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Advanced users of GNU/Linux (and I mean advanced), remember to try Source Mage GNU/Linux. True source-based distribution, and (in contrast with Gentoo and Arch) is: Free from obfuscated and pre-configured code. Fully committed to GPL, uses only free software (as in freedom) in their main package. With even the documentation licensed as FDL. Without 3rd party patches, sensible defaults or masked packages. Doesn't need obfuscated python libraries, only bash. Use clean dependencies as they came from upstream developers, which by the same provides instant updates. Can heal broken installs. Can also use flags.
Do you like Arch Linux's AUR? Do you like Gentoo's portage (or ports-like) package manager? With SMGL's "sorcery" you get all that. Making new spells (packages) not found in the grimoire (repository) is easy sourcemage.org/Spell/Book
You should read the documentation, user. "autoclean" is useless when you run "clean" anyway.
>automatically nuke everything that's deprecated sudo apt-get install {{program}} --auto-remove >or is giving an error sudo apt-get install {{program}} --fix-broken
John Ward
Yeah, sorry for not clarifying.
Asher Russell
I can't stop distro hopping, every time I decide to stick with a distro, I fail.
What distro are you using and why have you stuck with it, Sup Forums?
Alexander Jackson
I have just started this week with Kubuntu since I was recommended to use it, I wanted more speed for my work, although it seems my osx machine isn't properly detecting iphones so I might have to switch back to windows or find out if my computer is hackingtosh compatible.
Grayson Kelly
I settled with Debian b/c it just fits my needs. Thinking about switching to Devuan, but basically I'm done distro-hopping.
Zachary Reed
You need to realize that all distros are the same GNU/Linux system. The only differences are package management and philosophy.
So, distro hopping actually means package manager hopping. Try all package managers and you have tried all distros.
Juan Parker
So I wanted to make a media server with a raspberry pi. Is Raspbian at all decent or should i go with arm-arch?
Camden Wilson
how hard to make a minimal linux distro without some bullshit package manager?
David Johnson
Wat do if i3 won't display any text on fresh arch install?
David Jones
install gentoo
Hudson Williams
install some fonts
Dylan Ortiz
Arch is for advanced users only.
Noah Sullivan
I keep seeing this picture. Who is this majestic semen daemon?
!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
media-libs/glew:0
(media-libs/glew-1.10.0-r2:0/1.10::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by >=media-libs/glew-1.10.0:0/1.10 required by (games-rpg/runescape-launcher-2.2.4:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^^^^^^^
(media-libs/glew-1.13.0:0/1.13::gentoo, installed) pulled in by media-libs/glew:0/1.13= required by (media-libs/libprojectm-2.1.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^^^^^^^^ media-libs/glew:0/1.13 required by (app-office/libreoffice-bin-5.2.7.2-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) I don't really know what to do.
Adrian Thompson
>runescape launcher Thanks user i got a good chuckle from that
I just wanted to try it. I'm not really sure how to solve slot conflicts when they occur.
The wiki recommends doing a --oneshot on the package, but when I try to emerge --oneshot media-libs/glew-1.10.0-r2 like it asks I get the same slot conflict.
Jason Ortiz
Sorry I can't help, it was just a little funny that the root of your problem was runescape
Hunter Ramirez
yes, it is. I spent a lot of my childhood making fun of my friend for playing this shit, now here I am wanting to give it a try
Evan Morgan
Anyone have experiences with USB wifi dongles? Any recommendations for a dongle that works well with Xubuntu? I'm currently using some cheap no-name dongle that can barely hold a connection for 10 minutes.
Joseph Fisher
Is Trisquel a good jumping off point for trying a totally free OS?
Adrian Gonzalez
Yes.
Personally Gentoo is my absolute favorite operating system. You can accomplish a totally free setup with ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE"
Wyatt Jenkins
Thanks, and I might have to try gentoo. I understand the meme but it also seems really interesting
Jason Russell
Last I checked (a few years ago, but it could only have got better) ones with atheros chipsets had the best support in the kernel without having to screw around with firmware and whatnot.
Parker Brooks
It's very interesting, but a bit of a timesink, so you can only enjoy it if this sort of thing is your hobby (building your own system, configuring it, customizing it, and reading the necessary documentation to learn about your system)
Landon Davis
>building your own system, configuring it, customizing it, and reading the necessary documentation to learn about your system
This is the exact reason I want to try it. One of my friends who's deeper in the rabbit hole than I am suggests that everyone try gentoo at least once to develop a deeper appreciation for linux and computing in general.
I don't know how much of that is true, but I'm going to try it one of these days.
Lucas Gomez
it's good, but the packages are behind (last I checked it's based on Ubuntu 14.04)
There's Parabola (shortened from Parabola GNU/Linux-libre), which is based on Arch and has up-to-date packages while still providing a fully free system. Never used it though so I can't vouch for it.
Isaac Edwards
Anyone can help me with this bullshit? Thanks, I rly appreciate it.
Leo Bailey
I've considered Parabola, but I've never used an Arch based system, so I'm wondering if it would be too jarring to adjust. I've also considered Void Linux, but since theres almost no documentation, it doesnt seem like an alternative.
Jackson King
yep, there's nothing quite like it. There's Linux From Scratch, but to me that's more tedious than it is enjoyable.
First week of Gentoo you may want to rip it out of your system and put Debian or Windows back on it (portage error messages, slot conflicts, circular dependencies, and other messages you probably won't understand). But once you take the time to understand what the messages are telling you, and how Portage works, you'll come to appreciate it.
Benjamin Allen
Void has a nonfree repo and recommends nonfree software, so its not a free distro.
Anthony Ramirez
Arch is about the same as a Debian-based distro, minus an installer, and the package manager is different but the functionality of the package manager is about the same as Debian's package manager on a basic level, for the end user at least.
Gabriel Mitchell
Anyone?
I don't want these stupid preview windows on hover. Just a tooltip will more than suffice. The name of whatever is open, you know?
Connor Powell
What are some cool terminal commands?
Austin Murphy
How does this one look? TP-LINK TL-WN722N
Elijah Harris
bad meme, no cool commands from here
Brayden Brooks
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
Ian Moore
Devuan is fantastic, although I'm partial because I've always enjoyed SysV.
Adrian Clark
alias find='sleep $((RANDOM%60))'
Daniel Evans
Dead.
Liam Young
How does windows fit all the spy cameras and miscellaneous surveillance equipment inside such a tiny burg? In the bun maybe?
Josiah Reed
wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WN722N TP link does pretty solid hardware and this chipset was first seen in kernel 2.6.35 so I would expect it to work fine. You might need to install firmware-atheros but I would try it without first to see if it actually needs it. If you have `udevadm monitor -p -u` (or maybe -k instead of -u) running when you plug it in you should be able to see any firmware requests.
Thomas Green
What really bugs me is that it's just not efficient and you need to jump through hoops like typing your password. Why not just: rm -rf ~ ? - faster - shorter - doesn't need privs - gets rid of important stuff only
Gavin Nelson
valid, but the system is still usable, and the purpose of the joke is just to be as much of an asshat as possible, and how can you be more of an asshat than completely nuking someone's system?
It's just the Linux equivalent of 'Delete System32'
I actually did it once when I was gonna reinstall.
William Roberts
Great! Thanks user
Austin Price
isnt there some systemd bug that actually bricks the motherboard?
Looking for a docking station compatible with linux. I own a thinkpad and a lenovo y40 and run manjaro/ubuntu. Anyone have any luck with universal USB 3.0 docks?
Carson Perez
fuck debiain I"m going back to chromeos
Nathaniel Cooper
No
Jack Diaz
lol good luck with arm in linux
John Campbell
>the Linux equivalent of 'Delete System32' That would be to just delete /lib/ and /usr/lib/
Angel Murphy
enjoy you're botnet
Isaiah Long
I'm not even a robot.
Henry Sullivan
OK. I have a 32 gig USB drive that is blank and I want to make into a bootable Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya drive so that I can get Linux into one of my partitions so that I can boot either Win10 or Mint. Questions: What Bios settings do I do for an HP pavilion 360? Is there any special thing I have to do to the USB drive before I torrent Linux to it so that it will boot up? Should Legecy be enabled? Does Visualizations enabled or disabled matter? Why am I stuck on this (Am I retarded)? What is the difference between mirroring Linux and Torrenting and does that have an effect on being bootable from a USB?
Andrew Clark
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.
Wyatt Thomas
no I cant figure it out.
John Gray
Odin's Beard!
Jackson Myers
>What Bios settings do I do for an HP pavilion 360? Er is that a laptop? you might have to turn off secure boot. Otherwise just see if you can quick select boot device and choose the usb drive or put the usb drive at the top of the boot devices list. The usual for booting from USB.
>Is there any special thing I have to do to the USB drive before I torrent Linux to it so that it will boot up? Depends what method you are using to make a live disk, if it is a fancy UI frontend to making one it should do it all for you.
>Should Legecy be enabled? Depends if you make the live disk with efi (no) or not (yes).
> Does Visualizations enabled or disabled matter? I don't no what you mean but I am guessing no.
> Why am I stuck on this (Am I retarded)? You might be retarded but there is a fair bit of niche knowledge involved if you dig into this shit so it is easy to get confused.
>What is the difference between mirroring Linux and Torrenting and does that have an effect on being bootable from a USB? Pretty sure a "mirror" is just a http host of the same thing that the torrent will get you at the end. So no difference.
Joseph Smith
You're a pretentious idiot who is only asking this question to make himself look smart. If you were "advanced" enough to really need a free software only distribution, you'd already know what makes a distribution and don't ask such a retarded question. There is no "jumping point". You will only not get to use certain software, everything else will be the same. Retard.
Daniel Harris
You can build, configure, customize and read documentation on any distribution. Idiot.
Angel Parker
ok thx
Ethan Hall
When appimages become popular distros like won't be feared anymore, if they support appimages too
Joshua Miller
blow me
Dominic Hill
>systemd bug >fixed in the kernel
Jeremiah Lopez
Ubuntu or Debian? I know Ubuntu had that Amazon thing before, still ok to get?
Nolan Morales
Install Debian
John Richardson
Pretty much the same shit anyway
Jason Butler
Install Ubuntu.
Christopher Diaz
Hm..
Andrew Cook
Install Devuan.
Gavin Anderson
Install Source Mage GNU/Linux
Dylan Collins
install gentoo
Hunter Hughes
So I just installed Ubuntu. How the fuck do I run shell scripts if I want to insatll some shit?
Thomas Taylor
>just installed Uninstall and get Debian
Logan Thompson
sudo apt install
James Reyes
just download the exe and open it with wine
William Ramirez
Eh, run shell scripts in a terminal.
Kayden Cooper
aptitude [insert program here]
Chase Watson
Flatpak, appimage, snap, etc. on suicide watch.
Ryan Gomez
Is there any (good) pitch correction software for linux? Preferably FOSS
