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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.
Nolan Gonzalez
Still a cuckold OS
Dominic Kelly
Hopeful bump
Bentley Perry
>the linux license
Luke Stewart
Friendly reminder that ext2 is the only file system you need. Any securely destroyed data via shred can be recovered via journaling in ext3 and ext4.
Leo Hill
ext4 has better data recovery methods, and secure deletion doesn't really exist
Sebastian James
It's difficult to recover files destroyed via shred especially once you zero it.
Hunter Clark
difficult, not impossible just use encryption if you need to keep your data safe
Aiden Murphy
I'm talking if I need sensitive data destroyed, that's what shred is for.
Grayson Jenkins
doesn't work reliably on an ssd
Jeremiah Watson
My Japanese fonts suck shit and I need some help.
Basically, I took a look at what font amazon.co.jp is using, found it online on github, and installed it.
BUT, they are rendered like shit and without antialiasing. Pic related.
Wat do?
Also, I remember seeing references to fonts.conf in the past. Is it possible to use that conf file to somehow "target" this font and force anti-aliasing?
Hope one of you font experts can help. Thanks so much!
PS: I use a regular freetype2 install with bitmapped fonts disabled. I don't use infinality or any other font rendering hacks.
Christopher Watson
good thread
Luke Wood
>GNU Forced communism isn't freedom.
Levi Myers
>microsoft forced capitalism isn't freedom
Parker Russell
nobody told you it is faggot child.
Anthony Martin
>capitalism there is no capitalism left in the world all the banks are a cartel and all the governments are bought by the guys that sell you stuff
Liam Robinson
How long do you think it would take to set up a basic arch + i3wm (gaps) system on a netbook if I have little experience with Arch and have been used to GUI installers in the past? I've distrohopped over the years including using arch based distros such as antergos.
Isaac Cooper
Quick question— installing an arch dualboot alongside Windows 10— do I install GRUB? Will it overwrite the BIOS on my motherboard?
Landon Green
if you follow how-tos it should take like an hour at worst
Ethan James
by that me means not the archwiki's they leave out a lot like manual install of xorg and so on
Blake Morris
Anyone here built cross Linux from scratch?
Eli Sullivan
>be me >upgrade Manjaro earlier today >sudo pacman -Syu >updates available >update the manjaro-system and archlinux-keyring which then says I have like (90) packages to update >decide not to finish because I have to leave so I say fuck it I'll do it when I get back >(y/n) n >sudo shutdown now >won't boot into lightdm when I get back >worried that I won't be able to fix it >think maybe I'll go with Arch proper or Antergos if I can't >feels bad man because I liked Manjaro >remember removing depreciated symlinks when I updated manjaro-system >got eem.png >put on my programming socks >log into tty like a boss >sudo pacman -Syu >finish update confident that it will work >sudo reboot now >everything works as expected >like Manjaro even more now
Christian Hall
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Oliver Young
The idea that Richard Stallman or the GPL is communist is slanderous and the idea is often perpetrated by makers of proprietary software, including Bill Gates, in an attempt to discredit and suppress the ideas of free and open source software. Here is some his thoughts on this subject as well as some additional information to help dispel this fiction.
-stallman.org/archives/2015-nov-feb.html >I advocate a mixture of capitalism (allow private businesses) and socialism (regulate them tightly, tax them a lot, and keep them small).
-stallman.org/notes/2015-may-aug.html >Today's unchecked form of capitalism allows the invisible hand to crush people and toss their corpses on the scrap heap. >The capitalism that the US had in 1970 was much better than the kind we have today. Thus, I don't conclude that any whiff of capitalism is bad, the way Ayn Rand thought about community. Rather, I say that capitalism must be compensated by community, and effectively regulated by democracy.
-stallman.org/notes/2014-mar-jun.html >Before Reagan, capitalism as practiced in the US created a large middle class, and even workers could get by. We could make this happen again, if we defeat plutocracy.
>The example of China has demonstrated since the 90s that capitalism will not bring freedom to a former Communist country. Now the example of North Korea shows that it does not even necessarily put a limit on the general level of oppression.
-“Free Software in Ethics and Practice” talk at CMC MSU, Moscow, Russia >youtube.com/watch?v=GrJpXJY4Oow >Isn't it ironic that the proprietary software developers call us communists? We are the ones who have provided for a free market, where they allow only monopoly.
Nolan Hill
-"Bill Gates and Other Communists" by Richard Stallman -gnu.org/philosophy/bill-gates-and-other-communists.en.html >Bill Gates discussed patents with CNET under the heading of “intellectual property,” a term that covers many disparate laws. He said anyone who won't give blanket support to all these laws is a Communist. Since I'm not a Communist but I have criticized software patents, I got to thinking this calumny might be aimed at me.
>Mr. Gates' secret is out now—he too was a “Communist,” he too recognized that software patents were harmful, until Microsoft became one of these giants. Now Microsoft aims to use software patents to impose whatever price it chooses on you and me. And if we object, Mr. Gates will call us “Communists.”
>gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html >In the United States, any advocate of other than the most extreme form of laissez-faire selfishness has often heard this accusation. For example, it is leveled against the supporters of a national health care system, such as is found in all the other industrialized nations of the free world. It is leveled against the advocates of public support for the arts, also universal in advanced nations. The idea that citizens have any obligation to the public good is identified in America with Communism. But how similar are these ideas?
>Communism as was practiced in the Soviet Union was a system of central control where all activity was regimented, supposedly for the common good, but actually for the sake of the members of the Communist party. And where copying equipment was closely guarded to prevent illegal copying.
Leo Williams
>By contrast, I am working to build a system where people are free to decide their own actions; in particular, free to help their neighbors, and free to alter and improve the tools which they use in their daily lives. A system based on voluntary cooperation and on decentralization.
>Thus, if we are to judge views by their resemblance to Russian Communism, it is the software owners who are the Communists.
-FOSS is not classless
FOSS development communities definitely have classes represented by things such as time spent within the community, amount of contributions made, and type of contributor (developer, systems engineer, designer etc).
-FOSS is not moneyless
People do make money off of FLOSS. It may not be through the sale of the software, but there are other methods with which to make money such as support.
-FOSS is not stateless
Though many think of FOSS development in terms of developer communities, many of the projects being developed are a part of larger efforts such as the Red Hat / Fedora Project relationship.
Hunter Powell
Communism forces resource distribution(socialism encourages equitable resource distribution across the masses). FOSS software does not encourage any forced distribution of code, its completely voluntary to give out a framework, library (in other words its a commons good) as free and FOSS.
Communism in its purest form abolishes class distinctions (no country has pulled this off till date). FOSSF projects maintains a meritocratic class order. For example, some contributors are more trusted and given more access privileges for commits. You have to first identify yourself as a good committer by submitting high quality patches at a regular basis and thereafter maintainers give you privileges to contribute. Often these core contributors are employed by corporations just for that activity as a full time job.
People make money out of libre software all the time (and have gotten huge amounts of market capitalization due to that). Docker is a recent example in the tech world. Communist societies keep money flow under state control.
**Don't listen to Bill Gates. The libre software movement isn't communism.**
Michael Peterson
Are you from eightchan like me? Fucking hackers.
Nolan Gutierrez
Stallman, please leave.
Elijah Reed
t. CIA
He may be a leftist, but he isn't a communist.
Logan Lopez
>Are you from eightchan like me? Fucking hackers. No. Did this get posted there or something? I go there sometimes but /tech/ is too slow and lacks a decent thread watcher even with atechinX. I compiled this a couple of weeks ago to debunk retards and shills who keep saying this.
Jackson Cooper
"Isn't it ironic that the proprietary software developers call us communists? We are the ones who have provided for a free market, where they allow only monopoly." Yes, yes it is
Eli Richardson
Is trisquel a meme?
Samuel Gray
is it possible to make this into a terminal thumbnailer script? #!/bin/bash # # z3bra -- 2014-01-21
test -z "$1" && exit
W3MIMGDISPLAY="/usr/lib/w3m/w3mimgdisplay" FILENAME=$1 FONTH=14 # Size of one terminal row FONTW=8 # Size of one terminal column COLUMNS=`tput cols` LINES=`tput lines`
read width height
Andrew Flores
No, eightchan is fucking b0rked. Some faggot played a LOL TOTLAY AWSOM APRUL FOOLS JOEK and broke the site
Lucas Thompson
>No advantage over debian and ubuntu >More obscure than debian and ubuntu >Less up to date than debian and ubuntu Yes.
Thomas Torres
possible
Landon King
I have no idea how to print out images next to each othre though
Jackson Watson
Can someone help me? I just hooked up the HDMI to my Linux box, but it just turns to shit when I select 1920x1080. Not even usable. Right now I am stuck on 1360x768 and it's a total waste of space.
Ubuntu 16.04.
Bentley Garcia
oh wait, actually I do you just change this line w3m_command="0;1;0;0;$width;$height;;;;;$FILENAME\n4;\n3;"
Jeremiah Smith
>No, eightchan is fucking b0rked. Some faggot played a >LOL TOTLAY AWSOM APRUL FOOLS JOEK >and broke the site No it's not and it never was. Who tf uses the home page? Go directly to any board, it's fine. All they ever did was change the home page.
Wyatt Campbell
Is there much difference between Fedora and Ubuntu? I'm led to believe that Fedora is more up to date, does that make it more unstable?
Carson Gutierrez
Im going to install gentoo. I tried it a year ago on my thinkpad but it couldn't compile fast enough and my battery died. Trying it again. How long will it take for a core 2 duo to compile it?
Tyler Rodriguez
did you try posting? sudo is down, Sup Forums is broken, nothing works my dude
Charles Reyes
>Is there much difference between Fedora and Ubuntu? You'll probably have an easier time getting programs that aren't in the repos because there are PPAs for just about everything. Fedora has copr repos but not nearly as much is available compared to PPAs. I wound up compiling a lot of stuff from source during my time with Fedora, it's actually why I learned how, out of necessity.
>I'm led to believe that Fedora is more up to date It is, especially when it come to GNOME packages. They drop them around the same time as Arch does.
>does that make it more unstable? Not in my experience. I've never had any issues with distros that use newer packages and most people don't. I've been on Arch for ~2 years. I've never had an issue that wasn't explicitly my fault.
Daniel Gonzalez
>Open Letter to the Free Software Community libreboot.org/
Alexander Thompson
>weaksauce apology. Leah's attack on the fsf was typical sjw opportunistic bullshit. I'm glad the libreboot "brand" is going to merge into librecore, and that these devs are only going to be contributors in a larger community.
Julian Cook
>not XFS
Christopher Brooks
>Leah was at the time struggling with gender dysphoria and substance abuse Fuck this bitch. He(?) has no business there. I hope something comes and overtakes libreboot, this is bullshit.
Owen Butler
>BSD >calling GPL a cuck license
Camden Flores
This. BSD is literally getting cucked all of the time. Sony is fucking you hard up the ass, and so are others. They pick BSD explicitly because the license allows them to cuck you. GPL is ALPHA AF.
Liam Perez
Please screenshot this question so you can laugh about it when you get more experienced.
William Scott
It's a man. A manly man dressed up like an ugly woman. He has a deep ass British voice. The only video I can find of him speaking is this one and he's allocated to a tiny portion of the screen. This shit is a disgrace and making libre look bad and libreboot is such an important part of it all. I hate this faggot.
