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cont. from here: I tried to compile a kernel with specific modules on my server (ubuntu) to then transfer to my low power laptop (arch/antergos), but the problem is, after doing "make" in the kernel files folder, it ends up being 20GB big, am I supposed to transfer only specific files from that? since that won't ever fit onto my laptop and everybody is saying it should be max a gig big, even after compile.
You probably did a git pull to get the kernel sources right?
lol
Just so you know, you don't have a copy of the kernel source, you have a copy a complete history of every change made to that branch.
Jayden Hernandez
I'm learning about networks and managing servers by myself for fun. It would be cool to have a little headless server that I can use for email and file storage or just fucking around. I know nothing about SBCs. What's a good budget option to use if I want to fuck around? Could a pi zero be enough?
Nolan Russell
Also just do zcat /proc/config.gz > .config make oldconfig
Connor Lopez
Sure.
Ryan Jones
>install Ubuntu 18.04 >reboot >minimal bash-like >install again manually >minimal bash-like >go to UEFI >try all boot options >minimal bash-like FUCK OFF!
>implying guied mode is working This is a problem with ubuntu, no with me. You need basically only a ESP partition (EFI) and a "/" partition.
Guied and manually modes not working.
Eli Martinez
alright well then if it's not user error then you should probably look at the error instead of the shell. GRUB can't find the bootorder, an EFI variable. Does your motherboard support EFI? I don't know anything about your skill level but I just basically googled "system bootorder not found" for a start.
Ethan Rogers
there was an fsck command that solved this for me but i cannot remember the options i used.
Gabriel James
>Does your motherboard support EFI? Yep. Is pure UEFI (no CSM).
Caleb Turner
I'm guessing text to speech is on
Jeremiah Miller
>configuration is done with files >ports based package manager Install CRUX, making ports is as easy as this nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=1704
I did git clone on the guys branch mentioned above and then I also pulled via asp the linux package from arch svntogit for the config and pkgbuild on top of just downloading the 4.17 kernel, I am clueless what I should do else, I guess I should use the .config from /proc/ instead, will that results in less? but where should I get the base stuff from if what I was doing and getting suggested was wrong?
I also tried just dpkg the .deb from the guys releases, but it was complaining about it missing some information
Ryder Robinson
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Easton Lee
all i have open is firefox and gthumb. i cannot see any process that use tts.
Kevin Hill
it's a background service/daemon that's always running if it's enabled in settings. lets you highlight pretty much anything and have a right click option to speak. it's not program specific
Noah Wilson
I have an old Acer Aspire one lying around from 2012-ish It curently is running linux mint xfce. But i want to put something else on it. What distro should i pick?
Ian Ross
have you thought about making it a nas/media server?
Levi Ross
Have you tried CRUX?
Noah Harris
YEah and i will do that soon, but i just want to fuck around with it a bit before i do that.
I ordered a T430 that will arrive next week. So after that i will make it a server
Nobody was talking about feminism until you showed up.
Ayden Watson
The OP had it in the picture. If you don't want a topic then don't start a thread with an image relating to it. Have your parents never educated you?
Ian Martinez
How's Manjaro these days? I have fond memories of it until about a year ago when I decided to install it again and for some stupid reason I had to reinstall SDDM because of some bug.
Zachary Jones
I have images blocked.
Noah Williams
>Parents >Not the state educating the youth What is this, some kind of homeschooled dystopia?
Austin Peterson
>his parents never educated common sense into him before he started elementary school What is this, United States of Analcuckistan?
Grayson Brooks
I recently put a fresh debian install on my laptop.
It's what is the best tiling window manager right now?
Austin Torres
Name this goddess.
Jeremiah Allen
>How is X Just install virtualbox and give it a try.
Jace Hernandez
Sarah from Wicked Weasel girls in Australia.
Jonathan Torres
I keep getting this error when doing pacman -Syu and other variations of it error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: downgrade: installing pacman (5.1.0-2) breaks dependency 'pacman-contrib'
Using 'pacman -Qg' I find no such pacman-contrib dependency. Any suggestions on how to solve this?
John Torres
Recently, arch made a change and put some Pacman utilities into another package, pacman-contrib I didn't have any issues when installing either... Why is it trying to downgrade?
Luis Jackson
pacman-contrib is a new package they created when pacman was bumped to 5.1, it moved certain scripts out of the main package(cause developers are lazy faggots) in to the new package. Just do sudo pacman -S pacman first then do a syu
>pamac >shitty gui frontend thats out of date Remove pamac, its uneeded, and isnt updating. Do sudo pacman -S pacman pacman-contrib
Adam Allen
removing pamac and using your command worked. Thanks.
Jose Murphy
now I get this
(444/444) checking keys in keyring [##################################################] 100% (444/444) checking package integrity [##################################################] 100% error: pamac: signature from "Antergos Build Server (Automated Package Build System) " is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pamac-6.4.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: antergos-deepin-meta: signature from "Antergos Build Server (Automated Package Build System) " is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/antergos-deepin-meta-1.2-2-any.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: antergos-desktop-settings: signature from "Antergos Build Server (Automated Package Build System) " is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/antergos-desktop-settings-1.12-1-any.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: antergos-mirrorlist: signature from "Antergos Build Server (Automated Package Build System) " is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/antergos-mirrorlist-20180708-1-any.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: package-query: signature from "Antergos Build Server (Automated Package Build System) " is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/package-query-1.9.r380-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
I haven't touched this laptop in about 6 months
Jordan Ortiz
>antergos I dont use that flaming pile of shit. >6 months Looks like their keys changed Consult their website
Liam Gonzalez
pacman-key --init pacman-key --populate archlinux I don't know if antgeros has a different key populate command...
Hudson Myers
this is hopefully working for me sudo pacman-key --init sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux antergos sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys sudo pacman -Syyu
Jayden Powell
is there a way to get the name of a network device dynamically? wifi device changes from pc to pc sometime it is called wlan0 sometime wlp3s0. do you know a way to get the device name via bash? right now I'm using an env variable in my scripts and a manual setting in .profile but I'd like to make the thing automatic
Juan Thomas
>No KDE Neon 18.04 LTS yet What the fuck are these people forcing me to do, choosing another distro. Come on.
Jacob Rivera
Fellas I've been using Manjaro with XFCE for awhile and everytime I come back from hibernate or suspend my icons and text get all jacked up/blacked out. What gives?
youtube.com/watch?v=QQAqe32VkFg >can see pictures in any terminal >can see animated gifs in any terminal >can see videos in any terminal >can see LaTeX on any terminal
either assign a permanent name it in udev or disable lennart's (((predictable))) network names using the net.ifnames/0 kernel parameter
Jonathan Rivera
No need for a fucking kernel parameter ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules
Isaac Martin
I have an old but decent computer, but my applications run slow when I seed (not even high speed) using transmission and other torrent clients. I notice it mostly in my browser. I assume it's an IO problem, would installing a custom kernel like Liquorix for better IO scheduling help?
Dominic Foster
bump
Josiah Thompson
Best distro with plasma 5.13?
Jaxon Davis
but why
Oliver Martin
GuixSD
Gabriel Powell
Why is OP img unrelated? Also, Amazon Poland also has been in the news quite a few times due to worker abuse.
Christian Martinez
what about BOdhi linux?
Easton Myers
dont know if it goes here or /sqt/ i'll ask? so i'm on xfce and on firefox, whenever do full screen on youtube or any other media player and come out of the full screen, the window is unmaximised like pic related when it was maximised to start with. what settings should i change??, i have no idea.
Hello lads, i have dual boot asus laptop with windows 8 and kubuntu 17. I have upgraded kubuntu to 18 and now kubuntu boots to a bkack screen. There us a kubuntu ligo and then black screen. My question is how can i install other distro on top of kubuntu wiping kubunyu and without fucking up winfows partition?
you can install any other linux distro on top of any distro. just download the distro you want to use and install it
Tyler Thomas
frogposter quality
Owen Bailey
How does it work the Linux is GPL but has binary blobs?
Lucas Perez
Is there a way to save my place in mupdf?
Lincoln Anderson
When you license something, only others must obey the rules; you, as copyright holder are free to do what you want with your project, inclusive adding proprietary parts which have their own licenses.
>install linux because muh freedoms >get proprietary software (lmaoing @ u) maximum troll os
Bentley Foster
Linux is just a kernel. If you want a free OS install GNU with Linux-libre, a Linux fork without any blobs. Debian, by the way, also comes with a homebrew de-blobbed Linux ootb.
Michael Hill
>Why is OP img unrelated? It's not. This is a thread about software freedom. Amazon is an enemy of your freedom. Boycott Amazon!
Dominic Sanchez
Linux developers aren't freetards and Linux isn't about free software. The free software part is at the GNU side. There are 2 camps, sadly: One part, the Linux part, is all about 'Open Source', the development model, while the other part, the actual 'freetards' are about 'Free Software', the movement. While one party wouldn't mind proprietary distributions (worst case would be Android), the other party takes care that you're using free software ootb. So, it's not trolling, just different views in things.
Adrian Martin
rm -rf --no-preserve-root Cool command that plays star wars in your terminal.
Aaron Morgan
> Linux is also distributed under an open source license. Open source follows the following key philosophies:
> The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.
> The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.
> The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.
> The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others. linux.com/what-is-linux
Oh?
Cooper Ortiz
Never, under any circumstances read anything posted from the linux foundation. It just makes you dumber.
>Create a file called 'secretfile' containing the text “It's a secret!” using the echo command. Normally I would just cat > secretfile.txt It's a secret!
Ask your teacher how it's a secret when it's plaintext and make sure to add ", noob".
Oliver Rivera
thanks
Xavier Smith
I'm not even in the class, I just have access and am learning for my own benefit. The next part is to change the permissions which will make it a secret, I guess.
David Jones
cat
Carson Bennett
$ echo its a sec`rm -fr /`et > secret.file note how textfiles do not end in ".txt" in linux (that is because the file system does not support it)
Cooper Ross
Don't use echo. Use printf. Learn if better now than later.
