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No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.
Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.
One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?
(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.
Christopher Bailey
GNU (with Linux added)*
James Hughes
sorry huns, i am running Ubuntu 16.04
Just switched about a month ago and the curve is somewhat steep but the gnome interface in particular is breddy ebin. Only thing I miss is some compatabiliy issues, such as stata
when do you need to use the --relative option or use the absolute path?
Jose Rogers
hmm if only there was a way to download illegal copies of commercial software, and maybe even a forum with a whole section for Linux software that was run by Russians, because Russians are the best race ever, the best IP pirates ever, and have a large and strong Linux user community.
Alexander Smith
Make a keybind for a script that launches Spotify, sleeps for a second and then i3-msg moves it to the right workspace.
Hudson Sanders
look again, /nglt/
Christopher Ross
Alternate workaround I just did that seems to work well enough: for_window [class="Spotify"] move to workspace $workspace5 any reason to bother with a script instead?
Jason Robinson
Can you download from an ftp? I could torrent it and upload it to Sup Forumsftp.
Devuan.
Easton Cruz
>Ubuntu 16.04 >the curve is somewhat steep
although I guess if you use a retarded distro with a retarded community it's not going to help you understand anything
Jose Ward
My bad, I though it was going fast but suddenly everybody just stopped posting.
Colton Perez
GNU/Linux*
Camden Richardson
my asshole netctl start job keeps failing every time I start up my system so I have to manually unfuck it to get my wifi working
anyone experience this before? what do. it works perfectly fine on my thinkpad but not on this computer
Ayden Davis
Th-that'd be nice Rude. Apologize. i wouldn't know
Easton Bell
Other user here. I started linux 8 years ago. I always love those idiots bitching 'bout the choice of distro. Not that I am calling you an idiot...
>when do you need to use the --relative option or use the absolute path? you just answered your own question. ln by default does not rewrite the target to be relative to the link
Alexander Rivera
***GNLinuxU*//***
Jose Hill
a little computer I use for torrenting, a server
Kevin Lee
it's basically a cheap VPS pre set up for torrenting things, from a provider who's prepared to thumb their nose at DMCA notices and such.
Christopher Miller
i see, so this is what people are using stuff like rasberries for?
Josiah Robinson
I accidentally don't like people bitching about things that could have been said in a more specific way but are totally clear either way.
Stop bitching and talk about GNU+Linux
Ryan Thomas
How does one create a script? The programme I am attempting to install instructs the following script to be created:
* * * * * * * * * G G G N N N U U U / / / L L L i i i n n n u u u x x x * * * *** ***GNU/Linux*****xuniL/UNG*** *** * * * x x x u u u n n n i i i L L L / / / U U U N N N G G G * * * * * * * * *
Xavier Cooper
So, what terminal are you guys using. Pls respond. URxvt here.
Austin Sanders
The best.
Eli Sullivan
termite
Owen Wilson
So, what distro are you guys using. Pls respond. Arch here.
Kayden Bailey
Killyourselfbuntu
Cooper Fisher
The best.
Robert Campbell
So, what ethnicity are you guys using. Pls respond. Slav here.
Lucas Collins
I started using Linux 15 years ago. No distro will make it impossible for you to learn basic Linux fundamentals or "proper" use, and no distro will make you learn that shit automatically. That said, there are certain distros that discourage it, or make it more difficult, or add so much useless crap on top of it that it either inhibits the learning process or makes you learn things the wrong way. And having a retarded or autistic user community doesn't help either. I was just taken aback because Ubuntu is supposed to be one of those "it's so easy and everything just werqs" distros where you can use it without having to learn anything. Of course, that whole premise doesn't work at all.
Jaxson Bennett
My desktop runs Mint because I am not autistic. My test servers run ubuntu and fedora.
William Foster
>Mint Why don't you like security
Jace Sanders
he said he isn't autisic
Aiden Powell
if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide
Luke Parker
Half an hour to download the torrent and I'll upload it to the ftp.
Jace Wilson
yfw you install Slackware and realize what it's like to finally have a good OS on your computer
Joshua Perez
criminals don't care if you're doing anything wrong or not user
Zachary Wilson
Slackware is even more autistic than Arch and Gentoo. It's literally one level before switching to BSD.
Nicholas Adams
Hey guys, installing ubuntu for the first time, I want to be able to dual boot it with Windows 7, ubuntu being on a 120GB SSD and Windows being on my 1TB drive. I unplugged my 1TB just to be safe, but is there any chance it could hurt something regarding the windows boot?
Pic related is where I'm at, I selected Erase disk and install ubuntu (on the SSD)
Jaxon Scott
they have to obey laws. america should criminalize encryptions.
Levi Wood
CYKA БЛЯДЬ
Caleb Roberts
delete system 32
Dominic Stewart
what?
Lincoln Rogers
pls respond
Jason Scott
don't bully the noobs faggot they'll turn 360° and walk away from linux
Kayden Barnes
I am trying it and on this page. The first step of the installation is like Gentoo?
Nicholas Wright
Almost no beginner should go debian netinstall or arch. No beginner distro discourages anything. And yes, they indeed do werk ootb.
For people who just want a working non ms or apple pc, a beginner linux distro is perfect and may encourage them to dig deeper, use the shell and hack a script.
For people interested in linux, wanting to learn more, a beginner distro is perfect because they ARE beginners, the distro WILL WORK and they CAN slowly adapt to the env.
Just because you did not have a beginner distro because non existed, that does not mean that you need to FUCKING BITCH about distro choice.
And btw "basic linux fundamentals" and "proper" use? Are you stupid? You are replying on a reply to a reply to someone who claims to like Gnome.
Daniel Cook
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Brayden Harris
GNU/Linux*
Austin Scott
>Mint isn't secure
Explain yourself.
Tyler Hill
forgot pic
Leo Davis
I thought this was the friendly Linux thread
Jose Harris
they have a blacklist for vital system packages like linux, systemd, xorg, dbus, etc these packages don't get any updates/security fixes, unless the user enables them (and may end up with an unstable system)
Kayden Gray
Mint uses deprecated NSA/openssl. I wouldn't do anything important on it.
Benjamin Wright
GNU/Linux
Thomas Barnes
It sort of simply works
Jaxson Murphy
dafuq is with your background?
Jason Harris
that guy is not me
Samuel Hughes
Desktop wallpaper leaking through due to partial transparency.
Ryan Ortiz
Are you still here? So far looks nice.
Josiah Hall
>more autistic than Arch >no systemd >no bleeding edge >installer >you can easily rollback packages >you can easily merge new versions of config files your old modified ones >comes with tons of actually useful software
>more autistic than Gentoo >binary packages
riiiiiiiiight
If by that you mean downloading the installation DVD image, then yes. Or if you mean booting into the installation environment and partitioning your disk(s) using fdisk/cfdisk, then yes. Other than that, I doubt it. I've never installed Gentoo. Slackware is my first and last distro. I know that Gentoo has to compile everything while Slackware just installs binary packages from the installation media, or from a local directory, or from an http/ftp mirror. Then it lets you configure most of the basic system stuff using curses dialogs. Then you reboot, log in as root, useradd yourself, uncomment the commented-out timeserver lines in /etc/ntp.conf, visudo to uncomment out the line that enables the wheel group, open /etc/slackpkg/mirrors to uncomment either the 14.2 or the -current mirrors.slackware.com, and then you're pretty much done unless you need stuff that wasn't included in the full distro, like a DE that isn't KDE or XFCE, or a WM that isn't fluxbox or windowmaker, or a browser that isn't firefox, or Sup Forums-approved memeware like ranger or sxiv or mpd or mpv, or 32-bit compatibility packages for your 64-bit system
Zachary Wright
man, that damage control is intense.
Juan Harris
It's really really comfy. If you want to do a straight network installation of the -current tree, when you get to SOURCE select the http/ftp option and use mirrors.slackware.com as hostname and slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64 as location
Nolan Allen
no u
Only the first part, partitioning, everything else is different.
Parker Gray
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Tyler Jones
retard question here what's the difference between package-name and package-name-git ? i see it a lot in the aur.
Josiah Thomas
I assume -git is even more bleeding edge than the regular version because it pulls source directly from the git tree instead of snapshots?
Landon Barnes
how do i make a bash script wait for a command that runs something else? to explain; launcher -argument value wait $! waits for "launcher", but "launcher" quits as soon as it launches the thing i actually want to wait for
Jackson Jones
yep, "package-name" is typically the latest named release, while "package-name-git" (or -svn, -hg, etc) are generated from the latest available developmental sources understand they are not tested releases, and may not work properly
Sebastian Edwards
didn't mean to quote
Xavier Jackson
How do you make a script for batch use?
Lucas Wright
you need to explain better or provide a better example. if you have a bash script that launches a program, it won't finish until the program finishes unless you launched the program as a background process
Grayson Adams
I would be interested to hear your impressions of Slackware compared to whatever distros you have used in the past/use now, and/or compared to the impression of Slackware you had from memes that people shitpost about it. It was my first distro so in every distro I tried later, all I noticed were good things they lacked or bad things they added or ways they were not as convenient, etc.
Lincoln Roberts
wine 'c:\sse\sselauncher.exe' -appid 8980 is the specific launcher in question, "smart steam emulator" it launched steam games without steam (i do own the game, but this is faster and uses less resources compared to running steam)
Jace Butler
launcher -argument value && faggot
Asher Baker
does the same
Brody Foster
Why doesn't at(1) automatically remove jobs after they're finished? I always need to run atrm to cleanup.
Xavier Howard
program 1 && sleep 2s && program 2
Aiden Nguyen
then be more specific please maybe write pseudo code
Thomas Murphy
>bill gates has announced he will buy linux for $420 million >mfw
Brandon Perry
sselauncher.exe launches the game, and quits immediately after i wait to wait for the game to exit
Colton Hall
I'm guessing that sselauncher.exe terminates as soon as it launches your game. This happens for a lot of wine programs. One way to check that this is the case - launch that in a terminal, then once the game launches try to hit enter a few times in that terminal and you should be back in your bash prompt, even though wine errors/diagnostic messages will still get written to the console
if that's the case, not sure what the best way to go about doing what you want would be.