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This pic is right though, people who feel entitled to everything expect everyone else to respect their property but conveniently forget the "social contract thing".
If you have shit, why would you not beat up a rich cuck and steal his shit? It's the sad reality of nature.
Jack James
Reminder that property is theft.
Josiah Bailey
Semi-GNU (almost 100% free software) based distros: - Antergos - Chakra - antiX - Salix
Charles Cooper
This. One can't be a free software enthusiast and defend the concept of "property" at the same time.
Brandon Fisher
reminder that commies aren't people and should be shot on sight
Adam Morgan
Even Marx criticized the lack of logic in that statement. (Even if there is a poorly worded concept there that make sense. Which happens to be shit but whatever.)
Samuel Flores
Jewish Friendly Distros (with lots of spyware and crapware) - Netrunner - TrueOS - Elementary - Red Hat - Fedora - SteamOS - deepin -
Parker Ramirez
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Caleb Torres
Reactionary scum being violent and irrational as usual.
>Even Marx Was he the one and only leftist thinker by any means?
Jaxson White
>shooting commies >irrational it's an either/or kind of thing
Hudson James
>What is refracta? Refracta is an operating system designed for home computer users. It provides a simple and familiar layout that most users will find very comfortable. Refracta focuses on providing common applications and services that most users will need instead of trying to provide for more specialized uses. It provides a basic desktop with simple applications that are easy to use.
You do not need to install Refracta to try it out. You can run it entirely from the cd without making any changes to your current operating system. If you like it then you can install it in just a few minutes with a few clicks of the mouse.
The default install includes internet, graphic, multimedia, and office software along with various system tools and utilities. Hundreds more applications are available from a trusted source and can be quickly and easily installed. ibiblio.org/refracta/
Ethan Green
Your containment board is that way:
Easton Carter
>Init Freedom
While Debian claims that “Systemd is becoming the de facto standard init system for Linux”, a number of GNU/Linux distributions, some new, beg to differ. While Debian claims that “It is better than existing alternatives for all of Debian’s current use cases”, these rebel GNU/Linux distributions refuse this one-size-fits-all vision of the *nix world that breaks portability, ignores backwards compatibility, and replaces existing services, forcing systemd into adoption.
Init Freedom is about restoring a sane approach to PID1, one that respects diversity and freedom of choice.
Although it’s true the venerable sysvinit has flaws that should be addressed in some way, systemd supporters wrongly claim that “systemd is overwhelmingly better than any existing alternative anywhere the technical architecture is involved.” The Init Freedom (IF) Campaign is here to disprove that claim.
>Alternate Init Systems
The following init systems are considered for inclusion in Devuan:
- sinit - openrc - runit - s6 - shepherd
Each of them is a portable, compatible, small, fast, and secure alternative to systemd. None of them was considered by Debian as a replacement for sysvinit: instead they chose between systemd, sysvinit, and upstart, leaving the best options, in our opinion, off the table.
Blacklist from Devuan The current blacklist is maintained in amprolla.conf: >banpkgs: systemd,systemd-sysv
Elijah Gray
>implying Christian robocracy isn't the future lol take a look at these fedora humanist plebs
Nathaniel Miller
whats wrong with systemd?
Evan Jenkins
Comparing data and physical property is a false analogy. They are not even close to being the same thing.
Imagine: instead of being able to use the poisson distribution formula to find the number of independent events in a fixed time, you have to pay for a license for PoissonFormPro, enter your inputs, and then at the end you only get the answer, instead of a proof of why this important thing is true
Now imagine it's like this for all of math: nobody actually knows how to calculate the volume of anything, because that's handled by CalcPro, which is owned by the Newton-Liebniz corporation, and you just have to trust that they're right, and hopefully they are, or else the spaceship you're trying to engineer is going to blow up.
Software is 100% the same thing and it's disgusting on every intellectual level that presently some people are ignorant enough to think that this is okay.
Cooper Clark
An Operating System (OS) is a set of programs that provides an interface to the hardware part of the computer: resource, device, power, and memory management belong to the OS.
The core of the OS in charge of operating the circuitry and managing peripherals is called the kernel. The default flavor of Devuan comes with Linux.
The first process launched after the kernel is loaded into memory is called init. This process bearing PID 1 is in charge of services running on the system: it ensures they start in order, control they’re running fine, shut them down, and inherit crashed processes. This init process MUST not die, or the whole system goes away with it. Therefore Devuan recommends using lean init systems that do one thing, and do it well. By default Jessie runs with the same init system as Debian Wheezy, the venerable sysvinit. Several projects are under way to provide runit, and sinit support in Devuan, as well as openrc and s6.
Services take care of normal functionality of your system: networking, logging, authentication, language, dictionary, search, software updates, printing, graphical display, etc.
John Adams
that anti-systemd crap is annoying
Wyatt Wood
Hi, Lennart.
Nolan Fisher
what's the point a forking a project that only some days ago left beta state?
Hudson Russell
Hi Lennart Goldberg
Luke Baker
can someone explain me why Linus hates EFF?
Justin Gutierrez
What's stopping you from coming up with your own version of calculus? Patents are evil, not people owning their own creation and distributing it as they like.
Cameron Collins
Nice trips Mr. Satan, but what does Linus NOT hate?
Dominic Scott
he likes GPL2
Dominic Diaz
>Services take care of normal functionality of your system: networking, logging, authentication, language, dictionary, search, software updates, printing, graphical display, etc. Oh yeah, they're different services totally not like systemd just discount the fact that systemd is in fact a suite of tools not one monolithic program. In fact the entirety of it is 69 cleanly separated binaries each doing their own thing. Also, you must fail to comprehend that in a traditional Linux setup, sysvinit, start-stop-daemon, inetd, cron, dbus, all implemented its own scheme to execute processes with various configuration options. On systemd the code paths for all of this, for the configuration parsing, as well as the actual execution is shared. This means less code, less place for mistakes, less memory and cache pressure. Systemd haters are just plain fucking dumb, old init systems are a fucking mess, there is a reason that the vast majority of distro maintainers decided to use systemd. You're just too dumb to understand.
Jeremiah Perez
I'm sorry. Is English your first language?
Grayson Morris
>we trigger Sup Forums
Juan Murphy
>less place for mistakes >Systemd haters are just plain fucking dumb Hi Lennart Goldberg.
Jaxon Morales
>(((Debian))) >(((Ubuntu))) >vast majority
Jack Peterson
it unironically isnt From what I gathered from your post, your argument is that people owning code and selling it is a bad thing, because other people are not allowed to use it without a license. Do I have that right?
Austin Evans
fucking communist
Jack Morgan
>9gag kek
Luis Campbell
>in a traditional Linux setup, sysvinit, start-stop-daemon, inetd, cron, dbus, all implemented its own scheme to execute processes with various configuration options. On systemd the code paths for all of this, for the configuration parsing, as well as the actual execution is shared. And I think basically everyone agrees that this is a Good Thing and a major improvement over the way things used to be.
It's all the horrible downsides that ins systemd come with these improvements that made a lot of people think twice.
I don't think any of the systemd haters, myself included, deny that systemd has brought a lot of improvements that were a long time coming. It's the question of whether all the downsides are worth it that is causing the consternation.
>there is a reason that the vast majority of distro maintainers decided to use systemd. Are you a distro maintainer? Because I am.
Let me tell you why the vast majority of distro maintainers want systemd. It's because it's easier on the maintainers, and supporting multiple init systems is a pain in the ass. All valid reasons. But the degree to which systemd is better or worse than alternatives for the USER wasn't really a motivation.
Henry Morris
>picture those comies are welcome to try, but I also have the right to defend myself. Good luck with that
Ayden Clark
I'm wondering why /fglt/ recently got that much communist OP pictures? Is someone trying to push this thread into a political corner?
Carter Rivera
>It's because it's easier on the maintainers >supporting multiple init systems is a pain in the ass. Nobody was forcing anyone to support multiple init systems before systemd. What the fuck kind of argument is this?
>downsides What?
>But the degree to which systemd is better or worse than alternatives for the USER wasn't really a motivation. It's better for everyone
>Are you a distro maintainer? Because I am. Go LARP somewhere else.
Carter Bennett
Hey, /fglt/ I need some advice/opinions on choosing a GPU for my first build, specifically driver performance.
I'm *not* looking to game on linux. My main concern is keeping temps down, and not killing the card while being able to watch the occasional chinese cartoon. I have heard that open source nvidia drivers have had a history of being bad, where AMD drivers are usually decent. Maybe I heard wrong, but I don't know, which is why I'm asking here.
Specifically, I'm comparing a 480x and a 1070 if that helps. Any input on personal driver performance would be helpful too. Thanks.
Dominic Thompson
>init freedom so systemd is bad because it's popular, right? I'm all for software freedom, but init freedom is a meme, nobody is forced to use it and systemd is the wrong place to rant: if you think "systemd takes over!", then blame the people who ship it and start depending on it >init freedom nice meme, friends
Daniel Thompson
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Zachary Johnson
piss off lennart
Jacob Harris
Cтoллмaн жил, Cтoллмaн жив, Cтoллмaн бyдeт жить.
Jason Morales
install gentoo
Michael Cooper
Jokes on you, I intend on it. :^)
Zachary Barnes
not an argument
Nicholas Long
>then blame the people who ship it and start depending on it That's *exactly* what "init freedom" means. It means "please don't depend on it and don't ship it as a requirement".
Brayden Robinson
>gommunism
Kill yourself, GNU/Linux and free software isn't for spreading your filthy ideology.
Jack Hall
but at the same time init freedom is building a community of hate against specific developers (who wrote free software) and a program (which is free software)
Alexander Harris
>building a community of hate freedom
Jonathan Edwards
>but at the same time init freedom is building a community of hate against specific developers (who wrote free software) and a program (which is free software) If anyone designs their free software in such a way to promote people relying on it unnecessarily, and explicitly try to foster community norms for using and depending on their software and to hell with anyone for whom that causes problems, I think they deserve hate, free software or not.
Lincoln Nelson
>I get hate mail for hacking on Open Source. People have started multiple "petitions" on petition web sites, asking me to stop working (google for it). Recently, people started collecting Bitcoins to hire a hitman for me (this really happened!). plus.google.com/ LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/posts/J2TZrTvu7vd
Henry Murphy
What is the best way to run Firefox in a sandbox? Or does anyone know how to run it as an unprivileged user?
Jacob Phillips
Systemd FUD is the cancer killing /fglt/
Blake Smith
>>I get hate mail for hacking on Open Source. Hahaha, no. It's because you're an arrogant asshole who thinks he can do no wrong, Lennart.
>gommunism is evul, mmmmmmmmkay? Can this meme please die already? It's not funny anymore!
Lucas Russell
I like manjaro
Dylan Morgan
fucks sakes why
on my ssh if that matters. not like it does, why the fuck would it
Easton Brooks
Here. I made it into a friendly GNU/image form for easy consumption.
William Johnson
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Evan Rivera
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Grayson Sullivan
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Joseph Lopez
your mirrorlist may be outdated try # reflector --verbose --latest 10 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist or manually edit the mirrorlist.
James Anderson
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Cooper Anderson
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Evan Robinson
>nano I'll take you seriously when you aren't posting from your phone.
Carter Wilson
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Hudson Adams
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Kayden Howard
What VM software is there that can be ran on both Windows 8 and say, Debian? gonna run a basic *buntu on a work laptop that doesn't boot from USB, but thought I could combine this with learning VMs on my main workstation
>only heard about Virtualbox >reads forums >people talking about VB being dead/bloat/malware
Brody Hughes
Docker (not it have another name, much more efficient than any vm.)
Nathaniel Cook
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Carson Collins
I finally installed Linux but am having audio trouble, constant switching between both Line out and Headphones. any help?
Juan Jones
has nothing to do with being popular it was chosen overnight by debian for obscure reasons It's adding many more issues than fixing anything plus people like it because they are lazy and don't like to spend time setting up init properly >hate against specific developers the only one who said this was Lennard The Jew because he was trying to make himself a victim.
Hunter Bennett
>people talking about VB being dead/bloat/malware
Did they also talk about their own mental retardation? >dead under constant development and gets new versions often >bloat le ebin bloat meme in 2017 with terabytes of storage. Yes, takes more space than qemu, but not unreasonably much >malware free (libre) software. You can compile it from GPL'd source yourself if you don't trust the oracle-made binaries.
Zachary Price
Hey Sup Forums, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?
Brody Gray
What switches?
Jacob Rogers
Gentoo for desktop, arch for laptop.
Colton Harris
Free: Debian LXDE/Xfce
Cuckietary: Xubuntu, Lubuntu
Puppy is really really lightweight but idk about license policy.
Eli Hughes
the audio device in use constantly switches between the two.
