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Dude... shut up. I don't need this shit, I have enough on my plate right now
Logan Ward
Go away, Mr. NSA
Logan Flores
Stop being a kernellet. Configuring linux is not hard. The defaults(make defconfig) are sane and make a bootable kernel without initrd on most of the common systems. As long as your manage to include your -disk controller -network card -main filesystem you don't fuck up and defconfig include all the common models and filesystems by default.
Levi Bennett
DUED SHAT UP. I DONT NEAD THAS SAHT, I HAEV ENAGH ON MY PAELT WRGITH NOW
Dominic Walker
How triggered can Sup Forumsents get over two words
What made you chose genkernel over manual kernel configuration if you don't mind me asking? I recently installed Gentoo myself, and the documentation is pretty explicit on the recommended approach. What rationale had led you to take the alternative path?
Kayden Wright
>installs gentoo >genkernel
Why did you even bother then, should have just gone with Babyan
Jordan Martinez
I'd like a modern 32bit x86 distribution with Wayland display server. Which one is the best for that? Preferably something with binary packages.
Target machine is an IBM ThinkPad X41 with a 1.6GHz Pentium M so it needs to be quite lean.
James Lopez
Lol screw you dude
Didn't feel like making sure everything i needed was checked, didn't feel like looking up what every fucking module did to make sure that i needed it. I just use genkernel and go do something else until it finished compiling.
Because i wanted to give Gentoo a whirl
Henry Flores
I've been uninstalling and reinstalling Debian like 10 times but it works now. Bricked my MATE build with NVIDIA drivers when trying to install steam. Thanks debian wiki. Anyway I am using KDE for the first time and it's ok I guess. Just need something fucking functional for school.
Ayden Foster
I'm going to ask my question here, since I've had it for quite some time and I'm embarrassed to ask it on Gentoo forums. So I have configured framebuffer support (nouveau), but the framebuffer doesn't kick in until a few seconds after the GRUB menu. The transition between two modes is very jarring. I understand I will not be seeing the boot process to often, but if at all possible, I would like to a high-resolution console throughout the whole boot process, like I've seen on some other linuxes. How do I accomplish this?
Oliver Bell
Nothing that old will have a GPU capable of running a wayland backed compositor.
Ian Torres
systemd's good
Jack Nguyen
k
Gabriel Wright
In response to post number 64652915 Not taking the bait
Josiah Bennett
>Didn't feel like making sure everything i needed was checked, didn't feel like looking up what every fucking module did to make sure that i needed it. I just use genkernel and go do something else until it finished compiling. You vastly overestimate the difficulty of this process. All components that you *might* need to worry about are Ethernet and Audio Card. Chances are they will be enabled in the default config. I spent the majority of the time checking off the boxes for the stuff that I recognise and know I don't need. I bet majority of the users who compile their own kernel don't know what 90% of the options do.
Isaac Roberts
may I add that configuring Linux for non X86 platforms cannot be done using a simple make defconfig
Jackson Edwards
allyesconfig all day every day
("all day" is for how long it takes to build) (and to boot)
Wyatt Price
does that even work?
Cooper Myers
can someone tell me what the fuck this is actually doing? (printf "\x61\x61\x61\x61\x61\x61\x61\x61\x61\x61\x61\x61\x61\x61\x61\x61\x61\x61\x61\x61\xef\xbe\xad\xde"; cat) | /narnia/./narnia0
i know it's exploiting a buffer overflow. i'm asking how do the (___ ; cat) cause standard input to go back to being from interactive input rather than just piping
Matthew Rogers
W-where did you find that? W-what is vulerenable??
Cat reads stdin and prints to stdout. The stdin of narnia is the parenthesized expression. That expressions runs print, then blocks on cat
Jaxon Price
>Intel GMA 900 >OpenGL 2.1 >OpenGL ES 2.0
What are the minimum requirements then? It should be similar in capabilities as RPi and I thnk Raspbian has Wayland support.
Jackson Davis
Have any alpine or void musl users managed to get video acceleration working in virtualbox? I've tried on two different hosts, one windows 10 and one linux mint, and had no luck.
Julian Clark
tyvm i think i get it. i usually think of pipes as the input having to be constructed before being passed, but really it's just passed an input source. the input source hasn't finished feeding in its input in this case
Ryan Thompson
so i've become a meme because i followed some pajeet's tutorial on how to install gentoo
fine then, i'll try again with a different guide, as long as you answer me one question Sup Forums: how long is the installation and compilation of all that shit gonna take? i can't be fucked to sit and wait 4 hours for everything to install, like it did with genkernel all
Jordan Powell
install Debian only took me like 9 hours
Gabriel Stewart
literally how did you download all 3 DVDs?
Thomas Myers
sudo genkernel all --kernel-config=~/autism
Charles Peterson
>make defconfig I wish someones told me about that before I spent hours by configuring it by myself
Liam Mitchell
i deleted it because i forgot to take out the name of the wargame and it was an answer. that's frowned upon
Elijah Morris
If you only compile the very basic thing you need for a stage3 to work, it will take an hour or a bit more, downloading, unpacking and configuration included. How much more is only depends on you're requirements: a full KDE desktop+latest gcc+clang for mesa+your own compile browser will take a fucking day.
tl;dr if time is an issue, try cloverOS
Asher Smith
Is there a means of having the reply box on the sidebar through css or a userscript?
Daniel Cruz
>i can't be fucked to sit and wait 4 hours In 4 hours you compile gcc, clang a web browser and libreoffice. If you're using a modern powerful processor. If you want a full system you need much more time.
Thomas Thomas
I have installed MagicDraw. First problem is I just skipped everything at installation promt so it installed at /root. Second problem is I can't find anywhere how to launch this program. Does anyone have idea, how I could start this program? I can't find any .sh file instalation folder nor it is in my apps list.
Xavier Lewis
fairly sure this should just werk if you include nouveau module included in your initramfs
Mason Green
Why isn't DuckDuckGo not included in the recommended search engines?
Did I miss a memo?
Juan Gutierrez
Sup Forumspill me on debian sid. Does anyone here use it as a daily driver? How stable is it compared to arch?
Nathaniel Powell
>Does anyone here use it as a daily driver? For about ~3 years now.
>How stable is it compared to arch? Never used Arch, fell in love with Sid and stayed with Sid
Oliver Ward
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Lincoln Sanders
*durr typed a double negative by accident
I'd prefer if the infodump wasn't tainted with Sup Forumstier jew fear mongering but thank you anyway
Nicholas Williams
meant for
Sebastian Price
Fixed root unlaunchable problem. Still can't find what do so that my program could appear in my i3 fn + d app list, could anyone point me in the right direction?
What's with this inconsistency shit? I'm using xfce
Jason Gray
is Antergos literally just an installer for Arch and nothing else?
Landon Butler
you don't need a 3D accelerator to use wayland, it just works better with one
Lucas Jones
gtk3/gtk2 most likely
Gabriel Davis
This was made by a retard. >omg website knows my ip
Chase Lee
how do I change the gtk3 theme then? there's only one option for themes in the xfce settings
Isaac Moore
not sure if the xfce themes thing sets the gtk3 theme as well are you sure your gtk theme has both a gtk2 and gtk3 version?
Brody Kelly
top is a gtk3 client side decoration. it uses the system gtk 3 theme (the one you choose in xfce settings) bottom is a xfce's window manager (xfwm) titlebar, which not only is gtk2 but its themes are independant of gtk themes (go to /usr/share/themes/etude and you'll find it only contains a xfwm folder) the only way to get a partial consistent look is using a theme that provides gtk 2, gtk 3 AND xfwm support (like Arc). but even then it won't be 100% consistent because gtk 2 uses window manager titlebars and gtk 3 uses client decorations
Brandon Bennett
oh why is gtk so retarded
Carter Lopez
because gnome develops it, and gnome literally only cares about gnome heard of the gnome dev who literally said "i don't know what xfce is or does, sorry"?
Daniel Edwards
yeah I've seen that lol
Landon Kelly
Should I create a root password?
Dylan Rogers
do you prefer to use sudo or just login as root to perform administrative tasks? Because if you create root account, debian won't get sudo during installation, you obviously can install it later if you want, but the bottom line is if you want to use sudo there is kinda no point in creating root acc.
Xavier Reed
You should have a root account with a strong password, as well as setting up sudo When you need to perform tasks that take long, instead of sudoing over and over, just login as root and do it then log back in to your user. It also helps when shit hits the fan(it will) and your user session is fucked up(blame systemd) login as root via tty and fix the shit.
Justin Bennett
Thanks
Hudson Morgan
>When you need to perform tasks that take long, instead of sudoing over and over change timeout? Or sudo -s? >and your user session is fucked up(blame systemd) login as root Single-user mode? setting up root is pretty much useless
Noah Howard
>change timeout Whats the point of sudo if you have it timeout after more then 5 minutes? You're breaking the point of sudo, and having a session last that long opens you up to being exploited. I have sudo timeout after 1 minute.Its ment for temporary elevation. Nope permanent
>setting up root is pretty much useless And when you cant login to your user because what ever broke?
Tyler Ramirez
>And when you cant login to your user because what ever broke? Whatever you can break bad enough to prevent you logging in on a tty you likely will be able to fix from single-user mode/maintenance mode, or only by reinstall anyway
>Whats the point of sudo if you have it timeout after more then 5 minutes? You can change it back after that enormous session of administrative tasks OTOH I never would change it in the first place since if I need sudo for a lot of commands I just do 'sudo -s' and that wouldn't open you up to any more danger of exploitation than just using sudo already does.
Connor Hill
>reinstall anyway Nice windows mentality. Take that shit out of here.
>constantly editing a file instead of properly setting it up in the first place >wouldn't open you up to any more danger of exploitation than just using sudo already does. >write script >it finds every open window and plants exploit code in it >your session has elevated rights because your time out is 1 gorillion years. BASIC
Grayson Evans
>user types his password a billion times a day to use sudo >write script >it gets broadcasted X server key presses and steals your password >it finds every open window and plants 'sudo own-everything' code into >enters user's password and owns everything with elevated rights VISUAL BASIC
>>reinstall anyway >Nice windows mentality. Imagine that, if you fucked your system over badly enough for it to not be able to be restored from *recovery* mode, it might be time to indeed reinstall already
Christopher Roberts
Is there any program similar to comicrack on linux? I tried tellico but it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for. I want something that can open image stored in zip files and browse them like a book.
I've been thinking about configuring ranger with some kind of image previewer but I don't know if that would have the same effect.
Jeremiah Robinson
mcomix
Liam Stewart
pic saved
Jace Carter
Uhhh so I didn't realise that I should've made other profiles and have been doing everything on root. What do I need to do to transfer everything on to a different profile? Will everything work the same way?
Jordan Myers
Zathura can do cbr and cbz with the appropriate plugins. But I am sure other ebook viewer can do it too, I am sure Okular.
Daniel James
Why is Arch so fucking shit? I updated the kernel to 4.15.1-2 and it broke DKMS since I'm pretty sure DKMS doesn't like kernels with a "-2" at the end. Now my wifi is broken since I was relying on a DKMS package to make my wifi dongle work properly.
Charles Evans
normal users are in "/home/", while root's "user" folder is "/root" from a root shell, you need to; - make a new user ("useradd -m ") - transfer the home folder contents ("mv /root/. /home//") - change ownership of the files/folders to the new user ("chown -R : /home//.")
James Russell
Top-tier OS >GNU/Hurd
High-tier OS >GNU/OpenBSD
Mid-tier OS >GNU/other BSD >GNU/XNU
Low-tier OS >GNU/Linux
Chase King
Where does Linux-libre lay?
Andrew Sanders
high-tier
Jaxon Nelson
Shit-Tier >Windows NT
Christopher Thomas
thanks, it's so far down that it must have slipped off the bottom of my post
Benjamin Williams
I can agree with this except puting the low in mid tier and praying OBSD never break GNU tools or it will be royally fucked. Also this and this
Thomas Gomez
Cant reproduce on my Arch. Reinstall DKMS and try it again
Christopher Ross
Where would you put Illumos, ReactOS, Haiku, Fuschia, and MorphOS?
Justin Ross
I'll tell you where you can put 'em
Hudson Lee
I don't have experience with any of them. Feel free to suggest where they ought to go. I will say that I'm pessimistic about Fuschia.
Connor Long
Have you tried restarting and was /boot mounted when you updated?
Colton Jenkins
>I will say that I'm pessimistic about Fuschia. From a freedom or technical perspective?
Mason Williams
Not him but ReactOS is low-tier, I would put FreeDOS in there but I understand the niche it fills so for me is mid-tier. I would honestly put openbsd in mid-tier and xnu and other bsds in low-tier though, linux-libre is a killer kernel with all the optional features you can turn on if you want.
Nolan Taylor
Freedom.
Justin Evans
Is this true??
Logan Hughes
I vouch for WINE, made my games work as I remember while windows couldn't.
Brody Morales
>GNU/Turd >anything but meme tier
Charles Collins
>GNU/Linux is the best gaming OS >Is this true?? Absolutely not.
Jaxon Turner
bsd shill detected
Luke Robinson
The best OS for gamying is, obviously, Windows.
Hurd is an incomplete kernel and it will never be what Linux, Windows NT, BSD or XNU are. Maybe it can compete with TempleOS.
Bentley Davis
I reinstalled dkms and all the packages and it worked, weird.
Andrew Scott
>The best OS for gamying is, obviously, Windows. I thought the PS4 ran a BSD variant?