/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

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There are four ways to try GNU/Linux, you can:

0) Install a GNU/Linux OS on a VM (Virtual Machine/VirtualBox) for "safety purposes"
1) Use the Live ISO directly without installing anything, that way, you can get a "full GNU/Linux experience".
2) Dual-boot GNU/Linux with Windows/Mac (recommended if you want to learn more about GNU/Linux)
3) Go balls deep and overwrite everything with GNU/Linux

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Resources:
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Your friendly neighborhood search engine (searx.me, ixquick, whatever)
wiki.archlinux.org/ (Most of the configurations and troubleshoots will work on various distros, including Debian)
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Category:GNU/Linux
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux
prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/
linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
gnu.org/

Other urls found in this thread:

inconsolation.wordpress.com/
fsf.org/blogs/rms/public-domain-manifesto
gnu.org/.
pastebin.com/BnRt6jBk
addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/canvasblocker/
dotshare.it/
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/beginners'_guide
weev.livejournal.com/409835.html
inconsolation.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/top-the-cool-tool-you-didnt-know-you-had/
github.com/Airblader/i3/wiki/Compiling-&-Installing
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

For people who love the terminal:
inconsolation.wordpress.com/

Using ufw to setup a firewall.The outbound policy is allow,the inbound policy is deny.The outbound connections are not working,http https dns. What could cause this?

License wizards: When you come across some work that is licensend under "Public Domain", is it technically unlicensed or does it actually mean that all rights are waved away?

It means everyone can do everything with it, including using it in nonfree software and therefor making it nonfree.

What distro do you recommend for one of those Asus netbook with an Atom CPU and 1GB of RAM.

I just want to make it usable for a friend.

fsf.org/blogs/rms/public-domain-manifesto

Thanks, didn't know that there's RMS essay about the topic.

try Debian with Lxde (or install no DE then selectively install Openbox and a few GUI programs your friend should have if you want to be more minimal)

Does your friend care about his freedoms? Trisquel. Does he not care? Link him gnu.org/. If his reply is "i dont give a fuck", install Ubuntu's Netbook Edition.

I need something baby tier, to be sure he can get away with it if he has to install it on his own.

according to a quick internet search the last Ubuntu Netbook Edition was published with Ubuntu 10.10. Maybe a bit old..?
first and foremost you need something light on resources, that should be your priority. Regular Ubuntu needs 2GB RAM according to their website, and I can tell you that Fedora 23 with Gnome needs around 900MB.
But if it needs to be easy then a DE will probably be necessary, so try Lxde. You can chose it in the Debian installer

elementary

Isn't Ubuntu Netbook Edition rolled into regular Ubuntu now?

I installed Lubuntu on my sister's atom netbook and it's been running kind of badly to be honest

He just needs something that works and doesn't lags the fuck out on his netbook, so no fucks given.

Is lubuntu/Puppy linux a good choice?

My sister has been complaining that fuckin Windows XP ran better than Lubuntu on her netbook.

I'm thinking of trying Debian with OpenBox or LXDE, I don't think we can do PuppyLinux because she's probably going to need Debian/Ubuntu repositories. And yes, I know Tahrpuppy exists but I'm not quite convinced on it

I've actually been thinking of just moving my entire family to Debian, I have to service their computers running Ubuntu way more than I have to service my machines running Debian.

>He just needs something that works and doesn't lags the fuck out on his netbook, so no fucks given.
Try gentoo. It's easy to use and resources friendly.

are you the same dude that talked about this a few months ago? because i told you that xp is hard to beat in speed because it is so old. did you get her an ssd like i said?
debian with openbox and tint2 should be easy enough to use.

No, I'm not the same guy. Kinda weird coincidence though

I'll try openbox and tint2 on Debian then, thanks mang

Reposting...

So pulseaudio.
My audio drivers seem to be being really screwy. I know about the whole tsched=0 fix. It does help, but for whatever reason the audio degrades and I have to kill/start. The clincher is, As far as I can tell it may only be a problem with MPD.
I switched to it so I could play movies over HDMI on the fly, so don't try to convince me otherwise there. Similar story with MPD.

>3.5mm?
No 3.5mm.

What card
Post .asoundrc

Please stop using pictures of Richard Stallman in the OP

He contributes nothing to the Linux community and his highest achievement is being a Sup Forums meme

says the guy whose highest achievement is to be stupid tripfag cancer on Sup Forums

dumb tripfag cancer

>What card
Whatever my thinkpad X220T has
>Post .asoundrc
don't have one, do have .asoundrc.asoundconf (that I've never looked at)
pastebin.com/BnRt6jBk

I haven't read all the posts, but there was some suggestions about debian, elementary etc.
If you can set up debian youself, you can pick that, but else I wouldn't recommend, since a normie will probably wants non free software (which aren't enabled by default) and that the often you have to install the wifi drivers manually.

lubuntu, xubuntu are good choices since they usually works out of the box and are light distributions.

For my parents which have a shitty laptop I installed debian with lxde, the wifi drivers, auto login, flash, and they never complained about anything so far.

Delete that and create a new file in ~/.asoundrc and put the following in ,then restart pulse and try mpd
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 0
}

ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0
}
[/code

what would be the easiest way to create few VMs on my headless homeserver?
i want something manageable (including vm creation/configuration) from my windows desktop, either by native software or web, with gui and something i can easily connect to from windows.

not interested in bare metal hypervisors (yet) as i dont really want to move everything from my homeserver into another vm.

Whats the point of docker,in a real use,and what the hell do you run within it

Whats the best file manager
and best text editor for doing basic things

Okay Sup Forums
I went balls deep into Debian. Am I cool now?
Gonna start ricing, any tips?

He wrote a bunch of the coreutils millions of people are using alongside the Linux kernel.

Install this shit niggas, seriously:
addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/canvasblocker/

Why does this happen when giving PS1 colors

>ricing
>being cool
Keep it functional, don't be a dick, share your configs
In my opinion it is not about what he did, it is what he stands for.
Depends on your usecase, spacefm and ranger are fairly nice but there are tons of them. Nano is a good basic text editor but there are probably even more text editors than file managers.
Any particular reason?

We can't help if you don't post related code.

Sorry
PS1=' \e[32;6m\w \e[34;6m»\e[0m

best program for basic things:
- file manager: nautilus
- editor: gedit
everything in Gnome does the basics well.
you are the best

>>Keep it functional
Butthurt ricefag here: Ricing is making it functional and nice for the eyes. Please stop this functional vs rice meme.

Try PS1='\[\033[32;6m\w \033[34;6m»\033[m\] '

What terminal are you using? Do you really want blinking text?

works for me

Can I copy yours user?

i love gnome and i think gedit is great but nautilus is really bad with larger image collections.
which of them?
the easiest for a headless server would be qemu-kvm i think but managing these from a windows system is something i have never done before so i guess you should read the manual.

There's a site literally made for stealing configs:
dotshare.it/

after typing alot it returns text wierdly
and returns to the same line instead of the next one
fixed it thankfully

>Please stop this functional vs rice meme.
i didn't do that, there is just a lot of people that mistake functionality with things that may look nice but are not really functional. some people hurt themselves with it. i said keep it functional to prevent that.

since you're asking so nicely

Why do you people use shitty Ubuntu derivatives.

Just use Debian and get rid of the bloatware, BSD or Gentoo.

Next time check if there's already a thread, fucko

>>after typing alot it returns text wierdly
When using escapes ( \e ) in your PS1, always introduce them with \[ and end them with \], otherwise exactly this will happen.

I replaced \e with octal for compatibility, but it doesn't affect your problem. \e \033 or \x1b should work for all PS1s.

>it's a bloatware episode

>creates a new thread
>doesnt link it to the old one
kill yourself

My thread was created first you complete cunt

Check the time and the post number and then kill yourself

see

>I-I just want my 10 hours of OP fame
Who the fuck cares, also this:

Instead hating each others we should hate 4keks for not updating to the imageboard standards; cyclical threads are a things since years.

this

Well, I'm free and I've been using UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems for about ten years now, so if anyone has any issues I'd be glad to help.

Welp, the good side not having them cyclical is that you can change the OP so it doesn't get boring. Cyclical threads are literally plebbit; imageboards are made for changing content, if a thread dies, it's gone and another topic shows up. This is why general in general don't belong to Sup Forums.

While I agree with your point, I realize that there's no imageboard culture left on popular chand like Sup Forums, so we should just update and make bad thing better than trying to simulate something that's already dead and buried years ago.

Are svg icons unsupported with gnome shell? I just got some icon theme and mostly it is in svg format, like half of it for some reason. I can see new png icons but whatever is svg is shown as in default advaita/hicolor theme. So I need to convert everything now?

well, there needs to be some place without signup to talk about common issues, neat hacks, free software and GNU/Linux that has a few regulars that help. otherwise i agree with your sentiment.

what are you trying to do?

svgs should be supported, but you maybe need to copy them to the related resulution directories aswell.

Yeah, they are properly sorted. But srsly, I can see changes only for those icons which are in png format. I just tried to convert icedove icon from svg to png and now it works after reapplying the theme. Fml, guess I'll have to convert it all then.

I want his shirt. 60 years of freedom sweat. Rrrraw!

I never fucked with gnome, but I know from experience: Try to find the documentation. It's so much more comfy just to follow the docs than trial and error working.

I think i am asking for too much, but could not someone briefly describe arch postinstallation process by steps, please? I think I am doing something wrong.

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/beginners'_guide
this will help i hope

No, I mean different things. I have just installed arch, installed alsa and pulse. And now I am trying to set up x11, proprietary nvidia video driver and i3. I do thing like wiki says, but xserver does not start. Xorg log file:

[ 578.083] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the
[ 578.083] (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages and
[ 578.083] (EE) NVIDIA: consult the NVIDIA README for details.
[ 578.083] (EE) No devices detected.
[ 578.083] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[ 578.083] (EE) no screens found(EE)

But there is no information in kernel log. Just nothing.

if I'm not mistaken Arch uses systemd, your logs can be reached with journalctl. There is a readme file in /var/log that explains this.

Yeap. I am talking about journalctl.

Did you install twm and xterm?

I saw this in another thread. What do you guys think of this pro-stallman piece weev wrote?
weev.livejournal.com/409835.html

Should non I get them by dependences? Let me check.

Hey guys, I want to install BunsenLabs on my machine, but for some reason it won't detect my flash drive as a CD-ROM. Installing Debain works fine, I need help.

Beddi good read. I especially agree too the shellshock statement.

Honestly, they should be added w/ the xorg package but they're not. People often forget this. X11 wont start without twm and xterm.

>I am disgusted, and you can pry my Emacs from my cold, dead NANDs.
kekked heartly

Nice.

inconsolation.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/top-the-cool-tool-you-didnt-know-you-had/

Good read.

That did not take any effect. I think some thing wrong with drivers, but I don't know what.

Just install debian, openbox, tint2, conky and download configuration files.

I'm considering switching to debian. How are the updates? Can I make a script to make it automatic?

depends on your update cycle, on stable it should be no problem to automate it, aptitude has that feature built in, just enable it in the settings.

You can, since it's free software, but you shouldn't automate such things. It's good enough ro run apt-get update and upgrade once a day. Maybe make an alias for it.

is there a good linux distro the handles 4k well, all of the ones that i have tried have scaling uses

Ok.
What are the problems? I am not thinking on doing a dist upgrade automatic anyway.

I guess your problem is that you gave up too fast. Most issues are easy solvable by using xrandr to set the right resolution and all the jazz on any distro. Try a random distro and try to fix it with xrandr or use a random gui frontend like arandr etc.

deffo work on debian 8, sorry not that much experience in linux

I want to install i3-gaps in Ubuntu 16.04, but after compiling and trying to run it I get this error:

$ i3
i3: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-util.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

$ locate libxcb-util.so.0

$ apt-file search libxcb-util.so.0


How should I proceed?

gnome has really good scaling, try using the settings before installing other distros or DEs.
if you safe-upgrade you should be fine, sometimes you get asked because of minor to serious bugs about what to do, this can be a problem if you use -y

Ok thanks.

Search for libxcb, get the -dev package(s), retry.
If the repo didn't provide a list of dependencies, try this:

apt-cache showsrc i3 | grep ^Build-Depends

This will show the build dependencies for the vanilla package.

posting in the non-degenerate thread.

Couldn't find anything on google about what logs to watch ove other than regular servers and I want to know about stuff like dmesg and logged users. Can some gentle wizard point me to the right info.

Also, anyone knows a good resource on learning PAM and the distros that have it?

Welcome home.

Install libxcb-cursor-dev and libxcb-util-dev

github.com/Airblader/i3/wiki/Compiling-&-Installing

I am planning on swapping my Windows 10 to Xubuntu. I have both SSD and HDD and I am unsure of the process here with dual drives. What shall I do?

Backup the data on the HDD to SSD
install Xubuntu on HDD
Installing Windows and GNU/Linux distros on same hard drive is problematic and can mess up your bootloader with win10 updates

This worked. libxcb-cursor-dev was missing. Thanks!