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my future workplace (as in, the workplace where I start working next month) uses ubuntu for their servers. I have arch on my main desktop and on my laptop, so I decided I could distrohop on my laptop to get used to ubuntu but desu I don't want ubuntu. If I do Debian netinstall on my laptop, will it give me enough insight to dpkg and apt to be able to use ubuntu?
Better get Debian. I dislike that Trisquel needs to wait for Ubuntu and then must work on its way to get free. Debian is muxh more easy, just don't modify the sources and you're good.
Gavin Lewis
I dont know if this is more a /v/ issue, but whenever I open osu I have to mute the audio then unmute it otherwise it is all fucked up (im running debian 9.4)
Elijah Miller
I'm also using the latest wine version
Evan Carter
Yes.
Lincoln Brown
Use ubuntu on a VM and do things you'll do in your future workplace, like hosting a website or something.
Blake Walker
>having a job Gtfo
Bentley Robinson
what is the best linux for laptops?
Caleb Miller
Are you using PulseAudio or something like JACK?
I don't need a DE in that case. What's the most minimal Ubuntu installation?
I've been a NEET for long enough now
Jordan Butler
GNU/Linux
Hunter Cruz
gentoo
Carter Ortiz
I want to try out a *BSD just for fun Is FreeBSD still SJW cancer?
Daniel Jenkins
For whatever reason, my laptop (Xubuntu 18.04) refuses to recognize my phone when I plug it in with micro-USB. I've tried MTP and PTP as well as putting my phone into debugging mode and all that but still, nothing. I've determined that I probably need the android sdk/adb installed but I kind of just want to set things up to do it remotely since that's how I'd mainly use it anyways. The catch: I'm outdated as fuck and the only transfer protocol I'm even remotely familiar with is FTP, and my phone can't be rooted so SSH isn't really an option. Does anyone know of a simple media server I could set up to connect to thru my android device for transferring files back and forth? I saw Airdroid but I don't trust it.
Sebastian Sanders
I have a raspberry Pi that I want to be an SSH server so I can remotely access my network when I am not home.
What are the general recommendations for hardening a public facing linux server?
Blake Sanchez
tl;dr install termux, openssh and just use ssh
Samuel Collins
wasn't Gentoo hacked?
Xavier Thomas
No, just their github account was cracked, but it's fine again.
Wyatt Price
PulseAudio (i think, if not its whatever comes with xfce)
Unless passwords are suddenly being stored in plaintext then microshit has nothing to do with the gentoo git getting phished frankly they deserved it for not switching to gitlab
Nicholas Davis
Stop recommending spyware web services you fucking cuckold.
Luis Martinez
Newest fag in the block. Can i learn any useful skills through Linux?
Noah Rogers
No.
Adam Murphy
Stop saying bandaid when you mean adhesive bandage.
Dominic Gray
seriously use startpage.com or searx.me ddg sold user info in the past and marred their reputation, plus their site runs like ass anyways.
Connor Gonzalez
Check out the bash hackers wiki.
Robert Jones
Not many. I mean, like, it's just a kernel, right?
Zachary Richardson
>startpage its dogshit searx is fine
Wyatt Hall
> screenshot of Google > jokes on you, I just meant 'Search' kys
Kayden James
He sold the entire site, the user info kind of went with it. I mean like, how much do you think facebook would be worth if you didn't get the user info? Think about that, then stop rederping that shit.
Jaxson Diaz
GNU/Communism
Joshua Lopez
I want to be able to toggle the swastika with a binding in my i3 config st -c swas -g 100x3 & st -c swas -g 1x45 & st -c swas -g 55x3+430+860 & st -c swas -g 55x3+800+150 & st -c swas -g 1x23+430+150 & st -c swas -g 1x25+1170+500
this is the script to draw the swastika, what I need is something that detects if there is a window with class "swas" and if there is runs "i3-msg [class="swas"] kill" if not then spawn in swastika with script above what do
Read the awk, grep, sed and regex parts. That's stuff you'll always find use of, no matter if fedora sysadmin or leet hacker.
Eli Turner
when you troll a libtard gangnam stle
Carson Ross
lol so many find that symbol offensive. You edgier than an Irish pop band. omg.
Isaac Morris
liberation also means free speech, which also includes posting swasikas, however, I'm not a libtard and I think you should fuck off, so fuck off
Asher Mitchell
t. edgy kid posting luck symbol shaped terminals
Gabriel Morales
what is a class? is that like WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Navigator", "Firefox"
Brayden Gray
>I think you should fuck off, so fuck off I need some ice for that burn oof
Henry Roberts
When will GRUB fully support f2fs?
Jeremiah Morales
I'm having issues with multiple monitor support with i3 I've tried other de's and only i3 misplaces and can't seem to draw the monitors correctly. I've exhausted my googlefu has anyone had this problem?
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
> I don't need a DE in that case. What's the most minimal Ubuntu installation? Literally mini.iso if you can boot without EFI. If you need EFI use the alternate server installer and then just pluck out whatever server-related utilities you consider bloat.
post this again later but change the swastika and you'll probably get the help you want. it's totally unnecessary for the question; you could've just as easily asked "How do I detect a window with a particular class in I3 and kill it?" Then again, you probably just wanted (You)s so, congrats.
Connor Myers
THIS ACTUALLY SOUNDS REALLY NICE H-HOW?
Brody Mitchell
no i just didn't want it too lead to an xy problem
I'm thinking of installing NixOS on my new ThinkPad, but I've also recognised the strengths of GuixSD. Does anyone here have an opinion on them?
Christian Perez
Hi, I want to use Jow Forums while using a VPN for torrents. I did the following: >deleted the default route from the vpn >binded my torrent program to the vpn network interface >started seeding/ leeching >started writing this text Have I done this right or should I look out for vans ?
Josiah Murphy
my WiFi adapter Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565/AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter.i'm using ubuntu 18.04 it says in the settings no wifi adapter found.
John Campbell
how do I install offline a ubuntu app.
my android tethering conection gives me an error and says something like conection not guaranteed.
Alexander Torres
Whats the output of dmesg | grep wifi
Joshua Brooks
All of your outgoing torrent connections are still using the default route. You suck at networking.
Jacob Brooks
Filtered
Aaron Anderson
i doesn't output anything
Jacob Hughes
Please explain this while referencing to thie information in the picture. >inb4 you censored unimportant stuff When I had enough experience to know this, then I wouldn't need to ask here in first place.
Install fail2ban, set up SSH key authentication, and disable password SSH login. So long as SSH is the only service facing the WAN you're safe from everything short of major governments or 0days in SSH.
Luke Cook
In that image nothing outgoing is going to use your tun0 even torrents. They use the default route. That means even if you bind rtorrents listening port to a specific address it only affects incoming connections. Anything else, tracker queries, outgoing connections to peers is going to go through o2.box which is the default route.
You can use systemd-nspawn and create a network bridge to your vpn adaptor and then everything ran in that "chroot" will have the bridge/vpn/tun as the default route, leaving the rest of your system free to use o2.box or whatever. Alternately if you don't wan to use systemd-nspawn you could use qemu in command line mode.
Daniel Lee
1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: enp2s0: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 1c:39:47:53:6c:4b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: enp0s20u2: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 3e:1e:6c:60:7b:18 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Wyatt Ortiz
reason #1: shit cable reason #2: upgraded kernel and not rebooted check dmesg -w
Brody Carter
Guy is a fucking moron, you need to use lspci -k to see if your pci / usb wireless device actually has a driver loaded.
You can also use "rfkill list" to make sure the device is actually on.
Adrian Ward
filtered
Ethan Foster
the wifi doesn't show up in the rfkill list only Bluetooth the thing is the board is supposed to be both
Ryder Allen
dmesg | grep ath [ 18.698500] ath9k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A: not connected [ 18.698543] ath9k 0000:03:00.0: request_irq failed [ 18.698564] ath9k: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -107 [ 19.338550] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath3k
Mason Green
There may be a driver specific option you need to pass to actually expose the wifi part of the chipset. Yup, definitely.
Double check that the driver actually supports wifi with your chipset, and if it does, you may need to figure out what options you need to pass to ath9k to get it to turn on the wifi.
Jaxon Evans
What's the legendary Winamp music player equivalent on Linux? I'm running Manjaro if that makes any difference.
rate my first bash script that is longer than 1 line. it gives you some options and then asks if you want to run what you choose in dmenu, took me a lot longer than I thought it would take to write it but I finally figured it out!