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Fedora has a very interesting stance on free software and the distro is usable as a new user. i think it is not bad. but there are not a lot of users of it that you could ask about distro-specific problems. I'd say give it a try.
Liam Thompson
ugly package manager in fedora. the best for beginner is getoo, it's not kidding gentoo has very good handbook and it helps to understand linux system
Julian Wright
What's the command the makes sudo insulting your when you typed a wrong password?
Aiden Watson
ctrl+D
Dominic Walker
>stallman >windows xp in the background what universe is this
for the moment I have uninstalled virtualbox-guest-utils and am running with no errors
So this is now a 2 part question, which AUR manager do you suggest and will the linux-ck help me for virtualbox error, or do I even need vb guest utils?
Kevin Kelly
I used Yaourt when I had Arch installed. It seemed to get the job done.
Hunter Walker
Where can I find reading material to help with i3 ricing?
Kayden Perry
pacaur.
Jonathan Collins
Use apacman if you just want basic functionality Pacaur if you want to manage abs/local builds
Brandon Baker
Just installed gnome
comfy/5
Justin Diaz
Google
Go treat yourself to some gnome shell extensions, that'll make it comfier.
nah, extensions just ruin the Gnome Workflow(c) the way the developers intended(tm). Better to learn the shortcuts and forget you're even using Gnome. I usually just use super+first letters of program I want to start, and super+left/right/up/down for tiling. No need to ruin the minimalism with a dock or another menu in the top bar. Although I can understand people who change the GTK theme, it's just not for everyone
>using so many aur packages that you have to use a "helper"
Let me guess, you install literally everything from the AUR and then complain when it "breaks".
James Brooks
if I want a dropdown terminal I'll play quake, thank you very much :P can confirm that searx.me is a great replacement for google. The best thing is, it doesn't do this thing that google does, which is to guess what you meant. If you search for an unclear term it doesn't attempt to correct your mistake (try searching "turtle kid" on searx and google for an example). This forces you to actually use it as a search engine and not a personal assistant/AI brain extension.
Evan Martin
>thank you very much :P
Wyatt Bailey
Sup gentoo. I know its card for you tpo fathom but, some people have lives and can wait 5 hours to update 2 programs.
>helper Why burden your self checking websites for new versions,getting the new source(alot dont have git repos,so you manually have to download) and having to reconfigure the congi your self.Instead of having one program manage it all Why would you use emerge then?
I have 2 machines of which one is open to the internet How can I make it so that it redirects all unused ports to the other machine? without doing a netstat | cut | iptables or something in a for loop
I started to use git and mkpkg, then thought let me try the pacman virtualbox again and then noticed an option for arch, so used that one and seems to work.
No I did not install anything from the aur minimal at moment. what I thought I needed was linux-ck to make virtual box utils run, as I was getting errors. But, corrected them with the right virtual box application for arch. I am sorry I confused you I was just asking what AUR package manager is good to work with AUR's for a noob.
Are there any post install stuff I should do to test: -install stability -basic packages
>apacman next
tyvm btw
Carson Turner
As a native Spanish speaker, it is both cute and weird to listen to Stallman singing in spanish
His mention of "Empire" just makes me think of edgy communist college kids though
Parker Wilson
Fedora is very nice. It's my favorite, personally.
The main thing will be to fix font rendering which is very easy to do with google. If you need mp3 you will need to get that working too. Other than that it just works. Dnf is a very nice package manager, in my opinion. It handles dependencies much better than apt.
Wyatt Hall
when I said "netstat | cut | iptables or something in a for loop" I meant something like a for loop to forward all unused ports (and I just now realised how bad of an idea that is) how do I do this in only iptables and without loops? there has to be something like a last resort rule or a last layer google isn't really helping or I just don't know what to search
Gavin Bailey
>google >recommends Fedora Oh boy
Christopher Perry
Set up iptables to be a router, and send the traffic to your other machine
Elijah Diaz
Google is kind of it's own verb now.
I actually use startpage.
Carter Allen
I suggest to download porn allday 24/7. Not even to watch it, it just feels nice to know that porn is flying through the room over wlan, filling the house with your personal feng shui.
I have done yaourt unix-runescape-client and built the package.
how the hell do I actually run runescape from here? I'm new to AUR.
Julian Hall
beat me to it. >Please avoid using the term “google” as a verb, meaning to search for something on the internet. “Google” is just the name of one particular search engine among others. We suggest to use the term “search the web” or (in some contexts) just “search”.
William Collins
That whole page is gold.
Connor Williams
Brace yourself, really retarded question incoming. Feel free to bash me. If, for example, get banned on Sup Forums, is there a way to reset my IP, without needing to turn off my modem for 10 minutes, using Linux? If yes, how?
Aaron Ross
try 'runscape', or ush completion to find it. Or read the pkgbuild
Alexander Bennett
>off your modem No. Your modem needs to new lease from your ISP's dhcp pool. Also clear your cookies
Mason Miller
yes
Landon Lewis
Maybe.
Asher Hill
I agree with him and I myself lean towards "open source" advocacy rather than "free software" advocacy.
Using brands as verbs is blind consumerism, which I deeply despise
Thomas Murphy
Does anyone here have used Kali Linux or it's just a meme distro?
Jeremiah Long
it takes a lot of effort to rid yourself of the habit to say "google it", but it will be worth it when my grandchildren don't roll their eyes how I could make fun of "bing it" and take "google it" seriously
Anthony Barnes
kali linux is a distro you're supposed to run from a livecd, not install on your machine.
Sebastian Morales
Hey guys, what's the difference between netctl and Networkmanger?
Jose Diaz
It's useful (in a VM or USB stick) if you want to learn about pentesting, but as daily driver - nah.
Kayden Thompson
man netctl man Networkmanger
Leo Rogers
runscape worked.
I guess I kept doing runescape instead because brains autocomplete everything. Thanks, user. Time to slack of at work.
Nolan Allen
No idea on what you're trying to say..
Eli Gray
>I myself lean towards "open source" advocacy rather than "free software" advocacy. Are there any particular (popular maybe?) licensed that fit the definition of "open source" but not free software?
Or is it just something a company releasing a product just makes up on the run?
Dylan Bennett
man man
Sebastian Williams
Oh okay, got it now. Is it any useful for "pen testing and ethical hacking" or it's just a meme from a tv series?
Landon Roberts
Oh! That makes so much sense now! ... Someone, please clarify
Wyatt Hernandez
netctl is arch linux's own minimal network manager. Networkmanager is the mainline network manager included in most systemd based gnu/linux distros.
Angel Clark
This is not the proper way to display Akari. Please refrain from displaying her in a condesending manner
Gabriel Brown
It's basically just convenience, all programs Kali comes with work on other distros too.
Elijah Collins
This might be in sqt, but i cant find an answer to my question.
I added a HDD to my debian server, installed on sata port 1 (boot is on 0) and power, i can see it as just sdb when using lsblk and it wont show up in either fdisk or cfdisk.
It's brand new out of box, 4 TB.
Kayden Murphy
Why the applications listed at "autostart" have @ before them? How do I remove a repository?
Thomas Johnson
Sorry Oniifam, I didn't know. I never even watched this anime.
Michael Davis
What is a proper replacement for Nautilus that works well in GNOME 3?
I heard pcmanfm, but I was wondering if there were others also
Juan Barnes
thunar, gentoo, the fucking terminal
Parker Richardson
Are you running them as root?
Evan Williams
I'm using Arch and not Gentoo myself. Keeping a directory with your own PKGBUILDs and just occasionally running "makepkg" in them is simple enough.
Nathan Ortiz
It's useful for sure. It exists as a separate distro because some pentesting software has unnecessary complex ways of updating.
So kali devs just throw it all together on a stable and working base system (debian iirc) and release updated ISOs.
You burn a new ISO (and by that upgrade the whole system) once the old becomes so outdated you can't comfortably use it.
Kali Linux has a stigma of being a distro of choice of various skids. I'd say the edgy dragon logo contributed to it a lot.
If you want distro with similar purpose that's sounds a lot less edgy, there's always the "security labs" spinoff of Fedora. But even then it's devs advice to use it from a LiveUSB and not as a regular installation.
But how can I get it to only redirect the traffic that can't be accepted on the current machine? it should only redirect traffic to ports that can't be accepted
Blake Thompson
>simple enough They arent updated,unless you manually update them your self, grabbing the entire updated source to then build, unless its a git/svn/bzr.This is the whole point of AUR.
Sure make a git pull script that loops for every dir and pkgbuild them to a seperate folder then then just update from that folder.
Brandon Richardson
spacefm
Alexander Bennett
>proper replacement for Nautilus None. Nautilus handles a lot of the functionalities of Gnome.
Isaac Cox
NetworkManager has a qter CLI.
Ayden Diaz
>cant be accepted Tell your program to uses ports manually,and then if it dosent use those ports redirect it to the second host. Read the iptables wiki.
Brody Hughes
yeah with sudo,
seems like i were retared, lsblk -p shoed /dev/sdb, i did a partition and set it up as ext4.
Austin Bennett
Nemo is Nautilus with more features.
Gabriel Long
Thanks for your deep answer user, I appreciate it. I just wanted to use it to test if my home network is safe and to get more info about security.
Jaxon Bailey
When will you people grow out of graphical file managers?
Adam Roberts
When i dont feel like typing 50 commanes with 20 switches each, to duplicate 2 clicks of a mouse
Ryan Butler
Our just add kali repos to debian. :^)
Eli James
using phresh Fedora 23 install on an old vista machine I had, no complaints so far.
It was this or Ubuntu Gnome and I hadn't tried Fedora until now, it just werks.
Dominic Gomez
>:^) the mark of a Sup Forumsedditor
Ian Robinson
Which one is easier to use?
Josiah Sanders
I use both. I used to use a minimal system with just a window manager and no file manager, and it was fine. But now I just use default Fedora instead. Depends on what I want to do. For most things I use the terminal, but if I want to move a bunch of folders at once nautilus is the better choice. Just drag and drop.
Anthony Morgan
What is a good, secure browser to use? I've been using chromium for a while, and it just seems a little too willing to give up information to jewgle.
I've been thinking about either iceweasel or brave, are they any good or are there better choices out there?
Nathan Kelly
Firefox is fairly privacy oriented. Luakit and uzbl would probably fit what you want if you don't mind keyboard only operation, and having to write all extensions yourself.
Noah Barnes
Been trying to solve this for a week. I've gone down 10 pages searching for this shit.
Running 'ufw enable' as sudo and root, errors out with the below. I have not changed any config files, at all. This is ran directly after installing. ERROR: problem running ufw-init iptables-restore: line 4 failed iptables-restore: line 77 failed iptables-restore: line 30 failed iptables-restore: line 45 failed
Problem running '/etc/ufw/before.rules' Problem running '/etc/ufw/after.rules' Problem running '/etc/ufw/user.rules'
