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If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following: 0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine using VirtualBox or other software made for this puporse for safety purposes. 1) Use the Live ISO (if your distribution of choice has one) to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything, that way, you can get to experience the GNU/Linux operating system without installing it. 2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS, this is recommended if you want to know more about the GNU/Linux operating system. 3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.
What software can I use to control another computer remotely? Mainly to check that the temps are fine, turn it off, make it download and seed torrents. I'm willing to install any distro or even BSD, and I don't care if the tool doesn't have a GUI (but it would be better if it had one). Both computers would be connected in LAN.
Joseph Watson
ssh secure shell
Bentley Brown
see
Thomas Robinson
I hate when you guys do this, it's just nonsense.
Camden Gutierrez
Already abandoned that thread because it was shit. You're one of those retards that call GNU/Linux Linux.
Carter Scott
This.
Cameron Watson
Blame the OP of this thread. He was too autistic to accept that GNUless Linux things do exist and created this thread.
No I'm not. I'm one of the people who accept that it's been known as Linux for years and that GNU/Linux isn't the only Linux.
Andrew Brown
Both OP are stupid.
Jack Parker
*********************************************** y'all posting in a troll thread. for real help and friendly discussion, go here: **********************************************
I'm dualbooting Xubuntu and Windows 7 and whenever I boot into Xubuntu, the clock in Windows gets set four hours ahead. Any idea why this happens or how I can stop it?
Jace Edwards
Show me one "Linux" that doesn't use GNU dumbass, you can't because it doesn't exist. Even if it existed, it would mean that this thread is for GNU/Linux and your thread is for retarded hobbyists who make their own OSes with the Linux kernel. I bet you call Coca Cola coke.
>Warning: Do not expect full drop-in replacement and compatibility. Certain utilities may not exist and for those that do, there may be missing options. One purpose of this Wiki is to document missing features and the problems they cause. kek
Elijah Johnson
It's a known bug that happens in some dualboot combos. It happens because Linux uses global time and Windows uses some offset somethingsomething. You can either change the Linux setting so it uses somethingsomething as well, or just do ONE of these on Windows:
Whatever you do, remember to keep away from /flt/, because the place where you get actual answers to your problems is /fglt/.
Jason Jenkins
Linux kernel discussion, Alpine Linux, Ångström (iirc), OpenWRT
Josiah Young
That's because busybox was made for embedded systems like smart TVs etc, not for desktops.
Ian Wilson
screenfetch or it didnt happen
Eli Foster
Where did I say I was running one of them?
Grayson Long
Then you should call it /lkdalÅoWRT/. Your thread is doomed to fail because the OP isn't clear enough.
Julian Peterson
Allow me to correct myself, you should actually call it /flkdalÅoWRTt/. You wouldn't want to lose even a tiny percentage of the huge userbase of /lkdalÅoWRT/ systems by dropping the friendliness, right?
Oliver Collins
Let's just move on with the topic and ignore the troll?
Hudson Peterson
Why the fuck does everyone keep calling me a troll? Eat a dick you piece of shit.
Cooper Turner
Why? Because you started a flame war and you know it. No leave and reply to yourself in your silly thread.
Jaxson Price
I started nothing more than a proper Linux thread.
Luke Morris
gnu sjw
Blake Price
please rename the thread to /fsgnlt/ for Friendly SystemD Gnu Linux Thread to properly represent the operating systems that we are all discussing, or I and other members of my vocal but minor Cult of SystemD will spend our many free hours sliding this thread. Thanks.
John Ward
No. This thread is for all GNU/Linuxes, even the ones that don't use systemd yet. Feel free to make your own and watch it die with 10 replies if you care that much.
Charles Perry
SystemD isn't part of the core system, nor is KDE or Mozilla Firefox. Try harder.
Juan Morgan
Will installing Linux lower my power consumption? I've installed various distributions but looking to find one that fits my CPU the most.
>Pic related
it's my current setup. I don't hate windows 10, it's process management and inconsistency throughout the OS bothers me though.
Lincoln Flores
What if I use linux and no gnu cancer?
Tyler Stewart
What kernel is /fglt/ is using atm? user0@primary:~$ uname -ov #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 24 10:09:13 UTC 2016 GNU/Linux user0@primary:~$
Wyatt Sanchez
3.13.0-91-lowlatency
Andrew Hill
Power consumption depends on your hardware as well. If you are virtualizing/watching/rendering HD videos, it'll still take power
Aaron Anderson
$ uname -a Linux A-chan 4.6.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.6.2-2 (2016-06-25) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Camden Hughes
Then you're a faggot hobbyist and you belong in the contention thread. Look up /flt/ and you'll find the place where people like you troll each other for endless hours.
1.- If you're talking about energy and the money it costs, not that much really.
2.- Some light DEs can improve a laptop's battery duration.
3.- If you're talking about the general usage of resources, yes it can; you can even make the lightest distros run in 20ish years old computers.
Tyler Cooper
4.4.6-gentoo
Angel Bennett
see
Andrew Sanders
just got arch to run (almost complete linux newbie). installed herbstluftwm because I wanted to do as little with a GUI as possible for learning purposes, but now I'm thinking about getting a backup DE if I need something done quickly and don't want to look up the wiki or something.
Suggestions for a DE? I got Budgie, LXDE and Xfce on my list. LXDE looks horrible but battery life is of some importance.
James Miller
Ah, I see we have non-believers in our midst. Well we have special ways of dealing with you. You see, when the soup-thin logic and rhetorical tricks that worked on the other suck- uh I mean cult members is found lacking, we have to use our secret weapon: nagging. Nag nag nag nag nag nag nag nag and nag some more. When the dumb non-believer gets tired of your nagging he will either give in to your demands to make you shut up, or not have enough time to keep up with the nagging (once again, our schedules are very free) and have to concede. Either way we win!
Tyler Sullivan
>when your bait gets 0 replies and you have to bump it >whoreslaughter.flac >implying that giving credit where it's due is a bad thing
Fuck off to your contention thread.
Adam Hughes
So I'm having a wierd problem: I'm dualbooting windows 10 and fedora 24. Fedora is my main OS, but I've noticed that I get a lot of slowdowns on my internet dl speed. I can never complete a speedtest because I always get latency errors. If I reboot to windows, my internet behaves perfectly and speedtest says I have my complete dl speed. Wtf is going on?
Robert Myers
I finished my install of Gentoo yesterday. And today I've been compiling and fixing package conflicts.
Holy crap, portage is complicated. Ever other distro is Fisher-Price OS compared to Gentoo. I can see why people called it 'a time-sink OS'. I've spent six hours today reading documentation, fixing problems and I haven't even started X yet (I've compiled it though).
Jace Walker
um are you using systemd?
Julian Bailey
With speedtest, do you mean a website for testing speed?
Liam Russell
>Fedora Yes
Ayden Cooper
People meme it for a reason.
Aaron Wood
yes, speedtest.net streaming trhough youtube-dl is also stuttering a lot with any quality
Aiden Harris
it is worth it in the end offers a degree of customisation and perfection that is difficult to achieve elsewhere
monitor journalctl for helpful information check the right Ethernet module is being used use wireshark for further diagnosis
2016.01.01 is stable but has issues 2016.07.01 is the latest and works good
Carson Collins
Does anyone here use openrc and what are some good resources to learn how to use it and write your scipts?
Caleb Clark
forget it, livestreamer is working without any lags
Noah Rivera
Manjaro has a OpenRC spin if you want to play with it in a VM.
Andrew Nelson
Can't get past may 4th on journalctl, im getting a bad message error
Luis Howard
man pages, gentoo wiki
Nathaniel Anderson
OpenWrt uses ash
Adrian Gonzalez
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Ian Russell
try journalctl -b -e -f
to monitor error messages
Christopher Williams
Anonymous Sup Forums logs my ip address, nice contribution to the conversation btw!
Matthew Smith
Literally "how to be a hipster: the wiki"
Cameron Lopez
IP addresses they log are dynamic, retard
Kevin Lopez
>dynamic That doesn't even make sense...
Adam Allen
All it's reporting is a metric fuckton of QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow) every fucking second, which apparently is a kde bug that exists since 2012
I've tried "man libinput" but there's nothing. Where would you find information for all the settings? There's all these profiles for mouse acceleration, how do people figure this stuff out?
Parker Rivera
Because you're trolling, attention whore.
Ryder Murphy
This is the last pity (you) I'll give you.
1. The IPs they log are dynamic IPs and they do not pinpoint my username of my host, neither they track my browsing patterns.
2. There is absolutely no reason for you to post trips posts such as . Attention craving like a hungry girl will make you look more pathetic
3. Trips are there for a different reason, where an identity is really necessary to verify the poster. I post trips as well. See . Compare that post to yours.
4. Hate to break it to you but I am pretty sure NO ONE cares about your tripcode "!C4paIc36b", you are not famous and will never be with the retarded posts you make.
If you are not able to cope up with user board culture you should crawl back to twitter or blogspot where you think you are remotely important or relevant to anybody in the internet.
Bottomline: Go back to where you just came from
Zachary Perez
#rektandburied
Juan Jackson
New laptop will come today, and I've already downloaded Xubuntu. Laptop has DOS on it, so I think there's only one partition. I know that installing Ubuntu is pretty straight forward but I don't know how to create partitions. I tried it a few years ago and I remember it messed it up. Any help, anons?
seriously guys why the fuck can't I install this? $ sudo pacman -U gnutls-3.3.23.tar.xz [sudo] password for user: loading packages... error: missing package metadata in gnutls-3.3.23.tar.xz error: 'gnutls-3.3.23.tar.xz': invalid or corrupted package
Liam Carter
default / zoomed
does this look weird to anyone else? it seems squashed.
Jacob Cox
In what way is Ubuntu 16.04 worse than 14.04?
Nathaniel Foster
how do i fix glitchy audio? Its fine for the most part but especialy when i'm listening to spotify web it will start crackling constantly
Kayden Martinez
sorry i forgot to mention i'm using a 970A-DS3P, that might be relevant.
Benjamin Wood
For the Germans among us, I've translated the "open source" and "GNU/Linux" copypastas into German so we can now enlighten non-English speaking people.
Ich muss dich kurz unterbrechen. Was du da Linux nennst, heißt tatsächlich GNU/Linux, bzw. wie ich es seit kurzem nenne, GNU plus Linux. Linux ist an sich kein Betriebssystem sondern nur ein Teil eines vollständigen GNU-Systems dessen Funktionalität vor allem durch die GNU corelibs, shell-Werkzeuge und andere wichtige Systemkomponenten bereitgestellt wird. Die Summe all dieser Teile bildet ein Betriebssystem, wie es im POSIX-Standard definiert ist.
Viele User benutzen unbewusst täglich eine modifizierte Version des GNU-Systems. Aufgrund von einigen historischen Gegebenheiten wird die heute am weitesten verbreitete GNU-Version Linux genannt, und vielen Benutzern dieses Systems ist nicht bewusst, dass es sich im Grunde um das GNU-System, welches vom GNU-Projekt entwickelt wurde, handelt.
Linux gibt es wirklich, und diese Leute nutzen es auch, aber es ist nur ein Teil des Systems das sie nutzen. Linux ist der Kernel; das Systemprogramm, das die Ressourcen des Computers den anderen Programmen zur Verfügung stellt. Der Kernel ist ein integraler Bestandteil eines Betriebssystems, für sich allein ist er jedoch nutzlos; der Kernel kann nur im Kontext eines vollständigen Betriebssystems arbeiten. Linux wird normalerweise in Kombination mit dem GNU-Betriebssystem verwendet: das gesamte System ist dann GNU, dem Linux hinzugefügt wurde, oder GNU/Linux. Alle sogenannten Linux-Distributionen sind in Wirklichkeit Distributionen von GNU/Linux!
Luis Johnson
Hallo! Du hast gerade den Begriff "Open Source" verwendet.
Dieser Begriff wurde von einer Gruppe erfunden, die nicht mit dem Free Software Movement in Verbindung gebracht werden wollten. Bei "freier" Software (was einer der zu bevorzugenden Begriffe ist) geht es nicht um den Preis; man würde dann von "gratis" oder "kostenlos" (free beer) sprechen. Stattdessen geht es um Freiheit! Die Freiheit von Software und ihren Nutzern ist es, wofür sich das Free Software Movement einsetzt.
Also was ist freie Software? Freie Software ist jedes Programm, das dem Nutzer die vier Software-Grundrechte zusichert: > 0. Das Programm auszuführen, wie und wann man es wünscht. > 1. Den Programmcode anzusehen und zu verändern sodass das Programm tut was man möchte. > 2. Exakte Kopien des Programms weiter zu verbreiten. > 3. Die von einem selbst modifizierte Version des Programms zu verbreiten.
Einige Leute entschieden, dass sie die Rechte des Nutzers einschränken wollten; aber den "offenen" Quelltext nur studieren und modifizieren zu dürfen ist nicht genug! Damit werden die Bemühungen des Free Software Movement untergraben weil es den soziologischen Freiheitsaspekt freier Software ignoriert und sich nur auf die technischen Aspekte konzentriert.
Aus diesen Gründen bitte ich dich, in Zukunft die Begriffe "frei" oder, wenn notwendig "FLOSS" (free/libre and open source software) zu nutzen, wobei der letztere trotzdem vermieden werden sollte.
William Collins
Hey fellas i was wondering if i can install linux on a part of my hard drive. New to all this stuff so i wanna try Linux master race™
Nathaniel Roberts
/flt/ pls, been stuck on this for a while now I am using Debian. I'm trying to install PeaZip. I got the .deb file and installed it using
When I try to open a .zip file I get an error message: >Failed to open file "file.zip" >Failed to execute child process >"peazip" (No such file or directory).
what do
Daniel Clark
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Brayden Russell
ext4, Samsung 850 EVO 250GB, barely over two weeks. I should add that this happened after I set ibus-daemon to open at startup.
Samuel Cooper
And another ibus-daemon is located in /usr/bin.
David Thompson
I tried dual booting Ubuntu once so I could learn what Linux was about.
However, I had this one problem where, after restarting my PC, I would instantly get into Ubuntu. When I was supposed to see the options between Windows 7 and Ubuntu.
To this I concluded two things.
I either fucked the installation up and Installed Ubuntu over the Windows partition.
Or something happened and I dont know what, since I did everything as indicated on your regular dual booting guide (create a partition of X size using X windows utility, boot into the ubuntu cd, etc)
Now I am afraid of trying again. How do I do this right?
Caleb Brooks
Why do so many distros freeze? I've tried many but after a little while they just freeze completely.
Christian Barnes
What did your logs say?
Nathan Watson
$ uname -ov FreeBSD FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE #0 r297264: Fri Mar 25 02:10:02 UTC 2016 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Ethan White
Working on installing arch. (We have the ability to start a MATE session! Wew!)
So I'm not sure how else to normally do it (IE, is startx the only way to?) but I had a question about how I made it work.
I edited the xinitrc file, and in addition to adding exec mate-session, I also needed to comment out exec xterm -geometry 80x66 +0+0 -name login
What does this line mean, and why does startx work to start a MATE session when I edit this out?
Juan Torres
exec xterm created a basic xterminal -geometry specifies the dimensions of that terminal +0+0 the location and -name login.
Idk what that does to this very day.
Jason Anderson
you can eliminate the entirety of twm & xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 & xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 & xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 & exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
