Previously on: >>54218427
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Hello friends, Pajeet here requesting some techsupport with my Ubuntu 16.04 install on my Core2Duo laptop. I have the following two issues:
a) On resuming from standby, my WiFi gets disconnected and I have to restart the machine to get it working.
a) For some inexplicable reason, I have to click on 'Log Out...' twice to successfully log out. The first time does nothing.
These issues weren't present on 15.10, which I upgraded to 16.04.
Should I create a live linux usb, /g/? Post pros and cons
Real talk, niggas
How many of you Linux users are virgins?
Hello linux friends,
I have quite possibly the worst laptop;
-Intel aton N2600 @1.6ghz
-1280x1024 screen
-1gb ram
-300gb hdd
and im currently frustrated with the way windows runs on it.
So my question is whats the best lightweight distro for just doing stuff like
-browsing 4chan
-streaming from my home network
-reading doujin
-watching 4k videos (720p and below)
-bf4 on ultra
Im also concerned about driver issues however, especially with the trackpad and perhaps the speaker?
Thanks
>create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/r.conf
>add those linesSection "Device"
Identifier "Radeon"
Driver "radeon"
Option "SwapBuffersWait" "0"
Option "DRI3" "1"
EndSection
>get better performances in game
Why stuff like that aren't enabled by default ?
>>54238513
I think you should be fine with Xubuntu or LXDE. I'm not too sure about watching 720p videos on it, though.
Can't help with the driver issues question, sorry.
>>54238395
>because your kernel is oldLinux nsa 4.4.0-21-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 18 18:33:37 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>and you didn't install tlp?
I use a desktop, not a laptop.
>>54238475
bump...
>>54238583
>botnet@nsa
I'm trying to install Mabinogi on a friend's laptop, but their brother made the OS Fedora. I can't seem to open the exe file to install the game launcher. It says this
>>54238536
thanks for the input, as a follow up question, does xubuntu remove the amazon spyware stuff thats in ubuntu? Sorry but all i know of ubuntu is that its a "sell out" distro in a sense
What is the easiest way to assign a static ID / name to an external USB drives in loonix famalams?
>>54238712
I am not sure. Check if there are analogous steps to https://fixubuntu.com/ for Xubuntu.
>>54238700
Kek.
You guys talking so much about botnet and NSA, i decided to put the computer name and user as botnet and nsa respectively.
>>54238477
Yes, probably.
Pros: In the event of catastrophic failure you have a fix. Plus if you still can't fix it from a live USB, it will at least give you access to a web browser.
Cons: Lose a flash drive you'd otherwise have for storage.
>>54238704
Bump
Repostan to get a little more feedback.
Anyone else running proprietary drivers? What would I need to hold so that I don't have to reinstall the drivers everytime there's an upgrade towards mesa and whatnot? I'd love to use Nouveau, but it's shit.
On this note, how's AMDGPU? I was tempted to downgrade to a 380 since it's pretty good under it, but having to build my own kernel seems like a hassle. I'd rather go and pick up Polaris after it gets some support.
>>54238704
>>54238853
Have a little more patience. Then have a cup of tea and think about these questions:
- would the nice people at /fgtl/ really know what Mabinogi is?
- is /fglt/ the right place for questions regarding video games?
- what is an .exe file? Could it be that it doesn't work on certain systems?
- Should I bump again? Has it been 10 minutes yet? Do these people maybe have other things to do right now?
then maybe come back to us
>>54238513
>I have quite possibly the worst laptop;
>-Intel aton N2600 @1.6ghz
>-1280x1024 screen
>-1gb ram
>-300gb hdd
Fuck you.
7 years old dell inspiron 15.
-RAM: 1gb
-CPU:1 ghz (intel celeron)
-HD: 250
You don't know the pain
>>54238417
>GNU/Linux
Real?
>>54238860
I wish I could help you, but I only run nvidia drivers on Debian. Haven't had a kernel update in quite some time ^^
I believe you have to recompile the drivers every time the kernel updates. Maybe that can even happen automatically, but that's way over my head. What are you running that gets so many updates? On Fedora 23 kernel updates break my wifi, but that happens once every month or so and it's manageable
>>54238928
Okay. I had a breather, here's a more direct question. How does one check the version of Fedora one is running? Whenever you have time.
>>54239118cat /etc/*-release
also you can't run .exe files on Fedora or any GNU/Linux distribution. Either reinstall Windows or use Wine/PlayOnLinux
Reposting in case someone has more ideas:
This is not entirely a Linux question, but I didn't feel like making a new thread for it.
So I switched to Arch as my main system, but I still need some Windows software like Office and Skype and some other work-related crap. I don't like the idea of this proprietary buggy shit spying and doing whatever it wants to my system, so I want it contained in a virtual machine. The question is: which windows version (7, 8.1, 10) is the best choice? They all are more or less comparable in terms of resource use, however 10 is a confirmed botnet, and 7 constantly bitching about upgrading is beyond good and evil. I also tried googling for any stripped down windows downloads or manuals for how to make one but only found TinyXP (which is sorta old i guess?). I bet there are people in the same situation as me here.
>>54239106
I'm running Debian testing. The thing is that I'm running the drivers from Nvidia's website since the package from the repos isn't that updated. I guess apt doesn't know about it and it might replace some libraries from the nvidia driver.
>>54239181
Wine?
Or use 8.1 since it has specific supports and a longer life than 7 will. You could always just use 10 and not let it have net access
>>54239181
Yes, I'm in the same boat. I used to tutor a few years ago and got asked recently to tutor from Skype like the old days. I don't want to run it, so I'd rather use a VM. I think 8.1 is the best choice since you can find an activator and can download directly from Microsoft though I'd love to have other alternatives. Reading a bit from OBS or ffmpeg should be enough so I can stream enabling them to hear and see my screen, but the thing about Skype is that they can show me their work as well through screenshare. If there's any alternative in Linux, then I'd love to hear about it.
>>54239277
cant you juse ask them to use tox or similar?
>>54238417
Should I delete Arch Linux for Ubuntu 16.04 because snaps sounds based?
>>54238417
Is mint insecure or is it just a long overdue meme?
>>54239216
>>54239277
8.1 seems to suffer from the same telemetry updates as 7, however I can't find if that fucking "Upgrade to Windows 10 now" screens are there too. Still looks like a sane choice.
Wine does not offer any sandboxing at all, unfortunately. Also, I've previously tried to run Skype under Wine and got a weird bug: all my group conversations were gone from contacts list and I missed every message sent to them while I used it. I can't imagine how shitty the internals of Skype are so that this bug could ever appear. Didn't try with office though but I bet there will be even more weirdness.
Can anyone recommend a command-line based download manager for sites like mega and ul.to?
>>54239643
you cant disable tele on 8.1 for the most part
>>54238417
What distro will work best with my hardware?
EVGA GTX 960, AMD-6300, Asus Mobo, 8GB ram.
Currently running Xubuntu and is running so-so.
What distro will agree well with my hardware and run well?
>>54239572
>meme?
Partly. The website of Linux Mint was cracked and the iso downloads were changed to backdoored isos. The whole thing went some hours till the site was fixed again. The distro itself was never cracked - that's just a meme.
>>54239654
plowshare is nice for one-click-hosting site, but if mega works - no idea. plowshare is on github, made entirly in bash.
>>54238583
Why would you do power management on a desktop?
>>54239691
I guess anon never turns it off? You don't need all of the juice to seed some torrents.
>>54239681
GNU/Linux usually runs on every toaster. If Xubuntu already works for you, it means that you can basically use all distros.
Furthermore just download a bunch of different distro isos and try them in a VM, then decide which makes your next distro.
Will linux work well with a laptops battery? Whats the power usage like?
>>54239277
https://meet.jit.si/
>>54239741
Depends on you. If you use KDE and play a lot flash videos, then 5 seconds. If you use a lightweight WM 5 days.
>>54239682
This is EXACTLY what I was searching, thank you a lot based anon, THANK YOU
>>54239427
Since you're asking that question it's obvious that you don't really need Arch and possibly not even Ubuntu.
>>54239572
I don't understand the point of Mint. It's an older/delayed Ubuntu LTS with everything already installed and occasionally held back updates. You can install Cinnamon on regular Ubuntu.
>>54239572
I've used Mint a bit and was very disappointed with their package management. Basically they parasitize on Ubuntu repos, and add their own repo on top of that with own packages as well as rebranded Ubuntu ones. Shit begins to happen when Ubuntu's packages update, but Mint's counterparts don't. If you 'apt-get dist-upgrade' at this point, expect problems. The Mint's own package manager attempts to mask those packages as unsafe to upgrade though, but in my opinion all of this is a shit-tier design decision.
>>54239764
> If you use KDE
Find me objective data which compares power usage based on desktop environments and how KDE will use more juice than something else.
>>54239277
We don't describe free software as an “alternative” to proprietary, because that word presumes all the “alternatives” are legitimate and each additional one makes users better off. In effect, it assumes that free software ought to coexist with software that does not respect users' freedom.
We believe that distribution as free software is the only ethical way to make software available for others to use.
>>54239800
>KDE > 1 GiG
>DWM < 1 MB
Guess what will use more power.
>>54239691
Energy rate, temperatures and etc.
The energy rate is high in Brazil.
I cant stand unity anymore, I also tried GNOME but didnt really like it. Lubuntu was the best for my old core 2 duo. Im going to try out MATE 16.04 now, by the looks of it, MATE has some features that I wish Unity had like adding Launcher Icons to the top bar, files minimize to bottom. I hope it dosent turn out to be aids
inb4 install gentoo
>>54239834
I don't see how RAM usage (in terms of used RAM, not RAM activity) affects power consumption. I also doubt that RAM usage plays a big part power consumption wise. I'd say that your CPU and hard-drive consume substantially more.
>update kernel
>cryptsetup breaks, apparently confirmed bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1558079
Can I just remove the latest kernel using the package manager or will that fuck my shit up?
>>54240008
>Ubuntu is stable xD
>>54240008
>launchpad
I'm assuming you're using Ubuntu, so just make an older kernel the default one you boot with. Ubuntu keeps a few older kernels installed, just for backup.
Edit the GRUB config to make that possible.
>>54239923
when you say you didn't like gnome, well nobody likes stock gnome, did you play around with gnometweak and the extensions?
>>54240039
Who are you quoting?
>>54239965
Display backlight consumes the most of it.
BTW it would be nice if it was possible to turn off individual memory chips (or parts of them) when they store no data. For mobile phones this would mean something.
>>54239764
with xfce and lightweight browsing / vids? Is their power management like windows has?
>>54240052
Yeah I did some, what pissed me off was how the Applications were just cluster fuck arranged in the software viewer thing. Like I couldn't put Chromium by Firefox or change the order they were in. Im not going to install mate fully just yet. Ill set it up in VirtualBox cause the machine I built can handle it, I forget Im not on a 10yo machine anymore lol.
>>54240226
have you considered kde?
>google for answer
>get this
>>54240276
>you must post 20 MEANINGFUL posts before you can view links.
>>54240294
Oh, is it an embedded image? nevermind this then: >>54240339
That is pretty stupid though, because a picture contains a lot of information; though I understand the security concern for the ``members''.
>>54238475
Bump
>>54240442
You should probably fill two bug reports and hope they get fixed.
>>54240276
Please avoid using the term “google” as a verb, meaning to search for something on the internet. “Google” is just the name of one particular search engine among others. We suggest to use the term “search the web” or (in some contexts) just “search”. Try to use a search engine that respects your privacy.
>>54238475
>>54238664
>>54240442
if you did an upgrade something might have broken during the upgrade process. A reinstall might fix all your issues.
If you want to troubleshoot the first problem look at your system logs, if it says something like "connection failed" it's a fixable problem. Else, as >>54240482 said, those might be bugs
>>54240380
it's http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4606136
it's forum not a embedded image
>>54240628
or is that a picture? I'll never know............
>>54240496
bandaid
jell o
etc
>>54240263
Not yet, I'm just trying to set up a desktop environment that isn't shit.
Now that I have a machine that can handle virtual machines, I can try more shit out. So Ill put kde on my list.
Which *buntu should I get to install cinnamon on top of it? I want to end with the most lightweight/least amount of packages OS.
I know gnome and cinnamon share many packages, so maybe Ubuntu-Gnome?
Also I don' t want Mint, Debian or Fedora which come with cinnamon preinstalled.
>>54240708
You install Ubuntu with the net-install image.
Ok a bit of an update, just installed Xubuntu.
My first impression is wow. That was so easy and i had 0 driver issues.
Secondly, holy shit, This is so much better than windows. everything is so smooth, so perfect and i dare i say "it just works".
My drive is also encrypted now and i can be sure that i have no spying going on (haha).
Also my battery life, which was my main concern is actually doible what it was before, and i appear to be able to get 6 - 9 hours with just web browsing.
Thanks for the reccomendation, its made a laptop that was slow and unresponsive feel like my desktop pc in terms of speed.
>>54241019
Did you expect it to implode or something?
>>54241056
in the past ive just had bad experiences only and pretty much only used windows (and osx for a bit)
My forward and backward buttons on my mouse (XF86-back and -forward) work in Firefox, but not in Thunar. Apparently Thunar has support for that and it works on my laptop with those xf86-back keys.
Does anyone have an idea why it wouldn't work with my mouse whose buttons are mapped to those keys?
Could someone on Arch (or another distribution) who has a mouse with such buttons test it, just to confirm that it works on their end?
>>54241134
works on my machine. (though I have a different mouse)
is there a way to shorten the path i'm at in terminal?
Hello.
I've been using ubuntu and linux mint for a while. what other distros should I try? debian?
Any other light distribution instead of puppylinux?
>>54241220
Please read the OP.
http://fglt.nl/guides/picking-a-distro.html
cd ~
>>54241182
edit your PS1 to \W
>>54241267
sorry, did not see it. I just want to give one more step, but I don't know if it's a good idea, so I don't know what to do. I'll look at the link
>>54241180
Dang. Could you install "xorg-xev", run "xev", press the forward button and see if you're also getting this or similar output:KeyPress event, serial 51, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
root 0x39d, subw 0x0, time 7601585, (161,3), root:(213,27),
state 0x10, keycode 167 (keysym 0x1008ff27, XF86Forward), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
I don't understand why it's not working in Thunar. The buttons are bound via udev rules and work in Firefox and get recognized with xev.
>>54241329
Are you really trying to use your mouse-buttons as extra keyboard buttons?
>>54241293
I've recently installed crunchbang on an old mid-2007 mbp.
1. Is there any way to add any added executables automatically in one openbox submenu?
2. How can I execute sudo commands on login?
3. I've made it so tapping with two fingers on the trackpad does a right click, but sometimes it stops working and I have to execute synclient TapButton2=3 again. Any way for this to stop happening?
Hey, we're running some servos off of a raspberry pi 2B 1.1 with software pwm. Currently we're using python, and the results arent that great. Is there a way to give a process exclusive access to a core? Will writing the software pwm program in C make it any snappier?
>>54241514
are you sure you won't be better off implementing that on a microcontroller?
>>54241470
>2
gksudo or gksu
only one i know
>>54241618
You mean, in my autostart.sh I should just add
gksudo <command>? Won't it still ask for permission?
>>54241655
There's a reason why it asks for your password. If you however think that these reasons are stupid and you shouldn't pay attention to these warnings, you should read the sudo manpage.
>>54241533
We have an atmega 2560 already running thrusters, however we dont have any more pwm pins so we have to use the pi which is currently controlling the arduino.
so I just got an email from someone at Amazon about working as a Linux Sysadmin up in Seattle. Apparently they found me via my LinkedIn profile that I made years ago and haven't touched since
I'm wondering, is this just a blanket email sent to everyone with *nix *admin (etc) in their profiles, or if they actually saw mine.
Another thing, if this does turn out to be real, I'm only 18 and thus my experience is limited to knowing light Bash and general linux administration, I know fuckall about stuff like puppet and chef and all the other buzzword programs of late
Is this gonna fuck my chances? I'm very nervous and I don't want to blow it if this is my "in" to the industry
>>54241740
>is this just a blanket email
Yes.
>with *nix *admin
>light Bash and general linux administration
Maybe you should stop lying on your public profiles.
>I'm very nervous.
If you're nervous you probably know that you bullshitted too much on your profile, and you shouldn't waste their time.
I will install Ubuntu 16.04LTS now. Should I make it encrypted? I'm worried about having any damage to the encrypted system and loosing all files inside it...
So I doubt anyone here can really help me but, recently I bought a Chromebook CB35-B3340 knowing the audio won't work properly without a little work.
In Mint Linux I can get the speakers to work following these instructions.
https://github.com/brendenyule/NativeToshibaCB2Guide/wiki/Get-Audio-and-Hotkeys-Working
But when using Debian, the same guide doesn't work even though that's what everyone says to do on the Debian forums.
The problem I think I'm running into is that I'm not stopping alsa properly in Debian, but running
>sudo alsa force-unload
or
>sudo killall alsactl
both return
>no process found
Which doesn't make much sense since I can still give alsactl commands. Searching for alsa processes also turned up nothing.
Anyone know what might be the problem with alsa? I really want to use Debian over Mint but I can't if I can't get the sound to work.
>>54241795
I'm not lying on my profile, that's almost exactly what it says
Light bash and general linux administration
I'm nervous because I'm
>18
>never had a career job
>don't want to fuck this up
>low self esteem
>>54241856
>almost exactly
Even on an anonymous imageboard you're trying to bullshit yourself out of a lie.
Can anyone recommend me a good bash scripting tutorial? Google turned up dozens. Thanks!
>>54241879
>I didn't read OP! Spoonfeed me anons!
http://fglt.nl/resources.html
>>54241899
Oops, my bad. Cheers and apologies!
i've googled this but to no avail, i have a BT dual band wifi dongle that isn't doing shit on xubuntu 16.04 32bit, any advice?
>>54238860
Get a r7 260x it works very good on gnu/linux with FOSS radeon driver. I just played Dota 2 on it just now, and won. No performance issues at all.
So apparently Cinnamon 3.0 has released.
Any idea how to get it on Mint 17.3 without installing it from the nightly builds PPA?
http://home.iprimus.com.au/cojoco/rms/RichardAndTheParrots.html
>>54241993sudo apt-get install gentoo
sudo emerge -a cinnamon <=3.0
>>54241948
i have no internet access while using it by the way, but i'm dual booting with windows 7 and i have external storage methods on hand, is there something i can do?
Where can I configure the refresh rate of my monitor?
>Already configured in xorg.conf
>rate parameter set in both ~/.config/monitors.xml and /var/lib/lightdm/.config/monitors.xml
xrandr can change it but each session I need to run this command
>>54242010
Gentoo is a weird file manager
>>54238477
BUMP
>>54242106
there are literally no cons other than you lose a free flash drive
but you gain access to pretty much every computer with a USB port and usb boot
>>54242052
Maybe install the linux-firmware-nonfee metapackage through Ethernet.
>>54238475
>Pajeet
GTFO DESIGNATED SHITTER
>inb4 *friendly* linux thread
INSTALL GENTOO GAYLORDS
>>54242127
my problem is that i can't access any ethernet, i can't move my pc and powerlines don't work because this house has two fucking ring mains
What can I do if my wifi isn't working on kernel newer than 4.1? I can connect to the network, but ping is not working and can't access to the webpages.
>>54242148
Don't install debian. It's broken for wireless only people.
Debian sucks anyway.
>>54242157
boot an older kernel through grub
>>54241384
The XF86 buttons aren't really keyboard exclusive.
>>54242212
There is nothing I can do to get working wifi on newer kernel?
>>54242194
i'm running xubuntu
>>54242224
you can fix it from your older kernel
Say if I were to installa custom kernel, how easy it is to revert to the one provided by my distro?
>>54242230
Reinstall and click "install nonfree software for wifi graphics, and other hardware" checkbox.
Then uninstall flash if you don't want it by typing apt-get remove flashplugin-installer. Without doing this you don't get mp3 playback, wifi for certain chipsets, binary blob for open source graphics card etc.
>>54242264
by default it's a cardinal sin to remove the last working kernel on linux so you'll be fine
>>54242148
congratulations! You Won!
the 'BT dual band wifi dongle' currently has no linux drivers! but since it is broadcom based, brcmfmac is a possible fix.
>https://wikidevi.com/wiki/BT_Dual-Band_Wi-Fi_Dongle_600_%28075715%29
>http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2232700
is also worth reading.
>>54242273
i actually did that during installation because i didn't last time i installed it, but i honestly don't care about proprietary software desu
Is Vivaldi still a meme? Chrome has been slowly getting buggier and buggier for me, and I don't want to take too many steps backwards by switching to Firefox (not to mention that it's developed by cucks).
>>54242357
Why not Opera then?
Vivaldi still can't separate tabs from the parent window and that makes it unusable as a main browser in my opinion.
>>54242357
>>54242391
Proprietary browsers are the biggest meme of all.
I want to make an USB pen with Ubuntu on it, can I make it with a Virtual machine and try to install in the usb or need to use my computer phisically ?
>>54242415
>install Debian
>reboot
>hang at fsck, cursor doesn't blink anymore
Anons please help me out here.
>>54242460
Shit, sorry >>54242415 didn't mean to quote you. On mobile
>>54242286
That didn't quite answer my question doe
>>54242460
Uncomment the "quiet" kernel parameter to see where it hangs during the boot.
>>54242460
I don't use debian, only their kernel, anon.
>>54242473
No problem anon. I'll try to assist you, but as I said above, I don't use it myself (and haven't touched it for years).
What debian install did you do? Minimal, or with a DE that it's trying to boot into? If it's the latter, which gpu are you using, and which drivers + version?
>>54242010
>>54242497
pic
>>54242515
Radeon x1600, no idea what drivers. I assume it has the opensource ones.
>>54238417
Can I install the Plasma desktop on
Xubuntu with out all of KDE?
>>54242563
I had an x300 that had nothing but problems with debian, but strangely not with anything else. Maybe try another distro and see if that works?
>>54242571
No.
>>54242571
No.
>>54242706
Sorry, I don't want to install Jewbuntu tho. Or how the fuck should I install archlinux?
>>54242128
>Pajeet
>>54242815
Don't go Arch Linux. If you want such a distro, go for a good one with competent developers, like Gentoo (or preferably Funtoo, the better Gentoo).
>>54242932
But isn't gentoo a meme?
>>54242963
Only to Archfags who couldn't deal with a distro that allowed them actual configuration. For people who actually want customization or minimalism, Gentoo (or Funtoo) is a top-tier choice.
>>54242963
Just don't believe anything /g/ is shilling or hating. Try it, love it or hate it. Goes for ubuntu, arch and funtoo.
>>54242963
Yes.
>>54242963
Yes, but not as big a meme as arch.
>>54243005
>screen
>>54242963
It is. Compiling Firefox alone takes up to 12 hours. Imagine doing this every update.
>>54243044
Checked
I don't know who's memeing who anymore
Sup mates
I'm using Debian unstable + Cinnamon on my x220. I got a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter (pic related) and the system goes ballistic when I plug it in. I mean, seriuosly bad. The TV screen turns off and on, the taskbar on my laptop screen gets somewhat mixed (icons out of place, taskbar reversed, etc). It's confusing. Also the adapter itself gets dangerously hot sometimes.
When I plug my TV using Windows 8.1 it juzt werks.
Can you guys help me? I really don't want to use Windows on my memepad.
>>54242963
I have a low opinion of Gentoo GNU/Linux.
Gentoo is a GNU/Linux distribution, but its developers don't recognize this; they call it "Gentoo Linux". That means they are treating me and the GNU Project disresepectfully.
More importantly, Gentoo steers the user towards nonfree programs, which is why it is not one of our recognized free distros.
sup gnu chan
I'm running elementary freya and I downloaded icewinddale enhanced from /t/ and I can't install it.
It isn't a .sh so I don't know how to install it.
>>54243255file icewindlethingy
post output
>>54243345
ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 3.2.32, BuildID[sha1]=0eb76eb71308f2cb51e1011a827d6b17379fdb48, stripped
I tried installing it through software center that might have changed something with it
>>54243345
like the file type is now marked as executable, but it doesn't do anything. Even after doing the proper chmod
>>54243498
Mh. No idea. Anyone else?
>>54243345
originally under properties it was consider application/octet-stream
>>54243498
>doesn't do anything
An error or just exits? You could strace it to see what exactly it does, if nothing interesting then idk.
>>54243661
doesn't even open
I tried renaming it to a .sh and running, it doesn't open. tried renaming to .deb and it opens the software center and pops up with an error saying it can't open it.
>>54243682
Don't rename it, ELF is like an .exe. No extension, or rather the extension doesn't matter.
chmod +x, then run it from the terminal.
>>54243101
Gentoo is truely a meme. Arch is easy to install and not actually a meme, hating on it is just the cool thing to do at the moment. Debian and ubuntu users, I think.
Should I bother with WINE or just give up and use a dual boot for gaming?
Not like I play demanding games (just shmups/fighting games through steam) but I can't make this shit work.
Is it normal for ddbian system recovery to show a black screen after a while?
I installed new hardware and now the os only boots into the console.... and system recovery seems to have crashed. What can i do?
Okay I just want OpenCL on ARCH
>What do I need
Proper OpenCL for my R9 390 on ARCH
>What have I tried
I tried using the amdgpu drivers in combination with mesa and opencl-mesa
It worked but only like 30% of OpenCL actually functions
>What is not working
Installing the fucking Catalyst package, everything i try to remove from the earlier xorg and video drivers has other dependencies, Catalyst somehow needs an outdated xorg which won't install because it conflicts with the newer version of Xorg which I can't remove because it depends on itself?
>Other options I've seen so far
amdgpu-pro but it is so unstable the creator of the AUR package says it won't work even if you tried
Should i just reinstall ARCH and try again or give up on ever getting OpenCL support on AMD based machines running linux?
>>54243856
Catalyst drivers are deprecated m8. You just have to wait. Your GPU is just too new for GNU/Linux. Takes a couple years for full support.
>>54243903
Well fuck...
Thanks for the heads up though
>>54243778
wine is pretty easy. Literally justwine program.exe. In case something doesnt work, you can look up at winehq for solutions.
So I installed openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE in a VM. It's really nice, actually - I enjoy having the latest software in rolling releases like this one.
It has tons of GUI stuff so it's easy to work with, even for someone who primarily uses OS X and Windows.
It's a shame that it's so unpopular and most packages are in the incompatible .deb format
>>54243997
There's also PlayOnLinux but imho it makes things only more complicated.
wine and winetricks.sh is all you need to work with wine.
What's the difference between a PPA and adding the repo to your sources.list?
>>54244037
PPAs are usualy created by the community; you should only add PPAs you trust. The sources.list contains the distro's official repos. You can add others (as example Kali repos on Debian), sometimes it works but mostly it breaks, so never add something there, except you know exactly what you're doing.
How do I install an RPM file (such as Chrome) in openSUSE? It opens with Ark by default
>>54242091
Anyone?
>>54244227
You obviously didn't set it properly in your Xorg.conf.
Sup /g/! I installed Fedora 23 but the Firefox is missing support for H.264 and MSE.
I have checked the "about:config" and the options of h264 is actived.
How to fix this? Thanks! :)
>>54243719
Did ldd on IcewindDale got this: ldd IcewindDale
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xf777a000)
libjson.so.0 => not found
libopenal.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1 (0xf7706000)
libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib32/fglrx/libGL.so.1 (0xf7659000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0xf763d000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0xf7634000)
libssl.so.1.0.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0 (0xf75dc000)
libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0xf742e000)
libexpat.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 (0xf7404000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0xf72d0000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0xf72cb000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf71e3000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0xf719d000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf717f000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xf6fd1000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 (0xf6fbe000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf777d000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0xf6f9c000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0xf6f98000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf6f90000)
>>54244305
I fixed it
typed sudo apt-get install libjson0:i386 into terminal
>>54244452
now after a cd into the directory I can run through terminal using ./
So I need a tile manager for Debian 8 jessie (kde plasma) but I cant really find anything. I really just want to press super key + arrow keys to move the windows around. I tried the KWin tiling script but couldnt really get it to work.
Why do people keep posting this meme about VLC being a bad player? Why do people say that? What is a better player than VLC?
So,
I have one physical machine which is running two servers, one being apache and another being a third party application.
The other runs off of localhost:8080
I'm trying to set up an apache reverse proxy so that I can connect to localhost/second to get to the second server but nothing I have tried works
My setup in 000-default.conf is as follows<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName second
ServerAlias second
ProxyRequests On
ProxyPass "/second/" "http://127.0.0.1:8080/"
ProxyPassReverse "/second/" "http://127.0.0.1:8080/"
</VirtualHost>
>install archbang
>have to format drive msdos instead of gpt so my bios recognizes it as boot media
>bootloader always fails at
start job for dev disk partuuid
this means my loader cant get into the drive right?
im stuck and very dumb
>>54245051
mpv
SELinux help appreciated.
I'm venturing into the realm of MLS, but whenever I follow the guides on setting it up, I am unable to login.
>$ yum install selinux-policy-mls (And all the other shit, Centos btw)
>Change /etc/selinux/config to "Permissive" and "mls"
>$ echo "-F" > /.autorelabel
>Reboot
>Switch config to enforcing
>Reboot
>Can't login (Just says "Password Incorrect")
EDIT: AS I WAS WRITING THIS I FIXED IT
I ran $ fixfiles -F relabel
rebooted into enforcing and login WORKS
nvm & ty lol
>>54245219
Here is my copypasta which goes in my main (and only) virtualhost section, not sure how much of it in necessary:ProxyPass /w/ http://localhost:5001/ retry=0
ProxyPassReverse /w/ http://localhost:5001/
<Location /w/>
SetOutputFilter proxy-html
ProxyPassReverse /
ProxyHTMLURLMap http://externeldomain.com /
ProxyHTMLURLMap / /second/
</Location>
>>54245787
Your Virtualhost section is in 000-default right?
>>54241514
You can use nice or renice to set the process priority and taskset to set the cpu affinity, not sure if you can reserve a core though. I doubt changing to C would help much if the python script is just in a fairly tight loop anyway. Might be worth putting it into a kernel module though so you don't have to context switch between kernel and user space.
>>54245787
>>54245793
Yeah its still not working, checking in my access logs it actually does show that its requesting /second but it just doesn't proxy the second server at all.
Also I should replace /w/ for /second/ and externeldomain.com for localhost:8080 in my situation right?
>>54241655
Try putting the commands in /etc/rc.local if you want them run as root (and without sudo obviously).
>>54241740
Failed interviews don't go on your permanent record anon. Go there expecting to fail and get some experience interviewing.
>>54242148
Download the .deb from launchpad or whever on another device then transfer it over on a usb stick and install with dpkg -i
>>54245918
>replace /w/ for /second/
Yeah, woops.
>Your Virtualhost section is in 000-default right?
default-ssl.conf but yeah, same shit.
>>54246012
My 000-default has two things in it.
First the default, for the first website.
second the proxy for the second server
I tried using sudo apache2ctl -S and it doesn't show the second
Any ideas?
Perhaps I need to force it to use /sites-enabled/000-default.conf?
Having issues with permissions.
What would cause a user in the same group be unable to view/delete file contents of another users folder when the folder is 755
>>54246043
apache2ctl -S doesn't show anything about my reverse proxies either and they all work fine. Are you sure you put the reverse proxy bit within the main virtualhost?<VirtualHost *:80>
...
ProxyPass...
<Location /second/>
...
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
>>54245918
>externeldomain.com for localhost:8080
Change it to the domain you access the server at. I think I got this stuff from http://apache.webthing.com/mod_proxy_html/guide.html
>>54246113
Sticky bit mode is probably enabled, can you ls -ld /path/to/direcotory so we can we the permissions?
>>54246159
>main virtualhost?
So instead of having two virtual hosts have just one that does both the proxy and the main page?
Lemme try
>>54246179
Yeah nope it still doesn't proxy properly.
>>54246166
>sticky
Yup,that was it.Thanks
Just restarted after installing Ubuntu 16.04 alongside W10. It's been stuck on this screen for about 10 min. Did I fuck up?
>>54246190
>>54246179
Huh I got something so it does /second/ works fine but /second doesn't
Any way to fix?
>>54246216
Did it say any messages before that like "Can't find /init" or can't mount root fs? But basically yes but it should be fixable if you can get in the system from either an older kernel (from the grub menu) or a live disk and run update-initramfs and update-grub
>>54246222
Maybe add a redirect or duplicate all that shit for the other case. Those are technically two different urls.
>>54246281
I'll be honest I have no idea how to do that.
Any suggestion?
Trying to install Iridium, but get this:
E: Unable to locate package iridium-browser
Thoughts? Running Xubuntu, latest.
I added the repo correctly. What am I doing wrong?
Hiya guys, relative beginner here. Hopefully this isn't a question deserving of /sqt/.
I keep getting the bit in the search bar at the end of all my searches. Obviously, searching it doesn't seem to be very helpful. Is it just routing my search through Canonical's servers or something? I only installed Xubuntu yesterday, so I assume this is a common thing. I disabled the "Ubuntu Modifications" add-on and it's still there. Wat do?
>>54246324
I mean just copy/past the whole reverse proxy section but take the / off of the end of second, bit of ugly duplication but at least it is clear.
>>54246434
you add to one of your sources?
from the Iridium website:
wget -qO - https://downloads.iridiumbrowser.de/ubuntu/iridium-release-sign-01.pub|sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-add-repository 'https://downloads.iridiumbrowser.de/ubuntu main'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install iridium-browser
>>54246596
search for "edit search engines firefox" and you should find some solutions. Probably easiest just to got to ddg.com and make a new search engine from the search bar and then set that to your default one.
Not sure what the t param is for in the default url but it is probably just for analytics or partnering stuff.
>>54246434
>>54246693
ugh, I missed the part about you adding to your repo. you run apt-get update afterwards?
>>54246693
Did this, and yeah I did apt-get update.
Still can't figure it out wtf did I do wrong. I'm going to put the commands in again just for the fuck of it.
>>54246693
I re-added the repo and apt-get update and this is the output. Some 404 errors.
http://pastebin.com/EnM3Z4U6
Thinking of upgrading from Mint to Debian.
Anything I should beforehand, apart from "reinstall Flash and Firefox"?
>>54246896
Seems there's no release for Xenial?
>>54239181
>>54239427
>>54243766
>>54243856
>>54241019
Welcome to The club man.
>>54241019
I like xubuntu a lot because of this reason, but problem is, it is not as practical as windows though.
>>54241019
Did this to my Chromebook, never going back. Full disk encryption, fast as fuck, great battery. What's not to love?
>>54246994
>tfw using archlinux
>tfw you have a cute gf
>tfw she only have debian testing on her laptop
>tfw she actually consider installing arch on her laptop
>tfw found the perfect girlfriend
There was some anon crying about automounting devices yesterday, here is a thing https://ddumont.wordpress.com/2016/04/24/automount-usb-devices-with-systemd/
Is there a proper remote desktop solution for Linux?
Not just locally, something I could manage from my phone in case I needed to if I'm away.
>>54247272
Graphical?
probly a *vnc or x forwarding
Terminal?
juicessh
Dial in to your pc
>>54247272
ssh ?
>>54247272
there is xrdp which is a server for the microsoft remote desktop protocol, maybe there are mobile clients for that?
>>54247235
Is she a man
>>54238417
So, I downloaded a GOG game from KickassTorrents to try it out and I ran the .exe with Wine. I liked the game and decided to buy it on Steam so I uninstalled the GOG version. Could my computer have been infected by that?
Is there a command in Debian to check the health of my USB stick? Like Check Disk?
>>54248249
fsck
>>54247934
Yes and no. It's possible to write a windows binary that fucks around with your GNU/Linux system, but usually scriptkids don't expect that (it doesn't make sense anyway) and write their shit for Windows only. So, in case you run some bad code in wine, it usually only affects the virtual drive located in ~/.wine.
tl;dr No.
>>54246696
Thanks so much, I appreciate the help. I've mostly just been getting packages for all the programs I'd normally use today, but even still this OS just feels good and it
>joust twerks
>>54247934
Why the hell have you bought it on steam and not on GOG?
WebGL seems to crash on my Chromium, Ubuntu 16.04
Is there some separate package I have to install?
>>54238968
>Fuck you.
>7 years old dell inspiron 15.
>-RAM: 1gb
>-CPU:1 ghz (intel celeron)
>-HD: 250
>You don't know the pain
Neither do you.
-ThinkPad X21
-CPU: Pentium 3 700 MHz
-RAM: 384 MB
-HD: 20 GB
>>54248258
My USB stick has a NTFS filesystem. What should the command look like in this case?
Trying to compile libxml2 with the python use flag for zenity but I keep getting this error
http://pastebin.com/8LUh8Ggk
I've added python to my use flags and recompiled all packages with it but no help. What exactly is the problem?
>>54238417
Holy shit, someone actually appreciated my shitty rms photoshop.
My parents would be so proud.
>>54248414
eeepc 701
4GB flash
500mhz
500MB DDR2
800x480
actually upgraded to 2GB ram last month and got a new battery
>>54248779
man ntfsfix
>ntfsfix is a utility that fixes some common NTFS problems. ntfsfix is NOT a Linux version of chkdsk.
Maybe there is none? Have you tried fsck and seen what it said (you need to unmount the device first).
>>54248926
nevermind im dumb, just had to compile the 32 bit version of the dependencies I was looking for
>>54248982
>photoshop
Thank you for notifying us that the picture was produced with proprietary software. It will not be used again and we encourage you to stop using software that violates your freedoms; use GIMP instead!
Is there a /g/ approved firewall guide for Ubuntu based distros?
>>54249100
Yes, here:
Option A: Learn iptables.
Option B: Install ufw.
>>54249225
ok ill go back to my Linux for Dummies book I bought at the bookstore...
why can't I drag and drop images from Chromium, this shit is infuriating
>>54249225
Bonus option c: Learn nftables
>>54249005
Fsck doesn't offer NTFS support. I unmounted thedevice.
>>54238417
How do I switch to proprietary AMD graphics driver via command line in an Ubuntu based system
I know the command to get them is sudo apt-get install fglrx, but how do I switch to using them?
>>54238417
How lightweight is stuff like numix? or does it not actually have an affect on ram/ cpu usage?
>>54250568
They are more shit than the current radeonsi drivers and soon™ the just released amdgpu-pro will be even better. Just don't bother with catalyst, its deprecated.
>>54250632
>amdgpu-pro
Is this avialiale for the *buntus yet?
And if it is do I just install it or do I have to mess with some configs to utilize it?
>>54250568
If the fglrx drivers turn up it should switch automatically. Or you may need to blacklist the free ones. But if you have a recent ubuntu I believe that fglrx isn't supported anymore and you just need to install the firmware that the free driver will upload to the card to make it have more shiny. Maybe the firmware-amd-graphics package?
