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I wonder why terry and his useless os isn't banned from here.
Andrew Baker
How does rms smell?
Samuel Barnes
I doubt that bird is free.
Henry Thomas
Like freedom.
Lucas Murphy
Attention, freedom lovers.
I do not come to this thread often these days but I should let you know something important. It's about the recent security exploits constantly being discovered.
I'm not against Linux. However I do appreciate FOSS more than Linux and *nix. FOSS is the reason why I left the land of windows to Linux. With that said Linux is very convenient and nice. Problem with Linux and and its SDLC is, Linus is a C purist. I know he is a talented programmer. However C has flaws. It's full of undefined/unspecified behaviors, doesn't prevent data races, has no bounds checking, has no mechanism to prevent dangling pointers and exception handling is practically non-existent. Which is why it is easier to build software with hidden exploits and vulnerabilities in C. Linus is an excellent programmer but he made many mistakes, only because he's a human.
Rust is a fully free and open source modern programming language that addresses this issue very firmly. Rust's built in mechanism like borrow checker, RAII memory management, lifetime etc makes up for almost all of C's safety lackings.
It is harder to write an vulnerable program in Rust unless the developer wants to.
However the fact that Rust improves security is an eye sore to the NSA. I think NSA is making Micros**t and Goo*** to hire anti-shills to campaign against Rust's adoption. Reminder to ignore anti-Rust shills. Anti-Rust shills have a predictable way of defending C: >You are too retarded for C Linus made silly mistakes that lead to Linux's TCP/IP vulnerability, OpenSSH has had heartbleed and Grub2's infamous 29 backspace bypass vulnerability was all silly mistakes that everyone makes. Not saying Rust is a panacea to all exploits but it's a major step forward. >Rust is too hard While it is true in some sense but Rust is only 2 y/o. As more authors write books on it, it will become easy to learn >You won't make mistakes in visual studio This is a nice way of shilling MSVSC aka telemetry compiler.
Rust is too slow, might as well use GO, Java, or Python.
Brayden Jenkins
heartbleed background story doesn't have anything to do with C flaws. The maintainer was the idiot to falling for the "delete code" is a contribution shit.
Jeremiah Murphy
Another misconception. Currently rust compiler produces binaries as fast as C++.
How does rust compare to GO? I see those two shilled a lot.
Robert Hill
I found stupid to declare everytime a variable to be mutable, so i dropped rust. If safety is a big thing everybody would use ada. C have the tools for embedded and crossplatform development. Rust don't and i don't care another shitty llvm based compiler that tries to be the new big thing.
>I found stupid to declare everytime a variable to be mutable That's a good feature. You don't have to say const thousands of times in your project
Oliver Brooks
>>What's the alternative for x? Nah, what?
Robert Barnes
>DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To >acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If >you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally >scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you >buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating >practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it. >Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.
Joshua Foster
Can someone explain to me why I need to modify 4 files (base.xml, base.lst, evdev.lst and evdev.xml) to add a new keyboard layout to X11 using XKB? That seems overkill.
Also I'm not even using evdev anymore, libinput is the only thing I'm running for my input devices afaik -- it seems silly to name it like that.
Christian Sanders
Also posting to /tpg/ How do I modify the trackpoint speed considerably on a thinkpad x220 on Ubuntu/Linux mint? I've put the mouse speed and sensitivity sliders on the gui setting page to full and it's still not fast enough
Oliver White
guys if during my installation I configured my kernel using genkernel, how do I proceed to modify the kernel if I want to enable a particular driver for example?
Isaac Gutierrez
Hello, so i just installed ubuntu but the resolution its using is 1024x768 and i cannot seem to change it(i have a 1920x1080 monitor). I tried adding it through terminal with xrandr but it keeps saying "xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default". Any help on how to solve this problem?
Luis Bailey
what's you gpu and what drivers are you using
Robert Hernandez
Just look it up. You'll find a few posts on SO about it.
Gavin Carter
and what has your marxist jew messiah done?
[spoiler]literally nothing[/spoiler]
William Jackson
Honestly it's very early still tier 1 only has i686 and x64 which is guaranteed to work the rest of the tiers are not "supported" or contains possible bugs. Meanwhile C basically works everywhere.
Dominic Ward
Why does xgamma exist when xrandr already has a gamma option? Is there any difference?
John Anderson
If your resolution isn't available, you need to create it using cvt, then use xrandr to set it.
Since you seem to be new, just use what your DE ships or use a simliar graphical interface for xrandr.
>Someone actually contributes >Responds with "Fuck off" Kill yourself nigger.
Jordan Stewart
xsel or xclip?
Ryan Wilson
Is there anyone in here who actually uses NVidia+Wayland+(plays reasonably modern vidya gaems) and can comment on your experience? Do you use open source or proprietary NVidia drivers?
Hunter Green
>proprietary drivers
Samuel Diaz
why don't people put more work in replacements? is developing free drivers difficult? pls no buyy
Robert Wood
I've heard the AMD ones are pretty good, and I'll probably be going AMD for my next video card. But for now I'm still stuck needing NVidia's proprietaries
Asher Brown
It's a lot of reverse engineering work, because you have no idea what the firmware actually does.
Brandon Morales
Posted in /tpg/ also: Just bought my first Thinkpad (x220t) without an OS so I'm gonna take this opportunity to try my first Linux distro. Need something that is borderline idiot proof and calibrates to the touch screen well as I'm going to be drawing on it often. Any suggestions, fellers?
Ryder Bailey
xclip.
Brody Flores
any reason why?
Austin Morales
Debian is so easy and perfect. I don;t use anything else. Sorry stallman
Anthony Barnes
Why is the default systemd process start/stop timeout so fucking long? I don't want to wait 90 seconds just because it didn't detect the proper hardware. Does anyone know how to change this?
Matthew King
Debian is fine, it's autism to complain that they merely offer the option of proprietary blobs instead of pretending they don't exist.
Jaxon Myers
What are the advantages of Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS vs Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS? I heard 16 is a terrible lts version, should I install 14? Its still supported till 2019. Hoping 18.04 will finally have stable Mir/Unity 8.
Lucas Ramirez
Zorin OS looks easy, if not good then Mint
Michael Williams
Ubuntu is babbys first linux for a reason, cant go wrong with that. Alternatively, check the wikies of different distros for your laptop, its a fairly popular one their pages may have explanations on how hard it is to install and get full functionality
Lincoln Butler
GNU/Linux*
Andrew Rivera
this is good autism, thanks ill be more careufl next time
what is the complete list of files i need to edit just to get shit to ping across by host names /etc/resolv.conf /etc/hosts /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 do I need to dick around with bind, kill a goat, idk anymore
Owen Williams
Why do people complain about Arch breaking all the time? Been using it on and off for about a year and havent run into any critical problems. Worst that can happen I see a bug in some program, usually games or other performance intensive tasks like editing. Ive never had a system crash or unusable X like people always talk about.
Xavier Hernandez
I changed nothing, why does it work now?
Lucas Harris
why slow ;_;
Jeremiah Howard
this isn't your average general! we have the best shitposters, better than anyone you've ever heard of.
Julian Gomez
How free are you?
Henry Diaz
acccording to vrms, I have 12/900 nonfree. 11 of those are fonts and software without a licence, and it doesn't recognises 220 of my packages.
How would I go on Arch on this? AFAIK vmrs exists also for Arch, so there must be a way, right?
Colton Rogers
the firmware oneliner should work on any distro
Levi Sanders
>3DPD underwear why does anime underwear look so appealing?
Owen Cox
>dei
>2017 >not running aptitude purge '~c'
Camden Foster
>'~c' explain this magic
Thomas Bennett
That parameter lists packages which were uninstalled, but still have their config files, data directories and maybe other crap present.
Kevin Jenkins
should I switch from dmenu to rofi like the other cool guys?
Oliver Sanchez
>find "/lib/modules/$(uname -r)" -name '*.ko' -exec modprobe -f {} \; c-can i run this?
Ryan Richardson
neat, where can I read more about these speacial parameters?
Isaac Young
it will brick your modules
Nathaniel Murphy
so I fucked up all these files and got part of what I need to do done but now I need another package and the VM won't recognize the second NAT nic linux is not a practical OS
Tyler Cooper
man modprobe | less -p '-f --force'
Isaiah Martin
actually this is just because I emulate steam through wine
Josiah Diaz
bump i guess ill wait a year for 18.04
Juan Barnes
>sjw distro >apt-get >.deb
Liam Wood
Why the fuck is every google drive client on linux paid?
That shit be free and well supported on Windows and macOS, what gives
Christian Miller
GNU/Linux*
Matthew Turner
Does anyone know how can i change the theme for a single application? Something like this >youtube.com/watch?v=In9tvv_ge9I but i need to make it run GTK 3..
Cameron Mitchell
"I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone" -rms on Steve Jobs
Oliver Morales
Google are faggots.
You can however integrate nautilus with Google account with GNOME
Dominic Torres
>GTK3 theme question lol good fucking luck finding any info on that
Easton Robinson
How good is that integration though?
Last time I tried google drive on loonix, it downloaded more than just my personal files and everytime I opened the damn folder it took 20 seconds to load the contents on it. Never again nigga
Mason White
switch to literally any file sharing service other than botnet drive
Easton Lopez
I want to jump straight into genroo by using the Oracle vm. How do I prepare the vm for it?_
Connor Taylor
What do you mean?
Jayden Rogers
Make sure it has enough ram, networking enabled, and a good amount of disk space. That said, IMO a live usb is infinitely superior to a VM for trying out a distro because it's actually representative of how it will work on your hardware.
Noah Martinez
The problem wasn't in gtk3 it was folder name, it had spaces in it.. It works just fine in gtk2
Brody Hughes
I have installed a minimal gentoo install with i3 and brasero, i want to use brasero to burn a music cd, i have the wav file, but it says sr0 can only be mounted as read only. What do?
Carter Cox
install gen...
huh, guess I can't help ya
Thomas Flores
does a better distro exist for the x200s than lubuntu ?
>finally try a tiling window manager >display is too small and it's inconvenient to have more than 1 window open at the same time
People who use tiling on small screens are posers who only use it for their screenfetch screenshots for desktop threads.
Matthew Mitchell
For real? My laptop easily displays three windows with one large window on the left and two smaller ones vertically positioned on the right. Just depends what you are using the smaller ones for. Having IRC, ranger, ncmpcpp, etc in them is fine.
Liam Martin
My display resolution is 1280×800 (. Even if I open 2 windows horizontally which aren't my terminal emulator or file manager, it's a pain. Especially with browsers.
