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is one of your criteria when choosing software how accurately it describes your anus?
Adam Gray
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Lincoln Diaz
Is the Stallman never installing Linux meme true?
If so, why not?
Jeremiah Taylor
He has people do it for him,because he believes that an os should be able to be installed by others and given to him.
AKA Lazy,incompetent and out of touch with reality
Aiden Martin
So like a Windows 10 user or a democrat?
Brandon Long
Spot on
Brandon Campbell
Monitoring
Carson Hall
GNU/Linux*
Austin Mitchell
how many packages has vanilla buntu nowadays?
Jackson Cook
i think its at 1600
Jaxon Ward
I'm running arch btw
Ian Reed
>todo Busy day today?
Thomas Watson
I just put that together a minute ago
Easton Martinez
What programming language should I choose for terminal/curses applications?
Nicholas Edwards
>curses maybe paegan?
Liam Rogers
C, python, bash, sh
Brandon Bennett
I've never actually run slackware
what advantages does it have?
Mason Sullivan
>what advantages does it have? it isn't arch or mint
Nathan Martin
Simple (in the sense of few moving parts) Stable (in the sense that it doesn't crash and in the sense that it doesn't change the way it does things for the hell of it, for instance the installer has been largely unchanged since it was first introduced about 20 years ago - the only real change was the addition of an http/ftp option for source media and replacing the "create boot floppy" option with "create boot usb") Very comfy package manager and build manager Official distro provides binary packages for a LOT of useful software, community maintains build scripts and binary packages for most other useful software Sane package structure (no "meta-packages", no dependency hell, packages generally don't get needlessly split up) No systemd No GNOME (one of the devs provides his own MATE builds if you really want them) Really doesn't get in your way at all. If you just want an extremely basic setup with a single root partition and a swap partition, you can just hit enter through the whole installation process and have a fully working system in 30-60 minutes. If you want to set up your own complex partition structure, you can do that and it won't complain or argue. If you want to install directly from the -current tree in the official repos, you can do that. If you want to install using a 35MB USB image instead of downloading the DVD ISO, you can do that. If you want to use GRUB instead of LILO (the default), you can set that up yourself. The whole design philosophy is do as little as necessary to set up a working system and provide simple tools for the user to do the rest if they want to.
You can also try Salix (Slackware with a graphical package manager) or Zenwalk (Slackware stripped down to one program per task with a pre-riced Xfce and a graphical package manager).
Isaac Reyes
C or bash, if you want people to actually installing your programs.
Kayden Ramirez
>not sending POST requests
Connor Morales
This is autistic and cringy.
Kevin Wright
Guys I need a live CD to compile a source based distro.
Is Debian live CD any good?
Aaron Sanchez
I'll hack you
Elijah Perez
You /fglt/s like to say cringy stuff.
From this day forward, Android should be referred to as -GNU/Linux or as I've taken to calling it 'Minus GNU Plus Linux'. While Android does not have most/any GNU tools installed by default, the Linux Kernel requires GCC to to build and as such GNU deserves the acknowledgment of its vital role in making Android functional.
Lincoln Russell
Android isn't linux. It's linux coded mangled by google.
Samuel Clark
GNU/Linux
Kayden Hill
retard
Alexander Flores
you
Jeremiah Morgan
Hey /fglt/
What's your opinion on AppImages? Do you prefer Snaps or FlatPacks?
Daniel Green
I prefer packaged programs.
Grayson Wilson
What are some good Linux browsers? I need cross platform compatibility....I don't trust Chrome because jewgle and Firefox because firefox on windows is a stuttering bloated buggy peace of shit.
Jaxson Perry
qutebrowser midori
Luke Hernandez
konqueror
Cooper Brown
What can I do with an old laptop? It has a built-in modem.
Jackson Watson
Maybe snaps? I don't know, but better to have a chrooted environment separate for those because they resemble windows apps.
Anyway, I'll be happy not having any, but they are probably good for noobs and for quick test of new software.
Jose Sanders
w3m, links, links2, lynx
Ryder Baker
wget
Angel Nelson
Definitely look for IceCat. You can have all the firefox addons, plus is secure by default.
Luke Martin
Their best true advantage is dependency management. Dependency management can become tough when different packages require different variants of the same utility, of which the past and present version are not "backwards compatible". With things like AppImage, its easy. Something that needs, say, python 2.7 can keep that to itself, and something that needs Python 3.5 can keep that to itself without fucking with app 1's config.
Tyler Gutierrez
Midori is the only sane choice
Jackson Johnson
But I am not sure how secure that is. I don't blame the guys who mistrust their use.
