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>HURR DURR >IT WORKS DIFFERENTLY Its the same god damn thing
Noah Gray
I'm not complaining about the change itself I'm complaining because I still don't get it
Colton Williams
They dont want to deal with abs anymore.They are removing it.asp is now how you interact with it. Stop being autistic
Brayden Rodriguez
How do i use apparmor and audit without it spamming me tty(before i even log in) with log spam?
Henry Wood
but what's the difference between the two why is it hard to maintain abs and not asp my brain is itching and I want to know
Nolan Murphy
Go fucking ask their IRC. This is how it is.Make your own fork and have nothing but abs as the sole means of installation if you wanted
Chase Smith
I need to disable i3lock on lid close, but for the life of me I can't find out how. every path google puts me down shows nowhere that i3lock is called. it's only mentioned once in the i3 config, which I've changed to no effect. All the help I'm finding has the opposite problem of not knowing how to activate i3lock on lid close, so presumably I did one of them at some point several browsers ago. Help pls.
Matthew Brooks
Stop using Google.
Ryder Campbell
how helpful and friendly. it's startpage.
Eli Brown
What are some cool terminal commands?
Ryder Parker
cat
Isaac Morgan
tac
Julian Rogers
Is spending lots of my free time learning Gentoo and it's intricacies going to be worth it in the long run? Is Gentoo really as powerful and worthwhile as people make it out to be?
Anthony Hall
No. Its more of a hobby os then arch is
Daniel Sanders
It's just like any other distro.
Brayden Ross
Both of these posts are false, unfortunately.
Luis Thompson
GNU/Linux noob here, should I install ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS or ubuntu 17.04 what's the actual difference?
>inb4 install windows
Ethan Sanchez
It's all the same, people just have trouble to get it. Just use whatever you want.
Gabriel Sanchez
Unfortunaly it isnt. EVERY source based distro is a old mans hobby distro.By the time you're done updating your system you have an entirely new set of packags you need to compile.Gentoo is just a game to see if you can compile 100% of the time,you even stop using your os and just watch the compile
Christopher Collins
What is the most stable distro, I tried Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 and Fedora 25 so far, after I'm done installing everything I need (Chromium, Pycharm, Discord, Text editors and gnome extensions) shit manages to crash or break in some way. How do I achieve something that will work for long periods of time with no crashes or anything breaking?
Samuel Flores
Debian stable.
John Thomas
stig
it's a new tui client for transmission-daemon, pic related
Enjoying no games faglords. Come back to windows it's more secure than that hobby OS. Nobody professional works on it.
Elijah Rogers
RHEL.
Luke Peterson
Okay, kid.
Jayden Lee
How do i make bash have similar fuzzy completion as zsh?
Alexander Morgan
>and then he said " Enjoying no games faglords. Come back to windows it's more secure than that hobby OS. Nobody professional works on it."
Gavin Thomas
bad troll is bad
Brayden Cox
wtf I love windows now
Noah Myers
At least we can agree on something, haha
Hunter Long
What exactly do you mean by fuzzy?
Austin Campbell
you still replied
Ryan King
He/she wasn't that bad considering that he/she has up to 5 replies
Christopher Peterson
>sheckel hat is now "professional"
Jayden Nguyen
Making Red Hat as main linux OS is a good thing, Sup Forums?
Charles Adams
@60451152 Not anymore!
Christopher Ward
I could type 'linux-' and a list of things that have "linux-" in them within the given folder would popup as a selection,then using again would cycle between the available options
Jace Myers
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.
Put this in your .bashrc bind 'set show-all-if-ambiguous on' bind 'TAB:menu-complete'
Aiden King
I'm glad the "((()))" spammer and anti-RMS shill has left these threads.
Bentley Ramirez
Thank you for reminding him to come back.
Angel Nelson
To those who spread the misinformation about wannacry on GNU/Linux. Are you proud of yourself? Do you think this fearmongering belongs into a friendly thread? Why did you link to that stupid youtuber who can't differentiate between a system and a kernel?
Compared to Windows, GNU/Linux is a lot more secure in virtually every distribution.
Noah Ward
I'm so happy to have made a major impact on /fglt/, you must have really woken up.
Isaac Green
telemarketers
Nathan Turner
any way to fix shitty font rendering in fedora?
William James
>him It's a girl actually
Andrew Adams
I neve left baby
Kevin Jackson
What misinformation are you referring to? Wanna cry can harm a GNU system assuming WINE is installed. That's really all anyone is saying.
Ian Thompson
What is your favorite init system?
Eli Sullivan
BSD style plaintext scripts
James Lewis
I don't have a favorite. Historically I have always used systemd, but am considering making the switch to OpenRC.
Joseph Collins
arch
Dylan Martinez
there is no way in hell that's real. i wanna see a fucking birth certificate.
James Reed
Do you know what wannacry does on a system?
Isaac Green
it encrypts files
Wyatt King
What to do when domain.com:81 redirects correctly to domain.com but domain.com just gets connection error? I'm using apache2 and ubuntu server.
Sebastian Howard
Yes, do you?
Jonathan Lopez
r/techsupport is that way
Jackson Adams
friendly thread!!!
Jordan Gray
You'll probably have a better chance finding your answer on Reddit than you will here.
Nolan Ortiz
ask sqt,
Cooper Wood
so how do i listen to a radio stream using mpd/ncmpcpp? I put the address into a .m3u file, but that timeouts
Charles Cooper
curl the stream and put the real address into the m3u
Nolan Adams
How do i enable apparmor for kernels other then mainline? The config option is set in the kernel,but im unable to start apparmor
Connor Foster
You need better CNAME rules my man.
Adam Johnson
>Trump orders backdoors in linux kernel >Lincucks cucked again
Joseph Jones
Okay, how does it do that?
Yes. Aren't you bothered as well?
Joshua Allen
Probably apache is listening 81 and 443, change it to 80 and 443.
Chase Price
archwiki
Nicholas Thomas
Bothered about what, malicious programs? Yes I am.
Logan Martin
No, about these hysterical responses.
Nolan Smith
There is nothing relating to it on the auditd page or the apparmor page
Ian Davis
>plaintext scripts As opposed to binary scripts.
Tyler Powell
Oh you mean people saying things along the lines of how GNU/Linux is just as vulnerable as Windows? I don't take personal offense to such statements or agree with them. People will say stupid things, and I am not exception.
Jaxon Watson
BSD init scripts makes it easy to modify, easiest of any other init.
Jose Cooper
I accidentally deleted modules.conf how do I get it back (it's not in the trash).
Justin Carter
I have an old 2013 Macbook Air that I would really prefer to have a linux machine. After having to do a blind install of a driver for the monitor without the use of the monitor, the problems I'm having are still... many:
>The trackpad registers every touch as a click >2-finger touches register as a zoom-in command on some programs >3 finger touches do not register at all >The audio only works when I have headphones plugged in and then it plays out of the speakers >Every time I close the the screen it goes to sleep but then won't wake up when I open it. >If I ever get it to turn back on my jiggling a USB mouse the keyboard won't work anymore. >When the battery is fully charged it says 75% >It dies when it gets down to 65% >The wifi only works when the battery just about full >The screen brightness buttons both just toggle the screen on and off >The keyboard backlight up button turns the speaker volume up >The keyboard backlight down button also turns the speaker volume up >The volume down button also turns the speaker volume up >Plugging in the charger causes it to freeze for a solid minute or more >Unplugging it cause it to go to sleep which as stated above causes the keyboard to stop responding >...and the light on the capslock key is always on
And this is just about the best experience I've gotten. I've tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, very briefly tried Arch but couldn't get past the blind monitor install, I even tried Kali because they said they "support as many wireless devices as we possibly can." I've followed as many different tutorials for installing linux on my specific version of Macbook but most of them don't even get me halfway.
Is there just a linux distro that is pre-packaged to support mac hardware. I don't want to go back to MacOS but this is some bullshit.
Mason Thomas
nano /etc/modules.conf
Josiah Carter
Will the system rewrite data on it once I reboot?
Hunter Lewis
No, it will create an empty modules.conf file
Brayden Taylor
So I'm basically stuck with a broken install now?
Bentley Ross
Yes. Let this serve as a lesson.
Hunter Ortiz
Okay, I'm sick of the question game. What I wanted to point out is that wanna cry uses windows specific backdoors to spread. It needs permission to touch files in reach and it will try to encrypt your files as if it were on a windows machine.
Wanna cry can only "harm" a system that uses WINE locally. Even then, you'd probably have to run it with sudo or as root. WINE doesn't want you to do that and if you were to ignore this, you'd be more stupid than bread.
And NO, it doesn't simply require WINE to be installed. You need to run a binary with WINE. You do not have these backdoors in your system that are used to attack your machine regardless of user interaction. Pretending that having WINE installed somehow makes you vulnerable is fearmongering not befitting a friendly GNU/Linux thread.
Carter Morgan
install gentoo
Sebastian Sanchez
That was the first one I tried because of you meme loving fucks. Couldn't figure out the monitor problem with no working monitor to solve it on.
Chase Lewis
...
Julian Brooks
I used dd (from the post in the previous /fglt thread) to write a Win7 ISO to a usb but when I tried booting from it, it says 'No Boot sector detected'
What did I do wrong/how should I fix it?
Carter Moore
No? Find the skeleton file and start making changes
Juan Allen
this
Jackson Robinson
>skeleton file 2spooky4me
Jason Parker
In what universe does deleting posts actually remove them? Stop being annoying.
Mason Ross
Did you choose it from your boot menu or did you let it go on its own and look for it on the hdd?