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Andrew Long
well, $(ls) is stupid, agreed, but seq and backticks are technically correct, back in the days that was the way to go because bash wasn't as complete as today
Elijah Moore
About time, browser discussions are popular but we have a gazillion different threads at the same time.
Liam Moore
Alternatives?
Jace Hughes
not as minimal as Slackware...
Nicholas Flores
yep, I didn't start the general but it is indeed about time
Lincoln Miller
the first one is simply unnecessary, it should just be: for i in *; do
Truth: All current browsers are crap. To avoid botnet, there's Icecat and "ungoogled chrome", didn't try the latter. Alternativly, get Firefox Nightly and configure your about:config to get rid of the crap.
Search engine: searx!
Nathan Lewis
>Search engine: searx! Is pretty young but the YaCy project is definitely the future.
I agree with Icecat, haven't tried ungoogle chrome either.
>two computers >want to boot a linux distribution on another >can't use USB flash drives or DVDs
Is there a way to do it over the network with a regular ISO image? Not using special PXE installers.
Jonathan Sanders
>add iso to /boot or root if separate /boot >add iso's info to grub >update grub
Grayson Williams
How is /fglt/ feeling about the fact that Google is abandoning ithe GPL licensed Linux kernel in favor of the MIT licensed LX kernel for their unified Android and Chrome OS called Andromeda? GPL is also losing as a development license on Github, a lot of projects are moving to MIT/Apache/BSD or similarily derivative licenses because developers have finally realized what BSD developers realized a long time ago: Enforcement of license compliance is expensive and involves lawyers, and FOSS developers who like developing that FOSS software would rather spend time developing code than paying for and spending time in court.
Christopher Martinez
How are shill feeling about the fact that the community is realizing the BSD, MIT and Apache licenses are a scam?
Owen Parker
Google is dead, they products are all dead.
James Baker
Time to move to YaCy.
Elijah Adams
*their
Tyler Anderson
Thank you for giving me an extra reason to be against Google.
Noah Hughes
>not addressing the issues, but using ad hominemattacks, memeing >I subsititute reality for my own fantasy Good luck with that.
Hadn't heard of that search engine, will try it out.
Sebastian Barnes
I am not taking the bait.
Brayden Watson
How is Google not dying? People don't want vanilla Android and their search engine is less trusted than the NSA.
Kayden Reed
BSD cuck detected.
Christian Hall
One problem though: the computer I want to install it on is running Windows. My other computer is running a Linux distribution though.
Jackson James
honestly, the only thing I care about is the code being open and the "freedom" to alter it, I'm not interested about all the political BS around it. I like opensource because it allows me to study how certain software works and generally for the advantages of knowing that what I'm installing on my system get continuously reviewed by several programmers (me included is few instances).
Nathan Lopez
No one is forcing you to take legal action if someone violates your GPL license. Best case you're covered against violations. With a BSD style license you're always at risking of having your work proprietary-ized.
Jeremiah Clark
He looks like what happens when you use the "scan your face" feature on tony hawks underground 2
Carson Powell
k. >take windows HDD out of computer' >put it in linux computer >download preferred stage3 >chroot >configure system >install >move HDD back to original computer
Charles Stewart
It ain't bait, son. It's a question which I'd like answers to, because I'm geniunely curious, along with some facts.
How is it dying? Even if most phones are Samsung, LG, Huewai, HTC, or whatever the fuck's getting flogged nowadays, Android is still used, and Android still uses the Linux kernel. Average John and Doe Smith don't even understand what the NSA is doing, nor do they care. They just want to search for google.com on google so they can search for facebook and click there. Google still makes money.
So because you see BSD being mentioned, you assume I'm a BSD user? I used to develop under GPLv2 and now develop under MIT.
So you'd actually be fine with any license, not GPL. Fair enough, but that doesn't address the issue.
GPL has an on-request source code request implicit in it which companies agree to when using GPL, but a lot of them don't comply even when the source _is_ requested and FSF/gpl-violations.org can't go after everyone - ergo, that part of the GPL license may as well be null and void since it isn't used because nobody in FOSS has the money or inclination to persue it. Plenty of companies still proprietary-ize GPL software and get away with it because noone challanges their GPL compliance.
Gavin Martinez
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Brayden Allen
>tfw lost my private gpg key >tfw it has my real name >tfw it has my "work" email >lost the revocation key as well f-fuck. Now I'll look like a total retard when I make a new key
Robert Watson
kek
Evan Morris
Have you tried pass or kpcli? They are pretty good as password managers.
Jason Jones
how did you lose both?
Brody Reed
So it turns out /fglt/ is just full of people who have fantasies about GPL, but no answers.
Sup Forums, you were so great once. Now you are just like any other site.
Grayson Jones
answers for what?
Daniel Morris
Don't reply to the BSD troll. Don't give him (you)s.
Evan Perez
Reminder that shills get paid for every (you).
Jaxson Cruz
I had fucked up my backup. I thought it had all I needed but it only had the public keys for some reason. Revocation cert was created later but I lost it as my SSD died.
Remember kids, backup your WHOLE .gnupg folder WITH a revocation cert included to atleast two safe locations. I would use my phone's SD card, a thumb drive and my laptop. Encrypt them with some long, good passphrase, of course. Maybe even upload them to your email.
This isn't about passwords.
Oliver Hughes
I've a question about vim's modeline. It's disabled by default on debian, but the functionality looks pretty comfy. What exactly could happen if I enable modeline?
Brandon Richardson
>i'd rather think we're being trolled than actually form an individual opinion
Ryan Powell
afaik modeline allows only "set" anyway
Jace Hill
It's not like that we have this discussion the first time you know. It's just boring.
Elijah Price
This. Let the troll die.
Julian Wilson
Then at least refer me to a postnumber that I can search archives for.
Ayden Anderson
no
Logan Rogers
=====D~
Carson Reyes
is it possible to undecorate windows on gnome and reduce the size of the title bar? shit is too big.
Jaxson Stewart
Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill.
Isaac Mitchell
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Nolan Cooper
fortune is the best program ever written and the only thing I actually kept in my bashrc from my noob days.
Jaxson Jenkins
needs bofh excuses tho
Jordan White
Same. I'm wondering if there is a rms quotes fortune file out there. Tried one of these wikiquotes converters, but it didn't work out the way I want.
Noah Powell
also needs jargon file entries
Ryan Reyes
That's sexist. Gnome devs like windows themself to decide how they are drawn and what kind of decorations they have.
The fucking troll is bumping the firefox thread with random shitposting so people forget about the general web browsers thread and gets sink Fucking asshole.
Owen Jones
>100 times larger You didn't lie, thanks a bunch.
Adam Long
I'm looking for the smallest/fastest program to organise my messy torrented media - movies, tv shows, everything. I know Kodi exists but that's like using a grenade to make omelette. Suggestions?
Mason Phillips
*when I say organise I mostly mean "bulk rename with appropriate titles"
Owen Barnes
Post some cool terminal commands!
Adam Morris
alias grope='man touch'
Anthony Martin
while :; do eject; done
Liam Gomez
:(){ :|:& };:
Nicholas Richardson
$(echo "I
Andrew Martin
when the system freezes up is there any override command to give me control?
Next week kernel 4.10 comes out and 4.9 becomes the new lts, fucking finally.
Jonathan Allen
fuark, this was the first and last time I executed some obfuscated shit. What does it do?
Elijah Hall
if you executed it, you should know
Jeremiah Walker
>creative That command, in that exact form, is a meme older than you, kid.
Levi Cruz
just to spite the memesters I'll post some that I like
>when you don't know the package name but want to search in the description apropos "search term" >when you want to see full details about a package apt show "package" >see all files associated with a package dpkg -L "package"
Kevin Gutierrez
do it, faggot
Parker Ortiz
did you just assume my package manager?
Hunter Flores
people who ask about cool terminal commands tend to gravitate towards certain distros yes
Asher Phillips
Depends on why your system froze. Was it because of this? If so then there isn't much you can do unless you want to memorize specific commands to try and kill all the forks, which is unnecessary. Just don't run forkbombs in the first place.
If it's some other reason, then your best bet is to just press ctrl+alt+F1 (or F2, F3, etc..) If your system isn't too locked up (like in the above case) you can usually get to the login and then you have a shell and can try to kill whatever is causing the freeze.
Beyond that, if you really can't fix it and have to restart your machine thankfully the Linux kernel gives you a way to safely restart your machine properly no matter how frozen it is. To do it you just press and hold ctrl+alt+shift+PrtSc then while holding those keys you press the keys REISUB. (Easy to remember because it spells "busier" backwards)
Parker Martinez
>f it's some other reason, then your best bet is to just press ctrl+alt+F1 (or F2, F3, etc..) that's the one I've been trying but sometimes it doesn't work
in case it does, how do I "log off" the unresponsive tty so it doesn't use up resources?
Sebastian Hughes
Well usually you'd just try to kill the process that's the issue (or if you use "startx" switch the tty that you ran that on and press ctlr+C to kill your window manager or desktop environment)
But if you really want to kill the tty session entirely you could use something like: ps -fu USERNAME | grep tty Then take the first number (the PID) and do "kill PID"
Nathan Hughes
Doesn't linux have rctl?
Nolan Young
much appreciated
Alexander Barnes
was for
Julian Sanders
I did, that's why I'm asking. It seemed to be a fork bomb but did it do any permanent damage?
