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You show up to LAN party.
This guy replaces your Alienware with a Thinkpad and compiles and installs Gentoo.
wat do?
>>51996617
thank you based top kek
Ask him how.
Wonder when I got so bad with money.
Firefox or Chrome?
Pale Moon
Opera for general use, Firefox for porn
>>51996544
even though mozilla relentlessly marches towards the path of chromifying firefox, it's still less shit than chrome/chromium right now.
pale moon runs into all sorts of issues and has addon compatibility issues, although this may become moot.
i hope some huge drama creates a schism in mozilla and the org splits in half
Will keep posting these as long as it takes for some kind of actual momentum to form behind this OS
Summary for new people: Plan 9 is the evolution of the UNIX operating system and should have been what we were using instead of Ganoob Lunix
Last thread >>51929505
We took some stuff from Plan 9 to Linux.
>Torvalds: "Well, one of the obvious long-time influences has been the conceptual reliance on straight ASCII as a portable and readable way to show information. This is perhaps most visible in the /proc and /sys filesystems. While legacy Unix also had a /proc thing, it was more of a binary interface, while Linux is more like Plan 9, believing that ASCII interfaces are good.
>"The kernel also internally supports the notion of filesystem “namespaces,” which is another Plan 9-like feature. You can think of it as the ability to do per-process mount maps, where different processes actually can see a different organization of the filesystem. It’s not actually used all that much, since it’s not a feature that people are used to, but it does reflect the common belief among Linux developers that the Plan 9 people had “good taste.”"
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/102/
Dennis Ritchie using Plan 9 in 2002 through a program drawterm on Windows NT.
https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/
what's the smallest sized laptop (by diagonal) that has a trackpoint? I have an x1carbon, its 14.1". Would get a 8.9" if there is one with trackpoint.
Perhaps this list of laptop models with a trackpoint can help you. I doubt it's entirely up to date and I'm too lazy to go through it myself, but good luck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick#Naming_and_brands
>>51996453
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick#Naming_and_brands
it does not list by screen size
>>51996469
That is why I said I was too lazy to go through the whole list; Google the models listed to find out the screen sizes if you really want to discover a smaller device with a trackpoint.
This general is meant to replace /flt/ and the occasional BSD general threads, and everything UNIX-related.
GNU with Linux added bois come here
I'll just copy the last /flt/ because lazy
Intended for users of all levels, including absolute beginners.
There are three ways to try GNU with Linux added, you can:
1) Install a GNU with Linux added OS on a VM (Virtual Machine/VirtualBox) for "safety purposes"
2) Use the Live ISO directly without installing anything, that way, you can get a "full GNU with Linux added experience".
3)...
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Are there any text editors or IDE that can run through terminal and automatically tab my text?
I'm learning Java and netbeans really clashes with me elite hacker design that I've riced onto my Ubuntu OS with the i3 mod installed.
Maybe this thread is more suitable for this than /sqt/, I don't know.
I believe I've successfully created a bridge br0 in order to allow the outside world to connect to the virtual machine which is supposed to host the webserver (with the host kinda hosting a fileserver through sftp by use of sshfs). Interfaces:auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp
bridge_ports eth0
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0
bridge_maxwait 0
The server (host) leases a static DHCP address from the router (which is set to DMZ).
The idea is that the host and guest shares the same public IP address. At the moment, this isn't working very well. Hell, I'm not able to connect to Internet during the install in the guest OS either through DHCP or static (leasing an IP in the router for vnet0).
So what am I missing here to make this work?
>>51996405
Emacs
I've noticed that many of the leaked Oscar screeners have been encoded in XviD. Why do people still use this codec when x264 and x265 exist?
>>51996123
same reason they torrent a rar'd up set of multipart rar files
>>51996154
because they got it from usenet?
>>51996123
maybe some people still use obsolete standalone divx dvd players, idk, some 'scene' groups are really, really slow with taking up new standards
Why the fuck would you care considering the source material is DVD resolution? Xvid is perfect for that shit and x264 or x265 isn't going to fucking improve things in any respect.
5 years from now when Blu-ray screeners start to appear - but most likely never actually will - then you can worry about "high quality screener rips" but until then, shut the fuck up and enjoy the leaks.
>stupid fucking people will be the death of us all
Hey /g/, total normalfag with close to zero knowledge about computers... I recently bought an acer aspire E 17 (europe btw) and i would like to use it to its full potential.
Can anyone recommend programms, apps, setting changes etc to make it faster/ more efficient ? Would appreciate greatly
Graphic card : GeForce 820M
Processor : Intel core i7-4510U [email protected]
16Gb RAM
1600x900, 60Hz
Graphic driver updated to 361.43 today
windows 10 family edition
>>51996339
seconded
>>51995919
install gentoo
>>51996360
genkernel all masterrace
>he uses Arch
>he thinks he's a minimalist
Why aren't you upgrading from Arch GNU/Linux to Alpine Linux?
>the base system in Alpine Linux is designed to be only 4-5 MB in size (excluding the kernel). This allows very small Linux containers around 8 MB in size, while a minimal install to disk might be around 130 MB.
>>51995819
Might as well use it on a calculator
>>51995819
Also
>2016-1
>Still illya
Upgrade your loli first
>>51995819
Because Arch is an established OS and I don't have to worry about the hobbyist developer of my OS quitting due to depression. As a bonus it also has good documentation and an active community.
What's your favourite programming language and why?
>python because I'm a nood
C#
Because of extensive .NET framework and many other reasons.
Try it out today!
Python.
Gets shit done in a straightforward way.
Go is quickly becoming my favorite language but I'm not sure why exactly.
Might be because it's a statically typed, garbage-collected compiled language with all the convenience of a dynamic interpreted language.
Might be because it's designed in such a way that dependencies are easy.
Might be the fact that concurrency makes sense and just works.
Might be because it is free of all OOP dogma and discourages magic behavior and clever code solutions in favor of a more procedural, straight-forward, simple approach with an emphasis on proper error handling and type safety.
Might be that error handling is just strings with no concept of exceptions or special mechanisms thereof.
Might just be that I always wanted to write portable command-line programs and daemons and I finally can do so with unprecedented ease.
dunno really
You have half a nanosecond to explain why you are not coding or learning C# right now.
I am.
Making a VR game in Unity
Because its Microshit memeshit
>b-but mono
lel
>>51995670
>Implying I don't make $250k/yr developing FOR Windows
Lmao stay poor and NEET with your freetard meme shit.
