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Dylan Parker
What is the best live distro for accessing a foreign computer (that probably has slow and old hardware) if you want to do basic stuff like web browsing and managing files on your usb stick?
Henry Ortiz
Redpill me on command line music players. I tried cmus and moc and they both seem kind of... pokey. Like the controls and layout isn't that intuitive to me, and I use vim daily.
What does fglt use?
Levi Diaz
lubuntu live cd I guess, everything should werk and is very light. You can always go with some super minimalist version but the catch is, sometimes using the lightest of the most pleb mainstream distro kinda works out better.
Wyatt Garcia
mpd+ncmpcpp
Benjamin Murphy
I want to be a girl (female)
Henry Torres
Void, Parabola or Devuan?
Aiden Hughes
Trying to get firefox to run in a sandbox using firejail.I have the symlink to firejail setup but when i go to launch firefox it complains about missing any sort of profile to launch.The '.mozilla' directory is indeed owned by the user and in this situation has been given '+rwx' permissions.Loading firefox without firejail, launches normally, having access to all profiles as it regularly does. What could be causing the firejailed firefox to mail to have access to its profiles? In the firefox.profile firejail profile the '.mozilla' folder is whitelisted
Nolan Torres
>I want to be a girl (female) Same here, this being a girl (male) thing sucks, you can't even become a mom, it's like buying an EA game without dlc.
Aiden Perry
You would probably be stinky and unclean even as a girl, like tomoko
Josiah Rodriguez
>it's like buying an EA game without dlc. [x] elevated kek
Logan Ward
cmus is ez tier, if you use vim the commands are borderline the same
:add ~/Music/
tab around shit and c stop/start play
Luke Taylor
>You would probably be stinky and unclean even as a girl, like tomoko I bet anons would still let me put my stinky tomoko feet on their chinkpads while we discussed about free software.
Alexander Johnson
>all these queers >>>/bsdg/
Liam Rogers
How do I install bitchx on freebsd
Nolan Cook
How many times (You) are going to post this?
Gavin Garcia
Until someone spoonfeeds me
Angel Peterson
USB is NOT libre.
Zachary Campbell
Are they still trying to make an operating system?
Ryan Fisher
If you mean the mistyped Trisquel it's already a working GNU/Linux system
If you mean the Hurd, it's still under development.
Brody Brooks
Can someone post a basic xresources file for urxvt just to fix the shitty spacing and stuff
Dominic Perez
I added my ~/Music but it didn't do shit. I followed the tutorial at github.com/cmus/cmus/blob/master/Doc/cmus-tutorial.txt and increasinglyadequate.com/cmus.html but get stuck at adding. I keep hearing a reference to it taking some amount of time to import music but for me it's instant which makes me thing it isn't doing anything. That timer at the bottom of cmus is supposed to represent the total length of all imported music but that stays at 00:00. What gives?
Ian James
So I had my fun with Ubuntu and now I would like to try another distro. Is it fine to just download it and install it?
Jonathan Williams
reminder that the only free as in freedom means of data storage is soldering a punch card reader directly to your motherboard
Lucas Bailey
AntiX
Anthony White
yep!
Christian Adams
Nice. Thanks user.
Evan Lopez
Its your font, dumb ass.
Hunter Morales
Whats an easy way to make an archived folder that needs a password to open?
Jayden Sullivan
gpg
Levi Rodriguez
What's a good bar for use with openbox? I need a task bar with a functioning system tray
Brayden Diaz
tint2
Dominic Edwards
How do you do gpg for directories though?
Dominic Wilson
tar -c foldername | gpg2 -e > folder.tar.gpg
I think you may want something like ecryptfs
Andrew Roberts
What benefit does something like compton give me? I use openbox and everything seem so work with no problems, even transparency
Jonathan Taylor
Thanks, how do I add a user ID? Sorry I've never used gpg before I'm kind of confused how to do it. I don't think I need ecryptfs I just need to encrypt a regular porn/Sup Forums folder
Joseph Davis
How do I install an linux dristro on a PC with a AMD R9 390? I've tried Ubuntu 15.10 / 16.04 / 17.10 and manjaro 17.0.6 but they all boot the GUI and go black, can someone direct me to a solution?
Kayden Cook
You need to create a set of keys(gpg --full-gen-key) then select the user id you specified
Charles Rogers
I have an r9 380 and it werks for me What do you mean by "boot the GUI"?
Zachary Reed
Please select what kind of key you want: (1) RSA and RSA (default) (2) DSA and Elgamal (3) DSA (sign only) (4) RSA (sign only)
wat do
Michael Sanchez
Follow the defaults
Connor Allen
Anyone tried the Parabola OpenRC beta?
Angel Jenkins
Aight cool and then how do you decrypt it?
Julian Allen
1. install a recent ubuntu 2. after rebooting in grub press 'e' to edit the menuitem 3. find the line starting with linux, add "nomodeset" to the end of it 4. press F10 to boot 5. while enjoying 1024x768 use the proprietary driver tool of ubuntu to install the latest amdgpu-pro driver 6. reboot, it should work
Benjamin Hernandez
Is Void FSF approved? I use it but they have nonfree repos
Michael Moore
>amdgpu-pro AbsolutelyProprietary.jpg
Landon Carter
Just use ecryptfs
David Ward
gpg --output folder.tar --decrypt folder.tar.gpg Then you have a tar file then extract that
Jace Morales
>they have nonfree repos Nothing which have those will get approved by fsf.
Henry Myers
Manjaro gets to the desktop for 1 second then goes black Ubunto gets shows the loading screen then goes black
Thanks I'm gonna try now
Elijah Price
Yeah my bad my autism meant I thought the post was asking about what FSF approved distro to install.
Jaxson Powell
why? is it easier? ok thanks brah
Joseph Scott
Yes. Just run ecryptfs-setup-private to setup encrypted directory, ecryptfs-mount-private to decrypt.
Grayson Thompson
thx m8 will try it
Sebastian Perez
Do I use amdgpu or amdgpu-pro
Alexander Stewart
If your card works with amdgpu and you don't need anything extra that the proprietary driver offers, use amdgpu.
Jeremiah Evans
thank
Mason Ward
wait what extras does amdgpu-pro offer? do any of them support freesync?
Joseph Bell
I've had multiple crashes and freezes on Antergos KDE (fresh install). I didn't install the latest xorg updates, which were published earlier today. No proprietary GPU drivers either. Does anyone know what could be the culprit?
William Williams
>wait what extras does amdgpu-pro offer? basically access to every feature your GPU has to offer. These things that the libre drivers have problems with but the proprietary has them are usually power management features, advanced 3D acceleration, GPU decoding for video and similar advanced stuff.
Parker Bailey
Only your logs/journalctl can tell. We aren't oracles.
Check your /var/log directory, especially Xorg.log
Liam Diaz
>command line is superi- Given a folder containing images from live-action and animation video, how would you, using the command line, move all live-action images to a different folder? Keep in mind this can be done trivially via manual selection in a GUI file manager.
Carson Price
They are making one called GuixSD, on the mailing list they have planes to impliment Hurd Kernal support. It would be as close as a pure GNU OS would be. Would be fun to play around with I guess.
Adrian Thomas
>gui is superi- Given a folder containing log entries from the past 2 years. Find and select each instance of "system log failed". Keep in mind this can be done trivially via automated selection in the cli.
Jaxson Jones
dunno mate If I was somehow forced to use a system where the commandline is the only way to interact with the filesystem I'd be dead sure to label the files properly. Nice attempt though.
Juan Adams
Running Linux mint. I have a thinkpad t440p and can't get the sd card reader to work. Anyone know a fix?
James Hughes
I pay you 1 (You) to fuck off back to Sup Forums.
Ayden Wood
The card reader on lspci is 02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5227 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
Has anyone had similar problems?
Andrew Stewart
I would use the command line for this because I'm not retarded. So: $ grep -rF 'system log failed' folder/ or zgrep if necessary. The point is, people who rely on GUIs see nothing wrong with also using the terminal, but those that refrain from GUIs pretend that the terminal is the solution in any scenario. Butt my example proves that a GUI is superior in this instance, as it allows visual selection of thumbnails. >If I was somehow forced to use a system where the commandline is the only way to interact with the filesystem So you admit your first solution would be to open up a GUI? And this question was in regards to after the fact; suppose you were handed the images, etc, and you had to categorize them.
Aaron Davis
I recently installed Rocks on a computer (based on CentOS 7) while trying to build a cluster. It worked fine until my friend booted his Windows 10 SSD (separate from the CentOS HDD) using the same computer. When booting, Windows restarted the computer several times which makes me think it messed with the BIOS settings and/or the HDD.
Now Rocks won't boot. I tried to use a USB with a CentOS image on it to rescue the system by reinstalling grub. grub2-install returned an error asking for a x86_64-efi modinfo.sh file instead of the i386-pc one that exists on disk.
I've also checked the BIOS settings but found nothing relevant. I've only changed the SATA controller to AHCI from IDE. The motherboard is a Asus P8H67-M PRO, it supports UEFI.
I tried reinstalling Rocks while keeping my root and home partitions (since installing Rocks takes hours), but couldn't get past the partitioning
Is this system salvageable? What should I do next?
Aiden Nguyen
You most likely need the "rts5208" driver for it, which is currently in the "staging" area of the Linux kernel (those are in-development drivers which are not considered stable yet). github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/staging/rts5208
do fgrep -i rts5208 /boot/config-`uname -r`
If the result is # CONFIG_RTS5208 is not set then your kernel doesn't have this staging module compiled. You need a new kernel with it enabled or compile the kernel yourself.
Hudson James
But I don't play video games. They're anti-art, and sterile, consumerist entertainment.
Ryder Hughes
Windows shit all over your bootloader. You need to have windows installed first and then have grub use os-prober to setup the bootloader
Luis Green
>They're anti-art, and sterile, consumerist entertainment. You fit on Sup Forums perfectly with the self hating gamers
Blake Rogers
>So you admit your first solution would be to open up a GUI? And this question was in regards to after the fact; suppose you were handed the images, etc, and you had to categorize them. How on earth would I do that in a scenario when I only have the access to a commandline interface? GNU/Linux (no idea if other operating systems too) support an abstraction layer called fbdev that allows you to display graphics in the console.
Do you really fail to understand the problem you tried to dwelve into so much that you think me or someone admitting "Yes GRAPHICAL user interface is useful for GRAPHICAL stuff? What exactly does me admitting that solve?
And how exactly does your argumentation even work? You're allowed to use the commandline interface while in a GUI but I'm not allowed to to it the other way around? What kind of abrarily retarded ruleset is that?
Asher Cooper
I did the command and got: CONFIG_RTS5208=m
what does it mean and what should I do? Thank you for responding.
Christian Gonzalez
once had trouble with my thinkpad's sd card reader. that is until i finally enabled it on the bios, that was a good laugh. to my credit, i had no reason to check that out, but it was a good lesson
Grayson King
The windows SSD isn't connected anymore. The CentOS drive wasn't connected while Windows booted either.
What should I read on? os-probe? Any specific link/article you wanna share?
Caleb Richardson
it means it's compiled as a module. Try sudo modprobe rts5208 and see if it works or if it outputs any outputs any errors (in your terminal or to the end of dmesg)
Samuel Rivera
t. Landuke
Landon Fisher
The command didn't print anything but dmesg had: [ 1855.810586] Disabling IRQ #16 [ 1960.935388] rts5208: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
Henry Cooper
sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
Landon Brooks
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done exfat-fuse is already the newest version (1.2.3-1). exfat-utils is already the newest version (1.2.3-1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Anthony Foster
I'm trying to install manjaro on a laptop After the installer finished I restarted it, but it's stuck on this sreen on boot how to fix this?
Matthew King
Arch wiki
Sebastian Jones
>NaroCAD, the best opensource CAD software for Linux was allowed to become depreciated while the abomination that is FreeCAD gets daily support.
Name me ONE good CAD program for Linux, otherwise I'm going back to Windows. Inb4 >FreeCad >OpenSCAD >Bris-CAD >LibreCAD >Cura
Charles Mitchell
Not trolling but how do you cope with the fact that your system would run 2x times faster with Windows? Why is dealing with the industry ignoring Linux worth it? I have been using Linux for 1 year, no dualboot, and I cant even play osu! even though I bought a GPU for Linux.
Ryan Richardson
>run 2x times faster with Windows? Do you have benchmarks for my system and the programs i use so you can benchmark them too? I dont use any windows software nor do i game
Tyler Gutierrez
You know it is true, lad. Even when you install the proprietary drivers the performance is shit.
Juan Bell
I use the FOSS amd drivers.I dont have "shit" performance, you've failed to even quantify what "shit" means to you. I guarantee you if you setup basic web server(apache,nginx)as well as a media server(plex ,kodi,even basic dlna) and file transfer(ssh,nfs,smb) and other common basic services found on desktops, your performance would completely be "shit" as windows kills its self
Jaxson Martin
I'm thinking about installing Arch and currently reading the wiki. I feel like I could probably manage it, but some pages, like the security page, are giving me trouble. I can understand some things on them, but about some (like groups) I've never heard of and I have a bit of trouble wrapping my head around them. Should I bother installing it or will I have too much trouble with it later on?
Lincoln Jenkins
>How on earth would I do that in a scenario when I only have the access to a commandline interface? After some searching, this is how I would approach it: Use this script: gist.github.com/cstorey/919e1b6689cd0ebb873a (doesn't matter that tty doesn't support truecolor, still outputs), and write an interactive script that prints each image to terminal and prompts y/n whether to move or not. Still not as trivial as a file manger, requires you to be able to identify the crushed image, and far slower. >What exactly does me admitting that solve? I don't know about you, but many a command-line evangelist will have you believe that command line is superior in all cases, and that if not, it doesn't matter (in this case, "graphical stuff" doesn't matter). Such people belittle anyone who doesn't subscribe to their desktop workflow, you see it all the time on Sup Forums. >What kind of abrarily retarded ruleset is that? Because going by the elitist logic, command line is superior to GUI, so using a GUI is lowering yourself. And it's not a ruleset, I just asked how one would approach it. The question wasn't about using a terminal when appropriate, but about using a GUI when a terminal isn't.
Jacob Bennett
>Found a good CAD Program (MEDUSA4) >Find link to their site where they say they support Linux >cad-schroer.com/news/news-releases/linux-grows-as-free-cad-platform >Double their Linux Users in a year by offering a free version of their program >Look for Linux download >No where to be found >Search for MEDUSA Linux support >find this cad-schroer.com/products/medusa4-personal/free-private-use/lizenz-erneuern-3239 >Because of the increasing number of Linux distributions and the correspondingly large number of versions, we can no longer support the new Version 6.1 of our free MEDUSA4 Personal CAD software with Linux. However, since we know that some licenses for the previous Version 5.2.1 will still be used with Linux, we are offering you the option to renew the license for an additional year. Please note that support for this license will no longer be provided starting in April 2017.
Everyone that uses a distribution that is not Ubuntu or RedHat(Fedora/CentOS) deserves to be gassed.
Adrian Baker
>I don't know about you, but many a command-line evangelist will have you believe that command line is superior in all cases, and that if not, it doesn't matter (in this case, "graphical stuff" doesn't matter). Such people belittle anyone who doesn't subscribe to their desktop workflow, you see it all the time on Sup Forums. You're probably the first to say that. Are you sure they said "superior" rather than "more powerful"? I swear to God the argument I always hear is "the commandline is more powerful than the gui" which is an undisputed fact.
But anyway it seems like you're overreacting a little bit considering how irrelevant and how little such discussion brings.
Brayden Sanchez
So no Debian? Wish devs would just pick one and stick to it. And distros who don't use it can just cry in a river for all I care.
Caleb Baker
Install vanilla arch. You dont really have to touch groups. If there is a daemon or program that needs you to join a special group, it will be listed on that programs wiki page, in which you then just add your self to that group
Isaiah Howard
Thats just the company being retarded. You can support one distro/branch and then the other distros change it to work on their distro. Look at Steam, its only "supported" on Ubuntu, yet it works on nearly every other distro out there.
Contact the company and serve them the truth
Jaxson Sanchez
Do any of you guys run on a few gens old AMD GPU just to get better stability and also free drivers? What's the AMD equivalent of a 780ti? I don't want the latest hot shit, just something that would be fast enough for most old vidya yet would not be too power inefficient due to age. Can GPUs be underclocked these days?
Owen Brooks
Holy shit, it's a good thing that guy asked. I always assumed the AMD driver was on par with the proprietary one. Why do people shill AMD so hard if the free driver is basically the same shitshow as Nouveau? At least with Nouveau everyone *knows* they're gonna get shit on and plans accordingly
