/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread.

>>57052451
first for linux :>)

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OP here.

Going to build this one for my next and final build.
>GPU passthrough
>AMD GPU
>Intel wireless adaptor (extra autism)

I need photoshop/lightroom with full 3D support

In preparation for the launch of ubuntu 16.10 later this month. If I do a fresh install then, and copy my old home directory. After reinstalling all my usual programs, I shouldn't have any issues?

So I installed i3 on xubuntu yesterday. Now I'm wondering what command I'd run to lock my i3 session? Is there an XFCE program I can just bind to a shortcut or do I need to install like i3lock or something?

I'm trying to run some GOG games via WINE. They launch successfully when I click launch game after the installer completes but I can no longer get them to launch from the .exe file afterwards. Does anyone have any idea what could be going wrong?

>>57052451
GCC is better than LLVM

gnu is a jewish cult that does not respect your freedoms

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Picrelated on the left is how my GRUB and TTY looks like on my Arch Linux.
Picrelated on the right is how the TTY for any live ISO looks like.
Notice the difference? The left one is horribly stretched, the right one is perfectly sharp.

I want my Arch to look sharp too, how can I achieve that?
(with proprietary nvidia drivers, by the way)

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I have a confession to make. I am an arch user and I frequently wet the bed.

>>57054075
>(with proprietary nvidia drivers, by the way)
can't, thank nvidia

How do I install tewisay normally? (Not using a distro with it in the repositories)

github.com/lucy/tewisay

>>57054116
So if I were to use open source drivers, everything would look great? I just need to give up all my Steam games and hardware acceleration and nvenc in ffmpeg and what else?

I guess I'll try.

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Can someone explain what this is? I've seen this on here dozens of times but seriously what the fuck is this? I went to his website and he has a page devoted to him saying that God told him he can say the word nigger.

>>57054182
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCXER2BSR8o

>>57054150
I tried.
I guess I'll keep living with a stretched console.

>>57053146
Noobuntu is so bloated

>>57052510
>R9 270
>209
If that's USD you can get a RX470 for about the same price, which would be much faster and will probably end up with better *nix support

>>57052530

If you can't find the solution to that on the internet, stop using computers at all.

>>57054182

>temple os has an app store
http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/AppStore.html#l1

Year of the Temple OS desktop, when?

>>57054075
>Notice the difference? The left one is horribly stretched, the right one is perfectly sharp.
No, I don't, because you moron decided to take a freaking picture with your phone. I bet that damn repo-elephant is more intelligent than you.

>>57054414
uvesafb? It used to work with nvidia on my Debian box at least.
https://blog.samat.org/2010/11/09/High-resolution-text-console-with-uvesafb-and-Debian/

Though not sure how UEFI influences this and is even possible anymore. Haven't tried in a while.

>>57054505
>to take a freaking picture with your phone
It's a fucking TTY, what do you expect me to do? Screenshots aren't a thing in a TTY realm.

>>57054517
Found this from gentoo wiki
>For x86 and AMD64 processors, the uvesafb driver conflicts with the binary driver provided by nVidia above 361.28 versions.

>>57054529
I'm not exactly good with linux, but isn't fbgrab a thing?

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>>57054538
wait,
turns out it's already installed on my system

You could use this >>57054529
it could work, maybe

>>57054538
>>57054565
It is a thing and it takes a screenshot of what the screen _supposed_ to look like (crisp 1280x1024, in my case). But my graphics card stretches that shit on the monitor.
So, the only way I can show that it is fucked up is by taking a photo.

>>57054536
last i checked, the proprietary nvidia driver doesn't support KMS nor does it provide direct framebuffer access, so you can only get full resolution in X

>>57054609
It doesn't, that's why you used to use uvesafb, it's a separate driver that works with Nvidia.
I've used it on Debian with proprietary drivers.
Well used to work, but apparently EFI fucks it up.
If you boot without EFI and use a driver <361.28 it should still work.

Also you could use nouveau for the framebuffer and deactive it before X. See deactiving KMS and unloading nouveua
https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting/
I haven't tried this, but apparently it works also just fine.

vesafb works also, similarly to uvesafb, but both do require hw support for modes, usually the supported resolutions are pretty weird.
hwinfo should spew out supported modes, you can just plonk those to grub.cfg

The main issue is poor documentation on tty fb drivers and normal video drivers.

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>hey I got an idea lets take the old highly functional gui application startup that made it super easy to add simple commands or programs to run on startup and remove it so now you have to edit stupid fucking configs that no novice user will know how to do

>>57054762
Seriously gnome devs if you are going to remove something replace it with something of equal or greater value. I really want to like you but you make it so god damn difficult.

None of the other solutions worked for me in Gnome 3.14 on Gnome Ubuntu 14.10. What finally worked was creating .desktop files by hand.

First, make the folder ~/.config/autostart/ if it doesnt exist.

Then create a ~/.config/autostart/my-app-to-startup.desktop file for each program you want to start on login.

For example, here's what my ~/.config/autostart/pidgin.desktop file looks like:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=pidgin
Hidden=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name=pidgin
Comment=instant messenging client

Are there any _good_ GNU/Linux desktop wallpapers (16:9 aspect ratio, preferably 4K)? I don't want to rice my shit, I just need something comfy that will shine through my terminal windows.

Is vim and emacs just a meme, or should I actually spend time learning a 40 year old text editor?

I tried learning vim once, but I missed autocomplete, and youcompleteme seemed a bit unresponsive tbqh...

Pls help, no meme answers allowed!

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>>57054762
Explain this shit

>>57054797
Yeah, my one.

Try unsplash.

>>57054781
>>57054811
Works on my machine™

>>57054840
You didn't post a picture.
Unsplash is nice, thanks.

>>57054803
Vim is actually god-tier, emacs is not as much.
You don't need to use them directly to reap benefits. You can try using some plugin that provides vi bindings for your favorite editor (unless it's Atom, in which case you should probably just kill yourself).
It'll basically be 70% of Vim in the environment you're comfortable with.

Also, don't try to make Vim replace an IDE like ones from JetBrains. It won't happen (unless you try very very hard, and it still won't be as good).

>>57054849
No it doesn't if its not in that tiny ass list you have to jump through hoops to get it to autostart

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hey, can anyone tell me how the fuck i change my username? every guide ive looked up either doesnt work or it takes an insane amount of bullshit to do.

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>>57054762
Unity wasn't stupid enough to remove it. I think I understand why they went their own way instead of going with gnome 3

Editing config/dot files with arbitrary syntax is ass tier and whoever introduced this to Unix needs to be taken out back and shot.

>>57054881

>insane amount of bullshit to do
It's 2 or 3 commands. If that's too many, give up on life or just change your finger information with "chfn".

Does anybody know how to show the awesome WM taskbar above fullscreen windows or anything overlapping it when pressing the mod key? I know i3bar has this feature, but I'd like to use it in awesome.
Not sure on how to program it myself.

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>>57054995
its not 2 or 3 commands. if it is give me a hint. every guide tells me to do something different.
I went from being able to compile programs to not being able to change my username. when did i become so stupid?

>>57055063

username -l
Or just enter "change username linux" into your search engine of choice and follow the guides which tell you to use usermod to change it, the home directory and renaming the home directory. Maybe also edit and update groups.

>>57055074
didnt help.i went my own route and completely fucked my username lmao
Cant create a user without some shit password.
im logged in as root now. im gonna reinstall lol.

>>57055192

If you're logged in as root, you can just create a new user account completely and use that as a fresh start, without reinstalling.

>browses b
Yeah, I figured.

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>>57055216
yea whatever buddy. it forces me to create a long ass obscure password i will probably forget. renaming a username shouldnt be that fucking difficult..

also people browse other boards fuckface. especially when this one gets boring

>>57055074
>>57055192
>>57055216
>>57055360
This is why the whole concept of "privilege separation" and "user groups" was a mistake.

>>57055360
> giving a shit about your account name
> giving a shit about your account name and not picking a proper one to begin with

>>57055429
ehh........
yeah. but i was tired of my terminal saying goyimsquad.. sorry i dont feeling like naming my computer after myself. i reinstall every few months anyway so it doesnt matter.

>>57055474
Then what are you complaining about? Reinstall, change name, done.
> not just using your initials

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>>57055474
>>57055482
>>57055429

>not basing your username off of your favortite chinese cartoon character

>>57055510
So what's your username then?

>>57055482
i wanted to be able to do it.
i just installed windows and fedora less than a week ago. i failed and scrubbed the whole fedora partition. its just stupid you cant change it it the users area.

>>57055515

Hiroyuki

My favorite anime character ;^)

>>57055520
You do realize that you only change the apparent name in Windows, right? Your user account still uses the same directory as before, named after the initial username.
In UNIX and similar systems. names have meaning. It's what identifies you to the system (which is the whole fucking point of having a name). Changing it changes your identity, so it would make sense to require some knowledge and, more importantly, administrative rights. Remember that user accounts are usually managed by a system administrator in these systems; there's no reason to change names in that system.

>>57055538
Too long, would not use.
3 letters, maybe 4 are okay.

>>57055515
i dont exist in reality

>>57052510
suggest that you plan to buy an SSD also, loosing much performance on the r/w-process

I'm trying to remove google public key from my sources.

On the forums they say to apt-key list, which is logical and they give a command to delete the key.
BUT apt-key list doesn't give me the required ID for the key.

I should have something like

pub 1024D/437D05B5 2004-09-12

with 437D05B5 being the key ID, but all it gives me is

pub 1024D 2004-09-12

What in the fuck? I need the ID to delete the key. Anybody has an idea ?

RICHARD STALLMAN SPEAKS SPIC HAHAHA

>>57055604
But I heard bad things about SSD compatibility

>>57055619
Well, nevermind because it looks like I could remove it from software&update menu.

GUI : 1 - Command line : 0

>>57055627
He's a legit communist and likes many of the socialist countries of South America.

>>57055635
i also heard that some planes crashed and people died but sometimes i have to fly. ;-)

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>when your linux is finally set up

>>57055726
I bet you set it up wrong.

Is there a program which would retrieve and backup bookmarks from Firefox? From Firefox you have to use the actual GUI, but I want something that I can call from a script.

>>57055757
I set your mum up right, faggot.

>>57055772
B T F O
T
F
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>>57055474

>goyimsquad
Holy shit, you can't be older than 14 when taken into account with all the other cringe-worthy things like browsing b or "windows doesn't have this problem" cockiness. Either that or you're an obnoxious manchild.

>>57055545

And he was already told to use chfn to achieve the same effect as in Windows.

>>57055360
>Friendly

>>57055766
how about

sqlite3 ~/.mozilla/firefox/*default/places.sqlite "select '<a href=''' || url || '''>' || moz_bookmarks.title || '</a><br/>' as ahref from moz_bookmarks left join moz_places on fk=moz_places.id where url<>'' and moz_bookmarks.title<>''" > bookmarks.html

>>57056367

Almost. It's also giving some useless fields.
It's weird that the Firefox executable doesn't have a flag for exporting them. This seems like a great opportunity to practice some programming. I'm currently searching to see if it hasn't already been done.

>>57056508
in about:config you can turn "browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML" to true and it will backup bookmarks on close.

Probably not what you want either.

You could always just make a script that copy's places.sqlite

I'm new to partitioning, this may seem obvious for you but I'm noob as fuck.
If, when installing a linux distro, I make two partitions (root and home), the linux system is installed in root and I'll put my documents and files in home.
If anything happens (one day my OS crashes or something), can I reinstall the OS without worrying about losing my files at the home partition? Are these two partitions independent?
The only thing I'll have to do (when reinstalling the OS, or installing another one) is mount the home partition:
$ mkdir -p /mnt/home (make the directory in the root partition)
$ mount /dev/(home_partition) /mnt/home (mount the partition)
And I will have my new system but with all my files from the previous OS. Am I right?

>>57056576
like:

enable "browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML"

 
/usr/bin/firefox &
sleep 10
pkill -f firefox
cp ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/bookmarks.html ~/Downloads/bookmarks-`date +"%d-%m-%Y"`.html

Who /plasma5.8.1/ here?

The latest Manjaro update is looking sweet. All the themes are integrating nicely.

>>57054075
Change the console font/size.

>>57056817
It's a TTY, you dummy.

>>57056825
TTYs use fonts also, you dog.

>>57056859
It's the same fucking font, Terminus.

>>57053828
>being drobe

>>57056869
or not Terminus. Doesn't matter, it's not a font issue. It's a resolution issue.

>>57056869
it's not even terminus, dumbass

>>57056752
>can I reinstall the OS without worrying about losing my files at the home partition?
yes you can
>Are these two partitions independent?
yes
>The only thing I'll have to do (when reinstalling the OS, or installing another one) is mount the home partition:
>And I will have my new system but with all my files from the previous OS. Am I right?
yes. And no.

for short, when you install a linux distro you need a primary partition /
If you want you can create a partition for some specific directories, like your /home, /boot, /usr...

Let's say you got the partitions :
>sda1 : /boot
>sda2 : /
>sda 3 : /home

And you want to install a new distro in sda4 and use /sda3 as your home directory, during the install process you'll just have to tell him to use sda 3 as /home and make sure you don't erase or format it.

What you said would work, I do that for my windows partition. I modified my /etc/fstab to automount my windows partition.

And about reinstalling the OS because of a problem, some distributions (like ubuntu), permits you to reinstall it without erasing your data, even if you got everything in the same partition. He will touch the system but not the home directories, and it works fine (the few times I tried it).

>>57053828
use i3lock

>>57056938
Thank you so much for responding!
When I said:
>And I will have my new system but with all my files from the previous OS...?
By 'all my files', I meant all my files in the home partition: my images, music, etc.. folders. Not the installed programs (which If I'm not mistaken, are installed in the root partition)
Would I lose all that?

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What do with my old .swf stuff? Any easy way to convert them or can I play them with any free software?

>>57057021
yes, your home partition won't be modified.

What network manager do you use? I've been using connman but I can't seem to get auto connect to work properly.

>>57057071
There have been loads of alternate players, the trouble is there's nothing which works too well for anything more recent than SWF 7 and there's nobody too interested in doing it properly.

>>57057084
I hope you meant: 'no, your home partition won't be modified.' jajaja
Thank you for the answer!

>>57057071
GNASH

Between lmde and devuan which is the better choice?
I'm coming from arch right now and I want something that just werks without forcing too much bloat down my throat.

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Not sure if this is even the appropriate thread but here goes..

>be wincuck
>decide to give Linux a shot
>install Ubuntu
>inb4 "OMG Ubuntu"

Time for some fucking drivers, eh?
>download AMD's 16.30 drivers for Ubuntu because I've got a R9 380
>install them
>restart
>fucking second monitor is just black..
>look it up online, apparently it's a known problem for monitors connected through DVI-I

Whatever, no AMD drivers I guess.
It's not like I do much other than browse the interwebz anyways.

Next
>decide I want to get i3gaps and rice the fuck out of it
>install i3-gaps
>spend an entire fucking day ricing the shit out of it
>last thing left is i3blocks because i3status looks awful
>sudo apt-get install i3blocks
>asked if I wanna keep my configs for i3 as they are
>Yes, keep them as default
>finishes installing
>Oh Lord Jesus errors everywhere
>gaps functionality is gone
>every line refering to a property that would be configuring the gaps between windows in the config is an error

fugg.

hey /g/entooman, need some help.
It seems my lightdm is not sourcing ~/.xprofile. I'm using fedora, and previously on ubuntu it worked no problemo. Any ideas?
Also, awesome wm's pulseaudio widget throws errors until i run pavucontrol, then they stop and the widget functions normally.

>>57057511
with an AMD gpu it's usually better to use the free driver and not the proprietary one. It is usually more stable, for the same performances (sometimes even better)
They were working on amd-gpu pro driver or something like that, it was on beta and will provide vulkan support for their latest GPU. Maybe this one will be better, but I don't think it was released yet (officially)

>>57057511
There are two kind of people in this world : the cucks and the bulls. Now prep.

>>57056888
Shhhhh.
Nette Tripletten.

>>57057766
Auch nette Doppel, Bernd.

>>57057711
For awesome, use xinitrc.

>>57057880
even when starting it with lightdm?

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I need to update my Slackware kernel, I updated all other software except for the kernel because Im afraid Ill fuck something up if I do. Any advice or reading I should do before undertaking this endeavor?

>dnf update is deprecated!
>use dnf upgrade instead!
>dnf check-update exists but not dnf-upgrade

what did red hat mean by this?

>>57058024
That you're a free tester corporate slave and should never forget that

>>57057451
Bump

>>57052451
Nice bloated wallpaper? Why is everything doubled in that picture?

>>57058024
Also half of the commands use dash and the other half don't.

>check-update
>distro-sync
>update-to
>upgrade-to

>makecache
>autoremove
>updateinfo

Why?

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I could use some help, my Google skills are kind of not helping.

Got a new thinkpad, just installed Debian testing. Did a dist-upgrade. Everything works, but booting takes forever because of "A start job is running for Network Manager" - pic related. It doesn't matter if I'm just on Wifi, LAN, or both. My machine receives its IP via DHCP, like my PC, my Pi and my phone. My DHCP isn't slow, so I don't think that's the issue here.
As soon as the timer ticks down it fails and tells me to check 'systemctl status NetworkManager.service'. I've done that, and apparently the service has been loaded and is running. Seems to be working as intended.

Anyone know what the issue might be? What I can do to troubleshoot? I mean, I can connect via LAN or WLAN, both work. I don't know why the NetworkManager fails.

>>57058135
Maybe this? https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/186162/how-to-change-timeout-in-systemctl

>>57052451
Give GNU the gun.

>>57058135
That's a workaround at best, I'd like to know what the actual problem is. Thanks anyways, it'll be helpful at least.

>>57058287
meant
>>57058206

>>57052451
OH GOD INSTALLGENTOO IS DOWN AND I NEED TO GET SOME KIND OF LINUX FOR MY UNI COURSEWORK
>some sort of basic gui with mouse support
>will smoothly boot from a 10MB/s flash drive

How do i make something i compiled/a script i wrote exexutable from wherever?
Pls heopl

>>57058135
Network Manager sometimes is a pain in the ass. You can delay the loading of services or also remove entirely their startup, I guess you're using it to connect. Try reinstalling it, and make sure there are no other services trying to connect such as an automatic netctl profile

>>57058392
slax

>>57057111
network mismanager
wicd is okay too.

>>57058440
first make it executable

chmod +x <scriptname>

then put the script in /home/<username>/bin (or anywhere you want really)

and then add the folder that contains the script to your PATH by adding this line

export PATH=$PATH:/home/<username>/bin

to your .profile or .bash_profile or whatever else you use

Can someone please give me the rundown on how to install additional packages for LaTeX (texlive distribution) in Ubuntu 14.04? When I try

$ tlmgr install koma-script

>(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
>cannot setup TLPDB in /home/kkb/texmf at /usr/bin/tlmgr line 5336.

Also, the babel package should be installed afaik, but if I

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

in the .tex file, the ngerman thing isn't found. How would I add that?

>>57058545
If i have it under
/home/me/folder/otherfolder
Can i add said folder to the PATH or does it need to go in bin?
Is .profile in my home?

>>57058440
> being Shivvy

>>57058589
Pls no bully

For a beginner
Ubuntu or Fedora?

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Hey guys, so I see there's plenty of familiar faces here already

>>57058576
You can add any folder to PATH but if you have more than one script it's more practical to have everything in one folder.

What shell do you use? If it's bash you can add that export line to .bash_profile which is run when you login or .bashrc which is run every time you start an interactive shell, both of those files should be in your home folder.

>>57058632
Ubuntu

>>57058655
Why?

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hey /g/, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for artists?

>>57058632
Arch
Then gentoo

>>57058646
I need to learn some of this shit for contingency

>>57058651
As of now i made a projects folders, but can i add it without it excluding the bin folder?
It seems to me that it's a variable, can IT be defined doubly?

>>57058683
>Arch
Im not stupid

>>57058666
because I say so, Satan
also nobody is using Fedora

>>57058721
I'll go with Ubuntu Gnome then

>>57058721
Popular software doesn't mean that it's good software. Canonical did some shady stuff in the past. That said, isn't Fedora just a beta testing distro for RHEL?

centos 8 when?
I'm sick of fedora release cycle but I want dnf

>>57058683
>As of now i made a projects folders, but can i add it without it excluding the bin folder?
>It seems to me that it's a variable, can IT be defined doubly?

this

export PATH=$PATH:/home/<username>/bin

means PATH is equal to the current PATH plus /home/<username>/bin so nothing that was there before is changed

if for example you did something like this

export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/home/<username>/bin

then PATH would be reset to those exact folders and anything that was there before not included now would stop being in your PATH

There are only three worth distros: Arch, Debian and Gentoo. Everything else is wasted time.

>>57058809
t. basement manbaby

>>57058809
>arch
>worth anything
you must be new

>>57058809
This. People need to stop using shitty forks made by literally who and get the real thing.

>57058809
>57058853
no thanks

>install linux
>it doesn't work
HELP

>>57059118
>install gentoo
>it works everytime

Should I install Antergos or Debian on my laptop?

>>57058809

Slackware.

>>57058809
And Fedora/RedHat

>>57058689

You're asking a retarded question which could be answer by a simple internet search. Of course you're stupid, you're just not aware of it.

>>57059609
fedora + rpmfusion + http://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/freed-ora.en.html

>>57059510

You won't install or use either of those. At best you'll install it, dual booting of course, then spend 20 minutes typing "ls" into the terminal once every fortnight and then remove it. You just feel cool by asking such a "techy" question.

If you were a normal person, you'd spend 2 minutes looking into the differences between those two arbitrary distributions and make a decision for yourself, based on merit and requirements.

>>57059690
Jumping into this type of conclusions like this is really edgy desu. I'm not even that guy, by the way.

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>>57059690

>>57059609
Bullshit. RHEL crap isn't better than any other distribution, it's just the support bonus you pay for. Fedora is just RHEL's testbed, no other purpose that it even exists. User repos are empty, community is small. Nobody is using Fedora, exept tippers who fall for the serious distro meme, same with RHEL; people who buy RHEL usually also buy Helvetica fonts (logic: if it costs money it must be higher quality).

Red Hat is a meme.

>>57059895
wrong. Fedora exist because Red Hat linux was discontinued in favor of the community driven version.

>>57059771
Well, I am that guy -- and if I'm being honest with myself, >>57059690 is right.

>>57059895
The advantage of RHEL and Ubuntu (for servers and such) is support, not that it is "better".

>>57052451
i just discovered nmap, give me some other commands that let me see the strings of the world

>>57060040
ls -n -a

>>57060040
p-pls dont hack me

>>57060040
just found another one, netstat
>>57060125
too late

>>57060169
netstat is deprecated, use ss instead

>>57060261
>not using iftop

>>57060316
iftop and ss aren't equivalents

>>57060261
netstat and ss aren't equivalents

>>57060316
>>57060357
>>57060342
>>57060316
>>57060261
>>57060169
bloat, just use /proc/ kiddos

>>57060357
ss is a direct replacement of netstat
ip is a direct replacement of ifconfig

iftop doesn't do everything ss (or netstat) do

>>57060379
What's the direct replacement of iwconfig?

I want to buy more ram for my server, but I forgot what type I can use.

I ran dmidecode -t 17 | grep -e 'Speed' and got this

        Speed: 1600 MHz
        Configured Clock Speed: 1333 MHz

Does that mean that my motherboard accepts 1600 but my ram is 1333?

What speed ram do I buy?

>>57060403
It doesn't have one. I was talking about iproute2 which replaces many of the basic networking tools in Linux.

Here you can see which ones are now obsoleted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iproute2

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hey /g/, last time I tried linux pic related was an issue, did linus fix the filepicker already? if so, I'd give linux another try

Hey, guys. I've just spent about two hours trying to get an installer to start from an usb drive.

I'm trying to replace the bunsenlabs installation, that broke after I cleared CMOS. I've burned both bunsenlabs and debian distros onto a usb drive using the following methods: rufus, win32diskimager, and dd at the live CD. I've also tried different usb slots, but not different usb drives (I'm down to one, since my second last died earlier today).

The issue is the installers just show black screen after flashing the line about probing edd (if I remove "quiet" parameter). I've tried edd=off, nomodeset, acpi=off, noapic, nolapic in different combinations with nothing changing except if I mash the keys for a few seconds, the numpad led now comes back on after going out. It used to just go out before.

Did I fuck my hardware up or am I fucked in the brain region? I've never ran into such problems before.

>>57060450
>Server
>Ramspeed

You really, really sure it's a server?

>>57060465
Cool, thanks.

>>57060468
isn't this a browser issue not a file manager issue

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>>57060468
just use kde

I just aquired an acer ferrari 4000, turion 64, 1gb ddr ram.
Whats distros and DE's can i expect to comfortably run on it

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>>57060479
Yep. Got it used on Craigslist

>>57060468
how is this an issue? you can see the file you're choosing via the thumbnail in the right pane

>>57060504
Not him but thats definitely one of the nicer looking servers ive seen

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>>57060539

>>>/g/nu

>>57060539
but i need thumbnails

>>57060482
Well apparently I was wrong, iwconfig was replaced by iw

It's not a part of iproute2 but the kernel instead which is why I didn't know about it.

More info: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw

>>57060577
(Cool, thanks)*2

>>57060468
It's still an issue with gtk based DEs
Use OpenSUSE, Kubuntu, or somethiing with a pre-configured KDE

>tfw I will have to deal with lefilepickermeme on my computer until it's fixed in 10 years

>>57058646
Need to make sure we have a board to shitpost if they do end up closing o down

i run debian on my main laptop, rec me another distro to put on my crappy side laptop

>>57060040
arp

>>57060541
Runs pretty damn quietly too. Hosting a lot of stuff on it. 2 web servers (one gitlab one nginx) and a minecraft server

>>57060504
>>57060450
I just realized I can look it up instead

> install TeXLive from repo
> only very basic functionality works
> important packages missing
> can't even install new packages because tlmgr is fucked and incompatible with packages of current version

> purge
> download compiled binaries from homepage
> install
> just werks

Why are Canonical so shit?

>>57060828
inAPTitude

get it?

http://www.xiertekusa.com/xiertekusa/index.php/creative-labs-sb-ct4810-16-bit-vibra-pci-128-4-1-3channel-audi.html

i got this old beast. should i plug it in?

is kali linux basically just debian with a bunch of script kiddy shit packged with it? is there anything kali linux has that a standard debian installation can't get straight from the repositories?

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what are all of Google's IP addresses?
I want to download chromium for muh kdialog, but no botnet.
It's possible if I remove all connections to google through blocking

Is there any difference between installing ubuntu 16.10 today or waiting a couple of weeks so it's more "stable" and I can have more reviews from other users?

>>57061017
https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

>>57061072
get manjaro instead

>>57061072
maybe a few updates for stuff, but i'm thinking of sticking with the LTS for the foreseeable future.

just werks

>>57061088
I'm using manjaro now

God fucking damn it. I'm getting DDoSed by Russians.

I swear to god I'm going to IP ban all non Americans.

I have debian in a hyper-v machine. recently lightdm just takes me to a black screen with a cursor.
In the past dpkg-reconfigure lightdm solved the issue but not this time.

>>57061153
then don't install ubuntu idiot

>>57061282
>I'm getting DDoSed by Russians
You're a nobody, why would anyone DDoS you?

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>>57061403
i hacked the fbi

>>57061403
he is american. Whenever something bad happens to him, he will blame russians.

>my connexion is crap ?
>OH GOD ANOTHER RUSSIAN ATTACKING ME

>>57061459
go back to pol, trumpkin

>>57059934
No you're not
I am, and I disagree

>>57061403
>>57061456
That's exactly wtf I thought. Why do they care about a wordpress website?

I'm hosting it on my server under a domain.

>>57061459
I literally have 4 hours worth of logs filled with

"191.96.249.54 - - [13/Oct/2016:11:26:32 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0" 499 0 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)""

191.96.249.54 is a Russian IP.

I just disabled xmlrpc.php from being accessed with nginx.

>>57061536
>191.96.249.54 is a Russian IP.
it's not, though.

https://dig.whois.com.au/ip/191.96.249.54

>>57061576
http://whois.domaintools.com/191.96.249.54
it is tho

>>57061576
>he doesn't know Chile is in Russia

>>57061576
>>57061582
>using online whois services

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What Distro has the most compatible binaries and has the best driver support OOB for AMD APUs?

>>57061615
>using offline whois services
>>57061637
gentoo

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>>57061637
Gentoo if you like the idea of configuring everything

If not, try out various Live CDs and see which one just werks the most

>>57061637
Linux Utlimate HD Premium

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>install application in Wine
>mount first ISO
>please insert disk 2
>unmount first ISO
>mount second ISO
>please insert disk 2

What am I doing wrong? WINE seems to detect that mounted directory as a cdrom drive.

>>57059895
Then why is Fedora/ Opensuse on the rise while the other top distros are falling?

distrowatch.com

>>57061697
>not the Ultra 4K Professional version

>>57061637
>OOB for AMD
no such thing

>>57061718
because people like stability and #JustWerks senpai.

>>57061646
>>57061691
I don't think Gentoo supports APU OOB

>>57061718
distrowatch is cancer that should disappear from the web immediately; it gives people the impression that highly ranked distros are the better distros, while in reality these ranks are just counted clicks.

>>57061730
FOSS AMD drivers are a thing.

>>57061754
>mad his niche distro isn't #q

>>57061754
It means people are more interested in these distros. You said the community is small (which it's not) and it's still growing.

>>57061754
Maybe that's the reson why everyone is installing Linux Mint (aka the worst distro), people got curious about it when their isos were backdoored and distrowatch got thousands of clicks, which level'd Mint to the top distro list.

>>57060651
Why change from Debian?

But Arch or Gentoo, there is no reason to use any other than these three distro's

>>57061754
i know anon, i dislike distrowatch too.

>>57058135
Huh, same thing happened to me yesterday on Mint 18 after I updated it. There was update for network-manager so I guess that was it.
Didn't occur again though.

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>>57061754
ask /b/ to click for Gentoo

I had Windows update disabled but it somehow updated anyway while I was working, and corrupted my fucking saved files.

I really want to try out Linux again, last time I found it boring and hard to use.

1) Other than quickly trying Linux I have never used it, what should I use? Have considered Ubuntu because it also looks pretty.

2) How good is Linux at playing games not supported right now?

3) How much is the typical Linux distro size after all updates and standard programs have been installed?

4) Anything I should know before jumping into Linux again?

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>>57061867
I have a low opinion of Gentoo GNU/Linux.

>>57061891
1. run ubuntu in a virtual machine or live usb
2. don't know
3. ~10gb
4. maybe

>>57061905
those look like proprietary sausages to me

what is this photo?

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>>57061905

>>57061891
1 Try OpenSUSE
2 varies
3 10 - 15 GB
4 Search on the internet family

>>57061980
>4 Search on the internet family
Stop. No. Seriously.
manpages > shitty linux noob blogs

>>57058679
Tumblrinux.

>>57061980
What make OpenPEPE better than other distros?

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>>57062010
Yes yes, but in this scenario he wasn't inside a linux distro yet, and can't get a feel for the commands and shieeeet

Looking up getting started guides might be good

>>57062067
One of the best pre-configured distros out there.
Also file picker meme doesn't apply

>want to install a minimal install with no DE on my laptop because it only has 16gb
>have problems with my intel networks card
>laptop has no port for ethernet
>followed the debian guide on how to set it up from terminal and googled how to set it up
>tried >sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid mywireless key s:mypassword
>didn't work
>tried to add following to /etc/network/interfaces file

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        wireless-essid wireless name
        wireless-key1 s:wirelesspass

>try get a ip with sudo dhclient wlan0
>didn't work
>resort to download debian with XFCE because I'm that incompetent
Hopefully this works, but shit I've been fucking around with this more or less all day and I don't understand why it doesn't work. My wifi card uses some non-free firmware and I install that during the install and I find and connect to the wifi there just fine there

>>57062203
Did you do ip link? dhcpd?

I've decided to transition from ubuntu to something else. I've pondered between fedora and debian. The thing holding me back from debian is that I'm not sure how the release cycle works for testing, specifically the freezes. When a freeze happens, do packages not get updated at all?

>>57062203
The things you tried would only work for WEP which I doubt you're using.

Is the interface even up?

Running
>iwlist wlan0 s
should show you the available networks

Then you'll need to use wpasupplicant or NetworkManager to authenticate.

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How much of this is true?

>>57062231
>Freeze Policy for Stretch
https://release.debian.org/stretch/freeze_policy.html

>>57062318
so, do people switch their repos to unstable during the freeze, or just wait it out until the freeze ends?

>>57062229
>>57062275
The interface was up and I could scan just fine, wifi uses WPA/WPA2 PSK

>wpasupplicant or NetworkManager
>dhcpd
I wanted to avoid this, these are extra things I have to install right? Maybe it's easy to install but last time I tried to install anything without a package manager and internet it was a dependency nightmare and having to bring the files over USB was just not fun
>works instantly with the xfce iso
I'll try again tomorrow tho and install one of those thanks

>>57062343
After Stretch freezes there will be a few months (until's its ready for release) where it will act like Debian Stable so if during that period you want the latest software you will have to use Sid and then when they start working on the next release you can safely change to that because it will basically be a copy of Sid. I just use Sid all the time and avoid all that.

>>57062307
1- false
2- still a mess but things works.
3- that's not really a big issue. People just develop for a specifc distribution and distributions will make it work (see steam for example)
4- partly false
5- that's not an issue.
6- that's stupid and false
7- irrelevant, it have nothing to do with linux
8- false

what's a good wireless mouse that can be easily configured in linux? must have two buttons on the left side (like the g400, etc), don't particularly care about being an actual gaming mouse

>>57062493
Is it safe to assume that sid is stable for everyday use?

>>57062460
You can't avoid it because iw can only connect to WEP, you'll need wpasupplicant for WAP. NetworkManager is just a front-end for wpasupplicant so you can avoid that.

>>57062506
literally any in my experience

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Alright /g/ I need some advice on a WM
Was using i3 for on very specific reason

>pic related

Tiling WMs don't seem to fit me, all I really use i3 for is for windows not disappearing behind a larger window

Are there any non-tiling WMs that have this feature? Fluxbox? Openbox?

>>57062512
If you using Stretch you're using Sid but with a 2-10 day delay on packages, it's not vastly different. In theory unstable is obviously less stable than testing but in practice I haven't add problems with it in 2 years of use. I use apt-listchanges and apt-listbugs to avoid fucking shit up but that's it.

>>57062542
every single DE/WM that I've used has this feature

including the apparently "featureless" gnome

>>57062542
Do you mean strata levels?
aka
mpv player window over your browser, while the browser takes focus but mpv still on top?

Im pretty sure almost everyone de/wm has this.

I do use fluxbox,and it does suppor this

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>>57062565
What do you recommend then?
I'm looking at this panel bar I want to try called tint2 that works with openbox and fluxbox

Is there a comparison/rundown of those two WMs?

If they both have that feature then that narrows my choices down considerably

>>57062600
Yes, exactly

>>57062619
openbox has it, fluxbox has it as per above

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_managers

>>57062619
fluxbox is "already built" compared to openbox.
Openbox you literally do everything your self, fluxbox already has things setup, like a panel,menu,launcher etc

You can use tint2 with fluxbox, just need to remove one line of text in the config file.

>>57062655
>>57062662
Thanks

>>57061714
depends on how the program is detecting the cd
might have to actually emulate a cdrom drive (such as with cdemu)

I really like that "classic" style of desktop. Is Cinammon the best DE alternative?

>>57062709
There's Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce.

>>57062709
jwm

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>>57058392
>will smoothly boot from a 10MB/s flash drive
>10MB/s flash drive

>>57062951
Write speed for a shitty USB 2.0 flash drive is around 10MB/s

>>57062307
Can you say, "FUD?"
That's right. I knew you could :)

I want to use linux but can't decide what would've best for a thinkpad x220T, i don't care if touch/pencil works or not as i don't really use it, any recommendation?

>>57063017
And why do you care about the write speed, bud?

Unless you're really stupid and put a swap partition on the drive, the write speed means almost nothing.

Even the shittiest of USB drives is faster to read than a HDD anyway.

>>57063088
I'm not that guy so I wouldn't know but you seemed confused, I was just trying to elucidate you.

Can i make a rasperry pi that boots up
Startes x with whatever
Loads a particular program, full screen and nothing else?

Can i do this with a chink screen, powerbank and mini keyboard?

>>57063396
You can easily do that.

What's the best, most stable Linux email client?

>>57063893
thunderbird, claws mail

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On xfce whenever I watch something full screen on monitor one, then go to do something on monitor two the panels appear on top of video on one.

>>57064323
I'll try claws.

I used Thunderbird for years on Windows (portable, works great) and on Linux but my Linux T-bird install just shat the bed (won't save sent mail, doesn't download new mail, multiple accounts) so I want to configure a new client and try it out before nuking and reinstalling T-bird whose support IIRC is fading away.

>>57052451
I've never used Linux ever. I've used Windows forever, but I want to put Linux on my laptop (ThinkPad x220)

What would be the best linux OS for a scrub like me?

Linux is worthless as a desktop OS. The only thing I run Linux on is the Raspberry Pi, which is my web server/Kodi box.

>>57064491

Typical desktop Linux worthlessness

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>>57064710
>What would be the best linux OS for a scrub like me?
Debian.

Also GNU is the OS and Linux is the kernel, just fyi.

>>57064710
Put fedora on it so >>57064802 kills himself

>>57064802
Thanks for the tip, guy

>>57052451
i've got 2 linux machines on the same wifi. how can i hack into one on the other? what commands?

>>57064710
Debian.

>>57065051
It's built in to most Linux distros. Just install "NETHACK" and run it against the other box for instant root.

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>>57065094
im being serious

Is GUIX stable enough for regular use? Please respond. I use Gentoo and I want to try out the hottest new meme.

How can I turn on wifi in debian for my laptop? Some guides tell me I need to download something, but I can't do that because I don't have wifi

>>57065222
give sudo apt-get update a shot and if it doesn't work you're probably going to have to get a wire and have a connection that way. did you get the non-free repositories? if not, that's probably why it's not working. you'll have to edit a text file somewhere to configure it to download non-free repos

>>57064710
Use a VM, not a bare metal install, while you learn. You'll naturally try multiple distros and VMs are the best way to do that.

>>57065222
>How can I turn on wifi in debian for my laptop?

Linux without non-Free software and drivers is pretty worthless. Debian is for experts to use building other distros or for servers. You can run it on a desktop by basically turning it into Ubuntu, or just ignore the haters and use a variety of Ubuntu to get Debian that works. Not the fault of Linux that proprietary hardware requires proprietary drivers, but that is what it is. If anyone babbles about botnets ignore them. They are teentard trolls and what you do on your machine neither contributes to nor detracts from Linux. You are a user, just a number at most that is all.

Googling with your laptops info is often useful.

You can also cheat by booting a live Linux that has drivers for your hardware, then using it to download the drivers for your Debian install. Reboot into Debian, install drivers, enjoy. Using one distro to assist another comes in handy.

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what kind of gloves does everyone wear when they linux?
I've been using the Harbinger gloves.

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>>57065583

>>57065222
You should've used the non-free images that include firmware packages.
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/

I'm thinking of putting gentoo or arch on an old laptop of mine to start getting into linux. I have no prior experience with linux whatsoever, but I have a copy of the Linux Bile that I never touched so I figured I'll spend my spare time trying to get into linux with it.

Is this an ok way to introduce myself to linux or should I try a different approach? Thanks.

>>57065616
Google "Linux + make and model of laptop" before starting so you'll know of any common issues.

A spare machine is fine to learn on and convenient because you have your main box to surf for info.

>>57065616
That's what I did, however that approach might not be for everyone

I personally suggest using a Linux on a live CD
(Gentoo's HybridISO is actually pretty good) and get a feel for the interfaces and basic commands,
then continue and install

>>57065692
If using a live CD, try to boot to RAM. Knoppix is designed for that and offers the option.

A live USB is easy to create on Windows using Rufus.

So I've got Linux installed on my Thinkpad plus an all black UI and switched to "Tomorrow" on 4chan

what do I do now?

>>57066314
create a custom profile for the terminal and set the background to black and text to green

>>57066321
my background is a pretty woman and I already set my terminal to black/green

>>57066314
ok I put a Matrix screensaver on
am I a hacker yet??

if i have lamp running at a laptop at my house, will i be able to connect to it from another laptop at a starbucks on the other side of the world? how? now i just do localhost as the url. do i need to buy a domain name or something?

>>57066709
You should probably learn the basics of computer networking, anon.
For your scenario, you should look into port forwarding on your router, or dynamic dns for a more convenient solution.

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>>57065583
Literally picrelated.
no i'm neither a girl nor a trap.

sed 's/>>57052451/>>57067029/'

>>57057993
compile a separate kernel, and move the image into a different place on "/boot", edit lilo or grub to use it as a new entry. Than try it out, if it fucks up (which i doubt) than go to the original "slackware" entry and keep trying. New kernels are all pretty much compatible.

>>57065158
>scan open ports
>look for overflow or vuln on a running service
>????
>profit/jail

>>57063465
How?
Xinitrc?
Because it doesn't werk

What's the best software to rip ISOs to mkv on Linux?

>Want to ditch Wangblows 10
>Check out Korora on a VM
>Used Gnome years ago, wanna see what they did with 3
>Mind blown

Holy fucking shit, this is amazing. I don't know if Korora is including Gnome apps that don't normally ship with distros, but they're clearly made for the DE, and it shows.

Every Gnome app is fucking perfect. No more than what you ask for. Notes, maps, image viewer, all pristine. And the theme they use in Korora is slick as hell, it all meshes very nicely. Especially in dark theme.

Why do people hate Gnome 3? Is it systemd? Size? It's plenty fast and I'm not sure if I should complain that Korora is using 600 MiB of RAM on a 16 GB machine. That's slim as fuck these days.

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>>57067943
Lel