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I just built a little HTPC with an AMD APU I bought in 2014 that I had just lying around. I don't have any hard drives to spare, and since all the media is in the network on my server or simply online I think the best thing I could do is to just have a bootable USB drive to boot from. Winblows is shit, what's the best lightweight Linux distro I could use for a bootable USB that is retard friendly (my mom will use it too).
...caching is kinda one of the main points of proxy servers ya know. Squid is an advanced proxy server, there are many, simple ones like "tinyproxy".
Jaxon Sanchez
I've so far had better experience with running freenas and linux distros off SD cards than usb sticks. Is there some downside I'm not seeing? The SD cards I own seem much better at handling small writes than my usb sticks, also cheaper.
Brayden Ward
GLinux would sound kinda cool.
Ian Bailey
Linux noob here. Package PACKAGE was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing 'PACKAGE.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable. No package 'PACKAGE' found When I try to install it from repository: Package 'PACKAGE' already installed. How I should fix this? I can't compile almost anything.
Camden Evans
What's the latest meme distro?
Hunter Allen
Manjaro and Antergos are the current hottest memes.
John Ortiz
I'm using a xeon e3 1240v3 to run some VMs. I dont have a GPU at all apart from the one on the supermicro board. Would having a GPU make the VMs more responsive when using rdp/vnc or is this just how virtualisation works?
Austin Clark
For gods sake, please give me the name of the girl in the pic.
pack your shit and fuck off back to and drool over generic whores there.
Hunter Hughes
>or is this just how virtualisation works? exactly.
Most virtual machines, especially qemu/kvm based ones don't benefit from your GPU at all. Virtualbox/VMware machines may benefit from them if you enable 2d/3d acceleration for the virtual machines and they utilize it. You will not get better rdp/vnc performance, those are not GPU accelerate to begin with.
Wyatt Hill
thought on opensuse weed?
Adam Lewis
Used it on a secondary PC for a while. -sometimes the installed doesn't even work -installation takes much longer time than it would with a similar binary distro with similar package set (like debian) -installation automatically recommends LVM with million subvolumes and non-ext4 filesystem if the HDD space is big enough, this could confuse people who are not used to these setups -I remember missing some software from the repo
Jayden Scott
>t. faggot
Henry Thomas
>she
Colton Ross
That was my suspicion, thanks for clarifying.
Tyler Carter
I spent 10 minutes searching for this information for you, but it's okay because you're worth it to me. Her name on Instagram is ur.little.fox
also >no hoverhand that fat fuck really got it going didn't he is it ultimate bravery or ultimate self-ignorance
Isaac Moore
jesus christ i would destroy that
Logan Ortiz
I can't find anyone with that name.
Angel Wright
worked for me. no cosplay images though
Carson Hughes
Never mind, had to use Google.
Bentley Perez
I'm dubious. Couldn't dld pics off the insta - which is rare and isn't really that close looking to her. >it's fake - you can tell by the pixels...
Henry Wright
Oh that poor girl
Ryan Martinez
So I just finished installing arch for the nth time. How do I go about installing xfce and xorg and shit like that properly? I mean, the chronology of things after the arch install. Does it matter? After the install the general recommendations of the wiki gets all over the place for me so I'm not sure if I'm getting things right.
Adam Gray
>install xorg >install other shit Why would you install anything window related before installing xorg
Ryan Torres
I mean I'm really just confused by what comes first and what comes next or how I'm expected to read the wiki.
For ezample, while setting up xorg for dual monitor, xorg wiki page leads me to nvidia page, then to multihead page, then xrandr page. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to take them as I go or go through every page first before going to another.
Bentley Foster
Just get one thing working, and move on to the next. Start page hopping when there isn't enough information on the current page to finish the current task. Jumping around trying to do everything at once is was leads people to broken systems. That, and installing a million AUR things and not putting in the work to keep them up to date and properly maintained.
Nathan Brooks
just use nvidia-x-settings for the dual monitor stuff.
What was that one utility that displayed all the proprietary software you use? I forgot the name of it.
Sebastian Edwards
vrms
Zachary Rodriguez
Thanks
Brandon Cruz
You're welcome.
Aiden Flores
Forever in your debt. I hope you have a long and prosper life my friend!
Nathan Brown
Hey everybody. I would like some distro recommendations BUT I am extremely picky. I have a ThinkPad T400 that I got off ebay for Libreboot. I ended up installing Coreboot instead because the docs were better and I was able to get my preferred payload working (Tiano Core wouldn't work in Trannyboot). So now that I'm done with that whole 4 hour BIOS fuckery ordeal, I want an operating system better than a Lubuntu Live USB.
Specs aren't much but pretty decent. >Intel Core2 Duo P8400 >4GB Crucial DDR3 RAM >128GB Samsung SSD over SATA2
The issue I'm having here is that I can't find an OS to load on that I really like. I've many systems and still haven't found something comfy enough, so I need something absolutely fantastic for this finished laptop.
Here's what I've tried (and didn't like)
>Ubuntu Buggy and bloated trash. >Debian Outdated and slightly less buggy trash. >Arch Too unstable. >Gentoo Pretty okay but it's a timesink OS. I have free time but not that much. >Chromium OS Too basic and I don't like Chrome. >Mint Power management is screwy on my other Core2 stuff and it's bloated. >OpenSUSE I hate the package manager. >Fedora It's like RedHat and Poettering had a baby with Down's syndrome. Stable but annoying. >GNU/Hurd It's not ready for real hardware. >Elementary OS Buggy shit with a dumb UI. >Slackware I don't like the way it manages packages and dependencies. >FreeBSD Cucked by SJWs and has poor security.
Here's what I sort of like but have had issues with
>Void Linux Not very many packages or options, and package management is sorta overly complicated. >OpenBSD It's just painful to use with complex docs. >Open Solaris No packages, outdated, hard to use. >Haiku OS What is security? What's a package? >Windows 7 Outdated and lacking features. >Windows XP No more updates. >Windows 10 LTSB It's a botnet, making Coreboot all for nothing.
So what's an OS that doesn't use systemd, has a decent package manager and a few up to date packages?
Any idea why eg my status bar looks like this, ie only bumps? Upon start-up, the "first config" window was also fucked and just weird shapes and sizes, some rectangles iirc. Using i3bar. On thinkpad t450. Here's my ~/.config/i3 pastebin.com/t2P4nJiM
Probably the compositor shitted itself. Get a tty and try to recover from there.
Ryan Williams
Yes, but it's also what makes it an actual operating system, instead of just a wireframe interface
Ryder Perry
What Linux distro would you recommend if I want to use Arch but don't want to maintain my laptop every single day?
Christian Torres
Manjaro
Nolan Taylor
There's nothing to recover, it's a clean first install. This happens at boot
Isaiah Kelly
Fedora if you just want bleeding edge packages. Void or Alpine Linux if you want the customization, low resource usage, and lack of systemd with better stability.
I'm running an LVM for my Arch 64 setup, and I decreased the size of of one of the partitions in it so I could add another one with the remaining space on one of my drives - basically I need to set up another OS in the unallocated space (can't use a VM, this is mainly for testing purposes).
I don't actually know how to do this - if I make another logical volume, the process is to make a mount point within Arch, but wouldn't that be problematic if it's a separate operating system? As well, the unallocated space isn't listed in fdisk of course so I can't target any specific part of the hard drive (it being logical and whatnot).
Any help would be appreciated.
Nathaniel Bailey
>update for the first time in a month my arch laptop >everything still works hell yeah!
Cooper Cooper
I tried a couple of builds and none worked
Evan Cooper
>trying to install arch manually >installing it onto a old core2 series thinkpad >doesn't have UEFI >wiki guide is set up for UEFI how do I partition it for the old MBR style?
Joshua Moore
>>wiki guide is set up for UEFI I'm pretty sure the wifi is set up for MBR and UEFI, but the only difference is where it says to create the specific uefi partition. Never tried it but you can likely just skip that
Levi Morris
>Arch >Too unstable That's a meme son. Been using Arch as my main OS since almost two years ago and the only issue I had was my phone not being opened by dolphin, but even that got resolved quick.
Ryder Ward
where to get cute loli pics like that? Sorry if brainlet question, but I want a cute loli wallpaper.
James Barnes
who is that semen demon
Brayden Long
>think libreboot would be neat >forget to check what hardware works >get X301 >X301 doesn't have explicit support damn, I really like this X301 and libreboot would be real cool on it
>following this guide # pvcreate /dev/mapper/luks # vgcreate vg0 /dev/mapper/luks on vgcreate it says write error failed no space left on device how do I fix that
>bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197153 It seems variable MHz was removed from /proc/cpuinfo recently due to a number of reasons. But most concerning is this: >4. On modern processors, user space utilities, such as turbostat(1), are more accurate and more precise, while supporing concurrent measurement over arbitrary intervals. >Issue 4 will remain -- users that really care about accurate frequency information should not be using either proc or sysfs kernel interfaces. They should be using using turbostat(8), or a similar purpose-built analysis Does this mean that /proc and /sys are inaccurate in general, or only for the CPU? If former, what about tools that rely on the kernel reporting, e.g. vnstat for bandwidth monitoring from /proc/net/dev? I have always assumed that anything from proc or sys is accurate, as why bother reporting inaccurate data?
Ayden Reyes
I think only CPU frequency is in question.
My best guess is that cpuinfo is populated before other modules for the CPU (frequency, sleep, ACPI etc) are loaded and initial values are often lower. Another guess is that this was not an issue on old systems where improved sleep states and dynamic frequency changing was not a thing.
Jack Watson
Try void. Great small, lightweight, minimal and stable distro.
Ian Bailey
I didn't read that you've tried it, still I would give it second chance.
Lucas Sullivan
you've got way too much time on your hands to complain about gentoo being a timesink
Ayden Morgan
>What is alpine linux
Cooper Bennett
Closer... but I'm still not sold. Gud hunting tho m8.
Benjamin Bailey
Just installed Ubuntu 16.04 after realizing 17.10 isn't usable for a newbie like me. What desktop environment should I replace this shitty default one with? I was thinking XFCE since it's supposedly lightweight and it looks like a proper desktop environment meant to be used with a mouse and keyboard. What do you guys suggest aside from not using Ubuntu?
Jayden Kelly
gnome is fine
Easton Green
Isn't that just what Ubuntu comes with?
Samuel Sullivan
> install on lvm > don't learn how to administer lvm Assuming you already did `lvresize --resizefs` to shrink the logical volume, use pvresize to shrink the physical volume, then change the partition size with gparted or whatever. You may have to play with pvs and pvmove if pvresize can't reclaim all the space you want due to extents being allocated further up the physical partition space.
Jacob Morris
id little fox her up her asshole :D thanks mate
Henry Allen
>don't learn how to administer lvm I know how to the extent of setting a primary system up, but I've just never done it with multiple OS before
I have resized it, so after resizing the pv do I create a second volume group? Or will the unallocated space be available in fdisk or a Mint installer for example?
Adrian Hall
just don't use lvm there's no reason to in this day and age. gpt has no limit on partitions and btrfs subvolumes and quotas make resizing a breeze (or just completely unnecessary) anything you install that would use lvm can also use btrfs
Aiden Baker
Well I'll consider that on my next build, sounds cool and I'll definitely look into it, but I have lvm right now so just trying to get the specifics down
Cameron Ross
Also just to elaborate, the reason I did lvm was because I wanted my /home across multiple drives, does btrfs do that too?
Gabriel Fisher
>void >alpine linux especially for laptop Shiggy diggy
