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What should I be doing to keep linux from locking up when it starts to run out of memory?
No im not going to buy 16GB of DDR3L for $120 in two thousand and fucking eighteen .
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Tried editing your limits.conf?
Don't use more than 1GB of swap, unless you need it for hibernation.
A moderate amount of swap is useful because it allows unused memory to be paged out to free up space for disk cache.
I guess ill try this first and see what happens
I don't *need* hibernation but I suppose it would be nice to have the option... Im probably going to do a fresh install with opensuse soon so if the limits thing doesn't help I might try that out
I'm running into a weird dependency problem when trying to install Firefox ESR on Debian stable. I want to install mozplugger too, but that depends on installing one of a list of browsers that doesn't include firefox-esr. (Firefox is on the list but unavailable in stable.) Because of this, aptitude won't let me install mozplugger without also installing iceweasel, chromium, konqueror, or epiphany. Am I retarded or is the dependency list retarded? How do I get around this assuming I'm set on only installing firefox-esr and mozplugger?
>retiring my desktop PC of 10 years
building a new desktop PC. any hardware recommendations for GNU/Linux? CPU/GPU/MB/ect.
>locking up when it starts to run out of memory
In my experience, any time main memory + swap gets filled up, the oom killer kills something, in my case usually mongo (which is ironically the worst possible choice, since it makes every application that connects to it fall over). By the time the oom killer gets around to running, the system is still responsive.
The nice equivalent for memory usage looks to be cgroups?
I have this old notebook with pentium m which is single core 1.6GHZ cpu and 1024 ram DDR1 and i want to install the new ubuntu on it, but those cunts stopped releasing 32 bit dektop version of ubuntu after 16, so what now? ;_;
Dependency list is retarded.
Don't use stable unless you're on a server, upgrade to testing, contrary to what it's name suggests, packages on testing are still old as hell, but it's better daily usage.
Also, if you're using sjwfox long term support you might as well try GNU Icecat
Anyone have any insight into using shim on debian to point to a MOK-signed efi file to bypass secureboot?
What did I fuck up with my gtk?
I am using openbox. I played with lxappearance and obconf to set up my theme.
after I forcefully turned out my computer (battery hit 0%), the theme looked fucked up after opening my session again.
Text selected with the mouse didn't changed color, scrolling menus background were transparent, buttons were also transparent...
I had Xfce Blackbird selected from the beginning. Because I assumed the issue was with gtk, I tried another theme with lxappearance. When I came back to Blackbird, it looked like pic related.
does the xubuntu use same repos as ubuntu?
How do I set up a virtual network for QEMU? My machines can't access the internet.
What is the best way to install arch without ethernet? Should I use an installer? If so, which one should I use.
Idk, try switching between some gtk2/3 themes for starters, see if that helps.
Do you need more than lo(opback) for some reason?
Nevermind, I'm retarded. Just googled it. I forgot some deps.
You can use wifi for installing. Or did you mean without internet?
The only gtk3 themes I have are the ones that get shipped with the gtk2.
I am trying to switch between different gtk2 themes but every time the check boxes and scroll menus look odd.
I tried to reinstall lxappearance, I installed lxappearance-obconf, also compiled lxappearance from source to see if it changes anything. Still look fucked.
I am reluctant to try gtk3 themes because I don't want the ugly gtk3 titlebar to keep hanging on some of my programs
what browser
Firefox. The issue is the same with waterfox
just use chrome it runs smoothly on anything... unless of course .. you have something to hide
Then chrome should just show its source code... unless of course... google has something to hide
It could be that the default theme for firefox was something else before it was set to blackbird. Have you tried changing the firefox theme through firefox's menus? Like in the addons, customize, etc. settings
It does. It's proprietary engine which puts it light years ahead of the competition in rendering web content. They would be stupid to give it away so brainlet shitters from mozzila and other shitty browsers could steal it
I just tried this. This change the theme around the tab section, url bar... However this does not fix the problem. Also the contextual menus and right click menus are unaffected by changing firefox's theme (strange?)
I'm just thinking that your firefox gtk theme was something else before and it's now been set to blackbird. One thing is that your firefox may be either built with gtk2 or gtk 3 (i dont know your distro or firefox version and i dont know an easy way to check how it was built) and there's also an issue that lxappearance does not always work with both gtk2 and gtk3, again depending on how it's built. Also who knows if your version of the blackbird theme is gtk2 only or not? There's a lot of variables that cant be seen from a screenshot of the symptom.
So you need to change the theme for firefox from blackbird to something else because I believe the dark checkboxes are what it's supposed to look like when using that theme. If you were using blackbird before and you didn't have that problem, I think that indicates that you have a gtk3 firefox, where you're gtk3 theme was set to something else. I would try manually changing just the gtk3 like this:
Open the file
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
Edit the value for
gtk-theme-name = ???
to
gtk-theme-name = Adwaita
(or something else if you want)
That's just a guess anyway
Equivalent of systemctl suspend on Void Linux?
>Open the file
>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
>
>Edit the value for
>gtk-theme-name = ???
>
>to
>
>gtk-theme-name = Adwaita
>(or something else if you want)
That solved the issue. The variable was set to Blackbird. Thanks a lot mate.
Cool! You're welcome
Have a situation here:
Under xfce, i force full composition pipeline in nvidia-settings, everything works great and smooth
But in i3 it's not the same, firefox is not smooth at all, like the movement is broken for 0.2 seconds each seconds (i don't know the word for that i'm not anglo and still learning).
There is a thing to do ? If i kill compton it's still here. I discover i3 and i already like it, but i would like to find how to fix that.
>nvidia
The N word.
2/2
Also the problem is here with or without the composition pipeline and gpu temp is really high for nothing (70°C), so i think it's not only firefox but related to i3 and how it handles gpu
Hello Sup Forumsentoomen, I am currently considering Salix OS as my first Linux.
I downloaded the 14.2.1 Live version, but it looks like there's an installer. I tried to run it on VirtualBox, but it doesn't work.
What am I doing wrong ?
Current installer.
>it doesn't work.
>What am I doing wrong ?
That is probably not enough information to get anywhere. What doesn't work, the installer? In what way does it not work?
Your part was in vfat and now it's ext4 ?
Or it's in ext4 and you say to your installer that it's in vfat ?
When I click on "Install System" in the sli window, It start for 2 seconds and then this appears.
Just looking at the screenshot, I think you want to select home location (sda2) and format home, also obviously click on the installation button on the right, not the left
The vfat thing is the other part of the installer, to create a LiveUSB.
Yeah trying clicking on format home?
Maybe you have to tick the format box to create /home/ in a separate partition, but i don't know this installer, just try...
Started using qutebrowser yesterday and downloaded a new wallpaper. How can I get rid of the downloads bar at the top?
Tried every configuration (Grub or LiLo, select home location or not, format home or not, with or without another ext4 partition for /home/).
Doesn't work.
Also this config () is how it was done in some Youtube tutorial. But here it doesn't work.
>I am reluctant to try gtk3 themes because I don't want the ugly gtk3 titlebar to keep hanging on some of my programs
Those things are theme independent. It's part of the program itself, which dictates whether or not they will use the GTK3 headerbar widget.
You didn't have to edit any config files manually as you have. You could have set it to Adwaita with lxappearance (it sets both GTK2 and 3 themes). You don't have to use Adwaita. There are plenty of GTK3 themes that work on the new, stable GTK theming. Also if you want a dark them, turn on the global dark theme switch (works only with GTK3, so you you'll have to find a matching dark GTK2 theme).
Use Debian.
Yes.
Copy all the package files to your installation medium.
You are an advanced user who needs Void Linux. Surely you can figure out that simple thing out yourself. Please don't hack me now for insulting you. pls
Why do you insist on using some shitty downstream distribution as your "first Linux"? Use Ubuntu and then switch if Ubuntu doesn't fulfil your distribution specific requirements.
That might mean there's an issue with how it was setup in gparted. Try setting the bootable flag for your sda2 (far right side of screen, "drapeaux). Wouldn't hurt to open gparted back up anyway to confirm your changes were saved
how do i become a hacker? i installed the kali linux but all icons for the hacking apps just open some wierd windows with letters instead of the actual window with the app where you can control it with buttons and shit
If you don't know what a terminal is then what you need to do to learn how to hack is get better at shitposting.
>>Why do you insist on using some shitty downstream distribution as your "first Linux"? Use Ubuntu and then switch if Ubuntu doesn't fulfil your distribution specific requirements.
I thought Ubuntu had become TelemetryLinux.
Despite switching to Linux mainly because I can't buy RAM (W10 needs absolutely 2 GB but wants more than 4GB), if I also can escape the botnet...
>Use Debian.
God i hate faggots like you who roll around and recommend fringe distros to beginners who obviously will need lots of help and lots of compatible software and obviously ubuntu has the biggest and friendliest user base and support community for the beginners
Just fuck you, seriously, i hate fags like you so much since when i was a loonix newb i listened to a fag just like you and installed some shitty niché distro which had no support and no shit working out of the box which made me hate linux and i went back to windows and lost years before trying out a beginner friendly distro and realizing that linux is great
You are the fucking reason why our desktop marketshare is and will remain fucking nonexistent because you turning people away from this great gnu based os with your shitty fedora advice
FUCK
YOU
You are falling for memes and myths.
Debian is not a fringe distribution. It's one of the "core" distributions. Did you even bother reading his post? He can't use Ubuntu because his CPU doesn't support the architecture of the latest Ubuntu release.
You are an idiot, someone had to tell you this before I assume.
This is a FRIENDLY GNU/Linux thread.
Also if you didn't go berserk as soon as you saw "Debian", you would have understood he's stuck in 32 bits.
then just use xubuntu like someone suggested, all shit that works on ubuntu works there too and it is lightweight and comes in 32b
Since when is Debian a fringe distro? Ubuntu itself is downstream from Debian.
Xubuntu is just 16.04 LTS, you literal mongoloid. That's more out of date than Debian 9 and the backport selection isn't near as good.
>Xubuntu is just 16.04 LTS
but sweetie current ubuntu LTS is also 16.04
you are so cute trying to have opinions on stuff you know nothing about
So I've been on Xubuntu for a few years now as my main OS. I tried Manjaro KDE a couple months ago but didn't like dealing with pacman and dependency problems, and KDE had a few bugs so I reverted back to my Xubuntu image.
When the next -buntu LTS is release, I'm thinking of installing, but I'm also tempted to move to Debian.
Is this a good idea? I would like more up-to-date packages than Debian offers, but I also don't need any possible Canonical botnets.
>debian
>no support
HAHAHA
RIght
What the fuck, you have to enable pulseaudio to use Firefox now? Since when? I'm not using that shit. What's a good alternative browser? Definitely not using Chromium.
>LTS
meme
>Canonical botnets
meme harder: revenge of the memelords
Just use the regular releases. They're the sane choice for 90% of desktops.
WaterFox
IceCat
How is LTS a meme? Why would I want to install something which is deprecated and no longer supported after 8 months?
There aren't any. You can wrap firefox with apulse[1] if you can't get PA working on your setup, but the way they use it is an actual security improvement over ALSA. See the comments about FF 58 at the bottom of that URL.
>deprecated
Please don't try to impress us.
>and no longer supported after 8 months?
Because it's easier to do small upgrades every few months than gut your entire system every few years. Unless you're in some kind of enterprise situation where every change has to be tested before rollout, which is what LTS is for.
In this case, I want to reorder my partitions since it's still setup when I had a dual boot going. So the entire drive is going to be wiped and reorganized anyways.
Upgrading point releases, even in non LTS builds is shit and will break everything, so again, how is LTS not worth it for the support in a home desktop situation?
Arch linux is a shitty meme distro that never works so how come they have the best tutorials on linux shit?
arch is literally the distro for autists. so they document everything due to their autism.
that and it breaks all the time, so gotta have a way to say "we told ya so" after the fact.
>Upgrading point releases, even in non LTS builds is shit and will break everything
Everyone would still be using Debian if that were the case. Most likely you're butchering your system configuration in ways the docs say not to or ignoring messages about config file merges. Most genuine Ubuntu issues can be avoided by waiting a month or two to upgrade.
I'm using it since two months, it still works fine (archmerge)
I've did a lot of shits, never broke it.
Maybe i have to wait a little longer...
Use a version prior to 16?
>not staying on the bleeding edge at all times
don't you have your pudding to eat grandpa?
Download the 17.10 server iso which is still available 32bit and install the desktop after installation. I don't think there's any other way. However I think this would work. Your machine's not going to take kindly to gnome shell though, and at least some of the other flavors still offer 32bit desktop iso's.
Booted up an old Thinkpad (last used over a year ago) and it went straight into grub rescue. I don't remember it having any problems beforehand. How do I salvage this? Or at least attempt to salvage it before giving up and doing a clean install.
Just put it in a vm which you add 4+ gb ram to and boot straight to the vm
>debian
>fringe distro
this is what ubuntucucks actually believe
Should probably post what I've tried so far:
grub rescue> ls
(hd0) (hd0,msdos1)
grub rescue> ls (hd0,msdos1)/
error: unknown filesystem
grub rescue> ls (hd0)/
error: unknown filesystem
Is there any way of proceeding when every partition comes up as an unknown filesystem? I don't see how I can access grub from here.
Hello /biz/
Do you have a live iso on a flash drive, it should be possible to boot from that and go from there. Boot from the live system and then chroot into the installation on the hardrive and fix it
Probably have to load a module.
:download-clear or check the downloads.remove_finished setting.
>last used over a year ago
A year without installing updates almost mandates a clean install. Hopefully you have separate / and /home partitions, so then all you'll have to do is install the clean install on / and just mount /home to keep all your files. If not, you'll have to boot into a livecd and backup your files to an external drive or something.
I always laugh when someone fall in the grub rescue...But this time it looks like it's fucked so i feel a tittle sorry
>/
Have you tried without ? (surely but eh...)
I would like to share something I found out.
This will list folders first in file dialogs.
Type the line below in a terminal:
gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser sort-directories-first true
Nice, if only there was a button or menu to select that from inside the application itself
ITS ME THE GUY FROM THE LAST THREAD WHO WAS INSTALLING GENTOO.
I let the kernel compile before I want to bed but it turns out that on a 1700 that only takes a bit over a minute if you do parallel makes lol. My system uses UEFI booting and I'm using a UEFI capable systemrescuecd to install but I'm having a bit of trouble configuring grub. Should I be formatting my /boot partition to vfat for this? I have a very small (2mb) partition at the front of my disk that's supposedly for bios/UEFI purposes. Should I bother with this at all? I'm also reading that I should install groub to / not /boot if my /boot partition is formatted to anyone but a Microsoft FAT fs. Why would I do this?
When I try to scan bluetooth devices, my wifi locks up and nothing is found. How do I go about fixing this?
How time consuming is learning Gentoo shit compared to Debian shit? I have cursory experience with the latter, but i want to go full meme freetard and ditch all things botnet.
I'm basically a Sup Forums-babby that got tired of playing games, and now i have no reason to keep putting up with Windows other than i'm used to it.
It seemed like a good idea to avoid Ubuntu/Manjaro etc and just learn to set up the base distro instead of becoming dependent on a training wheel distro.
Give me advice before i fuck up my computer please, i want to become a meme.
Recently fucked up my debian install and had to reinstall it. Not gunna bother spending much time reconfiguring everything, so whats an easier-to-unfuck distro? I got looped into dependency hell and the aptitude tools couldn't unfuck themselves.
Gentoo looks harder than Arch to install.
Also i'm not even able to install arch, so i just wish you good luck, take notes on a paper before starting.
What is the best lightweight linux browser, something like luakit?
If its a laptop its likely a dual purpose intel chip, which doesnt play nice with linux. Wifi or bluetooth, not both. Youll have to get a USB dongle.
Just get Ubuntu and play with Gentoo in a virtual machine until you are comfortable with it.
Then switch and don't look back.
By the way, when you want to transcend memes you can go full Linux from Scratch (yes, that is a distro).
1. put supergrub2 disk on USB
2. boot from USB
3. it will find your gnu+linux system
4. boot it up then reinstall grub2 from inside.
If you have zero or little experience with ghanooslashloonix then gentoo (or any source based distro) will be very time cinsuming and probsbly frustrating.
If you wanna go balls deep but you don't feel very confident, try some minimal/net install distro like void, arch or a debian (or devuan) net-install.
it's a qualcomm atheros qca9377
going to take notes and look stuff up as i go on my laptop
I thought about it, but i realized that i'm just too dumb to learn that much. I want a system capable of shitposting and weebery within a reasonable time limit.
I default to Debian because i know i can set that up for that, but i am curious about Gentoo and how hard it is to learn.
Devuan looks interesting, as i wanted to avoid SystemD because of it's controversy and potential to split the community. Ideally i'd want a distro that was free of paid development by major companies as i think that is how Google etc corrupts projets like that "here is a donation, if you want another one be more sjw/shady!"
I'll change Debian to Devuan, but i'm still wondering if learning Gentoo is worth it.
xubuntu is just an ubuntu metapackage, so yes.