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What is stopping anyone from typing alias ls='rm -rf ~' while I'm away for a second?
Xavier Ward
I have 200gb free on my ssd, would it be worth it to create say a 32gb patition with f2fs and use it as a build directory for the package manager/source compilation? Is there anything inherently wrong with this?
Justin Bailey
How do unpack a bz2 file(or any file) in ranger?
Jace Gomez
Can someone point me to a guide on why the mali GPUs dont work with hardware acceleration for 4k videos on GNU/Linux? In particular Im using hardkernels odroid c2 and the FireFly Rk3399. From the reading I have done it seems to relate to the SOC module and not the mali GPU itself. how come these devices have full hardware accell when on Android but not on Linux, whats the difference, what am I missing?
Alexander Nelson
I've created an ipset list using ipset create blocklist hash:net
and adding ips to it using ipset add blocklist X.X.X.X
But when i go to add the ipset list to iptables with iptables -I INPUT -m set --match-set blocklist src -j DROP
It says iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
Am i missing a command somewhere?
Dylan Sullivan
nothing! you are fucked!
Zachary Rogers
You lock your screen with a password...
Brody Perez
Didn't get much interest in the previous thread, so I'll ask again here.
Anyone try Linux From Scratch and build anything cool with it?
Jacob Foster
Install GuixSD
Nathaniel Hill
Install a metadistribution inspired by FreeBSD's ports tree.
Josiah Martinez
I'm running Gentoo
Ryder Campbell
What the hell are you expecting, you fucking retard?
Luis Phillips
After reading the book, I came to the conclusion that it better should be called GNU/Linux from scratch.
Christian Johnson
Hear, hear!
Parker Brown
this
Logan Garcia
To find at least one person who tried it. I remember lurking on here a few years ago and seeing a couple people post about it, but maybe they don't post here anymore.
Logan Rivera
>this is considered adequate desktop security in 2017 What's the point of any of these exploits that get patched when this exists?
Nathan Phillips
Yeah I would consider this an exploit.
Ryan Reyes
...
Zachary Cooper
linux has become too mainstream should we switch to bsd?
Jace Ortiz
use bash like a non retard
Adam Brooks
bsd is for poseurs switch to 9front if you want to be trve kvlt
Michael Lewis
Meal is for kids.
Hudson Allen
ebin
Cooper Walker
Issue a bash command through ranger.
Evan Watson
pic related is something I built with LFS
Justin Brown
lel
Andrew Turner
Just switched from Linux Mint to Manjaro, and everything seems to be working fine, but I'm concerned with the grub at boot. With Mint, I would set the boot order in my bios to boot "ubuntu" which would load into my grub pretty fast. Now that no longer works with Manjaro and I have to set my boot option as my ssd. This causes it to wait at a black screen for a few seconds before it finally loads up grub. Is this normal? Or is there a better way to boot into my grub at startup?
Landon Jenkins
Your bios wouldnt see "ubuntu" it would only see the devices. Set your ssd as the primary boot device Go to your grub.cfg and change its settings accordingly for your boot up
Camden Lopez
How the fuck do you switch easily between desktops in KDE Plasma? As well as how do you move a specific app to another desktop.
Is it possible to run two different DE in different virtual terminals?
Justin Price
Thoughts on systemd?
Carson Ward
No You can do it on tty's though
Nathaniel Watson
ttys are virutal terminals silly
Hudson Smith
>DE Never tried that, but I think installing multiple DEs on one system will pretty much fuck your butt. >WM That works, try this: xinit i3 -- :1
Justin Moore
Actually "ubuntu" was one of the options to boot from. Along with Windows Boot Manager and all my other devices/drives. I think it's still there too. But when booting from it, it just leaves an error and have to restart system. But I'm happy to hear that the correct way to boot is from the ssd. Thanks a lot user.
Ryder Howard
Suggest me some aliases for: b, d, e, f, m, n, p, r, s, u, y, z
Luke Adams
Are there any programs designed to extend your vim theme to the rest of bash/tmux? Even getting just the background to overspill automatically would be pretty ace.
whatever your most-used command is. perhaps sudo, maybe cd, or whatever.
Jaxon Foster
>Your text editor of choice. Already set up as (v)im. >man Good idea!
Colton Nguyen
e for editor. f could be a commonly used find alias. m for your favorite media player. p for pager (less, more, most).
Kayden Parker
>github.com/dylanaraps/wal.vim/blob/master/colors/ Thanks! I am going to search around a little more to try and find one that works the other way (since I want it to switch automagically with day/night and also with the quick switch theme manager) but if I can't do that, I'll do this.
Lucas Wright
I'm considering replacing my refurb MacBook Pro 9,2 (which is currently on Ubuntu 15.04) with some variety of a ThinkPad. Apparently Ubuntu 16+ is not officially supported by Canonical. Should I replace or upgrade?
Andrew Hughes
That's a stupid idea. You set up aliases for commands you use, not the inverse.
Aaron Flores
Is there a distro similar to Kali that has good driver support out of the box? I tried Ubuntu and Mint, it worked horribly on my laptop, zero support for AMD graphics. Installed Manjaro and it shit the bed after a driver install. But, amazingly, Kali just werks, out of the box, wifi, bluetooth, webcam, everything out of the box in the live cd. It's based on debian, so I tried a debian live cd, and the keyboard didn't fucking even work.
>just install Kali then faggot
Kali is designed for pentesting, even the official website says it's not recommended for general use, as it's heavily modded for that one purpose.
Jaxson Perry
How long does apt keep log files for? I tried looking for the log files from when I first installed Linux on my computer and I was installing everything I needed but it seems to only go back one year.
Juan Fisher
anyone? I can't figure out what to do I tried deleting the saved connection details and it didn't work
Lucas Taylor
>Is there a distro made specifically for a live medium that isn't like it's made for a live medium?
Justin Thompson
how do you deal with fonts in the web browser? I'm not letting the websites choose their own fotns and I'm using the google fonts. they look fine, but when I zoom they turn too dark, almost bold. I don't know what to do about it. any advice? pic related
Matthew Flores
Install Gentoo.
Grayson Roberts
Never mind, as I typed this, Fedora just werked.
Thanks for nothin' fags.
Cameron Cooper
I'm sorry you're so damn stupid.
Adam Stewart
>Friendly GNU/Linux Thread >Friendly
T-Thanks.
Angel Evans
>Thanks for nothin' fags. >go away >RUDE
Jaxon Price
"Thanks for nothin' fags."
Oliver Collins
How do I fix the kernel panic error? Already tried updating the initrd and grub.
Julian Howard
Oh c'mon, you guys. "Fag" is almost a term of endearment around these parts. Didn't mean anything bad by it.
Oliver Hall
Okay, faggot.
Nolan Cruz
What does it say?
Michael Lewis
End kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block
Joseph Thomas
Maybe to a crossboarder like you.
Samuel Gomez
Tried installing Ubuntu from USB using YAMI and got this error when trying to boot. Any idea? Can't find anything.
Julian Cox
bump
Ryan Howard
Just use Rufus.
Caleb Cooper
can I use i3 gaps with xubuntu xfce?
Mason Rogers
I'll try thanks
Adam Evans
The programs you use (Xfce's) don't depend on a window manager (i3).
Liam Perez
I have an external drive that I move between a FreeBSD desktop and a Debian laptop. I have run:
chmod -R 777 my_drive
..so I don't have ownership problems. Did I fuck up?
Matthew Taylor
Post ur sources.list
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # OFFICIAL DEBIAN REPOS #------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
###### 3rd Party Binary Repos ###Debian Multimedia deb [arch=amd64,armel,armhf,i386,kfreebsd-amd64,kfreebsd-i386,mips,mipsel,powerpc] deb-multimedia.org stable main non-free
>non-free repos >unironically using botnet browser on gnu+linux >unironically using tor aka. NSA honeypot >being proud of a sources list generator list
Brody Jones
Why i can't view thumbnails on Debian9 Sup Forums?
Brayden Martin
>giving everyone world-readable/writeable/execute
Yeah that's pretty fucked up.
Thomas Cook
...
Christian Lee
*giving every file and folder
Lucas Hall
Thanks for spamming the thread with worthless bullshit. Oh, and hey, you even posted a hookshit image, not even related to your post.
Bentley Turner
What's the sensible way of doing this? I got fed up with having to chown/chgrp files when switching them between machines.
Jacob Cooper
You create groups on both computers and add both users to the group while giving the group read and write permissions.
tl;dr: you use the permission system in the most basic way
Andrew Rivera
>I got fed up with having to chown/chgrp files when switching them between machines. Well write a script that does it for you. Or create a user on both machines with the same UID/GID then you shouldn't have a problem with permissions getting fucked up.
Also depending on who needs to access the files and what files are on the HDD you can utilize "find" find /my_drive/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; find /my_drive/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Evan Cooper
give your user the same uid on both machines
Sebastian Martinez
This, or you can use ACLs if you use them. setfacl -R -d -m g:users:rwX .
Everyone in an "users" group has access now. Feel free to specify as many users or groups or whatever as you want with that.
Gavin White
Right... thanks.
So umm, assuming the drives just sit in my room, in my house, are never used in any other context than transferring files between my various *nix devices... "chmod 775" and making groups that the users on the different machines can share would be more helpful than "chmod 777".... if I get hacked? Never? Essentially never? Should I really bother?
The general impression I've picked up from the *nix community is that throwing root around and lax permissions are some kind of huge no-no, but I don't really know why.
Parker King
Hi /flgbt/, how can I make loonix to remember widows size and positions? It's literally the only thingy that keeps me from using it.
Elijah Sanchez
>kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block >already tried updating initrd and grub Will reinstalling the kernel work?
Josiah Cox
This is a functionality of your WM/DE. Pick one that does what you want.
I myself have awesome set up to start certain programs always start in specific workspaces (tags) and with certain settings (fullscreened, floating ...) rather than making it remember how it used to be.
Liam Ross
Linux Mint or Fedora?
Joseph Long
You don't know anything about distributions, nor will you use the one idiots tell you is "better".
Isaac Hill
I just checked in a VM: In KDE plasma you can right click on title bar -> more actions -> special window settings
and
system settings -> window management -> window rules -> new
Juan Richardson
how can i override which theme an application uses (so not the default gtk theme) on per application basis?
Austin Mitchell
GTK_THEME="theme:variant" /usr/bin/program
Works only since GTK+ 3 version something.
Jaxson Garcia
>Had issues installing Kali on 120gb ssd laptop > WiFi wasn't connecting > tried the same process several times > plugged in ethernet cable > installed fine > installed Kali on the 120GB ssd. > Took up all space except a 5 GB swap file. > Decided to load up ubuntu just for office libre. > Forgot to set up free space to put Ubuntu into. > Have to start from scratch. > it's 4:22 a.m.
Colton Perez
penetration testing
Oliver Jenkins
> Kali + Ubuntu Eh, what for. Run one or the other from a VM of sorts.
> Have to start from scratch. Probably could have shrunk and installed into the resulting free space if you had the right filesystem and LVM partitions.
Wyatt Moore
Oh fuckit, let the hackers try and use my own files against me, I'm creating a group for my user accounts on all my machines called "machines".
Now... I'm thinking why not "chmod -R 770 my_folder"? No one except me should ever need to even view the files, let alone execute or modify them. When they hack me maybe they'll be running commands on my machine with the permissions of some running application, eg Firefox... when they try "ls /home/username/kiddie_n0rp_divx" they'll get "permission denied"... they won't even be able to view it. Would that come back and bite me in the arse some day?
Austin Stewart
Excellent post.
John Martinez
LMAO > if I had the right filesystem and LVM partitions Because I'm retarded - was making a full kali box then decided I needed office...
Jason Campbell
You're right. You are retarded and definitely deserve it.
Jackson Campbell
>such a hacker, he uses kali to hack the world >doesn't even know how to connect to a network, nor how to troubleshoot basic things
