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That's open source, it doesn't have to be free. Who made that stupid image?
Jonathan King
Thanks for the advice captain !!
Jace White
310 is the bump limit faggot. Delete this
John Rogers
>If you want stability, go for unstable Super fucking brilliant recommendation there
Xavier Powell
are you stupid
Lucas Taylor
"stable" in tech speak doesn't mean what you think, retard.
Aiden King
Slackware for true stability.
Christopher Bennett
nobody runs slackware t. everybody
Christian Lewis
But i don t get it... If ubuntu and debian based distro are more stable why is arch based distros are more used ?
Wyatt Wright
>Slackware >true stability
i dont think thats something you should be proud of wew fag
Juan Lewis
archbang seems to be user friendly. comes with firefox and firewall out of box. i use it as my rescue thumb drive.
Jace Davis
Because kids think using a distro which doesn't have an installer is cool.
Henry Morgan
>thumb drive what is this
Jaxson Sanchez
well you can use antergos... still, i don t get it.
Logan Johnson
...
Isaac Baker
>comes with firewall out of box. Just like any Linux-distro?
Anthony Evans
but antergos doesn't have the arch screenfetch logo and arch users will laugh at you
Liam Wright
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Anthony Morgan
kibd if true, in reddit ( plz don t throw rocks at me) in the unixporn sub, if you use antergos ( which is very usefull btw imo) you are tagged as noob... not all people have time to waist installing arch and just want something that just work
Aiden Howard
The firewall is part of the kernel, retard
Matthew Cook
Never change
Bentley Rivera
I have no idea how to use awk or sed and I don't know regex. (I just don't have the time to learn that rn)
Can anybody get the elapsed/total time from mpc? For example $ mpc Gorgoroth - Odeleggelse og undergang [paused] #13/39 0:59/4:30 (21%) volume: 90% repeat: off random: off single: off consume: off
I need just '0:59/4:30', so I can output it in my bar.
Alexander Bell
why, why the hell do u need this. what is sooooo important that this must be done???
dafuq man... kek
Carter Edwards
>I just don't have the time to learn that No, you're getting that wrong. You don't have the time to not learn that.
Zachary Diaz
someone maybe tell me why software must be 100% open. Nobody will pay for it which would hurt the whole industry. I see how programmers benefit from open software but 90 or more percent of PC users don't care if their office application can be "easily" modified if you have a 4yrs CS degree and 5 yrs experience in the field.
Jonathan Hall
It would be nice to have that info in my bar. It's not that important, I just figured it might be easy for someone who knows how to do this.
Kayden Cruz
>You don't have the time to not learn that. So i do have the time to learn that, and then what ?
James Smith
then >It would be nice to have that info in my bar.
Julian Robinson
Then you learn it. And after that, you will save so much time in your life you'll look back and not believe how you could have ever thought of not having enough time to learn it.
You claim to not have time to learn regex yet what you're doing is ricing your shitty desktop whiile listening to edgemaster's metal
Adam Russell
Actually, mpc | awk '/\[(playing|paused)\]/ { print $3 }' is enough, stopped state doesn't print anything anyway
Charles Moore
modprobe
Anthony Powell
insmod, rmmod
Joseph Hernandez
thanks
I already riced my desktop when I had the time, I just needed this now What does 'edgemaster's metal' have to do with anything?
Michael Walker
>What does 'edgemaster's metal' have to do with anything?
Its all part of the dream BeBe'
Hudson Butler
Btw, gawk is pretty easy.
When you have a list like >foo:bar:baz and you want >baz you can use >awk -F ':' '{ print $3 }' if you want >bar >awk -F ':' '{ print $2 }' -F changes the field separater (default whitespace) to : and $1-9001 sets the field to print if you have multiple lines like >foo:bar:baz >top,kek,lel >gnu--linux--kernel and you want >gnu you can use regex to search for a line that contains the word (here we search for linux) awk -F '--' '/linux/ { print $1 }'
tomorrow we learn sed
Daniel Ramirez
anyone else run into this?
even since freetype >2.6, fonts in many places just in wine don't show up for a while i just left freetype at 2.6, but it's getting outdated, and other things are forcing the version up more recently i found allowing only bitmap fonts gets them to show up (right side), but this isn't a fix
ideas?
Levi Foster
>gawk it's just awk
Ryan Walker
Cool, thanks.
Nathan Davis
and the dream continues... kek
Hudson White
so it's just splitting and automatic grouping, basically? easy enough, thanks user.
any other awk switches worth using/knowing about? and yes, I can read the man pages, but those are lacking an inbuilt usefulkness filter.
Jonathan Cooper
nice one
Easton Morales
awk is a link to gawk (GNU awk) for compatibility, there is no independent awk on GNU/Linux
Jayden Evans
gawk --copyleft | wc -c
Nathaniel Ward
Is there a way that I can sync ubuntu files from my desktop to my laptop automatically?
So that when I'm done using my desktop it will have already synced my files and once I move over to my laptop it will start downloading the synced files?
Justin Robinson
What's the best distro in 2016?
I haven't used GNU/Linux since 2013. Tired of windows, what should I install?
Brandon Bennett
The one I'm using.
Cameron Gray
Slackware. It DOES have a package manager, called slackpkg, and installpkg/upgradepkg/removepkg for slackbuilds, which is like the AUR. It's simple, rock solid and elegant. It uses BSD style init scripts instead of systemd. It is the most UNIX-like GNU/Linux distribution.
Josiah Torres
>projecting
Michael Phillips
Slackware is a useless distro. Slackware does not contribute to the Linux community, it never did. Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat, SUSE Linux are trying their best to take linux computing further by actually developing stuff. What did Slackware ever do. It's been there for ages. It survived so long but yet to achieve ANYthing. Much like a cockroaches that survived ice age but never really obtained anything meaning full like Dinosaurs or Mammoths. This might hurt you but Slackware community is a poison that Linux has no use for. What did they ever contribute to? Developing/contributing to BTRFS? Snapper? Kcraft/Kernel hotpatching? FreeDesktop? GNOME? KDE? Wayland? Mir? Snaps? Flatpak? LXC containers? OpenZFS? OBS? Convergence? KVM? High-end Xeon (or instanbul) support? GRO? Systemd-ui/kcm? KIWI?
I'll tell you what slackware ever did: Bitch and moan about systemd - because bitching and moaning is ONLY what Slackware is good for. It's pathetic and has a negative effect on the community.
Austin Perez
The slackware userbase is just as pretentious: they never did anything productive because they are too busy in going to online forums to show off their manual dependency management skills instead of getting real things done. They will NOT like to admit there's no dependancy management because there's a sever lack of devs as mentioned in the number one reason in Slackware faqs. They'll BLINDLY follow what their cult leader do: use an abandonware bootloader and preach its superiority over any other bootloaders, or sperg about how vanilla their distro is. When they are asked why they use the distro they ALL will give you the same brainwashed, mindless response: "Because of stability". The users seem to forget the simple fact that Slackware does NOT fix ANY (again: ANY) upstream bugs. So if there's any bug in x-org or gtk, those packages will be just as buggy in Slackware as in Ubuntu. They just seem to forget that Slackware isn't more stable than other distros with the SAME bugs that causes instability. Some of them will claim "Slackware doesn't have distro specific bugs" However as I write this Slackware has had total of 35 security vulnerabilities: 9 of which is DoS, 13 remote code excecution, 10 Overflows, a memory corruption, a login bypass and 3 privilege esclations. (CVE details)
Thomas Ortiz
>getting triggered vsmdh tonight
Samuel Green
Now I know what you are thinking: "I should put my feet on the backpedal and claim it has ((less)) distro specific bugs" Excuse me? I heard slackware is a "vanilla distro". If it were SO great, why are there vanilla bugs. If you are comparing to distros that are ten times more usable like ubuntu, I'd trade those bugs with usability and productivity. Ubuntu has paid, professional maintainers unlike an unemployed community of hobbyists.
I think we should completely exile them, they can move to BSD or some other garbage.
Owen Walker
is this supposed to be a monologue?
Grayson Morris
Friendly reminder to cont. your dank papes here:
Eli Thompson
wasn't slackware developed by just one dude until he got a few volunteers a few years back? i don't think his goals were to make major contribution to the linux community, just to make himself a distro
Hunter Rodriguez
That's why it's called slackware dude
It's run by slackers
John Reyes
These posts prove that slackware was never meant to be taken seriously outside basements
Ethan Murphy
>Slackware Sorry the best distro is any of Ubuntu/RHEL/OpenSUSE
So I've got a project I want to do and I don't know how to execute it. I have an old laptop that I want to set up as a media center that my roommates can send their music/movies to. What would be the best way to do this?
Thomas Sullivan
apache server
Julian Kelly
The term youre looking for is NAS. Network Attached Storage
Alexander Morales
What did you expect from a distribution owned by an US-based corp with ties to the American (((government))).
hahaha
Enjoy being testbed for rhel AND a testbed for ideological subversion.
Jaxon Stewart
How difficult would it be to create your own distribution from scratch?
Kevin Gray
LFS has probably all the resources you might need
Dominic Martinez
There is no point to do that and it's not a one man show.
Jeremiah Turner
What's the best way to study and practice for RHCSA? I'm worried about going into a test where I just have to set up a server as specified, since there are a lot of things to remember and forgetting even one of them can ruin your test.
Dominic Foster
What's the one before Debian?
Carson Kelly
Why isn't everything using GNUstep yet?
Grayson Walker
KDE Neon, they are basically KDE devs
Sebastian Watson
please stop namefagging
Matthew Ramirez
Ok so ive just got my new thinkpad it has 256gb ssd. How should I partition the drive? This is my1st time installing Linux and not using a vm, so im thinking Ubuntu or Debian? Split the drive half windows/linux and save ~15gb for Kali? (need Kali for university)
Chase Martinez
i installed visualboy and i cant lunch it . what do i do ?
Owen Baker
>i installed visualboy and i cant lunch it . what do i do ? dinner it
Caleb Torres
What's the fastest way to delete a drive? dd /dev/zero is taking forever. I took a nap for 4 hours and it's still running. I don't care about security, I only want mkfs to not recognize my old file system.
you could use the n (?) option in fdisk. fdisk certainly has the capability to quickly erase the header
Adrian Jackson
samefag
Jaxon Morris
wipefs -a /dev/sdz
just erases known identifying information
Asher Taylor
Can anyone help me out and give me direction in how i would setup my raspberry bi as a media station for my tv? Mainly i dont want to have to use a mouse/keyboard. Is there anyway i can have a wireless touch screen display that i can control the pi from and use to watch amazon video/youtube? Just need a start in the right direction.
