewer too.

>>52956172
>brave
whiteknights pls go

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>>52956412
Nice try, Manjaro shills.

>>52956396
lol no thanks

>>52956445
nice meme
http://allanmcrae.com/2015/02/improvements-on-manjaro-security-updates/

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>>52956445

>>52956475
>manjaro heavies arrive

>>52954935
wish that cunt in you're pic would sip on some bleach

>>52956475
I opened it and the result is >>52956445.

>>52956559
give reasons edgelord

>>52956577
she looks like the world would be better off without her
fucking cunt

>>52956605
>she looks like the world would be better off without her
so you don't like purely because of her looks?

>>52956639
as good a reason as any
tape her fucking nose too while you're at it

>>52956674
wow, you're an edgy cunt. how about you go back to >>>/b/ ? they should be your age.

>>52956694
white knight can't get no pussy lol
neckbear extra-vergine pussy boi
eat a dick

>>52956605
have to agree

>>52956716
ironic shitposting is still shitposting

Is it possible to share /home between two distros?

>>52957147
Is there a problem with mounting it on the other distro? I would guess you have permission problems.

>>52957147
What are you trying to achieve? Because If what I think you're trying to achieve is right I might have a better solution

>>52957235
>>52957265
Well, I'm yet to do it. I want to install a random distro alongside my primary distro. I'm just asking whether it is possible or not to share the /home partition.

>>52957276
possible but also possible there will be problems. Make sure you have backups.

>>52957276
As long as the UID (/etc/passwd will have the info of this) is the same, then one username for 2 different distros is possible.

Why is mouse speed so hard to change on XFCE?

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>>52957776
what do you mean?

>>52957892
Only changing acceleration works. Changing sensivity does nothing.

>>52957925
>he doesn't have a sensitive mouse

>>52957935
I have a fucking G400. Stop shitposting.

>>52957951
>he has an overly sensitive mouse

Which is the best bittorrent client? I'm currently using transmission and I love it but I don't like how it deals with queues so I want to test a new one
Tnx

>>52958047
qbittorrent does well for me

>>52958047
rtorrent is bretty good

>>52958047
probably rtorrent but transmission is my favorite

>plug in USB device
>nothing shows up in dmesg
>nothing in lsusb, either
>nor is there any new entries in /dev

Where do I begin troubleshooting this? The device is definately recieving power, and I've modprobe'd all of the relevant modules.

hi guys, i installed arch, installed grub and after i booted into it, i got an error from grub "no video mode found, starting blind mode"
and then it just started fine, but it annoyed it so i looked it up and found how to fix it on archwiki : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB, under "No suitable mode found" error,
i did it and the error stopped popping up, actually no errors at all! but still no graphical boot, nothing! it just blindly boots it i want to see the graphical boot, i know it's dumb but i want it.
btw i am dual booting fedora and it does give me a graphical boot on it, so i'm clueless.

I recently installed Ubuntu 15.10 on my laptop and partitioned my disk space since it wasn't recognizing my OS (Windows 10). After installation and restarting I can no longer access Win10. It says that boot failed.

In order to run the Ubuntu disc I had to change the boot settings from UEFI to Legacy and disable Safe Boot and Fast Boot.

Any way I can repair or access Windows 10 again and make it dual-boot? I have a Windows 10 repair disc backup but it isn't recognized on restart.

Whats a good method for backing up a live system compressed to an external NAS that can be used to get the system backup in case of hard drive failure?

>>52958228
Why don't you want the text mode for boot?

>>52958228
Probably don't have a proper resolution set in grub.conf

>>52958075
>>52958082
>>52958090
Thanks

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How do I fix transmission?
It's like it doesn't have internet access...

>>52958294
boot-repair-disk

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>>52954687
has the botnet gone too far?
This is a literal fresh install of Mint, why does it come with vulnerabilities OOTB?

>>52955179
Or systemd scripts, once i got it up and running i didn't have a single issue until i decided i wanted to use a different seedbox

>>52958520
by stopping to use windows

>>52958569
Maybe you have special rule for localhost. Try with https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

I put a rule on my firewall to allow all the packets coming from lo interface.

Please show me the output AS ROOT of
iptables-save
ip6tables-save

>>52958569
Mint doesn't have a reputation of a secure distribution.
Despite being based on Ubuntu (which is pretty much hardened debian) it has dumbed down security.

As an example, mint doesn't come with app armour profile despite the fact that Ubuntu has it by default

>>52958385
resolution for the specific arch boot? if not then why does the fedora boot with graphic boot, also would you mind sharing how to change that resolution to the right one?

>>52958520
Go to your friendly windows thread you freedom hater

>>52958594
transmission is on linux, ya dip

>>52958605
how is ubuntu hardened debian?

>>52957956
>he has an overly sensitive mouse
and apparently over sensitive emotions as well

>>52958659
What the fuck did you just say about me?

>>52952536

They added a search bar that lets you search your filesystem and the web, kind of like what Windows 10 has.

Their web function used the Amazon search engine, and sent your search terms to Amazon and Canonical.

>>52958785
They already removed that. Also it didn't ping amazing all the time unlike windows. oh and you could actually easily disable it without it getting re-eanbled the next update.

>>52958776
>What the fuck did you just say about me?
DID I STUTTER ?

>>52958870
Do you want to get your ass kicked, boy?

>>52958607
why not both?

>>52958890
>Do you want to get your ass kicked, boy?

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

>>52955232
> Ubuntu
I hate women so fucking much.

>>52958601
None and none.
Can I just uninstall Samba and be done with it? It shouldn't really matter unless I want to publish my laptop as a samba server, right?

>>52958605
I don't really want it to be uber-locked down, I just want to avoid a skiddie with metasploit to do exploit some shitty samba hole in my system.

>>52955385
> no https

Confirmed grrrrl power bullshit.

Nothing good will come out of that.

>>52958649
It's more secure by default/comes with more security features by default than a default debian installation.
You could've just googled instead of acting surprised.

Debian is a distribution aimed at people who know how to secure their own computer.

Please don't tell me you were convinced debian is some kind of ultimate distro that does everything right.

>>52955598
> Feminazis hate TOR

For god's sake, why do they hate TOR?

I know they hate Brave because Brendan Eich dared to have opinions that differ from theirs.

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>>52955385
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I'm using wicd-gtk to try to connect to wireless networks at my university, but every time it gets through the authentication and tries to obtain an IP address, it fails to get one. I've tried every option/encryption. It connects fine when I'm on my windows partition though. Sometimes wicd doesn't even detect ANY of the networks there even though there are literally dozens of them in the area. On my home network, it works fine 24/7.

Should I just throw away wicd and use something else? If so, any recommendations? I'm using a thinkpad x220.

pls help.

>>52956298
>sid
Can i just switch over to sid?

>>52959029
I'm impressed tbqh

>>52959054
>wicd-gtk
Why not NetworkManager aka what everyone and their mother uses?

>>52958971
I don't give a shit about programs you're running. It's a firewall problem, not a programs problem.

>>52959095
Thanks for the reply.
I had trouble with it last year and switched to wicd which turned out to be fine. It's not working this year though for some reason. I guess I'll try that again. Any other recommendations in case that doesn't work?

>>52959202
I don't know any.

>>52956081
Fedora and any Ubuntu flavor are easy to learn.

Do not use vanilla Ubuntu, Canonical are in bed with Amazon and are starting to exploit their userbase.

*Buntus are the most popular distribution, and very well supported, with lots of users, so any question you might have is probably already answered somewhere on the forums. Its default repositories are quite extensive and up-to-date.

Fedora is upstream RHEL, and Red Hat is pretty much the industry standard in Linux, and Fedora has similar levels of support and userbase to the *Buntus. It has the benefit of being quite up-to-date and adopting new software early (fedora 24 will use Wayland instead of X by default). It's also more dedicated to Free Software, hence its default repository being small, though rpmfusion will solve this.

Ultimately most solutions you'll find are more or less interchangeable between the two; the only major difference is how close to upstream you want and which package manager you want.

Personally, I think RPM (Fedora) is better than APT (Ubuntu), but people have passionate opinions about it and I'd rather not start a flame war.

https://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/flavours
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/
https://rpmfusion.org

Welcome to Linux.

>>52959014
i just asked a question, which security features do you mean? a firewall? sudo? selinux?

>>52959016
because they think everyone that uses it is a misogynistic pedophile.

>>52959250
https://wiki.debian.org/Security/Features

vs

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features

vs the industry standard

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security_Features_Matrix

I've been fucking around with mint for a few days since it's my first distro. Where would be a good next step that requires more use of command lines?

>>52959244
What a huge faggot.

>>52959293
i don't think fedora is the industry standard, RH and SUSE are.

>>52959345
>RH
What do you think RHEL is based on?

>>52959268
For god's sake, why did we let women vote?

>>52959350
fedora, but that doesn't make them the same.

>>52959335
Stay on mint, play with the command line.

Only an autist draws pleasure from system maintenance

>>52958563
It's saying I'm in Legacy and to switch to EFI. How do I go about that?

>>52959431
bios

>>52959335
Stay with mint and keep using terminal. Install terminal apps that are alternatives to GUI software you use - getting used to touch, ls, less, nano, cd, mkdir, mv, cp, scp are all good things to get used to. Try out codecademy, they have a bretty good terminal tutorial.

Hello.

I'm working with my I3 setup and I wanted to include a startup sound, just because.

Right now, I set my .i3/config to execute mpg123 and play the sound on I3 session start.

So it looks like this:

<exec mpg123 ~/.startupsound>

Does anybody have a less hacky way of doing this?

>>52959525
Why do you regard that as hacky?
You could just have it in ~/.xinitrc.

>>52959372
>>52959492
Alright thanks anons. I'm just trying to learn to get some knowledge of linux systems. I wish solid works worked properly on linux.

>>52959063
you can but it might be less stable
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable

I am looking for a pokemon eqsue engine.
I dont agree with unity's license, like wise to unreal
Does anyone else have a suggestion?
I check the wikipedia list but unless im a retard, there were no engines that could support the game type

>>52959539
Good question, actually. I don't know.
I guess it just feels weird installing mpg123 for that and that alone.

Thanks for the tip, though.

>>52959593
You could use aplay instead, not much point installing something just for that.

>>52959593
But I also want to have it so it ONLY plays with i3.

>>52959525
throw this in your xinitrc
sleep 5
aplay <file>

>>52958047
deluge

At what amount of RAM does it become unnecessary to stick to the 2x rule for the swap size? Or are the claims that the 2x rule isn't always necessary themselves untrue?

For reference, this laptop which will soon have Mint on it has 8GB, and I don't recall a single time where my activities managed to reach the limit on that.

>>52959723
You dont need swap with 8gb, maybe for 4gb but at that level you probly wouldnt be doing intensive ram things
Set your swappiness to 10

>>52959613
>>52959630
>aplay
Thanks, but aplay seems to have problems with .mp3 files. I get the raw sound, like some shit straight out of a harsh noise album.

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Is this a good book for starters, the authors advice is using RHEL/Fedora as the go to distro? Started reading it, seems like a good read.

>pic related

>>52959723
I have 8GB of RAM and don't have any swap at all. I think it's unnecessary past 4GB or so.
The only exception is if you want to use hibernate. Then you will need swap at least equal to your RAM.

>>52959758
Do you have an audio player such as mpv or vlc? Im sure they work playing one file cli

>>52959784
Huh. I hadn't thought about that. I always remember MPV opening up a blank window whenever I played MP3 files, but maybe I was thinking of VLC. Who knows?

Thanks for the help, all of you. :^)

>>52959759
Kinda outdated now for fedora specific stuff. Most of the systemd and post-install configuration is still relevant.

>>52959759
I have this sitting next to me. I can't speak too much to whether it's good for starter's since I was already somewhat experienced when I got it, but I can say it has great information about how to complete certain tasks such as setting up NFS. Even though it focuses on RHEL/Fedora for examples, it gives good general information that you can apply to whichever distro you choose.

Any experience *ubuntu users, I have a question for you:

A few seconds ago I was experiencing a jerky mouse - I use a wireless logitech, it just moved on it's own back and forth, like 2 mm.

Then I touched my touchpad, and now it's normal again.

I searched online and people had experienced similar issues, but couldn't find a similar scenario to mine.

It's probably the mouse and not my (l)ubuntu, right

>>52959839
Atleast with mpv, when you play an audio file from cli it dosent open a window

>>52959893
Clean your sensor and check dmesg for hid messages.

>>52959344
Nice argument.

I went back to windows because one of their users called me a nerd.

>>52959863
>>52959885

Thanks bros, I got the 9th edition. Seems really informative and gives a nice start point for people to get comfy with the terminal.

The only mistake is that I ordered it from amazon uk and didnt see that the seller was in India. The quality is a bit shit because of that.

>>52959778
I've been reading up on the "Easy Linux tips project" page linked above and it states that hibernate is ill-advised to use. If that is the case then I might just avoid it. (Unless the info on that page is incorrect, or perhaps just outdated.) Wouldn't mind having those 8GB freed up, either way.

Anyone use NixOS or GuixSD?

>>52959565
So can i not just get the one package and leave it at that?
what if i switch over to sid and then back..?

>>52958047
Transmission is lightweight and can be used as daemon by downloading transmission-daemon and transmission-cli or transmission-remote, last which can be give you remote access.

Deluge has a ton of plugins but also weights a ton.

rTorrent is pretty.

I prefer Transmission.

youtube-viewer or youtube-dl?

>>52960670
mpv

>>52960682
what?

>>52960719
who?

>>52960732
niggers of course

>>52960732
why nigga?

>>52960761
when?

>>52960719
He means that you can view youtube videos with mpv if you have youtube-dl installed

I've neer even heard of youtube-viewer, but youtube-dl works great

>>52960988
Thanks. I know VLC easily do that and without the need of any extras.

I recon youtube-dl to be more popular then.

I'm running centos 7 and systemDicks is failing to mount my btrfs drive on boot. It kicks me to an emergency prompt where I can login and then run mount and mount it and then type systemctl default where it marchs forth just fine.

I entered nofail in the fstab entry where itll boot just fine while still failing to mounting the drive. Problem is I'm going to use it as a personal mail server and I need the mount to come back up in order to access emails without needing to fuck with it.

Any ideas?

>>52961236
what does failed mounting unit say?

>>52955959
I gave up on Pitivi after trying to use it for a half hour. It just kept crashing.

So I installed Blender and have been trying to blur my license plate for the last six goddamn hours.

I followed this guide exactly (so many times I have lost count): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_06cWLUZ_Bg

No matter what I do I can't get the mask I make to show up in my video. I outline the license plate through 60 frames, then add the mask and blur, but it doesn't do anything. Or it does, but it's in the wrong spot on the video.

I don't know. Does anyone know of a better guide?

>>52961683
>for the last six goddamn hours.
Christ.
In the same time you could do a quick and dirty installation of whatever Windows video editing software in a virtual machine and call it a day.

Hell even the trial version of Lightworks would work.
https://www.lwks.com/

"foss" video editing for linux is pure garbage as of 2016. Get used to it.

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>tfw

>>52961867
>sudo apt-get install steam
...
lrn2linux

>>52961867
to my best knowledge no package management software on linux has "steam" as a flag

>install debian
>want to be able to redshift + lower brightness for night
>install ATI Proprietary driver
>amdcccle - the program i used prior to change brightness/contract/etc - does not exist either not part of it or different program

my screen is so bright

if i can't fix this in the next hour ill probably boot back to windows and try again tommorow

>>52961385
I figured it out after some deep google searching

It was a multi disk mount and required in the fstab options
I grabbed the uuid from btrfs filesystem show /dev/device

UUID=blah /mountpoint btrfs someoptions,device=/dev/device1,device=/dev/device2

How ever I have three devices being used but one of them was causing an issue when trying to mount complaining about a bad super block. I removed it from the fstab options and it worked correctly.

SystemDicks didn't report anything useful making troubleshooting this issue a pain in the ass

>>52961924
try different rendering method ya dingus

>>52961945
I need to change keyboard regularly and ibus and uim are shitting on me. Can someone name me a few alternatives?

>>52961924
>AMD
stop blaming your poorfaggotry on linux kek

>>52961945
what?

I just want the AMD control panel

>>52961977
Then fucking install it?
http://packages.ubuntu.com/pl/fglrx-amdcccle

Christ you're dense.

>>52961924
oh nevermind, seems -B works now

>>52961990
Linux breaks horribly and explodes whenever working with amd drivers, i got off the slow as fuck open source ones and i'm not touching it beyond that

plus it looks like i dont have to since redshift's brightness feature is functional

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Finally got league of legends working in wine at a decent framerate. Don't see a reason now to boot into Windows for a long time.

At what point did you realize you could do all your computing on a POSIX OS, /flt/?

>>52962008
Eh, AMD having garbage support on linux is not a new thing.

If you're planning a build for Linux the best advice i can give is either Intel's iris pro (if you're not gayming) or a recent nvidia gpu, driver quality is miles ahead of AMD.

>plus it looks like i dont have to since redshift's brightness feature is functional
Glad you got it working

>>52962030
it was broken on my previous linux install is why i say that

>>52962017
I still can't change my keyboard regularly (tried ibus and uim). That's tye only reason I'm staying on windows

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>>52961683
>>52961797
I mean this is fucking retarded. I have 61 frames where I have a rectangle drawn for the mask. But when I apply the mask to the video it just blurs this fixed thin sliver in the upper right corner. I just don't fucking get it. I am obviously missing something somewhere, but I just don't see it.

Here's a screenshot of the Blender screen. I pixelated out the digits/letters with gimp. You can see the blur covering the last half of 'Wisconsin' in the preview on the right. It just will not cover the digits/letters that I have selected on the left.

Anyone see anything wrong?

If I can't get this to work tonight I am going to pirate premier or something and install it on my Windows 10 VM.

>>52959335
Try learning git if you haven't. Start uploading any code you write onto it. Bitbucket offers free private repositories if you're scared of people seeing your stuff. I recommend also learning C if you don't already know it along with any text editor that requires usage of the terminal. Just programming in C and working with git should you get you extremely comfortable with the terminal. Just don't use your file manager and work exclusively from the terminal. Maybe go through K&R and upload all the exercises you finish.

If you already know git and C, you're probably an experienced enough use to try a different distro.

Netflix on debian - possible without a lot of hassle?

>>52962158
>DRM content on linux
>without a hassle
No not really
Just torrent your movies like normal people.

>>52962158
Chrome does a good job with Netflix. No 1080p though.

>>52962017
>not playing dota in glorious native opengl rendering
Fucking lolbabs

>>52962201
>No 1080p though.
Why?

How do I install apps from tgz? I'm looking to get fre:ac for my music but the extracted folder doesn't have config or install

>>52956304
>>52956304
This in all honesty. You'll understand everything there is to know about your system if you do LFS. It's just time consuming.

>>52962359
compile it mate

>>52962359
>apps
This is the Linux thread, not the Android thread. Linux has "programs", not "apps".

Anyway. .tgz is just a package. Extract it and see what's inside, probably some

./configure
make
sudo make install

will do the trick.

>>52962434
I'm not that guy, but is there a way to reverse "make install" ie. uninstall programs not installed via package manager? Or does make install only install in the current directory, so you can just rm -rf it?

is yaourt supposed to take forever to install from the AUR?

>>52960129
not worth the hassle, just compile or switch to sid completely, switching back will break things.

Question:
Is it worth dual booting linux with windows on a 256 gb ssd?

>>52960107
not yet, I'll wait until stable and give guixSD another try.

>>52962067
couldn't you have marked the whole license and used a blur from blender directly?

>>52961924
>install ATI Proprietary driver
not worth it, use the open driver and only use the nonfree microcode.
>>52962963
i don't think windows is worth the space but i think you can give it 40gb or so, you got plenty.

>>52962963
That's how I have it. I gave linux about 50 GBs since there's not really anything to install on it that takes up a lot of space. It's just on my laptop though. Any big files are on my PC/Cloud. I gave windows all the space because windows programs tend to be bloated as fuck while my linux install is pretty minimal.

>>52962996
what

>>52955385
That place looks dead.

>>52959582
> pokemon-esque engine

You're going to need to explain what that means.

>>52962963
I divided my 120GB SSD between Win7 and Arch Linux. Win7 takes about 36GB with nothing but basic drivers installed. Arch takes less than 10GB with 1230 packages installed (/var and /home are mounted on a HDD). So yeah, I'd say you're good.

>>52961683
Just Blur the whole thing, crop the blur to the area you want to blur, then alpha over it on top of the original. It's not that hard.

>>52956250
Yeah so does linux from scratch but you don't see anyone recommending that for newbs.

>>52962158
If you're willing to use Google Cuckrome, yes.

>>52958155
Does it work in other computers?

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>>52954935
Yan Zhu is a fucking qt
>tfw no infosec gf

>>52963191
That doesn't make any sense.

>>52960670
mps-youtube is better than both, but uses youtube-dl as a backend.

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I'd like to try out a distro with a port system. I tried freeBSD but I couldn't figure out why vlc has a black screen for video or how to make my sound card work.

I'd like to try Arch out, but I'm having trouble setting up a rootfs that is both mirrored and encrypted.

I've already attempted about 4 times, and I think I might be able to get it to work with mdadm, dmcrypt, and MBR.

I'm really interested in trying out btrfs, however grub's kernel argument cryptdevice only seems to take a single drive for an argument, so I'm not sure how I'd be able to decrypt both drives for btrfs to mount proper.

Has anyone done this?

>>52963101
in blender you can select an area and track it, then you can blur that area. but blender is not easy.

>>52963180
I want to make a game that is basically the orginal pokemon game engine.
The 16/32bit graphics with a simple combat system etc.
Im no where near capable of writing an engine and i had a idea for a game.

>>52958591
This sounds terrifying. Having to modify an initscript/service file every 5 minutes...

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>>52963344
There, blurred out my tabs from the screenshot of my instructions to you in blender.

>>52955179
I know rite. The web interface seems to have gotten shirt shitter too, no ratio column, less info on details panel

>>52963485
Some python library would probably work.

>>52958833
They will remove it. In Unity 8. The Mir shell.

But it can be disabled, that's correct.

They should have just put it in its own scope by default, however. Not in global search. I never want to search for stuff on Amazon from my Start Menu-equivalent.

>>52956081
Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSuSe, Linux Mint.
KDE tends to be kind of like Windows.

Maybe Manjaro.

>>52963648
How???

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trying to get pci passthrough working with virtualbox, windows guest boots but stops partway into loading
I haven't read through the log yet, so I'm posting it here in case someone has a solution
http://pastebin.com/ixsRbrW8

Want to instal Debian, need confirmation if Xonar D2X has audio drivers/interface to use the virtual surround/Dolby Headphone options?

>>52956081
Linux mint. It just werks and isn't all that intimidating.

>>52963714
All you really need is something to draw graphics to the screen right? Pygame would work fine for that. You just tell it what to draw and just deal with mechanics. Or if you want more of a framework maybe gamemaker or something like that.

>>52956257
Linker arguments come after compiler arguments

>>52958520
The trackers are just down. It happens sometimes. Torrents sometimes don't have any active trackers or peers.

Also, Install Gentoo. Have a nice day.

>>52962017
The minute when I realized that my computer was faster because there was no Windows bloatware preinstalled.

>>52956199
I love arch, but don't use it for your first distro. You're going to have to learn too much too fast to even get it working. Play around with mint and other beginner distros first.

>>52963750
It would need more then just graphics,it would need basic algebra to calculate stats etc.
Gamemaker dosent support linux unless you pay them, and i dont agree with their licensing terms

>>52958908
You're either with us, or you're against freedom. Now which is it going to be, chump?

>>52963812
The wiki hand holds you through the install process,plus you learn how to control the basic functions of the system. Not only that but you're in the cli the entire time and you get accustomed to it where the other gui installers are just well here you go you have linux now bye
An you're none the wiser on the core system or how to use it

>>52963628
I don't know how to get to where you are in that picture

>>52963850
Have you tried Gentoo? It really makes you much more aware of the core system. It's fun. However, every time an emerge fails, you want to die.

>>52963906
>gentoo
No.Because no matter your CFLAGS, you are not optimizes a 2kb binary.
Arch for 8 years. Slack before that

>>52959054
IIRC, wpa_supplicant, which wicd uses, prints stuff to syslog which may help. Also if you authenticate but don't get an ip you can run your dhcp client manually with verbose output

>>52963951
The USE flags are more what matter to me.

I'm not the kind of weeb who decides to
-O20 --Fuckupstream -inthepussy -someobscureflag -actuallyslowsitdown

I have a HGST 3tb NAS drive and ubuntu 15.10 can only see 800 gb of this. How do i fix it?

>>52959054
wicd is abandonware since years and will sooner or later stop working completely

>>52963994
USE flags are totally bloated by now and not that useful anymore when Linux is becoming Gnome OS w/o any choices left

>>52959778
Only your dirty memory pages are saved for hibernate, so you can almost always have a smaller swap. If swap is too small Linux just backs out of hibernate so you can kill a large rss program and try again

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>>52963724
>soundcards

>>52964063
Bloated GNOME OS? Yeah... A lot of distros certainly think that's the future.

It's terrible because simplicity probably lends itself to a better desktop experience, because then it is easier to make sure every available configuration option has a GUI, and fewer things can go wrong. Beyond that, the user has fewer things to worry about.

>>52964083
hibernate never really worked correctly and should not be used.

What is the difference between xpra and x forwarding?

>>52963628
>>52963877
I figured out how to get to that point, but I don't know how to make a selection that moves around the frame in a video.

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>>52963952
Thanks. I'm probably going to give Network Manager another shot on Monday, but if that fails I'll see if I can get a better sense of the problem by viewing the stuff it spits out.

>>52964023
Any other suggestions besides Network Manager? The wifi here doesn't like my laptop very much. Like I said, wicd was the only one that was able to actually connect to any of the networks there.

>>52964116
>It's terrible because simplicity probably lends itself to a better desktop experience, because then it is easier to make sure every available configuration option has a GUI, and fewer things can go wrong.
GNOME is right in trying to combat that configuration swamp and RMS is wrong:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2002-May/msg00005.html

>>52963485
Maybe that's the type of game called JRPG?

>>52964193
Didn't think about that. The compositor can't autotrack objects in the movie, but depending on how erratic its movement is, you might be able to get away with just keyframing the cropping area. Not ideal, but I've never dealt with camera tracking before so it's the best I've got lol.

>>52963819
It's python, it can handle math.

>>52959293
Ubuntu comes with apparmor but most profiles you have to enable yourself

>>52963724
If it is something that is enabled and works out of the box then it should do, if you have to enable or configure it in some proprietary Windows only software then probably not

>>52959293
Also they don't come with pax/grsecurity last kernel vuln PaX mitigated that with ease

>>52959293
Fedora is certainly not the industry standard as long as there's:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems#Cryptography
Nor is it sane to have ports open by default:
https://fedoramagazine.org/5tftw-2014-12-17/

>>52964134
Xpra draws windows on the remote and forwards the resulting images to the local, a forwarding draws to the local. If your ssh connection goes down the app running under xpra will keep drawing until you connect again but the a forwarded one will die because it has nowhere to draw to anymore. Since xpra sends images it uses a little more bandwidth

>>52964350
local privilege escalations don't matter much for single-user desktop systems. that non-privileged user already has all the juicy parts.

meanwhile grsecurity is like 20% slower and breaks some userpace.

>>52964463
Thank you kind anon.

>>52964465
Never had a problem using grsecurity/PaX all my servers run it with apparmor profiles + firejails.
Abit of reading is needed tho fort certain things

>>52959293
>Debian's security team
looks after all 20,000 source packages in the main repo
>Ubuntu's security teams
looks after all those 2,000 source packages in the main repo. But most packages (18,000 source packages) are in the universe repo. Those are just siphoned from some old Debian unstable snapshot and mostly not maintained.
>Fedora security team
what security team?
oh right they somewhat have one now:
https://sparkslinux.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/answering-questions-regarding-the-fedora-security-team/

>>52964370
>Fedora Suggests: Consider using non-restricted cryptographic methods instead.
LOL

Fedora fags on suicide watch

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>>52964241
Glorious and victorious.

Found this video and it worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFHtIGjxzUQ

>>52964941
Sweet, I'm glad you got masks working.

>>52965205
Thanks

I've tried googling and I haven't found anything useful

I've got a midi file I'd like to convert to hertz for use with GRUB_INIT_TUNE, what's the easiest way to do this?

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Is it possible for someone to show me a webm of them playing either firewatch or divinity original sin on their linux machine with specs?

Many thanks senpai.

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>>52965680
You can use tuxguitar to Import the midi, then figure out all the notes and write them down somewhere. Then use
>http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html
to figure out the frequencies. Shouldn't take more than 15 minutes.

It's got a little piano window thing that will tell you all the keys if you're not familiar with notation.

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