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Sup Forums's Wiki on GNU/Linux:
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Category:GNU/Linux

>What distro should I choose?
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux

>What are some cool programs?
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page

>What are some cool terminal commands?
commandlinefu.com/
bropages.org/

>Where can I learn the command line?
mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
grymoire.com/Unix/

>Where can I learn more about Free Software?
gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html

>How to break out of the botnet?
prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux

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Other urls found in this thread:

wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot
termbin.com/z06q
stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
wiki.debian.org/SourcesList
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G
twitter.com/NSFWRedditImage

OSX master race

A couple of people mentioned in the last thread that startup speed is not a good reason to use systemd. If that is the case then what is a good reason to upgrade (apart from "it is the standard now").

And I already use a dependancy based sysvinit that starts scripts in parallel. As was the default on debian wheezy.
wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot
termbin.com/z06q

Is this real?

Yeah,selfish asshat decided it was a good time to check his email so he sat down and blocked everyone else from crossing the bridge.

He's a 10th level SPERG

What exactly is that bridge even for?
It looks like the small dip that it goes over isn't even that bad

What sort of laptop is that?

it's probably a Lemote

Lemote Yeeloong
stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

HOW DO I GET RID OF MY CPU MICROCODE ETHERNET CONTROLLER FIRMWARE AND HDD FIRMWARE I WANT FREEDOM REEEEEEEEEEEE

>tfw compiling some opensource and hundreds of warnings are being thrown

Need to convert some FLAC to mp3 in a hurry, but can't end with a total shit.
Is there anything wrong, quality-wise, with just importing them into Audacity and export them as 320 mp3 with no normalization?

what is it?

Use a hammer?

ffmpeg -i flac.flac mp3.mp3

Right now I'm trying to install scipy, numpy and some others through pip.

I fucking hate pip. I would install the modules through apt-get but then you get older versions with missing features.

pip installation is not compilation.

Use sudo to install system-wide. Use a virtualenv to install locally. Read the errors and install dependencies if necessary.

Stallman's life looks awesome.

>pip installation is not compilation
wew

What's the irc

From the debian website
>For convenience for some users, this unofficial alternative build includes non-free firmware for extra support for some awkward hardware.
>awkward hardware

Well that is rude.

I think I broke mu Linux. I installed Debian stretch and was trying to install Nvidia drivers but adding contrib non free to sources.list in libre office changed the file type or something. Now apt doesn't work because it can't read sources.list. I think I'm doomed to use windows forever.

Are you embarresed that your awkward hardware needs special support to compete?

>libre office
Lol, it is a text file dude! Just grab the second example from wiki.debian.org/SourcesList and change jessie for stretch.

What's the linux equivalent of notepad and how do I open it? I'm new and I don't know what to do

Mousepad is the equivalent in XFCE

Probably nano for the terminal (it instructions on bottom of screen ^ = ctrl), for the gui idk.

Actually it looks like there is an example sources file you can steal.

sudo cp /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/sources.list /etc/apt/
In thi terminal if you haven't fixed it already.

Im sorry are these pictures of stahlman real?

Do you think he is a myth? He spoke at my university once when I was there. I didn't go though. Bigfoot didn't do that.

I got it working, just made a new text file. Though nothing else work. Know how to install the latest Nvidia drivers?

Just install the package nvidia-driver
It is a metapackage that will pull down the acutal required packages.

i typed in apt install nvidia-driver to get it, but the terminal says it is unable to locate package nvidia driver.

I had a drive loaded with Gentoo and a bunch of files on an old laptop which had a bios supervisor password set so that it didn't boot or even allow access to the bios without first entering the password. I no longer have the laptop but I kept the drive and now when I connect it, it doesn't show up. I put it in my new laptop and tried booting from it and it prompts me for a password before allowing me access to the bios just like the old laptop did (even though I haven't set any bios passwords on the new laptop). And when I enter the password that I had set, it says that the password I entered is invalid. How am I supposed to get the files on my drive?

actually I can't install any packages from the main repository lol

Check your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Make sure the repositories are present and uncommented.

God I fucking love some of the qutebrowser hotkeys. It's like browsing the internet in vim with input modes and everything.

This link selection overlay thing is amazing. I don't know if I'll be able to go back to other browsers without it.

Too bad it's insecure.

In what way?

Also, another solution anyway would just be to develop some plugin for firefox or whatever that makes it behave the same way

I assume they are referring to the old webkit backend instead of webengine or webkit-ng.

There are Deb repositories there, I didn't touch them. Also I am in root because I entered a root password so sudo isn't installed.

Is it something that will improve over time, and still being developed for? Or is it going to remain insecure/no longer be developed?

Also they aren't commented like with the pound sign or anything

Do you have an internet connection? A DNS connection? Try ping -c 3 www.google.com. If you get back three packets, do a apt-get install update.

> There are Deb repositories there
Are they the right ones? Did you fuck something up? We can't tell you because we are not reading over your shoulder you muppet.

Did you run `apt update` after you "fixed" the sources.list file?

>Is it something that will improve over time, and still being developed for? Or is it going to remain insecure/no longer be developed?
What, qtwebkit? Yeah it has been revived and is being developed but just recently so it hasn't been picked up by many distros yet. If you mean qutebrowser it never stopped being developed and I don't know what insecurity you are talking about.

Yeah I have a dns connection. when i enter apt-get install update is says E: Unable to locate package update.

I don't know if they are the right ones, where do I find that out. I don't know shit about linux. I understand that there is a place where you download stuff specific to your distro and apt is the function name to get them.

>apt-get install update
Sorry. It should be apt-get update. (Way past my bedtime)

imagine you are out on a hike, and you end up running out of water. you try to head back and this situation happens. the only way to get some water is across this bridge, what do you do?

>and I don't know what insecurity you are talking about.
Me either. Some other user said qutebrowser was insecure

I mean write them here so we can check. If you are to new to know how to copy and past just run

nc termbin.com 9999 < /etc/apt/sources.list

in a terminal and write the url it prints out here.

i tried it, i don't think it can see the package reposityory. It's late I'm tired and I think i'm just going to delele and reinstall tommorrow. fuck it.

Approach cautiosly, do not startle!

"Umm, excuse me sir but you are restricting my freedom to cross the bridge... I would like to pass so I can drink some of that refreshing free water over there."

Fucking hell man, write the actual error messages. What is the pont in just relaying your interpretation when, if you knew what they meant, you wouldn't be here asking for help.

Sorry man, thanks for your help and others.

When you reach the end of the bridge you hear a rumble from the other side. You no longer see rms, instead you see a stampeding gnu running right at you, screaming at you that you should NOT have installed that proprietary garbage application when you were but a young kid and that you now must be sacrificed to the free software gods.
What do you do?

Yell "Pepsi sucks!" and do a backflip.

The ropes snap, you land with a thud and maybe a sprained ankle. The gnu lands headfirst, snapping its neck. When the dust settles you spot a nude rms dead, with his trusty thinkpad X60 in his clutched hands. Then you hear a plane overhead, with what looks like two people parachuting in. You're still thirsty.
what do you do?

Grab the tablet and find some bushes to hide out in. There are probably enough rants saved as draft emails to fuel dozens of shitposts. And his gpg keys.

You don't manage to find a tablet. You do manage to find and grab his thinkpad from his cold dead hands, but when you try to boot up, you see a emacs prompt asking you to insert toe jam. But you notice the jumpers are just about to land in between your bush and rms' dead corpse. You're even more thirsty now.
what do you do?

Why creating LiveUSB is so buggy?
Is it because third party applications uses it's isolinux/syslinux or because the ISO file was meant to be burned on CD/DVD instead?

Be still and obsverve. If death from thirst is impending. Drink urine.

As a casual user I like the ease of creating service files. And because it is the standard. That's like asking "name one reason why to use antibiotics that is not 'they work'".

That's when you learn to package for your distribution.

i just fucked yo bitch in my gucci flip flops

There are plugins for other browsers. I use such a plugin with Firefox.

What's that gf link? What happens when you click on it?

You begin to drink your urine, too thirsty to care about the jumpers. You are almost sated, when a lone jumper approaches your bush and says, "I want to thank you personally on behalf of GOD, for taking out the CIA NIGGER." You are startled by this, but before you can say anything else, he says "Oh sorry, forgot to introduce myself, name's Terry."
fin.

Literally, non-ironically just dd.

Secret to getting a GF. Clicking it summons one, but she checks if you're running any non-free software.

Whew, gib link. Reckon nonfree kernel blobs are a no no?

What's it called?

Question. Why does does it have to be free? What's wrong with someone making a good project and asking money for hours invested?

here we go

Ok

I use VimFX. There is (was) also Vimperator and Pentadactyl.

I have ebooks in pdf format that i wanna read but they're all black text on a white background which is fucking painful. Is there any way I can change the text/background colour?

I don't know Stallman's answer. But as far as I can tell the only phillosophical leap Stallman makes is that he strongly associates binary data with source code.

Because think about this, you literally cannot stop people from copying/changing a binary. The only reason we even have a concept of ownership for software is simply because our human brains can't understand/manipulate binary.
But if you imagine a world where we could read binary easily, then it actually would be almost identical to Stallman's vision.

I know that, does that apply for Windows ISOs as well?
And I've had bad experience even when using dd, could it be the USB flash drive fault?

That is a shit analogy because I am not already using an equivalent alternative to antibiotics.

reminder that slackware is shit and should not be used by anyone

So we pay for compiled software?

Is there a way for me to find out if installing libreboot will brick my computer? Have a very old laptop and doubt my hardware has been tested with it.

>go to their websites
>read through documentation
>find page which lists compatible hardware

If you couldn't even figure this out, chances are you won't be able to do the actual thing.

I figured the list of hardware was non-exhaustive in terms of what it would actually run on.

Duly noted

Even puppy linux and SLAX?

Gentelmen, I have gigabyte mobo with ryzen 1700 CPU, would be nice if sensors would work, but it doesn't (doesn't detect any of them).
Is this because of kernel or mobo BIOS? Presumably both..?
Anyone of you using ryzen CPU and have working sensors?

...

Oh, never mind, turns out I'm just retarded.
LM-sensors doesn't support ryzen CPUs yet.

I want to host 2 open source web applications. One of which uses Postgresql and the second one uses MongoDB.

Assuming they are gonna be heavily used, should I host them on two separate servers, or on one, more expensive? Is it a bad practice to use different kinds of DB on one server?

>open source

>ubuntu the grub-efi-amd64-signed package failed to install

I already have an efi partition but it can't detect it. It's fat32 based and doesn't have boot properties (the instaler doesn't offer that option)

I already disabled safe boot and fast boot
what do?

why does white monospace font on black background look so hard/scary to normies?
This pic is basically equivalent to opening C:\ in explorer, but they never even bother to read what it says.

given the risk factor, you better assume the list is exhaustive

I can't use chmod on a ntfs partition right? So is it possible to convert ntfs into ext4 without deleting everything on the partition?

Right, NTFS doesn't support user permissions.

No. You gotta copy it all off, format, copy back. You can't do it in place.

If you are just trying to mount a NTFS partition so you can access it from linux you can pass it the user and group id to mount as in in the options in fstab or to mount. Like on the archwike page below in the Allowing group/user heading.

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G

Is there any terminal Sup Forums client?

Well i have it set up to mount, but the problem is that i need to allow myself access to the whole partition, but i have other users where i need to let them into only specific folders on the ntfs partitions (like photos folders and all its subfolders but not the porn folder etc)

Can't fill out the captchas in the terminal. elinks etc might work if you get a pass. Or just to read.