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Is there any theme that tries to be both and not completely fuck up?
Bentley Taylor
I'm an apt-get guy. I don't know how to isntall stuff in solus using terminal (want to install screenfetch)
help pls
Mason Rodriguez
screenfetch -ED solus
Brayden Cook
fugg hahahaha
Download the bash script from screenfetch's official git and ./screenfetch
Noah Mitchell
download then add it to your users .bin directory
Jackson Young
found it in the software center, thanks anyway :D
Chase Allen
hey /fglt/
Jackson Ross
hey, nerd! i thought i told you not to post around here or i'd give you a knuckle sandwhich!
Parker Reyes
please be nice to me, you're the only friends I have ;_;
Landon Flores
i internalize the hatred of my dad for molesting me then take it out on you dweebs ;_;
Chase Davis
what's a good vm to run other distros on?
Colton Adams
libvirtd
Ayden Morgan
Is there such thing as a Linux Antivirus? Specially that can read the windows partition.
Justin Collins
I just use virtualbox
Charles Flores
CalmAV
Isaac Torres
Did Ubuntu ever fully remove their built in spyware?
Liam Garcia
Like user said, KVM/Qemu managed via virt-manager(frontend for libvirt(management api))
It supports virgl for guests Linux 4.2+ which allows for 3d acceleration.
Virt-manager works great remotely too, the spice protocol, mainly used for display can even route usb devices from a remote client back to the VM host
Isaac Jackson
Thanks.
Connor Garcia
Looking for a font that will be as good as Terminus but will display my moon runes. I just changed up my arch install with i3 and urxvt and im actually likink it way better than awesome + termite but terminus was the only font i liked but could display through my whole system because its in basic latin and not in any special characters. Is there anything that I can use through firefox, vim/urxvt that doesnt look like shit or is comparable to Terminus. >TL;DR whats your favorite font, terminus only has latin
Kevin Roberts
Oh, and I'm using Arch Linux if it matters.
Adrian Reed
comic sans
Landon Evans
Does anyone use -Os in their CFLAGS? From the documentation it says it's the same optimization as -O2, plus a few to get a smaller binary size. It doesn't sound discouraged like -O3
Liam Russell
Get ms-corefonts and use Comic Sans.
Oliver Nelson
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Isaac Edwards
What is the minimum space i should let my Linux partition have?
Gavin Roberts
Yeah, I used to, back when I used gentoo. It's pretty nice, and sometimes it's even faster (due to improved caching, etc).
Nathaniel Price
I did grub2-install after installing Windows 7 on one hard drive and Fedora 24 on the other. Now when I boot I get this
Bit of a noob question. But shouldn't there be just 2 options to boot into fedora or windows? How do I go about doing that?
Juan Cox
>imgur link this isn't reddit dude
Juan Phillips
Entirely depends on your use case user
William White
Grub binary has loaded but can't find a valid configuration file
Boot a live usb and show us your partition layout # lsblk
Gavin Sanchez
I know but there were 2 images and I don't usually upload shit. And imgur was the only website I have used to upload pics.
Evan Cox
comic sans
Oliver Morales
Who are the guys on the left and right?
Nathaniel Collins
Here it is.
Btw here are the commands I did to instal grub 2 from live media.
$ sudo su - # mkdir /mnt/sda # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda # grub2-install --boot-directory /mnt/sda/boot /dev/sda
Installing for i386-pc platform. Installation finished. No error reported
Luis Parker
>using graphical file managers
Alexander Phillips
is there anything as simple as scp that allows me to copy files between networked computers and does not rely on ssh?
scp is so fucking slow, it'd be faster to download a file from the internet again on the computer I have in front of me than to copy it from the computer on which I already have it
setting up a ftp server sounds like a pain in the ass though
Aiden Torres
rsync
Noah Howard
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Juan Kelly
Run # parted --list And make sure sda1 has the boot flag set
Gavin Lopez
This times *1000
Its the exact same syntax
Zachary Nguyen
in you go
Anthony Gutierrez
this pic is clearly shopped
Henry Cooper
Yeah all number 1 have the flag boot.
Except the windows partition (highlighted) which number 1 has a hidden flag
Im having problems installing lubuntu. Whenever it tries to install grub: > grub-pc failed to install into /target/ lubuntu Then another window appears asking me where to install grub I pick the location but when I click the OK button nothing happens. I can't even exit the window. Yes, i disabled secure boot. This is being done on a new empty hdd
Jace Harris
that post had nothing to do with anime and the image was completely unrelated
no
Gavin Davis
It's running NSA code, but the code is open souce.
Brayden Rivera
usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh does not exist. Please specify --target or --directory
Aaron Robinson
how can I add a required wifi module to linux-libre? like it so far and don't want to go back to vanilla just for a single module...
Nathan Stewart
You seem to be on uefi based on your later posts, i think you should try messing with your boot order instead of reinstalling grub. Because windows replacing grub is history now.
Christian White
What's the point when I only have 2 boot options.
Landon Garcia
The penguin would actually look good if it weren't a logo
Justin Ross
lol.
Since this is a GUI installer the error output is too vague. If I had the chance I would personally install Arch for you and point out your problem.
That being said I think it's an UEFI/Ubuntu bug bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate/ bug/1571242 Are you using UEFI(gpt)? If so use Legacy Bios (msdos) and don't boot into UEFI mode.
Furthermore try Manjaro.
Aaron Ross
I mean the boot order in your uefi settings. You probably booted in bios mode if you installed grub for i386-pc and booted into non-configured grub. Instead try to find an entry like Fedora in your uefi settings or multi boot menu.
Bentley Morris
There is only Windows Boot option and the name of my hard drive boot option.
The grub command line is now entering rescue mode when launching
Brandon Stewart
Yes I am using legacy bios. is manjaro as light as lubuntu? Im trying to install this on an old laptop
Andrew Howard
Grub is working for my bootable media yay
Aiden Barnes
>unironically running nsa code when there are other distros what is wrong with fedora users?
also what is wrong with linux in general? >nsa joins, contributes code >microsoft joins, contributes code and all this for free, because friendshit and all, yeah
Carson Brown
Manjaro has an LxDE version which is as light as ubuntu
Brandon Morales
Then, you were probably using legacy booting before and you need to configure your legacy grub. First, chroot into your install like this wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/change_root#Using_chroot You don't need the resolv.conf part.
Inside chroot, run this: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Jason Evans
Pretty sure chinks made most of my devices at my home as well
Luke Hughes
I have built every single thing on every Gentoo box I've ever owned for about 8yrs now with -O2 and never had a problem with it.
I have had a problem with the number of threads set in makeopts though
Oliver Sanders
I guess thats a "you don't sue me and I don't sue you" thing.
Jose Sullivan
Personally I think terminus + IPAMonaPGothic at pixelsize=16 looks the best. Some people think it looks like ass though but whatever. (Note: that's the proportional font with the P. Ironically the actual monospaced IPAMonaGothic doesn't work well with terminus for me)
Honestly it's not even a question of what looks best because that is the ONLY font I can find that actually gets the sizes right when combined with terminus. Every other Japanese font I've tried in combination with terminus on urxvt show up with the Japanese characters looking way too small.
Daniel Murphy
ok I just found the screenshot of this I made a few days ago when someone asked the same question. That wasn't you was it?
If anyone knows of any other font that fits as snugly with terminus as this then I'd love to hear it.
Gavin Bailey
How do i make a command to execute a file in ubuntu?
./filename obviously works. But i'm not working from within the directory.
./path/to/filename doesnt work.
Logan Phillips
>./path/to/filename doesnt work. Are you sure?
Nathan Turner
About to install Debian (Unstable) on all of the PC's in my office and 5 XPS13 laptops. I am split between KDE and XFCE4 in regards to the desktop environment.
Most of my experience in GNU/Linux has been in the GNOME desktop environment since 2008 so my knowledge on the two is rather slim, but I no longer find GNOME suitable for my needs, or the needs of my employees. If anyone can provide any recommendations for either desktop environment I would be greatly appreciative.
Daniel Sanders
I wrote this, then I realized why you got the error when you tried to do x86_64-efi grub install. Because you were using legacy boot, you don't have the necessary packages for efi boot. You can install these packages with yum install grub2-efi grub2-efi-modules shim and try the command that was recommended before if you want to do uefi booting. (I got this command from fedora wiki GRUB 2 article)
Jason Powell
Make it correctly:
mkdir ~/bin export PATH="$PATH:~/bin" # add this to your ~/.bashrc mv file_to_execute ~/bin chmod u+x ~/bin/file_to_execute
now you can just type file_to_execute from anywhere and have your shit well organized
Isaac Ross
I'm getting "No such file or directory". Checked it three times and it should be right
Connor Adams
Selinux isn't a botnet, its just a bolt, additional layer of security, go have a look how it interacts in the kernel
Julian Watson
if youre using absolute path, do not put a period at the start
Oliver King
Are you using tab completion? It really should work.
Are you using some interpreter other than bash?
Michael Baker
oh ok, thanks.
It works
Kayden Walker
You need to boot your flash drive from uefi (not legacy) if you wish to install with the grub witj the efi flag, else efivar firmware variables aren't loaded at boot
Nathan Reed
KDE, XFCE no longer serves a purpose since it is now a bloated mess and there is LXDE/LXQt for old hardware
Landon Myers
I know that it's not botnet, but I also know the NSA and I don't trust them, once because I'm to illiterate to audit the code myself, and once because why should you trust a agency that tries to implement backdoors literally everywhere (they even asked torvalds) when they write a "security" program for you?
Jeremiah Clark
You have to trust that the maintainers are auditing the code, if you can't trust the integrity of one component, you surely can't trust others.
You could recompile the fedora/el kernel with selinux support turned off pretty easily
Jace Garcia
>micosoft joined linux foundation can't await the micosoft present to linux a gaming client? powershell on windows on ubuntu? a security layer? we'll see
Carson King
>powershell on windows on ubuntu I don't know if anyone pointed this out, but wasn't "powershell on linux" literally written on one of the whiteboards in the background of some photo people have been posting here?
Asher Ross
>powershell on linux Imagine if they deployed a .NET api that worked in the same way it does on windows.
Could actually be a smart move
Jonathan Lee
The guy on the right is mad dog, don't know the left guy.
Thomas Nguyen
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Mason Butler
All three of these dudes look like they're deeply familiar with the kind of tor websites that get you thrown into jail .
Jace Jackson
linus face reminds me of an animal face, but I don't know which
Alexander Sullivan
almost like an american imo
Christian Edwards
>animal clearly coolface
Levi Gutierrez
I'm reading the Linux Programming Interface, and to show what version of glibc, they run the library as an executable. In order to find find the pathname they do: ldd myprog | grep libc
Which returns nothing for me. Is myprog a placeholder name for something else?
Matthew Cruz
So i have Windows 7 on one hard drive and Fedora 24 on the other. Now when i boot up my computer, it boot straight into windows or fedora - which ever i chose to boot first. So i was thinking, shouldn't grub 2 automatically be installed and just show up, when booting from any hard drive first?
Leo Miller
isnt powershell on linux already though? I'd think that the NSA would contribute code because they use the fucking operating system and want to make sure the shit they're using is as secure and useful to their employees using it as possible. Fucking christ, you people. at least, im pretty sure groups like the NSA use redhat shit.
