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Seems really nice. The application is made portable by surrounding it with a virtual file system, so the application runs in its own image ("appimage").
Is anyone else having trouble with KVM on Ryzen? I have a 1600X and Gigabyte AX370 Gaming K5. On a fresh Arch install I'm getting a "kvm: disabled by bios" error. I enabled IOMMU in the BIOS, have the latest beta BIOS (F3B) and made sure TPM was disabled. Tried amd_iommu=on, iommu=1, iommu=pt as GRUB options but none of them appear to work. IOMMU groups are fine, but KVM itself isn't working for some reason and starting a QEMU VM will crash the computer. It's frustrating since I haven't seen anyone else with this issue yet.
Liam Green
Fucking telemarketers.
Samuel Allen
Do you have kvm virtualization enabled in the kernel?
Gabriel Perry
Just use Windows. /wontfix,closed
Carson Garcia
It's free software under the MIT license.
Nolan Torres
Then why spamming it like "Just found this"?
Grayson Brown
I'm not even him, but it's software flavor of the month, just let it pass. It's like when sourcemage was shilled hard here at first and then the new fotm was found.
Sebastian Rodriguez
...
Levi Brooks
I'm using the default Arch 4.11.3 kernel right now, it should have it by default according to the wiki. Running "zgrep CONFIG_KVM /proc/config.gz" returns CONFIG_KVM_AMD=m, which should be fine.
Jason Lewis
why on earth vi had to become the "standard" unix editor?
Thomas Garcia
Tried the development version of gimp. Doesn't work.
appimage = garbage
Brandon Ortiz
I have a 250gb SSD and a 1TB HDD. How should I partition Ubuntu for maximum performance?
Ryan Taylor
SSD for / HDD for /home
Alexander Hughes
and If I do this, where will the rest like /etc/ /usr go?
Matthew Russell
Everything that's not /home will go on the SSD. I thought it's kind of self-explanatory isn't it?
Jaxson Anderson
Okay, thanks.
Luke Bennett
>SSD for /
>/tmp on SSD
RIP
Logan James
because emacs is GPLd and that rustles the jimmies of bsdkeks.
Noah Miller
Is Debian Stable secure? How can I make it even more secure?
Brandon Wilson
it isn't you can't.
install sourcemage.
Christian Morris
It's as secure as you make it. Debian doesn't come with many security-enhacing features by default (like apparmor or selinux) because it's generally bloat. If you need them - you install them. Just common sense stuff like close all ports etc.
Zachary Moore
You are the greatest threat to security. The biggest cybercrimes rely on social engineering, if they can exploit human error then nothing else will protect you.
Mason Phillips
>being this retarded SSDs are more than capable of running a full OS and /tmp or /var should not be a problem for 99% of modern day SSDs
Parker Gonzalez
so I recently stalled ubuntu gnome, and I'm trying to figure out how I should be downloading/installing things. the software center says it uses the most updated version available, but newer versions are out on the software's website. should I be using the version gotten from the website or from the software center?
Oliver Ross
installed*
Anthony Jackson
Reiser4 Vs btrfs?
Asher Clark
As with any tool created by humans the same rule applies: If It ain't broken - don't fix it.
If the package version you currently have does not have a feature you would like to have from a newer version, just upgrade.
Austin Flores
>rieser Literally no reason to use this dead fs >btrfs Still corrupts raid arrays.Randomly corrupts filesystem
Just use ext4
Asher Lee
Hello /fglt/, i'm a new linux user
Can anyone point me in the right direction for a bash command that can filter text files and output only the lines in the text file that are of a defined format?
Camden Diaz
>being this retarded Enjoy you dead drives
Hudson Smith
I'm fairly sure grep should do. What format are we talking about?
Ryan Gray
text file is full of urls, i need to filter a few urls of a specific format.
grep looks like what i'm looking for btw, thank you.
Landon Jenkins
Appimage has been endorsed by linus torvalds and mark shuttleworth themselves. Don't be retrograde, move with the times.
Jeremiah Cooper
Why would i want a program that literally has the same libs and deps i have in my system already? Why would i want a program thats going to come with 10gb of libs/deps when they exist on my system? Why would i want a program that is going to force depend on the same libs/deps and all packages are 10gb+? Why would i want a program where the writer includes 20gb of deps/libs becuase " lol it didnt work unless i put them in lololol"?
No thanks,id rather manage my system my self like i have for 30 years
Oliver Miller
Nevermind found the issue. Turns out there was an option for SVM buried in the overclocking section disabled by default. Now KVM is enabled. Didn't really look at the OC section since I didn't want to touch any of it until I was sure I wasn't going to return the board.
Jackson Powell
my wacom tablet acts like a touchpad instead of a tablet (stylus does not work)
how do I go about troubleshooting this? is it a problem with GNOME or something else? using Fedora 25 btw
Chase Sanchez
arch wiki
Angel Rogers
ed is the standard text editor
John Wilson
>unix You mean that proprietary system from the 70s? Stable has the best security. >how to make more secure iptables/ufw, firejail, tor, dns security ArchWiki has a good security article. The latest version doesn't mean it's the best version for your distro. Also try synaptic and ditch that gay ass software center.
grymoire.com/Unix/ awk, sed and grep sections Torvalds isn't an autority. In fact he's a proprietary software shilling faggot.
Christopher Robinson
a bit more respect for linus please
Landon Ward
What DE has a decent filepicker with thumbnails? I am thinking of dropping KDE. What are the cool kids using these days?
Jeremiah Nguyen
wew lad
Jaxon Cruz
patched gtk2
Wyatt Bell
arch linux
Logan Bennett
I ported my headless arch server to PulseAudio for sound. How do I make this start at boot without having to have a connection? Currently pulseaudio only runs when I ssh into the box.
Isaiah White
pulseaudio can be used as a system-wide service, started as an init.d service or memed service. Search for "pulseaudio system wide" for howtos.
Jaxon Diaz
How do you clone OS from HDD to SSD, if the SSD is smaller in size than the HDD? However the used space by the HDD is still lower than the total storage capacity of the SSD? Current partition if it makes a difference.
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 255M 0 part /boot ├─sda2 8:2 0 29.3G 0 part / ├─sda3 8:3 0 432.5G 0 part /home ├─sda4 8:4 0 1K 0 part └─sda5 8:5 0 3.8G 0 part [SWAP]
Sebastian Wood
Did a presentation on software freedom today and a fellow student (master's programme) installed xubunut today on my recommendation; I gave him a list of fully free software to use for his needs. Did I do good?
Hunter Watson
Dont clone,use rsync to transfer data over
William Sanchez
Mount the two parts. Assuming /mnt/src /mnt/dst rsync -av /mnt/src/ /mnt/dst/ And after that edit your grub config and /etc/fstab to reference correct partitions.
Nicholas Brooks
Appimage is hacky and failure prone. Flatpak is the future here.
Grayson Moore
I thought about using rsync to keep the two clones up to date. Didn't know you can do that.
What if I used something like clonezilla?
Chase Ross
>xubuntu
No. That abomination is the worst thing happened to xfce.
Connor Stewart
>Flatpak is the future here In what way? AppImage have the support of KDE, flatpak is available to RH beta testers.
Justin King
How so? Just werks. Looks decent. Easy to use. Free license. Told him to not install the nonfree stuff. All good.
Levi Cooper
I thought manjaro was the worst thing that happened to xfce.
Carson Ross
1. it doesn't look decent, it look and set up to look like garbage to a normal, plain xfce install that you'd get from for example opensuse, debian or gentoo 2. it comes with ubuntu bloat while doesn't install xfce4 programs
Gabriel Rogers
>it doesn't look decent Yes it does, unless you're the type of retard who spends a week "customizing" their Arch Linux install with naked anime girls. He's not a beginner so is perfectly able to change it if he doesn't like the looks. >ubuntu bloat It comes with sane, lightweight programs that you can replace as needed. It lacks the bloated Unity programs. >doesn't install xfce4 programs Wrong.
Carson Lewis
good thread
Jose Morris
What are some cool terminal commands?
Lincoln Mitchell
Can I run firejail in firejail in firejail?
Jose Brown
How can I disable mousewheel scrolling affecting widgets in Plasma such as comboboxes.
Kevin Russell
Who else is addicted to run pacaur -Syu every 15 minutes?
Kevin Adams
>falling for the arch meme
Jordan Clark
What are you using?
Robert King
The best.
David Watson
>replying to people who fell for the arch meme
Lincoln Long
>replying to people who reply to people who fell for the arch meme
Oliver Sanders
>replying to people who replying to people who reply to people who fell for the arch meme
Grayson Russell
>memeing memed memes
Kayden Williams
You're probably not and you're afraid of me laughing at you. Arch is the pinnacle of desktop distros for people who actually use their machine for more than screenfetch desktop posing.
Noah Howard
pls stop recommending systemd distros
Andrew Harris
$ | grep wordyouwanttofilter > outputfile.txt This will overwrite the file everytime you use it. If you want to keep previous command in the file add another > so it would be. $ | grep word >> output.txt
Joseph Scott
]using the closing bracket that looks like a sideways carat
Chase Russell
Oh, do you want to have a systemd discussion with me? Based on 99% of the posts on this topic, I'm fully convinced that everyone is merely too lazy to learn how systemd works. To most of you, the non-modular design doesn't matter at all. It's just laziness. If people who bitch truly cared, they would do something to get a better alternative.
Everyone who's working to improve GNU/Linux stability go with systemd. It's only the neckbeard who can't let go of obsolete designs who keep bitching without working towards a competitive alternative.
Landon Johnson
>If people who bitch truly cared, they would do something to get a better alternative. There are better alternatives though. It's just that lazy systemd users always bitch about not being able to use their redhat software which was recently all locked down by systemd
Enjoy your cancer buddy.
Carter Long
beware the redhat shill!
Wyatt Thomas
>There are better alternatives though. Let's start here. What are those 'better' alternatives to you and why?
Josiah Clark
openrc based on sysvinit and upstart.
Hunter Turner
Since people rarly read the bash manual, have some useful bash options:
shopt -s autocd Never type cd mydir again; mydir is enough.
shopt -s extglob Allows you to do things like ls +(*jpg|*png).
shopt -s globstar Allows you to do things recursivly like ls **/.c.
set -o noclobber When you run foo > bar and bar already exists, the command fails. Can be overwritten with >| instead of >.
CDPATH='.:~/somedir/' Whenever you type cd and autocomplete, additionaly to the current directory all directories in somedir are also autocompleted.
Gavin Brooks
>just get a better alternative LMAO XDD
Gavin Walker
It's really important that you elaborate on why these are supposed to be better. Right now you're telling me >as long as it's not systemd >a literally abandoned init daemon is better which surely can't be you intent. Please explain.
Jackson Russell
>but "rm -rf /foo/.*" will work the exact same way, no?
>tfw they have the security >tfw they have the kernel >tfw they have the audio >tfw they have the init What's Red Hat's next step?
Gavin Carter
Something something Windows but shittier.
Adrian Rogers
>Counter culture OS >>Hipster OS oh fuck, roasted!
Nathan Rodriguez
wtf I hate Linux now
Gabriel Sanders
Fedora
Josiah Martin
isn't fedora just a community distro?
Luke Thompson
If that were his intent, though, he'd still be right. Even leaving other concerns aside, systemd has been absorbing features too fast for proper auditing and bug fixing, so an abandoned but mature init system is in fact a better option.
This line of debate is deceptive, though. Firstly, it is not detractors who should provide alternatives to systemd - systemd is the newcomer and the one breaking established models, and the burden of proving that it is a worthy alternative is on its side.
And more importantly, systemd is not only an init system, so it isn't an alternative to previous init systems. It is an alternative to diversity and flexibility, among other things.
Asher Bailey
good post
Oliver Cruz
Too big to fail.
GNU/Linux is the legacy of Unix. Unix philosophy is detrimental in the design process of low-level software for an operating system like GNU/Linux because it offers flexibility and interchangeability, two VITAL features that make GNU/Linux attractive as an operating system. You don't like bit X, you replace it with sometihng else. And because every bit was designed with these features in mind - it's easy to do and it doesn't break anything else. If GNU/Linux was right from the beginning like systemd is now it would be impossible to replace any crusty and outdated component of it because everything would be so meticulously intertwined with each other it would make a titanic task. systemd being able to step in and replace every other init within such a short period of time is the merit of the way GNU/Linux and other systems are built, not because systemd is "so fucking good". So systemd stepped in, was forced on everyone (redhat did a lot of shady business making sure it's adopted) utilized the benefit of unix design and now stomps on it without any regards whatsoever.
So now thanks to Lennart, his fellow cocksuckers from redhat and all the paid shills we're going to be stuck with systemd for the next 50 decades. So please stuck this "werks for me xD" of yours up your arse and fuck off.
