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Reminder to reverse engineer Red Star OS so we can have the desktop environment from best Korea.
Benjamin Gray
>open browser >first you need to hail kim jong kun >press ok to hail
Anthony Price
why not use red star os instead?
Gavin Howard
is kind of werid accept a botnet with very few users, it became too personal between you and the guy readind your logs
Charles James
Is there a list of laptops that work with Linux-libre? I'm going to buy a new one and want to make sure that I don't need proprietary stuff to make it work. Should I get a thinkpad, if so which one?
Jaxson James
Because it probably phones home. Plus its browsers uses a weird nation-wide LAN instead of regular internet.
Is there any media player with a shuffle setting that can remember what has already played recently? So say you have 100 songs, and you play 20 a day. It will only loop back to the first song after it plays everything, even after you restart the app.
Gavin Sanders
Anyone know how I would go about disabling a systemd service before boot finishes? I enabled lightdm.service and now boot won't complete.
John Bell
Cntrl Alt Del
Lucas Watson
>want to try gentoo >load up vm >smooth sailing >emerge gentoo-sources >unpacking linux-4.4.tar.gz What the fuck
Daniel Brown
how do i use X on a remote machine from my computer?
Carter Clark
install OpenBSD
Evan Price
>No wifi
Wyatt Lopez
that just restarts the booting process
Christopher Rodriguez
install wifi && install drivers
Jaxson Morgan
...
Mason Ramirez
My drivers are closed source
Justin Campbell
reverse engineer them
Robert Barnes
Want to change distro from ubuntu, where do I go? I've heard a lot of people try debian after ubuntu. I'm not that well versed in GNU/Linux but I am hoping to learn with a new distro.
Lincoln Gutierrez
#rekt
Christopher Gray
I have a job Also >No scanner
Angel Jackson
underage
Oliver Roberts
#burried
Christopher Robinson
I've been dual booting Windows and Linux Mint for about a year now an am switching to Debian w/ Windows (hopefully down the line can get rid of Windows altogether, but that's for another time). Two questions:
1) I'm planning on just destroying the Linux partitions (I have three: filesystem, swap and my primary partition) and then installing Debian in place of where they used to be. Is this fine, or should I leave the partitions on there? I don't plan on using mint in the near future and I have no files on there I haven't backed up to put on the Debian OS.
2) I noticed the Debian live CD doesn't have wireless support. That's fine, as I can get a wired connection to install Debian. But is it pretty easy to get wireless support after that? I didn't have to fuck with that at all with mint, it just werked. If it's just download the drivers that's no problem, but should I anticipate any other issues?
Ayden Foster
@56145111 and 56145150 At least you tried today
Colton Myers
x11 forewarding
Isaac Rivera
How do I make external drives mount automatically to /media under a unique directory?
Liam Hall
udisk2 and udev
Benjamin Clark
Why do you want to change from Ubuntu? It will be easier to recommend based on that
Robert Thomas
Most wireless drivers can be installed from the nonfree repos later What is your wireless device?
Jaxson Price
So a couple weeks ago I installed Ubuntu on a partition to try Linux for the first time. I've really liked it, and my Windows partition is screwed up, so I was thinking of just getting rid of Win10 for good. Now my question:
Is there any way of formatting the Windows partition and make it a "data" partition for Ubuntu? All of this without losing anything on the linux part of course.
Can I just format the win10 partition as ext3/ext4 from ubuntu?
Sorry I'm a n00b :(
Brayden Bell
Post $lsblk
Jaxson Brooks
systemd.unit=multi-user.target to the kernel parameters
Juan James
Yes, you can use gparted and just format the windows partition to ext4
>make it a "data" partition for Ubuntu What do you mean, exactly?
Juan Smith
thanks fampai
Blake Baker
pic related So store the pics,docs,etc in that one and leave the current one for the os and program files. Is that reasonable?
Noah Lee
Yes, you can format a partition to ext3/ext4 using fdisk or parted.
Then you have to edit /etc/fstab and add that partition that you formatted (e.g. /dev/sda1) to mount it automatically on boot. The line should probably look like: #Append this line to /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /data ext4 defaults 0 1
Otherwise, you would have to mount it manually every time you turn on your computer with 'mount /dev/sda1 /data'
man fdisk man fstab man mount ^ read these in order to figure how they all work.
Ryder Rodriguez
Assuming your windows is in /dev/sda1 $sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 $mkdir ~/data/ && mount /dev/sda1
Or if you want GUI use Gparted
Mason Moore
How hard is it to setup a proper/working KVM Windows guest? I want to switch to GNU/Linux but I don't want to lose my capability of playing gaymes.
Kayden Perez
>Yes, you can format a partition to ext3/ext4 using fdisk or parted. Correction: you format partitions with 'mkfs' not 'fdisk'. Run mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 to format /dev/sda1 as ext4.
Josiah Mitchell
Oh after that see what said. So basically $sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 $mkdir ~/data/ $sudo echo "/dev/sda1 /home//data ext4 defaults 0 1 " >> /etc/fstab
Isaiah Cook
i am loving Red Star OS ngl
Justin Hall
Thanks bros :3
Wyatt Phillips
Look for players which have a "consume" like mode. I knot that mpd (or its clients, I don't know who exposes that feature) do have that.
Caleb Richardson
You're an idiot. Anything that you can "learn" on Debian can be learned on Ubuntu or any other distribution. The only thing specific to a distribution which applies to your "learning" case are package managers and switching distributions to "learn" to use a package manager is ridiculous; something only a full blown idiot would do.
Brayden Richardson
That's not what shuffle means
Jeremiah Reyes
Meant for
Austin Martinez
If you want to learn, use Slackware.
Henry Rivera
Yes it is. Shuffle just means a randomized list. The problem most of the time is the list gets deleted whenever the program closes.
Easton Collins
Which generally useful skill is Slackware going to teach you that any other distribution can't?
Nathan Williams
I have unbound and dnscrypt setup, but im having a hard time figuring where to put squid in to the mix, and how to
Henry Ramirez
A knowledge of how Linux works in general. Which may or may not be useful for you, but in most other distributions (including Arch and Gentoo) you will only learn how to use this particular distribution.
Anthony Bailey
>already played recently Then it would not be a shuffle
>randomized list It does not make a secret list when you press shuffle mode, it indexes and scans the libary each time you request the next song.
Adrian Cook
How is Slackware going to teach you about how a kernel works? Reading the kernel's source and researching how kernels work in general will teach you that.
Luis Taylor
I installed Mint 18 Cinnamon on my laptop from a USB, but it will only boot in recovery mode with software rendering. Hardware acceleration worked when using it live from the USB. If I boot in normal mode it just gives a black screen forever.
Xavier Lewis
What is the best distro for my small home server where need to run apache, php, mysql and live tv recording (it's also htpc)
Luis Foster
gentoo
Jace Richardson
Just downloaded i3gaps to my Arch and I don't know how to make it my default wm. What do?
Dominic Ramirez
read the arch wiki
Justin Garcia
>home server Any distro
Jayden Rivera
>tfw I don't understand SSH
Zachary Cruz
>want to try gentoo >vm Ya blew it.
Charles Anderson
why would i put a rogue distro over my currently installed one? Its all ready throwing a bitch fit with everything i tell it to do, following the wiki
Adam Hill
That's stable, learn how to use masks
Anthony Powell
There is a book for that.
Lucas Russell
Couldn't find anything
Ayden Parker
Depends on what you want.
If you want the absolute best example of Keep It Simple Stupid - Linux, then I would suggest Slackware.
If you want to take inordinate amounts of time learning odds and ends to get the absolute most performance and utility out of your hardware: Gentoo.
If you want to dick-wave autistically while having an unstable shit system with regular breakage that's useful for nothing but time-sinks between tendies and anime: Arch.
Henry Johnson
Gentoo and build your own kernel minimal
Jose James
You clearly are not ready to install Gentoo. Come back when you have a clue newfriend.
Luis Barnes
>If you want to dick-wave autistically while having an unstable shit system with regular breakage that's useful for nothing but time-sinks between tendies and anime: Arch.
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Colton Sanders
Right, so i should be a fucking paid expert using a distro i have never used, and features within it that are different
kill your fucking self faggot
Bentley Hill
What?
Brody Lopez
Is there any disadvantages to using Kali as a main OS? I'll be dual booting Windows (for muh games) and GNU/Linux (for pretty much everything else) and since I do some pentesting related stuff as a hobby I was wondering whether I should just use it as my main OS rather than running it in a VM all the time.
Kevin Smith
Stay mad plebbit.
Carson Ross
So I should sell my macbook pro and buy a thinkpad?
Isaiah Foster
I found the solution! The problem was that I am using 2 monitors and for some reason it wanted to disable the first one where it actually shows the login screen. So I had to log in navigating the login menu blindly with hotkeys. After having logged in I could change the display settings to be like they should.
Jaxson Diaz
Banshee. Add songs to your Play Queue, shuffle it, it randomizes the order, but doesn't play ANY file twice until the entire queue has been played. It remembers which songs you've played from the queue even if you quit the program.
Gavin Scott
How do I use this and have it equally as God-tier as it was on Windows?
Tyler Brooks
I'm installing my first real Linux (cinnamon) because windows 7 is not cooperating. Can someone just assure me this hipster OS has a proper answer to MPC ? The main use of the computer it's going on is to play videos.
Asher Ward
Bit of a retard question coming from someone who should know how to use linux by now, but I want to install lubuntu due only to the fact that it seems to be the only distro with documented support for the hardware I have. And yes, I know, shitbuntu etc etc.
My question is, is there a light installation of the distro out there? I absolutly HATE dealing with all the bloat that comes with the thing. For awhile I was installing debian via netinstall without an internet connection, and then just adding a WM and going from there since its nice a barebones. Is there a way to do this with lubuntu (or any buntu fork)? I wouldn't even mind it coming with a WM and utils, its just the bloated software I can't stand.
Thanks in advance anons
Nicholas Moore
>decide to try out linux >run installation >"failed to install system" woah, how is anyone supposed to take seriously an OS which can't even install itself properly?
James Ramirez
mpv will be your savior my child. I adore it.
Alexander Long
I really hope this is bait. I have the mental capacity of a child and even I can do it. I promise you that in the time it's taken me to respond, you've realized that it was an error on your part.
Alexander Brown
Yo guys what up, my laptop is running a Linux OS and i forgot the logon password
yall know how to get past it? thanks
Justin Lee
You can try booting from a livecd, mounting the hard disk, retrieving the shadow file and running a password cracker on it.
Charles Harris
How do I fully uninstall grub boot loader?
I tried installing Debian and it got fucked up. Now when I boot up my computer I'm greeted with a "minimalist bash-like interface" for grub that doesn't actually boot anything. I can still boot into Windows by mashing F12 on startup which is fine, but I'd really like to remove grub for now. I plan on trying to install Linux again today, but I want the faulty grub gone.
Dylan Cooper
install *BSD
David Allen
I'm not a masochist, so no.
Hudson Green
Your reasoning is invalid. You should rethink.
Elijah Murphy
Weird question but does it have pause on screen click ?
Camden Phillips
I reason to myself I don't like self harm/torture. Therefore I will not do what you say and install BSD.
Andrew Rogers
ubuntu has a netinstall/minimal install I believe.
Justin Wood
So much faggotry today.
Dylan Adams
Your premise is wrong. You should probably rethink about that.
Carter Cooper
No it's not, you're wrong.
Aaron Wood
Get a netinstall then track down the bare minimum packages you want. It's not hard. There are guides aplenty if you duckduckgo it.