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OK, so, I have one HD with Ubuntu installed, but Ubuntu isn't as free as other distros. I want to install Trisquel on it, but only on a part of it, not all of it. Could I? Which software should I use? Would it be safe to do? May I define that the same user folder be shared by both distros?
Thomas Kelly
>follow tutorial for some linux software to the letter >get error message >google for it >nothing
Jordan Cruz
>follow tutorial for some linux software to the letter that's what you all say
Nolan Collins
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Alexander Richardson
>rather than posting the exact problem, I'll just vaguely blog about it. This way nobody will tell if I was the idiot, and it'll make foss look like shit.
t. (You)
Aaron Diaz
How about, instead of blaming users, you fix your damn code or stop claiming it works?
Logan Jackson
How am I going to fix the "damn code" if not a single on of you faggots file a bug report because you have no idea how?
Isaac Young
in cmus can you hide /home/user/ prefix in Track for Artist / Album to leave just Downlods/ Music/ etc ?
it should be safe use gparted to prepare partition(s) yes you should be able to share /home/
Tyler Wood
>fix your damn code it's free as in beer and free as in freedom. why haven't you fixed it yet?
Gavin Edwards
You make an extra root partition for trisquel and point it to the /home partition.
Hunter Ward
DEBIAN IS NOT LINUX DELETE THIS THREAD RIGHT NOW
You are all completely stupid. Debian is outdated and insecure. More over, it's just a noobuntu spin that was made to attract power users. All it's maintainers are SJW and the distro is sponsored by jews and the liberal media. The Debian project shows through it's public statements and manifests that it's clearly no aligned with the moral Christian values that made the US the great nation it came to be. It's degenerate.
Arch Linux is superior to it in every way. It has bleeding edge packages, what means more stability and security, since you get all the last bug fixes. It's rolling release, it doesn't randomly breaks during version updates. It's also more configurable and extensible. On overall you just have more control over your computer. Anyone that is serious about their OS uses Arch.
Eli Smith
EN: I don't understand this picture.
ES: Yo no comprendo esta foto.
Gavin Taylor
how could they fuck up SteamOS so badly, tried it out expecting it to be bad, but holy shit they fucked it up so much it felt like I was loading a console. Desktop mode is buggy as fuck, terminal doesn't open, eventually used xterm. ...GNOME so add debian repos, even more buggy. downloaded a 19GB game only to have it not configure properly and then finding it's not available on the 'big picture account'. wtf were they thinking? If they could just have a minimal DE, with accessible files better repos, configured solely to run games without turning the interface into Michelin man mode. gg steamOS R.I.P Having to resort to Ubuntu, but it's already 100 times better. So a heads up to anyone mad enough to use steamOS.
Robert Morales
>it felt like I was loading a console. Pretty sure that's what they wanted.
Connor Edwards
it's ubuntu with steam preinstalled on it. like what the fuck did you expect?
Robert James
I can imagine it works well on TVs and tablets.
Oliver Bell
Because I don't know the memelang you decided to write it in
Kevin Russell
well get gud then?
Aaron Gutierrez
Learning said memelang would cause irreparable brain damage, user. Maybe that's why your code doesn't work.
Jackson Richardson
>shifting the blame instead of addressing your own ineptitude like a woman l m o a
John Cox
>google error. No results. Linux is actually a little simpler once you learn how to google properly.
Logan Adams
>HEY USE MY PROGRAM IT'S GREAT >it doesn't fucking work >WHY DON'T YOU FIX IT THEN >why should I? also, I don't know the language you wrote it in >STOP SHIFTING THE BLAME
Hunter Baker
>using google enjoy your botnet, cuck
Jeremiah Robinson
Linux is actually a little simpler once you realize it's just a kernel.
Jace Parker
>HEY YOUR PROGRAM'S BROKE? >well what's wrong with it? >I DON'T KNOW IT SPEW SOME ERRORS >what does the error say? >I DONT KNOW TRIED TO GOOGLE AND NOTHING >are you sure you did everything correctly? >STOP BLAMING THE USER >have you filed a bug report? >M-MUH BRAIN DAMAGE I can cherrypick as well faggot.
Michael Roberts
lel, is this how you learn using a system? by googleing and copy pasting from some illiterate "tech" blogs? top kek
Zachary Powell
Debian is so comfy: its like shooting Mикoян MиГ-29 out of the sky while sitting in an office chair
Alexander Murphy
Well the alternative is >welp you're using a different patch version of this random lib so I guess that's your problem, closing: wontfix
Cameron Turner
>debian blows your load
Justin Roberts
...
Justin Lee
>memegenerator
Kayden Johnson
in you go
Wyatt Torres
I suspect that's a FAL.
Gavin Watson
stop advertising your home board
Austin Barnes
Guess what happens when you bring a car with aftermarket parts to an authorized service.
Matthew Wright
...
Henry James
That's a spurious analogy and you know it.
Jaxon Robinson
>Mикoян MиГ-29 planes bruh
Leo Carter
how cute
Christian Perry
Yeah right >own a product >replace integral part of the product with something that the manufacturer of the product did not anticipate when designing the product >complain to the manufacturer of the product that the product doesn't work
But whatever lets you sleep at night bub.
Nolan Smith
>out of the sky I'm sorry, haven't read this part. What that be what is commonly known as MIG-29?
Nathaniel Sanchez
very rude
Carson Long
"Yeah - we simply have to accept that there are some problems we can't fix - some hardware that does not like some software" - Husse
Eli Bailey
yes
Samuel Collins
>try installing postgreSQL on mint >postgresql : Depends: postgresql-9.3 but it is not going to be installed >E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. >try installing postgresql-9.3 to fix broken dependency >postgresql-9.3 : Depends: locales but it is not going to be installed >try installing locales to fix broken dependency > libc6 : Depends: libgcc1 but it is not going to be installed > libffi6 : PreDepends: multiarch-support > libgmp10 : PreDepends: multiarch-support > libssl1.0.0 : Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) but it is not going to be installed or > ruby2.3 : Depends: libruby2.3 (>= 2.3.0) but it is not going to be installed >about to break down >still refuse to ask on stackoverflow because it's filled by homosexuals >what the fuck is ruby doing there
Ethan Smith
is there any utility to configure mouse through gui on gentoo?
i just need two scrollbars with acceleration and deceleration.
Easton Jackson
>using mint >installing server software on mint
John Anderson
>learning babby linux commands >"practice using ls -R" >ok >mfw
why didn't anyone tell me this was going to be extremely spooky, I almost hard-reset the machine out of panic
Cooper Flores
>what the fuck is ruby doing there A lot of things use ruby and python. They usually come pre installed.
If you rewrite that post without green text I might try to help.
I don't use mint but I administer postgres server.
Joseph Ward
I need it for development. Now tell me why I shouldn't be doing either.
Jordan Kelly
cat /dev/random
Christopher Gomez
why don't you just install ruby?
Andrew Harris
Ok fag. Post without green text and I help you.
Jeremiah Ross
I just wanted to whine, I'm sure I fucked up my sources.list or installed something in a half assed way somewhere, it's pointless to ask somebody else for help. Thanks user but I'll probably have to get out of this mess myself.
Xavier Kelly
Posted in the old thread like a silly goose so I'm reposting it.
Currently running OpenSuse and I'm having trouble getting a Huion graphics tablet to work.
I've managed to get it set up on Mint and I've seen people get it working on Ubuntu so I know it can be done.
The distro shouldn't even matter as support for this model has been included since kernel 3.12.2
Any ideas on what to do?
Brayden Brooks
It's just a broken package. > installed something in a half assed way somewhere Maybe.
Post output: sudo apt-get -f install
James Smith
It's already installed.
It also asks for a bunch of other stuff, including libc, and I'm sure as hell not touching that. I think I fucked something up with locales 6 months ago. No man should have to go this deep into this nightmarish dependency abyss.
Samuel Lee
guys how do i configure a mouse
Henry Robinson
I tried this before and it doesn't show any broken packages.
sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 294 not upgraded.
Kayden Gomez
How do i make my system look more "kawaii uguu〜"?
Leo Campbell
maybe you should stop using mint.
Logan Morris
use aptitude instead of apt it should provide solutions to fix your issues
Oliver Lewis
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Ethan Thompson
yeah, thats what i based from
Asher Stewart
>The distro shouldn't even matter Logic suggests that but it's actually far from though.
I own a used chink waltop (rebranded) tablet and it works fine under debian and ubuntu but struggled on fedora.
I don't know whether it will help you seeing as we're talking about completely different devices but I have a script that I used to get it working on fedora
You will obviously have to change the device names/id in the script but the script roughly guides you where to start
Angel Gray
What does apt-get check output?
Leo Roberts
Awesome thanks for the tip. Looks like I need to downgrade libc. Risky, but there's no other way. I'm going in. Wish me luck.
Liam Green
kek
Chase Smith
I think I might just go back to mint. Thanks for the advice though.
Nathaniel Miller
>want to run windows game >mount iso >install with wine >tries to save itself in a windows x86 folder >can't save in C:/usr/lib I'm a total noob. Which folder should I install Spore to, Sup Forums?
Aiden Evans
You can use play on linux (wine wrapper). It will create a virtual windows hard drive where you can install your game.
Nathaniel Murphy
Let me test that, ty
Asher Davis
>not /dev/urandom
Isaac Hill
scared linuxbabby here
what happens if I actually input these commands?
Tyler Jenkins
Is void Linux a good distro or is still a meme?
Brody Torres
a void it
Lucas Thompson
A bunch of random data will appear on the terminal, if you Ctrl+C it stops.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random >In Unix-like operating systems, /dev/random is a special file that serves as a blocking pseudorandom number generator.
Austin Johnson
dev directory contains special device files.
cat prints data from files to your terminal
you can see what data that comes from every device.
do
cat /dev/input/mouse0 and wiggle your mouse a bit to see the output
Jonathan Gutierrez
what does :(){ :|: & };: do?
Logan Taylor
>building wine ./configure FreeType 32-bit development files not found. Fonts will not be built.
>use apt to installl 32bit version >mfw The following packages will be REMOVED: libass-dev libcairo2-dev libcairomm-1.0-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgtk-3-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev libgtkmm-3.0-dev libpango1.0-dev libpangomm-1.4-dev libxfont-dev libxft-dev xorg-dev xserver-xorg-dev
You can laugh now, this is retarded.
Landon Sanchez
What's up with pascal GPUs and linux? I own a gtx 760 and a 1060. I tried fedora, arch, and buntu and none of them will even boot the live environment on the 1060, but debian of all distros works out of the box on the 760. Is pascal just not supported? I need cuda so I can't pick up 480 or I would.
Christopher Reyes
spawns copies of itself until it maxes out memory or hits process limit
Aiden White
Heyo! I've got Debian running on my laptop. However, I've ran into an issue:
My laptop is effected by a bug. It doesn't work properly with linux 4.8.0.
I use Debian Testing. Obviously, I can just install Linux 3.16.
I upgraded to Debian Testing from Jessie. I retained by 3.16 kernel from that install. If i removed linux-image-4.0.0, would I be fine? When trying to remove it, it prompts for the removal of linux-image-amd64. apt-cache show info linux-image-amd64 shows the following:
Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) This package depends on the latest Linux kernel and modules for use on PCs with AMD64, Intel 64 or VIA Nano processors.
So just to confirm, removing the newer kernel will just result in the removal of that kernel, leaving 3.16 intact?
Adrian Nguyen
>apt >apt >apt
Charles Bennett
thanks
Jaxson Collins
>:(){ :|: & };:
>:(){ define function named ':' >:|: & run function ':' , run second ':' and background it >} closing bracket for function >; next command >: run function named ':'
Logan Lewis
It's actually completely harmless
just make sure you save your work and try it out.
depending on your computer's performance and the amount of memory at disposal it might take a will but your machine will freeze or crash because of resource starvation.
Never run commands you don't know what they do. Other "unix jokes" are not as harmless as a fork bomb
Andrew Evans
hey. sorry for shitty question but i can't really make sense of the answers i'm getting on google. i want the output of my commands to be a different color than the input, and i want the output to start one line below the input.
for example, what i currently have is this: user@machine:~$ grep --help Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE] ... Search for PATTERN in each FILE or standard input. Example: grep -i 'hello world' menu.h main.c
what i want is this: user@machine:~$ grep --help
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE] ... Search for PATTERN in each FILE or standard input. Example: grep -i 'hello world' menu.h main.c where the color is different from "Usage" to "main.c"
Is this possible?
Elijah Jones
:(){ :|: & };:
means
gay() { gay | gay & }
gay
So it's a function that executes itself and pipes (|) that to itself and runs it in the background (&) and then it runs the function (the last gay). This means once you run the function it will spawn two copies of itself and each copy two more, so in a short period of time you will have no memory left.
Leo Ortiz
Oh, boobies
Julian Torres
gay/10
Hunter Nguyen
>legit thought my computer shit itself
it's a good thing you told me ctrl + c stops it
th-thanks
very neat
Noah Nelson
I see, thanks for clearing that up, been curious about this one for some time but had no means to look it up
Lincoln Ramirez
I'm using debian testing at the moment. I understand that some distros exhibit better preformance because they use certain flags while compiling software. I have an optimal set of flags for my system but is there any software actually worth recompiling with them? My most use application is chromium by far, and everything else is just an electron wrapper really, like skype and discord. I'd like to use -g2 -O3 -pipe -fexceptions -fstack-protector -m64 -march=westmere -mtune=native -malign-data=abi
Gavin Hall
>If i removed linux-image-4.0.0, would I be fine? If you are not using the kernel you can safely remove it.
>When trying to remove it, it prompts for the removal of linux-image-amd64. apt-cache show info linux-image-amd64 That's because linux-image-amd64 is basically a link package to the latest kernel. If are using a specific version of a kernel you can remove it. packages.debian.org/stretch/linux-image-amd64
Adrian Brown
zsh can do this with "preexec" bash too with some hackery
Andrew Turner
printf \\e[31m; grep --help | head -n5; printf \\e[m
Lucas King
no, i want it to do that for every command. i want all outputs to be a different color than the input, and i want all outputs to start one line below the input.
Easton Peterson
Make sure you are actually using the kernel you think you're using and don't forget that this means you will no longer get kernel updates unless you keep Jessie repositories for that package because 3.16 is only on Jessie repositories.
