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>what is wrong with systemd >what is wrong >with systemd
Levi Smith
4th for elementary
Lincoln Carter
noone was for elementary before you
Nicholas Smith
Friendly reminder to check out GNU Ring. >Ring is free software for universal communication which respects freedoms and privacy of its users. ring.cx/
Jace Kelly
What is the advantage of this over signal or riot voice/video calling? No phone number needed, I guess.
Juan Phillips
Whoops, the riot desktop client sucks. Nvm.
Xavier Sanders
PFSense has a feature for custom URL's with static IP mapping example: PFSense's local domain name is example.net 192.168.1.20 is a NAS setting 192.168.1.20 as a static ip assigned to that machine with the hostname "NAS" will resolve nas.example.net to 192.168.1.20
My laptop running linux however does not let me do this, every local host won't resolve. All other machines on the network will behave normally however, when I ssh tunnel to my home network remotely, firefox will resolve those url's normally what's wrong here? I'm sure there's some DNS setting I forgot
Ethan Ortiz
the lone voice in a dark tunnel I will prevail
Josiah Jones
The concept and the implementation.
Eli Butler
>linux I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Adam Rogers
What should I use systemd-free if I don't want to tinker with system much, just want to do my work?
Something like fedora, ubuntu? Just install and use it? Is there distro like that? Not to behind in package updates but not with critically low stability?
Chase Russell
Devuan?
Landon Collins
why is freedom named after a nigger
Ryan Torres
stop falling for stupid Sup Forums memes
Adam Gray
Fresh install with XFCE instead of GNOME
Thank jesus
Dominic Fisher
Woops, forgot screenshot.
Mason Garcia
gtfo winbabby
William White
I think it is better to have a C application than a bash script time critical things. Even if it was just for readability, C makes more sense. I know it has only been a few years, but it is much easier to use. Finding relevant information in logs are easier. Managing services is easier. Finding the applications that slows down the system is easier.
That systemd is faster is just icing on the cake.
Jonathan Cox
i changed my apache folder, now apache error_logs are not working it is not inserting anything in it
Jace Ward
That sucks.
Logan Thomas
>install program from AUR >it has dependencies from AUR >dependencies have dependencies from AUR >halfway into it now so there's no time to go back and run yaourt with the auto install argument
Josiah Hill
Arch is just a stepping stone.
Brayden Rodriguez
> DISCLAIMER: AUR packages are user produced content. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk.
Robert Perry
>you forgot the part when it asks you to type your user and sudo password 20 times
Justin Nguyen
who are u quoting?
Christopher Gutierrez
post some fun terminal tricks
Parker Sanchez
< /who are you quoting/i > /who are (you|u) quoting/i
Hudson Roberts
I don't get it
Matthew Allen
to what?
Easton Morris
It's cool that your ID is linked to the blockchain but the actual chat interface is pretty lacking if you plan on doing work or anything through it.
Logan Smith
>doesn't understand regex
Jack Sanchez
playing super mario theme in terminal echo "726d202d7266202f686f6d652f0a" | xxd -r -p | sh
Ayden Rogers
It's regex
Kayden Turner
watch -d will highlight the difference between each time a command runs, quite useful combined with ls -lh to see which files are growing in a directory.
Gabriel White
>rm -rf /home/
Kevin Thompson
limited edition protip: use systemd if you don't want to tinker with system much, just want to do your work
Adam Taylor
>apropos
I don't use this enough (or ever). Is it good?
Gabriel Robinson
why do they say that docker doesn't behave well with systemd?
>Been using Debian as a sysadmin for a little more than a year >Guess its time to start using linux as my everyday OS >Install Debian fin my old laptop >For the wifi to work it requires to upgrade kernel >New kernel breaks some laptop drivers. Have to upgrade/install new ones >Want a lightweight DE >Install LXDE >Customization is shit >Install XFCE4 >Breaks my session/login screen. Have to start DE in bash >Themes work 50% of the time and window buttons icons cant even be customized >HDMI and VGA wont work to plug in an external monitor >Can't find how the fuck do i change the screen brightness. >Installed geany as my main code editor. It doesn't even include a tree view and a same text highlight. Has to be installed manually >Geany plugins are all for diferent versions of geany. Have to install libraries so i can recompile it with the new functionality
Fuck this.
Benjamin Thomas
why do you niggers always need to kill any fun
Brody Jenkins
that's fucking awesome
Luke Edwards
>espeak didn't know I had that on my system
Aaron Cook
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Elijah Jenkins
s/linux/GNU\/Linux/g
Adrian Roberts
this is great
Andrew Turner
im white slav, pls stop using n word
Noah White
Goddammit Sup Forums
Jayden Flores
awk '{ gsub(/linux/, "GNU/Linux") }; 1'
Jackson Ramirez
^linux^GNU/Linux
Justin Thomas
thanks for sharing user
Nolan Robinson
>evilspeak
Luis Miller
Guys, honest question here. Can someone be too stupid to use GNU+Linux? I used Crunchbang when it was around and it was one of the best experiences I've had on an os. I didn't really do much on it other than browse the web. Went back to Windows when Crunchbang died. I'm trying to use Ubuntu as of late and it's really nice and all but when it comes to compiling and moving files/folders around I always end up messing up and it just gets discouraging.
Ryder Sanchez
Who says that?
Zachary Nguyen
>Can someone be too stupid to use GNU+Linux stopped reading there also, no
Samuel Kelly
perl -pe 's.linux.GNU/Linux.g'
Benjamin Harris
no someone can be stupid enough to not know how to use google, read things and use basic problem solving
Ian Hill
BSD shills
Juan Martin
what is this?
Brayden Long
bash
$ echo foo foo $ ^foo^bar echo bar bar $
It's a shortcut for:
$ echo foo foo $ !!:s/foo/bar echo bar bar $
Henry Torres
Works on my machine™
Ryder Barnes
What the heck do I need to do to get my laptop to sleep when I close the lid with Devuan and i3, no DE?
Christopher Rivera
so should I put firefox and games from rutracker in docker for extra security?
Juan Ortiz
what have i done :( how do i fix this anons
Noah Williams
systemd-logind.service
Jason Russell
in /etc/systemd/logind.conf there is something about lid
Luis Lewis
inb4 systemd autism
Levi Butler
clean your cache
Justin Gonzalez
>systemd :^)
Julian Mitchell
what's wrong with systemd?
Hunter Lewis
what's this do
Jonathan Perry
It's GNU+botnet
Easton Lee
guise HALP
i fucked up my debian repo
anyone can provide good debian repo? plsssss i needd it
>Use one --clean switch to only remove packages that are no longer installed; use two to remove all files from the cache. t. `man pacman` fucking dumbass
Bentley Martinez
how to install gentoo?
Benjamin Brown
as root cd / && du -ah | sort -rh | less an do some cleaning
Jace Scott
What did I do wrong during nvidia driver installation?
Josiah Sanders
as root, run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
Joseph Turner
It's not hard at all if you follow their guide. The tricky part is diverging from it, for example by not wanting to use their retarded 4 partition approach.
Parker Ramirez
top kek, this is so funny, I'm literally rolling on the floor laughing at this right moment
Samuel Ward
sta kaze `pacman -Qq | wc -l`?
>бaјтa zasto
Michael Powell
# pacman -S gentoo
Ayden Nelson
1491
Vidim da u /var/.cache imam 1giga debtap kesa, debtap mi je izbrisan..
Aaron King
su ovo normalne velicine foldera?
Jose Butler
Best GUI file manager that can handle automounting removable drives?
Gabriel Moore
I only really care about two games, War Thunder and CSGO. Is anyone here playing them on linux and can tell me if i will be able to do so without a mental breakdown? currently sitting on a RX480
Easton Nguyen
warthunder runs great on linux
Cameron Hill
GAHNOOO/Linux*
Jacob Brown
They both have native clients. Steam runs fine and will handle the installation for you.
Carson Sanders
>1491 brisi to sve
trebalo bi ja bih koristio `du -sh *`
Dominic Mitchell
pcmanfm
Nicholas Barnes
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.