/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

OSX master race

A couple of people mentioned in the last thread that startup speed is not a good reason to use systemd. If that is the case then what is a good reason to upgrade (apart from "it is the standard now").

And I already use a dependancy based sysvinit that starts scripts in parallel. As was the default on debian wheezy.
https://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot
http://termbin.com/z06q

>>61098914
Is this real?

>>61099204
Yeah,selfish asshat decided it was a good time to check his email so he sat down and blocked everyone else from crossing the bridge.

He's a 10th level SPERG

>>61098914
What exactly is that bridge even for?
It looks like the small dip that it goes over isn't even that bad

>>61098914
What sort of laptop is that?

>>61099286
it's probably a Lemote

>>61099286
>>61099313
Lemote Yeeloong
https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

>>61098914
HOW DO I GET RID OF MY CPU MICROCODE ETHERNET CONTROLLER FIRMWARE AND HDD FIRMWARE I WANT FREEDOM REEEEEEEEEEEE

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>tfw compiling some opensource and hundreds of warnings are being thrown

>>61098914
Need to convert some FLAC to mp3 in a hurry, but can't end with a total shit.
Is there anything wrong, quality-wise, with just importing them into Audacity and export them as 320 mp3 with no normalization?

>>61099457
what is it?

>>61099402
Use a hammer?

>>61099463
ffmpeg -i flac.flac mp3.mp3

>>61099480
Right now I'm trying to install scipy, numpy and some others through pip.

I fucking hate pip. I would install the modules through apt-get but then you get older versions with missing features.

>>61099553
pip installation is not compilation.

Use sudo to install system-wide. Use a virtualenv to install locally. Read the errors and install dependencies if necessary.

>>61098914
Stallman's life looks awesome.

>>61099899
>pip installation is not compilation
wew

>>61098914
What's the irc

From the debian website
>For convenience for some users, this unofficial alternative build includes non-free firmware for extra support for some awkward hardware.
>awkward hardware

Well that is rude.

I think I broke mu Linux. I installed Debian stretch and was trying to install Nvidia drivers but adding contrib non free to sources.list in libre office changed the file type or something. Now apt doesn't work because it can't read sources.list. I think I'm doomed to use windows forever.

>>61100552
Are you embarresed that your awkward hardware needs special support to compete?

>>61100590
>libre office
Lol, it is a text file dude! Just grab the second example from https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList and change jessie for stretch.

>>61100621
What's the linux equivalent of notepad and how do I open it? I'm new and I don't know what to do

>>61100640
Mousepad is the equivalent in XFCE

>>61100640
Probably nano for the terminal (it instructions on bottom of screen ^ = ctrl), for the gui idk.

>>61100590
Actually it looks like there is an example sources file you can steal.

sudo cp /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/sources.list /etc/apt/
In thi terminal if you haven't fixed it already.

>>61098914
Im sorry are these pictures of stahlman real?

>>61100706
Do you think he is a myth? He spoke at my university once when I was there. I didn't go though. Bigfoot didn't do that.

>>61100644
I got it working, just made a new text file. Though nothing else work. Know how to install the latest Nvidia drivers?

>>61100759
Just install the package nvidia-driver
It is a metapackage that will pull down the acutal required packages.

i typed in apt install nvidia-driver to get it, but the terminal says it is unable to locate package nvidia driver.

I had a drive loaded with Gentoo and a bunch of files on an old laptop which had a bios supervisor password set so that it didn't boot or even allow access to the bios without first entering the password. I no longer have the laptop but I kept the drive and now when I connect it, it doesn't show up. I put it in my new laptop and tried booting from it and it prompts me for a password before allowing me access to the bios just like the old laptop did (even though I haven't set any bios passwords on the new laptop). And when I enter the password that I had set, it says that the password I entered is invalid. How am I supposed to get the files on my drive?

>>61100803
actually I can't install any packages from the main repository lol

>>61100803
>>61100855
Check your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Make sure the repositories are present and uncommented.

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God I fucking love some of the qutebrowser hotkeys. It's like browsing the internet in vim with input modes and everything.

This link selection overlay thing is amazing. I don't know if I'll be able to go back to other browsers without it.

>>61100906
Too bad it's insecure.

In what way?

Also, another solution anyway would just be to develop some plugin for firefox or whatever that makes it behave the same way

>>61100933
>>61100948
I assume they are referring to the old webkit backend instead of webengine or webkit-ng.

>>61100895
There are Deb repositories there, I didn't touch them. Also I am in root because I entered a root password so sudo isn't installed.

>>61100971
Is it something that will improve over time, and still being developed for? Or is it going to remain insecure/no longer be developed?

>>61100972
Also they aren't commented like with the pound sign or anything

>>61100972
Do you have an internet connection? A DNS connection? Try

ping -c 3 www.google.com

. If you get back three packets, do a

apt-get install update

.

>>61100972
> There are Deb repositories there
Are they the right ones? Did you fuck something up? We can't tell you because we are not reading over your shoulder you muppet.

Did you run `apt update` after you "fixed" the sources.list file?

>>61101002
>Is it something that will improve over time, and still being developed for? Or is it going to remain insecure/no longer be developed?
What, qtwebkit? Yeah it has been revived and is being developed but just recently so it hasn't been picked up by many distros yet. If you mean qutebrowser it never stopped being developed and I don't know what insecurity you are talking about.

>>61101035
Yeah I have a dns connection. when i enter apt-get install update is says E: Unable to locate package update.

>>61101054
I don't know if they are the right ones, where do I find that out. I don't know shit about linux. I understand that there is a place where you download stuff specific to your distro and apt is the function name to get them.

>>61101086
>apt-get install update
Sorry. It should be

apt-get update

. (Way past my bedtime)

>>61098914
imagine you are out on a hike, and you end up running out of water. you try to head back and this situation happens. the only way to get some water is across this bridge, what do you do?

>>61101065
>and I don't know what insecurity you are talking about.
Me either. Some other anon said qutebrowser was insecure

>>61101086
I mean write them here so we can check. If you are to new to know how to copy and past just run

nc termbin.com 9999 < /etc/apt/sources.list

in a terminal and write the url it prints out here.

>>61101118
i tried it, i don't think it can see the package reposityory. It's late I'm tired and I think i'm just going to delele and reinstall tommorrow. fuck it.

>>61101126
Approach cautiosly, do not startle!

"Umm, excuse me sir but you are restricting my freedom to cross the bridge... I would like to pass so I can drink some of that refreshing free water over there."

>>61101169
Fucking hell man, write the actual error messages. What is the pont in just relaying your interpretation when, if you knew what they meant, you wouldn't be here asking for help.

>>61101184
Sorry man, thanks for your help and others.

>>61101179
When you reach the end of the bridge you hear a rumble from the other side. You no longer see rms, instead you see a stampeding gnu running right at you, screaming at you that you should NOT have installed that proprietary garbage application when you were but a young kid and that you now must be sacrificed to the free software gods.
What do you do?

>>61101220
Yell "Pepsi sucks!" and do a backflip.

>>61101238
The ropes snap, you land with a thud and maybe a sprained ankle. The gnu lands headfirst, snapping its neck. When the dust settles you spot a nude rms dead, with his trusty thinkpad X60 in his clutched hands. Then you hear a plane overhead, with what looks like two people parachuting in. You're still thirsty.
what do you do?

>>61101306
Grab the tablet and find some bushes to hide out in. There are probably enough rants saved as draft emails to fuel dozens of shitposts. And his gpg keys.

>>61101355
You don't manage to find a tablet. You do manage to find and grab his thinkpad from his cold dead hands, but when you try to boot up, you see a emacs prompt asking you to insert toe jam. But you notice the jumpers are just about to land in between your bush and rms' dead corpse. You're even more thirsty now.
what do you do?

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Why creating LiveUSB is so buggy?
Is it because third party applications uses it's isolinux/syslinux or because the ISO file was meant to be burned on CD/DVD instead?

>>61101388
Be still and obsverve. If death from thirst is impending. Drink urine.

>>61099176

As a casual user I like the ease of creating service files. And because it is the standard. That's like asking "name one reason why to use antibiotics that is not 'they work'".

>>61099553

That's when you learn to package for your distribution.

i just fucked yo bitch in my gucci flip flops

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>>61100906

There are plugins for other browsers. I use such a plugin with Firefox.

>>61100906
What's that gf link? What happens when you click on it?

>>61101403
You begin to drink your urine, too thirsty to care about the jumpers. You are almost sated, when a lone jumper approaches your bush and says, "I want to thank you personally on behalf of GOD, for taking out the CIA NIGGER." You are startled by this, but before you can say anything else, he says "Oh sorry, forgot to introduce myself, name's Terry."
fin.

>>61101400

Literally, non-ironically just dd.

>>61101460

Secret to getting a GF. Clicking it summons one, but she checks if you're running any non-free software.

>>61101480
Whew, gib link. Reckon nonfree kernel blobs are a no no?

>>61101454
What's it called?

>>61099388
Question. Why does does it have to be free? What's wrong with someone making a good project and asking money for hours invested?

>>61101496
here we go

>>61101501
Ok

>>61101492

I use VimFX. There is (was) also Vimperator and Pentadactyl.

I have ebooks in pdf format that i wanna read but they're all black text on a white background which is fucking painful. Is there any way I can change the text/background colour?

>>61101496
I don't know Stallman's answer. But as far as I can tell the only phillosophical leap Stallman makes is that he strongly associates binary data with source code.

Because think about this, you literally cannot stop people from copying/changing a binary. The only reason we even have a concept of ownership for software is simply because our human brains can't understand/manipulate binary.
But if you imagine a world where we could read binary easily, then it actually would be almost identical to Stallman's vision.

>>61101468
I know that, does that apply for Windows ISOs as well?
And I've had bad experience even when using dd, could it be the USB flash drive fault?

>>61101420
That is a shit analogy because I am not already using an equivalent alternative to antibiotics.

reminder that slackware is shit and should not be used by anyone

>>61101583
So we pay for compiled software?

Is there a way for me to find out if installing libreboot will brick my computer? Have a very old laptop and doubt my hardware has been tested with it.

>>61101685

>go to their websites
>read through documentation
>find page which lists compatible hardware

If you couldn't even figure this out, chances are you won't be able to do the actual thing.

>>61101711
I figured the list of hardware was non-exhaustive in terms of what it would actually run on.

>>61101600
Duly noted

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>>61101600
Even puppy linux and SLAX?

Gentelmen, I have gigabyte mobo with ryzen 1700 CPU, would be nice if sensors would work, but it doesn't (doesn't detect any of them).
Is this because of kernel or mobo BIOS? Presumably both..?
Anyone of you using ryzen CPU and have working sensors?

>>61101886
Oh, never mind, turns out I'm just retarded.
LM-sensors doesn't support ryzen CPUs yet.

I want to host 2 open source web applications. One of which uses Postgresql and the second one uses MongoDB.

Assuming they are gonna be heavily used, should I host them on two separate servers, or on one, more expensive? Is it a bad practice to use different kinds of DB on one server?

>>61101997
>open source

>ubuntu the grub-efi-amd64-signed package failed to install

I already have an efi partition but it can't detect it. It's fat32 based and doesn't have boot properties (the instaler doesn't offer that option)

I already disabled safe boot and fast boot
what do?

>>61101891
why does white monospace font on black background look so hard/scary to normies?
This pic is basically equivalent to opening C:\ in explorer, but they never even bother to read what it says.

>>61101723
given the risk factor, you better assume the list is exhaustive

I can't use chmod on a ntfs partition right? So is it possible to convert ntfs into ext4 without deleting everything on the partition?

>>61102278
Right, NTFS doesn't support user permissions.

No. You gotta copy it all off, format, copy back. You can't do it in place.

If you are just trying to mount a NTFS partition so you can access it from linux you can pass it the user and group id to mount as in in the options in fstab or to mount. Like on the archwike page below in the Allowing group/user heading.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G

Is there any terminal 4chan client?

>>61102368
Well i have it set up to mount, but the problem is that i need to allow myself access to the whole partition, but i have other users where i need to let them into only specific folders on the ntfs partitions (like photos folders and all its subfolders but not the porn folder etc)

>>61102386
Can't fill out the captchas in the terminal. elinks etc might work if you get a pass. Or just to read.

>>61102386
lynx

>>61102409
Yes you can, simply have the captcha image converted to ascii

>>61099267
it's a sick looking bridge tho

>>61102414
I may be wrong but I don't think the image is the issue, it's how it's displayed.

>>61102409
>>61102411
I was looking for rtv equivalent of 4chan

I'm almost done making my 4chin image downloader. I just want to make it look pretty.

How can I clear the screen with a wget request right after it downloads?

I'm using wget -i <file> to download the URLs from that file.

Piping clear didn't work out.

Also, if the file exists, how can I ignore the error message that it spits out saying "File <filename> already there, not reverting"?

Thanks!

>>61102423
Well then stop living in a 3rd world as a indian microsoft tech support of 5c/hour and buy the cheap 4chins pass

>>61102450
Actually, fuck. I found a flaw too. I gotta md5 check the current downloaded images to see if they're corrupted or not and redownload them if necessary because making wget not download the existing (and if broken) ones will leave it to ignore forever!

Is there a way to get wget to update if the files do not match? Or do I have to resort in md5checksums?

>>61102414
The point of captchas is to be difficult for computers to know what is in them. Even humans have trouble with them and converting to ascii will not help.

>>61102434
Well I just tried with elinks and it works fine for reading. w3m even tries to load images.

>>61102478
Well that's fucking gay, 4chan's API doesn't output md5sum friendly md5s It's some sort of base64 that gets decoded to binary or some shit.

How the hell do I check an image's md5 over the net from shell?

>>61102591
Did you honestly just ask how to compute the md5 of a remote file without downloading it?

>>61102629
That's the thing though, I don't want to download it, it will be extra work.

>>61102591
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag

>>61102677
That's nice, but I have no idea how to use that. I'll read into it soon though. Thanks!

>>61102629
Well, what I'm doing now is just running checks if the files are healthy. Basically checking if the files are corrupted or not based on their footer and removing them so wget can redownload them.

>>61102899
>tfw almost fucked up

Checking for Broken JPGs
xxd: /*.jpg: No such file or directory
Removing /*.jpg
Checking for Broken PNGs
xxd: /*.png: No such file or directory
Removing /*.png

Uh, hopefully that did not delete anything, I was not using -r luckily. Just -f.

God damn, I want to punch myself.

>>61102956
>God damn, I want to punch myself.
Do it.

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Hey guys, I've just started getting into linux again and I've installed Ubuntu 17.04 with Cinnamon and the arc-theme, arc icons and a cursor that I like, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to change the god awful font on the panels. The font settings in the system settings don't change the panel fonts so do you have any idea how to change them? Pic related, the god awful font I want to change from.

>>61099100
Can someone explain what happened?
Why is there so much faggotry on gee today?

>>61102996
I did twice, I deserve it!

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>>61103017
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>61103017
Restart X.

>>61099402
probably yo need consult libreboot

I can't get audio to work over HDMI on Debian 9. Tried all sorts of things but everything seems to be set up perfectly. My graphics card is a AMD R9 380X. Non-free firmware are installed. I'm using the AMDGPU open source driver that's now built into the kernel.

>>61101589
>I know that, does that apply for Windows ISOs as well?
dd just copy raw data, it can copy anything.
>>61101589
>And I've had bad experience even when using dd
can you elaborate? how did you use it?
>>61102450
link repo :3

>>61103095
I read something about DAL. Digital audio rights bullshit. Anyone have experience with this?

>>61103109
I don't have one at the moment. I need to change my nickname somewhere before I use it for that repo. Hang on.

>>61103109
>elaborate
dd if=/iso_location of=/dev/sdx

>>61103111
Okay,so DAL/DC code is still being worked on. There's no way to get HDMI audio worked with the open source drivers as of yet. Unless you use some kind of analog to digital converter as a temp solution...

>>61103109
>>61103116
Alright, let me document it and shit.

>>61103142
whats wrong?

>>61102463
>paying a proprietary online service for the permission to use 1s and 0s in order to not give 1s and 0s to another online service
Also I don't have a credit card.

>>61103167
Won't boot up, or throw an error.
Burning the ISO to DVD will boot up normally.
>inb4 set boot order
I've done that, it's not the issue.
Using windows specific tools to burn the ISO make it work.

>>61103227
did you set boot flag?

>>61103237
I did not.
Doesn't the ISO have the boot flag?

>>61103227
Has microsoft ever even claimed their images can be burned like that? Just so we're clear, an ISO filesystem is not supposed to work if just dumped into a flash drive with dd - it is thanks to some clever trick that hybrid images exist which can work both ways.

Same goes for other OSs, unless they call their images hybrid chances are they won't work with dd.

>>61103267
run Gparted, open burned media, set boot flag

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What's the status on the Year of the Linux Desktop?

>>61103328
Just did, boot flag is set.

>>61103328
sed 's/.*//'
>>61103345
THA BOLICE HATE HIM.
HE DISCOVERED ONE SIMPLE TRICK TO HACK EVERYTHING.
>>61103353
IN progress.
Remember that Linux is actually the most widely used kernel

>>61103353
happened a long time ago

>>61103146
That sounds terrible. They don't even drop you down to mono or some shit, just nope. No sounds for you!

>have a dumbphone for years, didn't give a wet shit
>try android phone, because "linux bases" and "go with the times, granpa"
>turn on
>asks me to create google account
>cancel, "yo shit doesn't work without account", well then, accept
>get presented with lots of terms and conditions
>list of "data we collect" makes me shit my pants
>accept b/c curious
>get another list of checkboxes about more data collections, all enabled
>feel like back in 2005 when you have to check that some program doesnt troll you into 5 toolbars
>accept b/c some guy once said "if you're going to hell, keep going"
>at this point I'm so curious that I decide to go full botnet
>check out jewgle play
>try to remember what normies have installed
>spotify, whatsapp
>check the TOS
>"data we collect to provide the best service", photos, contacts, email addresses, system infos
>try to wake up
>can't wake up
>turn off
>reset phone
>boot into my debian safe place
>calm
Holy shit guys, what horrible experience.

>>61103345
Can she stop my granny from ringig me all the time? Maybe make hher phone blow up?

>>61103498
nice blog

>>61103367
clear the MBR: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/device bs=446 count=1
And use sync
dd if=/iso_location of=/dev/sdx ; sync
If you used your USB flash drive to create GNU/Linux LiveUSB you get errors because the linux bootloader is conflicting with whatever windows is using.
And the sync to make sure you copy all of the ISO file, sometimes delay in I/O operations create issues.

>>61103498
You can install paranoid android or whatever and just not flash google apps, no login required.
Giving details is the norm when you buy a retail computing platform.

>>61103353
It's the Android desktop now.

>>61103109
There we go
https://github.com/wewman/4bash

>>61103498
>google account
no need, just use fdroid

>>61103306
Sounds about right. ISOs use iso9660 while flash drives use fat32 or whatever. And dd copies bytes, so no conversion there.

>>61103306
https://www.technorms.com/41085/create-windows-10-technical-preview-bootable-media-dvd-usb
>>61103498
we need android community edition.
>>61103528
thanks :333

>>61103531
>complains about situation upon first getting phone
>"install fdroid"
I know autistic people have trouble with empathy so maybe next time you go to post stop for a minute or two and consider the context.

>>61103498
welcome to the future

>>61103540
Sure no problem. Let me know what you think.

I'm gonna make it look easier to read now.

what is the name of that thing that is like chmod but better

>>61103615
chown?
chgrp?

>>61103621
No i mean that things that allows me to take one directory for example and set which users exactly can access it and which ones cannot, without me having to make a special group just for that folder

>>61103646
selinux? apparmor? Some cunt watching over you shoulder?

>>61103666
No, fuck i can't remember, the word sounds like facial

>>61103690
>sounds like facial
whahaha
setfacl
file access control lists

>>61103615
>chmod but better
>>61103765
not sure if facl is better, there is no (?) eqivalent of GID bit on directory so when new file appears you need to again setfacl

>>61103646
chmod

when I connect something creepy (botnet phone, unknown usb stick) with my distro, how's security regarding this?

>>61103820
I'm also curious. Anyone want to shed some light on this topic?

I have 2 laptops, I want to run a LXC instance (Ubuntu or Debian) on one, and to be able to access it from the other laptop over a LAN, is this possible, and easy to do? A ssh connection would be fine

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Thanks KDE. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/kmail-pgp-plain-text-bug?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28OMG!+Ubuntu!%29

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>>61103958
>"bug"
>not on purpose

What's the best C# compiler
the command csharp gives me weird errors
and mono & mcs work, but only through exe files

>>61103958
I somehow wish'd /g/ would borrow the archive.is idea from /tech/. What you just did is not only falling for click-bait (the bug appears only when you use the "send later" function), you also forwarded the click-bait to us.

>>61104046
Stop compiling botnet languages.

>>61103029
>>61103029
>>61103029
>>61103029

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>>61104122

>>61104146
2001 here :D

I installed sendmail
did everything like it is said on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sendmail
but still, shit aint working

Anyone has experience with it?

>>61104596
Yes. One advice stay away from sendmail.

>>61104952
what would you use instead?

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>>61104146
/g/ edition

>>61104952
this >>61104996

postfix?

>>61104996
I gave up on hosting a mail server. It's far more crazy than ftp protocol.

>>61105036
all i need is to send mails
like
send mail with token when user want to reset password

so, i set up keyboard shortcuts for opening certain programs. When i press that shortcut while the program is already running ( i.e. nautilus on home folder or rhythmbox ), it just gives me a "ProgramName is Ready" notification. Is there a way to make it switch to the workspace with that program instead of giving me that useless notification?

>>61105058
You could script that with wmctrl or xdotool.
Search the web for "run or raise" scrpts with these tools to get an idea.

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Does /fglt/ contribute to open source programs?

>>61105091
thanks, but i got this working through this https://github.com/tak0kada/gnome-shell-extension-stealmyfocus

>>61100843
Can anyone help me with this. Really need to access those files. I've got a backup for about 50% of the data but it's not even that recent.

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>>61105131
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html

>>61104996
Every damn mta provides a sendmail stand-in. I'm on debian and at the time I set this system up the default was exim. I think postfix was the default on ubuntu.

even my fonts are proprietary

>>61105205
>>61100843
That's fucked up. I suppose the laptop's BIOS installed a custom bootloader to your HDD? And encrypted or otherwise obscured the list of partitions? Maybe it did that, but it can't have touched the partitions themselves, that'd be too complex and error-prone. Are there not tools to detect and recover partitions? I mean, of course you can use photorec for the files, but if the partition's still there you should be able to recover all files with their filenames and everything.

What does dmesg say when you plug in the disk, anyway?

How do I adjust Gamma on Linux?
I have a new Monitor and it works perfectly on my Windows installation but it fucks up gamma way too low on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04). It's affecting my editing of my photos and it makes viewing movies nigh impossible.
I have a Nvidia 1060 and I tried Xserver settings but I cant find a gamma there. On Windows, the Nvidia driver allows adjustment of Gamma and so much more.

>>61105440
I'll have to check when I get home. But an fdisk -l definitely doesn't show it.

>>61100843
It's something to do with how the password was set on the old laptop. Basically the hard drive is password protected too.

>>61098914
What is even the purpose of this bridge? It looks like it's never more than a few feet above ground. The slope on the far side would probably be annoying to climb, but do they not have stair technology in wherever this is?

>>61105489
Nvidia... Stop reading there.

Hi, I'm pretty sure that no one will look over my shoulder when I'm typing my user password at home, and I would like my password to be visible when I type it, for example when I use sudo.
How do I do this?

>>61105258
what if I don't give a shit about stallmans ""ideas""? open source is great without stallmanism

>>61105993
If it wasn't for Stallman, free software would've died.
Be thankful.

>>61105993
You could, you know, just click the link.

>>61105131
Yes, but I mostly browse random GitHub projects, and do pull requests to fix their broken Markdown.
Things like

## Header

instead of

##Header

Mozilla has gone and fucked up my beloved Firefox.
Which older version should I build and install for daily use?
https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

>>61105993
I love how people always think RMS just wants a piece of the cake, because RMS actually is the cook. His """ideas""" made the whole Free Software thing possible in the first point, while "Open Source" is just a newer term, mostly used by companies who cooperate with other proprietary companies and "tech" blogs, sponsored by them.

>>61106269
nice autism, had a simliar idea for a "Please add a LICENCE" but too lazy

>>61105131
I post cool terminal commands on 4chan.

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>>61106380
>nice autism
At least it's useful autism.

>>61105205
>>61100843
It's >>61105440 again. I think if the theory that your MBR is borked but your partitions are fine is correct, you'll be able to recover your data with testdisk.

I just tested it. I created a new filesystem on a USB device, dumped the whole device to disk (not just the partition), then made a copy of the image and overwrote the copy's MBR with a variation of >>61103512. Testdisk is able to find the original partition in both the original image and the image with zeroed MBR, and allows me to browse and recover files or create an image of the partiton that I can then mount.

>>61106269
Try to find a typo in the kernel and fix it. When it gets accepted you can put "linux kernel developer" on your resume.

>>61106448
That's actually a good idea!
And if I can't find a typo (it's mostly code, not text), then I'll try to find code not following the kernel coding style, and "fix" it!
But I'll have to do it through their mailing list because Linus doesn't accept GitHub pull requests.

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>>61106448
>tfw billions of devices allover the world run your typo fix

>>61106504
Comments are culled when the kernel is compiled, so, no, they don't.

Looking through manpages. Can someone explain what strip does?
>GNU strip discards all symbols from object files objfile.

>>61106697
it removes stuff from binaries, only useful when you're a programmer

>>61105790
What's the alternative? Because a brand New AMD Card with any Driver available runs slower than my old 660 did with drivers on Linux.

>>61105957
Come on guys, this shouldn't be too hard!
I just have to replace whatever program that sudo uses to get passwords from the user with an alternative that displays the characters as I type them.
But I don't know how.

>>61106434
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a shot when I get off work. It's about 400GB of personal documents and research material so hopefully if it works, I'll definitely make sure to back up everything more often.

>>61105957
>>61107331
Don't do it prntscreen will compromise you.
use password manager instead. (keepass|pass|whateverYouLike)

>>61107393
I do use Keepassx, I'm not talking about all my passwords, I'm just talking about things like

[anon@gnulinux ~]$ sudo somecommand
[sudo]: password for anon: ▐

All I want is to be able to see what I'm typing.

>>61103552
just tested, great ;D
i will add it as clipboard action to my plasma

Having issues installing Arch on my laptop, if anyone could help I'll suck your dick.

Everything installs correctly but Xorg just shows a black screen when I run startx. When I run sudo startx, I get an interface but can't use mouse or keyboard. I have both integrated graphics on the 6700HQ and dedicated on the 970m. Nothing in the wiki has worked and nothing on forums has helped either. /g/ is my last hope.

>inb4 install gentoo

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>>61107618
>sudo startx
dude... Stay with Ubunt or whatever lurk moar befor installin that hacky distro

wow dash to panel actually makes gnome usable

>>61107665
I'm just giving all the information I have. I know sudo startx is fucking retarted.

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>>61107618
>sudo startx

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Apparently when trying to install Debian alongside windows I was supposed to see this screen (pic related) which I didnt. What do?

>>61107618
>sudo startx

behold the typical singe digit IQ of the arch user.

>>61107707
stop being a nigger and use manual. Resize a windows partition and let debian auto partition the free space.

>>61107726

Because using a troubleshooting step to narrow down the solution to a technical problem and including that information when you ask for help is definitely the dumbest possible thing to do.

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Anonz, what was the most dumb thing that you run as root?
When i was newfag i used su dolphin to change file owner/permission/dontRemember, once i run gnunet as root (but probably my router wasnt configured well and i hadnt have connection to any body, i hope)

>>61107790
s/run/ran

>>61107707
>What do?
Install just Debian and drop the malware.

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>>61107735
I did shrink partition in windows but that appears to be unusable

>>61107618
>Xorg just shows a black screen
are you sure it isnot something like twm?
try clicking your mouse button down and see if a menu appears

otherwise make sure your graphics drivers are installed and all that stuff

>>61107618
>>61107726
at least login as root and startx that way
dont halfass it

in fact login in as root to a simple wm like twm should be perfectly fine if you are not going to be running shit like browsers

>>61107833
>are not going to be running shit like browsers
a few months ago secu hole in libpng was discovered literally even wallpaper can hack you so at least dont open it as root.

>>61107833
It's not twm, and nothing happens when clicking the mouse.

I have Intel graphics drivers installed, but I'm running an Nvidia Optimus laptop. I suspect that's what's causing my problems.

>>61107790
Once I was restoring shit from my backups after a fresh install, and I overwrote all of /var/lib with my latest backup. Most notably, this overwrote the list of installed packages, so what my system grew a completely wrong idea of what was and wasn't installed.

I ran the system like that for a few weeks before I bothered installing again. The only thing I couldn't get to work was mysql, everything else was fine by then.

>ubuntu connected to internet via wifi
>plug ethernet in to connect to another network (that dosent have internet)
>internet stops working
how do i get the internet working without disabling/removing the ethernet network. i'm not trying to share the internet connection, but just want to have access to the other machines on the network.

>>61107818
of course, you cannot use it, you have 4 primary partitions which is the max. You should try to group the last 2 partition into logicals under an extended partition.

>>61107913
Use Windows and set network priority :^)

I'm tired of osx shenanigans and want to try using Linux again.
Am I going to be fucked if I try to just install Ubuntu on last year MBP or will it just work?

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>>61107913
It probably set your ethernet device as your default route,

man route

. Pic related confirms it, it's actually the captcha I got.

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>>61107932
DELET THIS

>>61107939
>Am I going to be fucked if I try to just install Ubuntu on last year MBP or will it just work?

Since we are talking about ubuntu, it should work. Do a quick google search before just to be sure thou.

does anybody else get massive stuttering with youtube videos on gnome wayland?

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>>61108037
>gnome wayland
look at him a laugh

>>61107929
>which is the max
wtf why

>>61108052
look at him a laugh

>>61108066
old DOS partition table thing, you can have max 4 primary partitions. If you need more, one of your primaries have to be an extended partition and under than you can have a bunch of logical partitions. Old operating systems cannot boot from logical partitions, modern GRUBs will handle it just fine.

>>61108052
>low quality cropped meme
This is even beyond reddit. Please leave the internet.

>>61107618

Which environment did you install? Did you edit the file responsible for starting it with startx (xinitrc)? Did you install drivers?

>>61107484
You could enable local echo in your terminal emulator, but this will cause problems with literally everything else.
There's really no other way besides modifying the source code for sudo. Input from your terminal is read by the running program (in this case, sudo). If that program wants you to see what you're typing, it will write your input back to the terminal. There's no mediator between your keystrokes and the program other than your terminal emulator.

>>61107618
>uses shitty distro
>it doesn't work
>can't find help because nobody uses that broken piece of shit
when you finish middle school try installing ubuntu son, it works every time all the time

>>61107484
sudo visudo
Replace:
Defaults env_reset
with:
Defaults env_reset,pwfeedback
Then you have ******** stars.

>>61105489
>>61105489
Still need help on this

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>>61105489
No idea about Linux, but on GNU/Linux you can use tools like xgamma or xrandr with the --gamma flag.

>>61108786
>No idea bout Linux
lel

>run xrandr --gamma <somevalue>
>always just prints usage
what do?

>>61108818
For xrandr, you need to set your output display and gamma in r:g:b.
Have this one liner which finds the connecteed display for you:

xrandr --output $(xrandr | awk '/ connected/ { print $1 }') --gamma 0.7:0.7:0.7

xgamma is easier:

xgamma -gamma 0.5

I'm thinking of installing opensuse on a HTPC I have.

Should I go with Leap or Tumbleweed? This PC is only going to be used for torrenting/streaming movies and playing them.

>>61108786
Thank you my dude

>>61108991
If bored:

while :; do xrandr --output $(xrandr | awk '/ connected/ { print $1 }') --gamma 0.$((RANDOM%9)):0.$((RANDOM%9)):0.$((RANDOM%9)); done

>>61109004
>9
RANDOM%9 would only return a random value between 0 an 8, if you want 0-9 use $(($RANDOM%10))

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What do you guys think about rhce certification? Think I'm going to be taking the exam on friday.

>>61108066
Because it's a DOS disklabel instead of GPT.

>>61108729
Why would I see hunter2? My password is ***********

>>61109780
Botnet

gnu a shit

>>61111153
What the hell, kid

>>61111153
you a shit

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>>61111153

Why is it ok that the Linux Kernel cannot be compiled without certain GCC extensions?
Why has no one created a new compiler that can compile the kernel?
We are sitting at a single point of failure,gcc.Why has been gone 30 years without any change?

>>61111881
Name 1 (one) good reason why you want/need to compile linux with a compiler other than gcc.

>>61111923
I shouldnt be tied down to one option.
It is never good for anyones interest to rely on a single option.

>>61111881
>We are sitting at a single point of failure
How is gcc going to fail?

>>61111935
Then go ahead and write a new compiler if you want more options. Nobody is stopping you.

>>61111923
Hes right you know.
I have 5000 different options to look at pictures.
200 different text editors.

But when it comes to the kernel there is only one option

>>61111923
>1 (one)
I don't understand this meme.

>>61111935
Not him but it was never tied to a single option.
It's just that not a single competing compiler is capable of compiling it without dogshit slow executable as a result.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXDZWGTiQHY

Without taking a stance on the business model System76 currently uses, I found this series of ads pretty neat.

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So I get this error when installing arch in uefi mode right after or soon after installing base packages. This has happened on 3 different disks.

Afterwords they fail to mount sometimes, and difficult to reformat.

Any ideas?

Home and root partitions are formatted to ext4, esp partition formatted to fat32

>>61112154
Find out which device ata3 is and then realize that that drive is dead

>>61112109
>Without taking a stance on the business model System76 currently uses
I don't think there's any stance to take on them. It's not like system76 ever pretended to be minifree.org selling you pure unbotneted-on-firmware-level hardware.

It's a nice change to see there are companies actually catering to such a niche market like home users of the GNU/Linux desktop.
Has anyone ever seen one in public though?

The specsheet of the 14" lemur sounds good. A modern intel cpu (botnet by all means) but you get a goddamn ethernet port AND a fucking VGA port. Matte 1080p display on top of it sounds pretty good to be honest.

im building my first rice-space from debian stretch netinstall with openbox. my browser is firefox-esr. to get youtube to play video, will just installing handbrake-gtk be enough? is it overkill? is there a better way? my goal is to be lightweight

so right now I'm using gentoo on LUKS, running from an external hdd, with the usb gpg key on a stick...
can't seem to get to boot on another pc, when plugging in both the usb key and the external hdd, which ever one I select from the bios
any ideas??

>>61112270
handbrake is for encoding video, not playback.
use mpv.
if you're autistic download ffmpeg (or avconv on debian) and use ffplay lol

>>61112270
Handbrake is a video encoder.It has nothing to do with the play back of video in firefox.
You just need x264 support on your system and youtube will play it on html mode.
Additionally you can setup mpv+youtubedl with an firefox addon to open it up in mpv instead of in browser

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>>61111881
>the Linux Kernel
Don't call it “the Linux Kernel,” because this may be confused as meaning “the kernel of Linux,” which implies that Linux is used to mean GNU/Linux.
Just say “Linux” if you want to refer to the kernel of the GNU/Linux operating system specifically, or, so as to not cause any confusion, “the kernel, Linux” or “Linux, the kernel.”

>>61112320
Yay a new filter

>>61112185
Got it, found a disk hooked up that I wasn't using. Tested dead. Thanks

>>61112301
>>61112302

thank you so much.

How does mpv on Linux compare against a Windows setup of MPC-HC + madVR + other small stuff nowadays?

>>61112417
Best

>>61112434
Systematic proof?

i noticed after installing debian jessie (w/ cinnimon i think) on an hp notebook, the wifi just went to absolute shit. like right next to the station with ultra slow transfer speed. different distros had it working just fine. anyone know why?

why the fuck doesn't intel tearfree option work in archlinux?

Is there a way to switch to a window with just the mouse in CWM or do I really have to press Alt every time.

I want to start using emacs. Where do I start?

I want to write a normal, MLA-formatted essay. How can I implement a page counter and a header via emacs?

It would also be nice if I could export the file to an MS Word-compatible format. Is it possible to open ODF with Word? If not, I can settle for PDF, I guess. I've never used Word, so I wouldn't know.

Which distro does Bryan Lunduke use?

>>61112712
OpenSUSE, because he works for them.

>>61112679
>I want to start using emacs. Where do I start?
Start from the manual

>>61112807
thanks

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/co/ here
Know most of you are more into reading pictures right to left but can anyone recommend a good comic reader for Linux?

>>61112905
comix

>>61112905
>Know most of you are more into reading pictures right to left
I am offended.

why I shouldn't use ubuntu?

>>61112905
comix, muPDF

Calibre for file management

>>61113142
2 reasons:
1. Canonical
2. Noob distro

If you're a newbie, it's okay to use it.

ubuntu is the best linux distro because you can use ppas

>>61113166
what's so about about Cannonical? it's still linux anyway.
noob distro? what does that even means?

>>61113224
it means youre a fucking n00b

>>61113142
canonical (circlejerk with microsoft), laggy and buggy af unity, systemd, amazon, and it's for normies, because muh ubantoo it's good for beginners meme

>>61113243
yes but distros are not DE's, you don't have to use unity (and it's dead now anyway).
besides being afraid of looking like a noob for using ubuntu, is there an actual reason why someone should not use ubuntu?

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>>61113206
>>61113224
ubuntu isn't GNU/Linux distro, it's a windows app

>>61113224
>What's wrong with Canonical?
Nothing egregiously bad, really, all things considered. However, there was a brief period of time in which Canonical was distributing anonymized information about their users' search results from the unity bar, which was only applicable to the primary flavor of Ubuntu. That's since been removed. I does present an unfortunate precedent, though, for the Ubuntu desktop.

Personally, though, in light of that, I would recommend using a freer alternative to Ubuntu such as Debian or Trisquel.

>noob distro? what does that even mean?
Absolutely nothing. A lot of the idiots on /g/ think it's impressive to install a distro from a stage 3 tarball or some kind of equivalent.

Really, though, it's not that hard. And even if you are doing a somewhat more challenging install, such as a stage 2/1 install of exherbo, or an LFS install, the difficulty level of installing a distro can only get so high. At a certain point, it plateaus.

Installing a distro is only hard for children with ADHD and retards who can't into bash

>>61113286
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.en.html

300 milliseconds on the botnet and i answered it for you.

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>>61113022
>>61113163
Thanks friends

Does schedtoold have any validity or is it just meme?
Also any examples on what programs to tell it to use?

When I'm installin, gentoo, formattin' drives in parted, editin mkinitcpio.conf for an arch install,

am I programming? If so, what language? please explain ty

if its not programming, how does this shit work and turn into the programming language?

>>61113322
>However, there was a brief period of time in which Canonical was distributing anonymized information about their users' search results from the unity bar, which was only applicable to the primary flavor of Ubuntu. That's since been removed. I does present an unfortunate precedent, though, for the Ubuntu desktop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP8CNp-vksc

>>61113665
Nah, you are configuring and shit. When you program you write a program >.<

>>61113677
or just use lubuntu

>>61113716
Spend more time with it, try to learn how to do stuff that you would otherwise do on Windows. Just search the web, it's not as hard as Winfags make it out to be.

>>61113830
>>61113830
>>61113830

NEW THREAD

>>61113830
>>61113830
>>61113830

>>61113785
Normal computer stuff.

Like ricing and watching animus.

>>61102185
try green text
you're really hacking the gibson then

i remember being 11, going on the school computer, opening cmd and typing "color 0a" "tree"

damn i was so cool