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More bullshit from (((Red Hat))), this time it's a media (((system))) meant to replace PulseAudio, Jack, and handle video as well! Of course it's going to be heavily baked into Gnome and its Wayland implementation. Expect your 'apps' to hard depend on Pipewire next year and enjoy being Red Hat's beta tester! blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2017/09/19/launching-pipewire/
Eli Hill
whos larry?
Carson Reyes
install gentoo
Alexander Foster
Anyone using neovim? Any reason to still use vim?
Bentley Hill
>mfw trying to get debian to recognize my 860m
Joshua Taylor
How do I become a GNU/Linux master and start contributing to the OS?
Justin Harris
install gentoo
Carter Rivera
spam threads with screenfetch and anime girl backgrounds
Ian Thompson
Invest in programming socks and women's lingerie
Christian Rodriguez
>replace Jack lmfao this will never ever ever happen
Jose Reyes
Hey guise are tech support questions allowed? My Ubuntu /boot/ partition is full of old kernels and I can't update I tried clearing out the old images with >sudo dpkg --force-all -P {name of old image} but that borks apt-get and when I do >sudo apt-get -f install to resolve it, it wants to use more space than I have Am I pretty much fucked? I don't think I can resize if the main partition is encrypted
Henry Smith
>Anyone using neovim?
Yep.
>Any reason to still use vim?
Vi compatibility? GVim?
Use ":h nvim-features-removed" to see the major missing things.
Thomas Baker
tech support is mandatory make these useless neckbeards helpful
You could just go into /boot and delete the old kernels.
One of the main advantages of not using babby distros is that you actually know what system files you can fuck around with.
Juan Reyes
I've read the documentation. Unfortunately the documentation assumes that clearing out the old kernels will free up enough disk space. In this case, following the instructions requires more space than physically available.
Jaxon Cooper
See The old kernels are gone. The problem is what happens after that when I try to fix dependencies.
Xavier Long
Trying to have mpv open an iso from file manager I have this as a .desktop file so far but all it does its open mpv but not load the iso. Am i missing something here? Is there another way to do so? [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=MPV ISO Exec=/usr/bin/mpv --player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui --dvd-device=%U Icon=mpv Terminal=false Categories=AudioVideo;Audio;Video;Player;TV;
Aiden Martin
It's because you're not clearing out everything that depends on those kernels. When you go back to fix your system, it tries to reinstall the kernels because obviously things still depend on them.
What you should've done is omitted the --force-all flag on your dpkg command. That would've popped up the dependencies, which you could've then deleted.
Luke Edwards
How can I delete an existing MKV cover and replace it with another using mkvpropedit?
Andrew Clark
stupid question but i have no need to dual boot anymore, i have installed arch on my laptop and i would like to have my second harddrive on my desktop 100% free so whats the easiest way i should go about this?
Jayden Morales
To do what?
Anthony Barnes
Thanks. I guess I'll try letting it try to reinstall everything until it runs out of space, and then try it without the --force-all
I assume the alternative is to figure out hundreds of dependencies manually which I'm obviously not going to do. Everything is backed up so if this doesn't work I'll just wipe and install something else. Maybe Debian, that worked fine for me for a good 3-4 years before I decided to try something "different"
Eli Smith
A wallpaper for all of you friendly Gnu-Linux users. I know thos are not gnus, but are still pretty.
Jayden Ortiz
My system is 100% gnu free, this includes my desktop Nice try stallman
Charles Rivera
i'm trying to "revert" the dual boot, i'll never use it since i have linux on it's own machine now. i've looked online and i keep seeing system repair disc or whatever but i'm reading you need a product key to finish the repair process which i don't have / don't want to buy.
William Foster
What the fuck is your goal here? >revert What the fuck are you talking about? Just fucking dont use it and overwrite it with shit you do want
Liam Adams
You know, revert. As in "kindly do the needful and revert solution promptly. The system goes live tomorrow"
Landon Taylor
Since you haven't gotten responses in 3 threads, consider going to or asking someone in one of the many tech support places on the internet.
To help you get on your way, please try to clearly state what it is you're trying to do. If you're trying to open a single .iso file from the file manager, it would probably make more sense to just open it via the "Open with..." command that almost every file manager uses. Speaking of which, please clarify which file manager you're using and what kind of .iso this is (is this from a disc you've inserted or is it a file on your system?).
Nathan Richardson
b-but what will happen to grub?
Thomas Ortiz
thank you all for being nice all the time I love all of you
Adrian Allen
Late comment, thanks for the help kind user, but typing the package name in terminal returns nothing and I searched through root and couldn't find it either. However I did find the source files in /var/lib/pacman/local/dolphin-megasync-git-blahblah, and the .tar.gz at /var/cache/pacman/pkg.
Dylan Green
Gonna drop this here in the hopes someone has an answer.
Jaxson Clark
>it would probably make more sense to just open it via the "Open with..." Doing this makes a 2 hour iso(correctly mounted with --dvd-device= via command line its the full length) only last 7 minutes. Mpv is not reading it as an iso and is reading it as some other media type. If using the command switch it works properly(as excepcted). My issue here if you read my post, would be creating a .desktop file that opens iso files properly. >command that almost every file manager uses They do this with .desktop files within /usr/share/applications. >Speaking of which, please clarify which file manager you're using Any of them. >what kind of .iso this is Its an iso file, you know the ones that end in ".iso" that reside on within the filesystem
Tyler Parker
Breh, windows can't write to ext4 partitions. If that is indeed what the screenshot shows.
Try making the note in Windows, and accessing it in Linux.
Hudson Evans
i got this working guys i now have to enter primusrun every time i want something to use my discrete graphics is there any way i can automate everything to run this in the terminal when i open an application through the gui or a way to turn off my integrated graphics entirely?
David Davis
How would I go about setting up per workspace keybinds in i3?
for example, on workspace 1 $SUPER+ENTER would open up a local terminal but on workspace 2 it would open up a terminal SSH'd into a server..
Nolan Adams
Are you retarded?
Jeremiah Hall
Why wouldn't you just make a different keybind?
Samuel Murphy
>If using the command switch it works properly(as excepcted)
Most file managers also have a "Choose a custom application" section where you can create a custom application (from a specific or a set of specific commands) to open a given file.
In your case, you'd want to open up that menu and then paste in what you have in the Exec line for your .desktop file.
Xavier Price
And it does not work. This is why i am using a desktop file.
James Bell
i am considering moving to a systemd-free distro. which one do you recommend? redpill me on void linux.
Justin Russell
>systemd-free Are people still fighting this fight? Wasn't that like 8 years ago?
Cooper Allen
I'd like to split i3 workspaces to represent physical machines, each workspace should have the same keybinds but open applications targeted at that machine.
so have a common keybind for a terminal, vncviewer, file manger etc but depending on the workspace have it pointed at a specif server.
Alexander Reyes
ntfs-3g
Xavier Garcia
there are people who are actively fighting the vim-emacs war
Nathaniel Nguyen
Use %f instead of %U.
Jayden Sanchez
No change.
Ethan Gomez
xbps-src is an excellent source-based package manager that you'll learn to get really friendly with, as you'll be building from source a lot. I would point you towards Void's documentation, except there is none.
Juan Rodriguez
Hello everyone. I modified the BIOS of a Chromebook (Acer 14 CB3-431) with Mr.Chrombox's firmware and installed GalliumOS instead of ChromeOS. Was this a good decision? How do you rate GalliumOS? I've had a really good experience with it but admittedly I don't really know what I'm doing.
Jeremiah Thomas
Yeah, sort of. Although only tacitly, I think the unspoken conclusion to that battle, by sheer number of users, is Vim. Emacs will always have its niche--because it's an exceptional text editor--but the userbase is no longer in so much flux that it would encourage passionate discussion in the way that would elicit flaming and propaganda in disinformation. The dust has settled, so to speak. And now that people understand the capacity that both text editors have and where they perform best, choice isn't really swayed by debate. Because we know everything, already. I suspect that it'll be the same for systemd. It's only a matter of time.
Aha! A meme. Why? Why should I install Gentoo? Could you tell me?
Jason Morris
awwww
Jack Perry
When you don't fight, you aren't able to win.
Ayden Hernandez
Hey guys. I Found the perfect OS and it's not Temple OS or Gentoo. Qubes OS is simply awesome. It's designed for security and based on Xen. It starts a GNU/Linux dom0 without internet connection and system VMs sys-net and sys-firewall. It also starts app VMs for userdefined security domains, by default personal, work, untrusted and vault. All VMs are read only (except for user data) and based on template VMs. To try software simply install it and if you don't like it, restart the VM. To install something permanently in or update all VMs of a certain type, use the corresponding template VM. There are also VMs for whonix which give you an environment where all traffic is routed through tor. You can also start disposable VMs and standalone VMs i.e. running Windows or Kali Linux or use virtual networking to capture all traffic your Windows VM sends to Redmond. You can install a preconfigured version of i3wm as desktop environment for pure awesomeness.
Owen Williams
pfSense has a feature that will give nice URL's to DHCP static maps pfSesne is assigned the domain example.com assign a certain device on the network to be 192.168.1.10 on the hostname "foobar" entering foobar.example.com on the network will usually resolve to 192.168.1.10
this works for every device on my network, except for my laptop running arch linux I can't figure out why it's having DNS issues every once and awhile it will loose DNS and not resolve anything, but this is semi-rare and only stops working for a few seconds $ cat /etc/resolv.conf # Generated by resolvconf # domain is changed to REDACTED for opsec # 192.168.1.1 is the address of pfSense nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 nameserver 75.75.75.75 nameserver 75.75.76.76 domain REDACTED nameserver 8.8.4.4 nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 192.168.1.1
Owen Price
please to never use GNU and gentoo or larry in the same post thank for understanded
Christian James
actually, ChromeOS is forked from Gentoo. So in a sense, you've already installed a Gentoo fork that's super abstracted from the source.
Ethan Morales
u want 192.168.1.1 at the top
Wyatt Smith
You need to also add dvd:// before the --dvd-device option. So you'd do
It's time to face the facts. Richard Stallman is nothing more than a whining, overly obese autistic manbaby who has not done anything beneficial for the computing OR technology world in the past 20 years. Seriously. Name something that RMS has done after 1995 besides bitching, crying, and moaning about bullshit that does not matter, or making some retarded, incomprehensible speech.
He demands that Linux be called GNU/Linux. That is fucking insane. The only reason GNU, GPL, and FSF are still a THING is because of Linus and the invention of Linux. If anything, Stallman should rename GNU to Linux/GNU, because without Linus, the GNU, GPL, and FSF would not be a thing anymore.
Stallman still has the fucking gonads to act like he's superior to everyone else. Saying shit such as "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone" right after Steve Jobs' death. What an asshole. Stallman has not even programmed a single line of code since 2008, that was AFTER he essentially stopped in 1992.
He should be fucking grateful Linus stepped in to save his ass, and even allowing him to take partial credit for his achievements. If it wasn't for Linus, he would be nothing, he would probably be dead in a Burger King dumpster right now.
Besides, what has he ever even done? He claims to have written eMacs, but in reality he actually cloned gosmacs (the first eMacs that was made for UNIX). He didn't even write 50% of the code in eMacs.
You might say he wrote GCC and GDB, but the truth is that he initally wrote the C compiler, but now the vast majority for the same compiler is done by contributors.
He's a washed up, morbidly obese man who tries to stay relevant by having these retarded arguments that are similar to those found in the Soviet Union. Face it GNU/Freetards, Richard Stallman is a fat dickhead, and the only reason his name is still in the books is because of Linus's achievements.
Juan Lewis
It's time to face the facts. Linus Torvalds is nothing more than a whining, overly obese autistic manbaby who has not done anything beneficial for the computing OR technology world in the past 20 years. Seriously. Name something that Torvalds has done after 1991 besides bitching, crying, and moaning about bullshit that does not matter, or making some retarded, incomprehensible blogpost on Google+.
He demands that GNU/Linux be called Linux. That is fucking insane. The only reason Linux is even a THING is because of RMS and the Free Software movement. If anything, Linus should rename Linux to The GNU kernel, because this is the most common system where Linux is installed.
Linus still has the fucking gonads to act like he's superior to everyone else. Saying shit such as "My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god." or "I hope you all die a painful death." What an asshole. Linus wrote like the first 2 percent of Linux, everything else was developed by the community.
He should be fucking grateful RMS stepped in to save his ass, and even allowing him to take partial credit for his achievements. If it wasn't for the GPL, he would be nothing, Linux would probably still sit on some FTP, being proprietary.
He's a washed up, morbidly obese man who tries to stay relevant by having these retarded arguments that are similar to those found in Silicon Valley. Face it Linuxers, Linus is a beardless man, and the only reason his name is still in the books is because of Stallman's achievements.
Jose Cook
is the same with mk2?
Jackson Ortiz
Suddenly 16 GB of RAM totally make sense. I started to use VMs for everything.
Jonathan Brown
>GNU is the most common system where Linux installed >what is android
Anyone have a suggestion here? MEGA isn't showing up in my application menu (KDE). Pacaur says it's installed.
Jayden White
So I am planning on using KVM/QEMU to virtualize Windows, I am not doing passthrough, I just want something more reliable than VirtualBox on Fedora.
Is there any way to get some basic 3D acceleration going? Otherwise it will be as slow as molasses.
Nathaniel Gutierrez
install botnetware
Bentley Thomas
after you passthrough a gpu to a vm, how easy is it to get it back on the host os?
Jacob Jenkins
wat
Dominic Mitchell
just enable the gpu and restart.
William Sullivan
What can linux do that windows can't?
Joshua Cooper
Linux isnt malware,everything you do isnt recorded and sent to HQ
Justin Brooks
Keep the user safe and secure?
Noah Stewart
I need help. I did CTRL+X some hours ago on my Debian PC, moving an important folder I had to a thumb drive, so I could put the files on another Debian PC I have.
But, when I inserted the thumb drive on the second PC, it was shown as blank. Inserting the drive on the first PC shows it as blank too. The space on the disk is certainly occupied, as I can see on properties, but I cannot see any file on graphical nor terminal, nor sudo, nor normal user.
I've been trying for some hours, and I don't have any clue about how to make the files appear again. Undeleting them on the PC was tried, without sucess. My thumb drive is partitioned as NTFS.
