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David Wood
when I first saw pics of Stallman I thought he might have a manly voice, being a grown, intelligent speaker of ideology. it was quite shocking to see that he sounds like a whiny nerd
Torvalds has no ideology. He's a developer, not a thinker. He hasn't figured out the purpose of the gpl to this day. Comparing Torvalds to Stallman on this topic is retarded.
Owen Carter
How do you actually use findimagedupes? I've scanned a folder, and it output some files, but how teh fuck do i use it to get rid of dupes?
Nathaniel Murphy
I have the following, with WinXP installed on it, and want to put a GNU/Linux distro on it instead,
>ASUS EEE 900SD >CPU: 800MHz Celeron M Single Core >RAM: 512MB >VRAM: Shared UMA >Int. Storage: 8GB SSD >Ext. Storage: SD-HC Slot
It seems the low RAM and slow processor are dashing my hopes of installing Ubuntu 19. What other low resource distro is there that has a nice DE that this can run? With WinXP it can't handle flash in browsers or HD video. It can play a shit load of old games, but I don't play games anymore so fuck that. I just want to use it to listen to audio files and do minor browsing of the internet.
I can VM any distro I want, to test the layout/DE, but god damn there's just so many of them to choose from and I really don't have that kind of time.
Oliver Torres
I've got a question about virtualization. I have a headless server running Debian stable. I'd like to run a VM on the server for services which I don't fully trust to be secure and have to be exposed to the general internet. I also want to firewall this VM in such a way that it has access to the internet but not to my LAN, unless it's an incoming connection to one of those services it is running. Basically I should be able to SSH into the VM and reach a couple of things running inside from my LAN and the internet, but things inside the VM shouldn't be able to initiate communication with my LAN. I guess I want some sort of NAT/firewall running on the host to restrict what the guest can get to.
What would /fglt/ recommend I use to set up a VM and those sorts of restrictions? I was looking into KVM and hoping I could use some iptables rules to restrict the VM's network access, but I'm still confused about the network types in KVM. Is this the right approach, or should I use/do something completely different?
Luke Young
Make it output to an external program like eye of gnome, gwenview, etc. There you compare the set of files one at a time, and delete the dupes. Then when done you close the viewer and it should open up again with the next set. Used to find dupes that way, now I just use geeqie.
Is there like a package mega pack I can download for Debian? I need a network manager but when I boot up a live disk and dl the dependencies they just keep adding up
Caleb Rivera
cont.
I can open both in terminal, by the way.
Adam Adams
is it common for arch to take a while to load the desktop after the user login? my pc takes more time in a black screen past the login screen than for booting the pc
Matthew Hughes
Now it wants shit that doesn't even exists so I really need it
Sebastian Allen
Don't do Ubuntu 19, do Ubuntu 18.04, the latest LTS.
Get the ubuntu mini iso, it gives you absolutely nothing but a tty and barebones ubuntu. It's guaranteed to install. Then install whatever minimal DE you like, and a simple browser like falkon.
For the DE, install icewm for a basic DE, or if you want even more barebones and don't mind a learning curve you can go keyboard focussed and even more minimalist and install i3. There's a massive community of autists for i3 so plenty of help.
Jackson Walker
It's not piping to feh >geeqie It never works, every time i open a picture its just a single solid color. Does this for all file types
Bentley Anderson
What's findimagedupes? Are you not talking about "fdupes"? It comes with flags to specify if you want files to be deleted and which copies to preserve (or even to prompt you to select one).
That's relative of course. I've been using it and I find I can make it do anything I want to. Including installing proprietary stuff and running 3rd party binaries (like games). So for me it's perfectly "usable". But I'd be lying if I said it was never frustrating to get something working, or a challenge, and not everyone would consider that "usable".
Levi Gomez
What's actually going on when you kill -STOP a process? Is its memory written to disk or something?
Jace Gomez
Is there a way to install proprietary graphics drivers like for nvida on there? Need my cuda shits.
Joshua Sanders
nixos
Jacob Ward
did you do the full path to feh? had to do that if i remember correctly.
Luis King
>Is there a way Yes of course, you can make it do anything. It just depends on how easy it is. If I were using an nvidia card I'm absolutely sure I'd have a package for proprietary nvidia drivers right now that I could even share with you and anyone else who wanted it. But I'm not using nvidia so I'd have no way to test it. Until someone else makes one you'd have to do it yourself.
Carson Smith
Is Mint still bad?
Jose Carter
Okay, information noted down. Thank you, user!
Luis Taylor
no, all sigstop does it 'pauses' a process, that is, the process is not given any cpu time until the process is resumed (sigcont[inue])
Joshua White
Just installed Fedora. Wondering if I should switch to Xorg first before installing my Nvidia GPU drivers.
Caleb Peterson
I'm curios. Can you convert OpenSUSE to Fedora? Will zypper do the needful when I type dup?
Jayden Martin
So, systemd or sysvinit? Should I automate the process by making a script, so I can reinstall everything easily every time something shits itself?
I unironically want to use self-built GNU/Linux as daily driver.
And yeah, can someone make a logo for me? I need a logo.
Luke Lopez
runit is literally the best init system currently in existence >Should I automate the process by making a script, so I can reinstall everything easily every time something shits itself? Use guix for that
Just installed Ubuntu, two questions: can I remove the stuff like the calculator, etc? I'm not touching system apps.
Regarding games that don't have a direct linux port - can I just copy the data over? I'd just prefer to use an external HDD with 1tb of games on it if possible instead of having do download them all over again.
Kayden Rodriguez
I will check this. Isn't runit known for shitting itself? >guix >>GNOME, Xfce, LXDE, and Enlightenment are available (see Desktop Services), as well as a number of X11 window managers. However, KDE is currently missing. I need my KDE. With my own scrips, it is easy.
Tyler Allen
Should have checked the minimal install option if it was available. Know some spins have that which removes a lot of the superfluous packages. Hard dependencies will probably remove the DE if you try to uninstall that stuff now.
Matthew Reyes
I literally just installed it so can do it again - I remember abut a year ago trying it on a yoga and it wouldn't install the linux drivers for wifi for some reason but that was with broadcom adapter. I'll try the minimal install, thanks
Christian Diaz
Looking for something similar like qubes. Is there some os similar?
Do care if you are >using dm-crypt >and LVM >on a SSD >on a 5.1 series kernel if you are using that particular setup - upgrade to 5.1.5 or downgrade to 5.0.x. Everyone else: It doesn't matter.
Gavin Taylor
Nevermind, turns out this file is generated automatically and mutt was conflicting because I created a directory called sent because I was trying out suckless' sent.
should I ask this here? how do I apply pic related? I've never messed directly with bytes and hex so I have no idea how to search for 0x448988 and change it to 0x40240000 help?
Many people ask "why all the hate against Linux?", "is Linux-hate a meme or is there something reasonable behind it?", "is it true that Linux does not follow the unix philosophy?", "is Linux bloated?", "is the code too complex to audit for security?" Let's break it down.
Linux is: - developed by asshole developers >Most people are absolutely terrified of mailing the list lest they get flamed for their inexperience, an inappropriate bug report, being stupid or whatever. ... I think the kernel developers at large haven't got the faintest idea just how big the problems in userspace are. - bloated as fuck >The kernel is huge and bloated, and our icache footprint is scary. I mean, there is no question about that. And whenever we add a new feature, it only gets worse. - too complex >Linus Torvalds stated that Linux has become "too complex" and he was concerned that developers would not be able to find their way through the software anymore. He complained that even subsystems have become very complex and he told the publication that he is "afraid of the day" when there will be an error that "cannot be evaluated anymore." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Linux#Linux_kernel_criticisms without-linux.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_linux
John Reed
>- developed by asshole developers The end user does not ever see this >- bloated as fuck A kernel built with "Y for all options is less then 5 mb compressed. >- too complex End user never see this
Does somebody use herbstluftwm? How to show battery info in their pane?
Colton Hall
Panel* of course
Josiah Hall
Which distro should I get if I want something bloated, user hostile and doesn't work out of the box?
Brayden Nguyen
suse
Elijah Robinson
Debian. It works OOB
Nathaniel Morales
Unironically Arch.
Jayden Morgan
>i disagree with people literally developing the kernel OK kid
Kayden Brooks
>i only agree with 3 of thousands of people that contribute to Linux OK KId.
Ryan Turner
What is the best distro?
Jeremiah Scott
see
Elijah Gomez
It's funny how arch is only bloated and unstable when you can't install it. And when you can install it there's no bloat or problems at all. You'd think it would be the other way around.
Thomas Bennett
Linux sucks.
Lincoln Ortiz
lincucks btfo
Juan Wilson
based and redpilled
Josiah Anderson
Fuck off lunduke.
William Cox
for years their mantra was 'arch is minimal' and arch users would repeat this ad nauseam, but when it came time to adopt systemd instead of maintaining udev and offering an alternative system like gentoo did the arch devs reneged on that community mantra and turned it into 'w-well it's minimal for the maintainers'
Chase Fisher
not gonna use dos
Ethan Campbell
If systemd wasn't the default I'd install it.
Jaxon Hughes
>yfw yet another package update for kernel and have to reboot both proxmox machines again
>updating his packages ever unless it's security fixes there's no real benefit
Blake Evans
Kinda want to switch to xubuntu Don't really feel like downloading and installing it on my system Can I just install xfce and uninstall gnome easily? Because I've had issues with gnome throwing a shitfit before and I'm not sure how to cleanly get rid of it
the devs know it can be better, but that doesn't mean it's worse than the alternatives
William James
Is anyone familiar with nohup, disown etc? I have a script that starts a vpn and creates tun0, it then needs to add some routes, but it can't add them as tun0 doesn't exist yet. I have tried making the route adding a seperate script being called by the first, but no amount of fucking with exiting the first in different ways is successful
Adam Torres
>tfw kinda want to do a clean reinstall of an 18 month old debian system but there are so many tiny little tweaks I've made I can't remember them all and will have to figure out how to do them all over again
