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I don't think I can bear to hear a microscopic laptop fan REEEEEEEEEEEEE for 6 hours straight again, I'm going to just pull in the binaries from now on as soon as I figure out how
inb4 pajeet, feel free (as in freedom) to improve it
Jeremiah Nguyen
Who's the guy taking all these photos? Does he have a bodyguard?
Adam Cooper
>friends
Brandon Flores
camera's have had timers on them for ages now, user
Matthew Jones
I tried several distros, none of them werked on my machine, The issue is that everything is fine but after the OS has booted, the Intel Integrated Graphics (tm) driver does not work and the display turns off, I tried nomodeset, noapic, nolapic, noitems, etc. Antergos worked from Live USB via selecting "Text Mode" in the resolutions menu in the GRUB, and then it boots normally into GNOME, however, after installing it in my PC it has the same issue all other distros had
Lincoln Cox
Have you tried with the vga=normal kernel parameter (usually used in addition to nomodeset)?
Kevin Torres
Honestly I'd use a personal compilebox / binhost if I was ever going to run Gentoo on a laptop.
Jaxson Watson
HOLY SHIT IT WERKED
thank you very much user!
Ethan Collins
I've definitely considered net compiling with my desktop but then I'd have to reboot it into linux every time I needed to update my laptop
Adam Hughes
How do I fix pic related ? Basically the prompt is the red thing and the following text is some trash text that came here when I scrolled back to see past commands and that doesn't move, isn't erasable and not even read by the terminal. For the record, it's a bash prompt with a customized PS1="\e[0;31m$ in \w >> \e[m"
Ryan Jones
Post custom bash terminal prompts
I have a vanilla one but want some inspiration. What are some cool things you can do?
Ayden Reed
Just get a cheap VPS or something.
Grayson Cooper
Remember guys that any client can run arbitrary commands when connected to distcc host!
Michael Wood
Anyone have a good guide for installing rmarkdown to use in vim?
Michael Roberts
My screen isn't getting turned off on inactivity, it goes black instead with the backlight and cursor still visible. This used to work fine before, so I'm assuming some update caused it. Running pretty much fresh Ubuntu 16.04. Any idea what could the problem be? Google isn't helping much.
Daniel Young
My friend wants to use KDE, what's a good distro for it these days? Bonus points for being stable.
Caleb Sanchez
kubuntu LTS kde neon stable version (based on ubuntu LTS)
Grayson Morgan
Sounds like a systemd problem which is also probably why you can't find any information on it. Systemd is a magical secret garden that nobody really understands and it's that way by design.
So good luck.
Evan Rivera
Does anyone here use mastodon? I saw someone a while back was using a terminal client for it and I'm now wondering what the name of it was. Of course I can just start picking some randomly from a web search and trying them, but I'm wondering if someone with experience can save me some time.
Luis Cruz
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Christopher Turner
\[\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007\]\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w \$\[\033[00m\] Default on Gentoo
Caleb Rodriguez
Nevermind, I think it was called tootstream
Jayden Campbell
Try using \[\e[0;31m\]$ in \w >> \[\e[m\]
Jaxson Robinson
I am testing tshark (just by curiosity) But it is a mess in the way it display infos, someone know how to set it more "human" readable ?
Jordan Smith
Thanks, it seems to be working !
Gavin Nguyen
Is there a wiki for all the different desktop environments?
Justin Morales
What distro would work if I wanted to run Wayland on a Pentium M (32bit, 1.6GHz)?
If you suggest Gentoo, can I run distcc on a 64bit modern server to compile everything and are there some common problems?
Jace Fisher
>If you suggest Gentoo, can I run distcc on a 64bit modern server to compile everything and are there some common problems? Yes, just set up a chroot env using the 686 stage3
Nolan Wood
Do you want to install programs but dont want to solve dependencies? Are you using a source based distro but you are in a rush and need a program ASAP? Are you a programmer and want to serve your program to all distros but dont like the hassle?
Use AppImages! i.ytimg.com/vi/nzZ6Ikc7juw/0.jpg Do you want a program but you will use it once and remove it immediately afterwards?
My ubuntu mate installation started to boot into initframfs or something like that related with busybox, how do i fix it?
Also, there is any reason to avoid canonical distros?
Jordan Bennett
>Do you want to install programs but dont want to solve dependencies?
Shill appimage as much as you want, but don't lie in the face of people Appimages HAVE external dependencies. The average desktop GNU/Linux distro user will not notice this, because these deps are usually in every desktop metapackage. However if you use a minimal/custom setup or use a source based distro where you tell which features get compile or not (like gentoo USE flags) there is a good chance that you will have to install extra package(s) (essentially bloat) to run appimages.
Source: tried to run the spotify webapp appimage on Gentoo, I had to install two libraries to run it. Said libs were not present because my current desktop profile didn't pull them in. One of them was libselinux.
Jaxon Miller
distcc is one big security hole, remember to allow only listening to localhost and connect over SSH tunnel In my case crossdev did the job >canonical We all should not use it. Actually they dont install spyware in unity but to use ubuntu core you need ((((ubuntu one)))) account to use damn SSH.
Luis Rogers
Ok boys I'm trying to start my own company, and I'm doing research into competing products in the space. Do you guys know of any free software tool that can help me organize my research, like let me aggregate and tag all of my research, documents, contacts, etc.?
Cameron Mitchell
>Ubuntu Core requires a cloud account for SSH What the polka dotted fuck is this?
Anthony Torres
I decided that I will use Manjaro as my first Distro. Now I am uncertain to which DE I should use. i3, XFCE or KDE?
Alexander Martinez
KDE
Jackson Brooks
alright, thanks
Chase Peterson
>I decided that I will use Manjaro as my first Distro I would like to hear your reason(s) why.
Levi Mitchell
Is there a distro/environment that looks like win95/98? Or a Desktop environment that are easy to rice?
Isaiah Cox
I was too retarded to install Artix.
Elijah Clark
dude, literally enter >how to make linux look like windows 95 in any search engine, you will get videos, tutorials, whatever you want for multiple window managers and desktop envs
Carter Ramirez
What should I use to find what programs are using the network? My bandwidth monitor today is showing a constant 15-30kb/s with no programs open and I want to find out what it is.
Jace Rogers
# lsof -i If it shows nothing try rkhunter And learn nftables...
Landon Barnes
By # i mean as root!
Gabriel Watson
I'm new to ubuntu, how do I rice it?
Andrew Morales
What did lsof show?
Nathaniel Gonzalez
just be yourself bro
Gavin Walker
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Tyler Richardson
But I want to pimp my loonix, also nice trips.
Jacob Adams
I am having trouble installing Manjaro. It is the same problem that occured while I tried to install Artix. I will post an image soon.
Adam Wood
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Tyler White
>installer tries to find the installation media using disk label Did you use unetbootin/rufus or anything similar to make your bootable USB drive? Because they create a custom disk label for them. Change the label of the device to MJRO1715 and see if it works.
Parker Gray
will do.
Levi Rodriguez
Guys, noob question here. I want to try a new distro which is not Ubuntu. Which one should I choose, I want it to have latest packages and kde desktop. Is fedora a good pick?
Christopher Taylor
opensuse
Camden Barnes
Give linux mint a try.
Jonathan Jackson
By the time I saw this it stopped, but thanks. I'll know what to do in the future! Now it just shows dhcpcd.
Xfce is good but i've fall in love with that Mate shit. weird feelings.
also anything wayland is a piece of shit, don't even matter to try.
oh, i would probable stay on Kdesktop if was not for wood computers like mine
Julian Taylor
What was the other dependency? Maybe I can get away with a lot of dependency heavy apps if that's all.
Carson Jackson
I still prefer Xfce over The Kult® for new computers. Xfce interface doesn't feel like someone just wanted to add as many options as possible. Mate is good, I just happen to prefer Xfce. Why do you say that about wayland?
Easton Robinson
>Why do you say that about wayland?
cos nothing works good under, and all that opengl nightmare is not ending soon
Jose Young
Thanks
Ryan Edwards
>I want it to have latest packages and kde desktop Arch if you wanna do everything manually, Manjaro, openSUSE Tumbleweed. Fedora has a little older packages but it's close to those three as well
Hello guys! I bump this thread to ask something. I'm the user who yesterday was messing around with iptables and LXC trying to make torrent a little more secure. I was researching all day around LXC and its mountpoints, directories shares and shared devices, and seems that unless I go full privilege container I can't share the disk where I have the torrents saved.
BUT, I think I read that some hypervisor called Proxmox lets unprivileged containers do that. I say I think because I didn't test it and maybe it could end up with same result. My doubt is if in your personal experience, you will go Enterprise Virtualization (they say they are) to just a few containers.
What do you think? Thank you anons.
Kevin Martinez
Why does my Fedora take so long to start up? It is like 30 seconds to load the greeter and then 10 seconds to load the desktop after I input password. Windows, installed on the same drive, starts up in like 15 seconds.
Camden Williams
>tfw Firefox Quantum overrides website-provided fonts My app looks like shit now.
Ryder Wilson
>tfw this has been a setting in firefox default settings for atleast 15 years
Landon Perez
>mrw I look and it was already disabled Literally no idea why it's doing this. My app is the only thing it's doing it to, and the fonts are loading properly. Works on Chrome/Chromium and all my previous tests in Windows.
Anthony Baker
are you currently dual booting windows and fedora or are you comparing the bootup times from when you only had windows installed vs only fedora?
Jayden Flores
systemd-analyze blame And the other systemd-analyze functions.
Chase Martinez
>using Kali Linux >occasionally connect my smartphone to computer to transfer files via MTP >update Kali today >now when I connect phone, Kali immediately locks screen, and even if I enter credentials, it unlocks but immediately re-locks itself >Kali acts normally again when I unplug phone >no further updates to pull right now
What the fuck is this bullshit?
Henry Scott
Try using a non-meme distro.
Lucas Thompson
I'm running fedora 27 and I get this error on boot:
Failed to start load kernel modules See, systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service, for details
I ran the command and got this. Is it fixed? The one [ failed ] is triggering my autism
Joseph Bailey
This screenshot says the respective service is working fine, that's all I can see in it.
Hunter Edwards
It seems okay. Not everything that fails is an error. patch-buggy-hardware-if-present.service is the kind of thing that fails if said hardware is not present.
Since it did start afterward, there might have been some dependency problem. A service that systemd-modules-load.service depended on hadn't been started due to, say, some hardware problem.
Of course there is the possibility that it's a bug and that the service did start correctly. Check dmesg to see if that is the case.
Have you been getting this error since installing Fedora? Did it appear after installing some module? Does something not work?
Don't use a pre-alpha operating system.
Adrian Ramirez
> patch-buggy-hardware-if-present.service is the kind of thing that fails if said hardware is not present I wonder why Fedora wrote that script that way then. Seems weird to me.
Gabriel Nguyen
>Don't use a pre-alpha operating system.
Asher Martinez
> pre-alpha Fedora 27 was released months ago last November.
Isaac Jenkins
Fedora is always pre-alpha and things always break. Use something more stable, such as Ubuntu LTS, Debian Stable, CentOS or OpenPepe.
Brayden Hughes
I use Ubuntu 17.10, but initially installed back in the day of 16.10, before the switch from swap partitions to swap files. I have a swap partition on my ssd, but I have noticed on system monitor that swap is off. I can manually re-enable it in gparted, but it is always disabled to begin with when I start up the system. I just took a look through fstab and didn't see anything pertaining to swap, though I don't know whether or not you typically would see that in fstab.
Joseph Martin
Fedora is stable as long as you don't mess with it too much
Cooper Diaz
Only thing that comes to mind is CaseFile but it's software meant to organize case notes for things like law enforcement.
Christopher Rogers
Just checked. You can use the old stable of Fedora, at the moment 26. It will be updated until the release of 28. There will be less bugs.
Connor Powell
Actually, I was incorrect in saying that there's nothing in /etc/fstab about swap. I'm just going to dump my fstab here since it's short
# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # # / was on /dev/sda5 during installation UUID=e73c812e-27e1-4075-ac2c-0c4a80188704 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /boot/efi was on /dev/sda2 during installation UUID=9274-A2F8 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1 # swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation #UUID=68e1055e-aa2f-4b60-b7a9-17f209b0251c none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sdb3 none swap sw 0 0 UUID=A2C2530EC252E5D7 /media/Data/hdd ntfs-3g defaults,windows_names,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0 UUID=521906820C25414D /media/Data/hddgame ntfs-3g defaults,windows_names,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0 UUID=40F4DCCF290A5ED3 /media/Data/ssdshared ntfs-3g defaults,windows_names,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
Anything enlightening here? The lines at the end are those I added manually for my other permanent partitions.
Leo Ward
>I'm just going to dump my fstab here heh... nothing personal kid
Logan Wright
If just type swapon -a it activates? Or do you have to specify the partition?
The culprit was journal-flush-service first, I fixed that one, then it was firewalld, so I switched to iptables, now we have sssd as the bottleneck but I can't find much about this one.
Cameron Diaz
What are the dependencies for apt-get? I just want to install it on Gentoo, because I can.
Christopher Sanders
I disabled sssd because I don't think I'm using any of its benefits. Now we are here:
