Previously on: >>54238417
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https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
>tfw 4.5 kernel
Who has compiled their own kernel? What are the pros and cons?
why is libre writer highlighting the dashes like that
>>54256425
>>54256206
>Please don't be surprised if I pull out my computer at dinner and
>begin handling some of my email. I have difficulty hearing when there
>is noise; at dinner, when people are speaking to each other, I usually
>cannot hear their words. Rather than feel bored, or impose on
>everyone by asking them to speak slowly at me, I do some work.
>>54256468
Why is he so autistic?
I'm going to try Arch. Am i falling for a meme?
elementary os worth a dabble anons?
Luna or enlightenment?
>try out Live Linux on older laptop
>it refuses to suspend when I close the lid
Wtf why doesn't it just work?
>install Opensuse tumbleweed gnome version
>no wayland-session in GDM
Are there any way to use wayland in Gnome 3.20? I want to test it out.
I started running Debian on a usb recently, I keep getting notifications that I only have 20 MB of memory left on my computer. My USB is 16GB and it only has the debian live installer which is like 1.2 GB, how can I only have 20mb left?
>>54257193
it ain't windows nor osx, m9 :^)
>>54257193
>be normie
>post pepe
This is why we can't have nice things.
>>54256918
Elementary is probably the worst popular distro.
>>54256885
Depends on why you want to use it. If you want to use it because the desktop thread people do it or because you think it is lightweight you are probably falling for a meme. If you like the project and somehow think the aur is a good thing then it's probably good for you.
>>54257225
Werks on debian sid, maybe you need to install a few packages related to wayland?
Hey, I just messed up my void Linux yesterday by adding startx in .bashrc and doingusermod [user] -s /bin/bash
Now it's impossible to log in to my normal user. Root is still possible (both share the same password)
I already undid the changes, greped for config files containing "startx" and changed the user passwd without any success...
Any ideas?
I'm having some problems with Xubuntu 16.04 on my X220 and I was thinking about switching to either Debian Testing, Fedora, or OpenSuse. I'm not sure how up-to-date Debian Testing's repositories are compared to Ubuntu 16.04. Mostly when I see people discussing Debian, they're talking about its great stability, so I don't if it's even worth using it unless I go for the stable version. Any thoughts?
I would like to learn more about globbing. I currently only know about wildcards likempv ~/.porn/traps*. How to become a wizard? I'm using BaSH.
>>54257373
I only wanted to try it coz it looked good
>>54257373
Never mind, installed gnome-session-wayland to make it work.
>>54257422
Debian is a meme. Go Fedora.
>>54257552
Nice try pajeet.
Is there a WM like i3 but with draggable windows?
>>54257422
Debian unstable and testing are not as stable as Debian stable obviously but they are definitely usable once you get the hang of them. Debian testing is usually between 2 and 4 weeks behind unstable and similar to arch.
Debian testing is probably about as stable as non-lts buntu if you don't fuck up yourself.
You should be able to read and use a search engine in order to use anything other than buntu.
>>54257734
Maybe notion
>>54257477
Install gnome with a few extensions, it will look very similar.
>>54257734
what? You can move windows in i3 when they are in floating mode with you mouse.
>>54257468
the Linux Fundamentals article series by Daniel Robbins (creator of Gentoo) has some great information:
http://www.funtoo.org/Linux_Fundamentals,_Part_1
am I insane or is the CPU-G repo dead?
Perl script requires "csvcommon".But i cannot find any references to it,and no packages that supply it.
What thell is going on?
>>54257896
>Linux Fundamentals
>Actually a list of GNU tools and how to use them
>>54258156
I didn't say it was perfect ;) interesting thing to point out, I didn't notice that.
Surprisingly, this isn't the only strange thing on that website. You'd think the distro that wants to be more fun than Gentoo would be run by elite wizards, but have a look at what they recommend for browsers:
http://www.funtoo.org/Web_Browsers
>>54258555
Jesus christ.
>>54257896
Thanks.
Could anyone recommend a gtk3 3.20 dark/black theme?
>>54258555
>>54257896
Can anyone explain the difference of Funtoo and Gentoo and if it really is the ultimative wizard distro? The funtoo website says, funtoo is based on gentoo, but on other sources I read funtoo is it's own project and gentoo gets stuff from funtoo upstream. I'm a bit confused. Also why didn't the developer stick to gentoo? Why a new distro?
>>54258800
Afaik he made a new distro because gentoo maintenance was a beurocratic mess.
>>54258675
Arc gets updates very fast
>>54258675
Numix?
>>54258800
Gentoo uses Rsync to update portage which is slow as fuck. Funtoo uses git, Funtoo is basically Gentoo with an improved emerge system (but less support afaik)
It's not really a wizard distro, its as easy as any other it just takes longer cause everything is compiled. You can get the same deal using Arch abs or Debian/Ubuntu apt-get source.
There is a 1% speed increase on 32bit systems, though I think it's less with 64 bit.
>>54257329
pepe has been normalfag-tier for years
Polkit is killing multiple different processors stating 'unregistered authenticantion agent' and preventing vaarious programs from running.
I've googled and all i found was bug reports from years ago that have been patched.
What could cause this?
I'm thinking of upgrading from Mint to Debian.
Anything I should know besides "reinstall Firefox and Flash"?
>>54259101
>upgrading
>to debian
Debian is so old that you're downgrading no matter what distro you come from.
>>54259101
https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian
>>54259139
Debian stable is older, yes, but testing and unstable are probably more up-to-date than Mint.
>>54259101
Yes, don't use flash.
http://occupyflash.org/
Try turning it off for a week and realize that everything is html5 now.
>>54259279
Beginners don't usually know to do that.
>>54259363
I use /f/
250GB SSD - how much to partition for OS (looking at some variant of Ubuntu 16.04) and how much to partition for /home?
>>54259484
Put it all on one partition
>>54259139
This is a friendly thread, so why are you spreading lies?
>>54259101
What the faggot is referring to is Debian stable, when you upgrade to use Debian, use Debian unstable or Debian testing. Don't misunderstand the terms "stable, unstable, testing" in "my system is save, my systems breaks". Stable or LTS just means that a distro doesn't get new packages for a while (except security updates). Good for servers or astronauts, but desktop users use unstable or testing, the equivalent to Ubuntus dot releases. A "my system may break" state is when you are on the bleeding edge of rolling releases, but when you use such distros, you usually already know how not to break it.
>>54259453
>new IP
who cares
>>54259484
>>54259508
don't use just one partition. At the very least there should be 2 - / and /home. That way reinstalling the OS is easier.
Why should he put it all on one partition?
>>54259508
but if I want to reinstall the OS or try a new variant of Linux, I want to keep the home partition, right? So if I have Steam, music, videos, docs etc. in /home on a separate partition I can more easily reinstall if needed
>upgraded Xubuntu to 16.04 LTS
>still has gmusicbrowser crashing on closing bug
>>54258675
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Ambiance+DS+BlueSB12?content=154519
>>54259697
nice blog
Damn, after having network troubles ive had to switch to a non-libre wificard adapter. i feel kinda say honestly
>>54259714
Unfortunatly that isn't a 3.20 it seems ,the ui is still all fuckey
>>54259484
let the guided partition do it for you, switch on separate partitions along with the encrypted option.
>>54259724
How was that a blog? This affects everyone that uses the OS you huge faggot.
>>54259697
Shit I had that bug 2 years ago I think. Are you for real?
It's an issue that's like the only music player I'm willing to use because of how it doesn't look like shit + has a folder view
>>54259803
not him but please read the op, this is a friendly thread
>>54259969
Keep it friendly I know, but he started it by being a condecending jerk. I was just stating that a long term release still has a bug that the developers knew about but didn't care to fix.
So
I now have a pretty crappy PC that can still provide me with the ability to do this VGA passthrough thing, or at least I do think so. Mobo has an hdmi output, I'm using an i5 4460 which has an hd 4600 (that I guess would have some trouble with Gnome 3 or KDE but nothing else), a 280x and 8gb of RAM (I guess if it works I would upgrade to 16)
Now, now. I heard this takes a few years to set up, but how hard is it realistically?
>>54260045
remember, if he started it you finish it by not giving him the satisfaction of a (you).
Thats something i use when i can tell an arguement will go nowhere, especially when im right, as are you to a point.
>>54260048
im confused about what youre asking
>>54260105
I mean, is it worth putting all the effort into making that work rather than dual booting? Or maybe it's not that hard to set up?
I dig the idea of using a virtual machine to do everything I would want to do from Windows instead of basic shit.
>>54260048
Do you mean time to set up linux?
Or dual boot?
both take an hour usually.
Very fast even on old computers.
4460 is actually pretty decent
>>54260200
I mean setting up a virtual machine with VGA passthrough.
>>54260048
Arch has the easiest install.
Check the wiki
Does anyone know about parole in xubuntu? trying to open a .mkv and it says "gstream backeend error, could not intialise xv output". So i did a little googling and it says to use the command parole --xv false. i tried in both the folder where parole is and not as root and it says unknown command xv. now im at a loss, all i wanted to do is watch detective conan!
>>54260387
Stop using shitty niche videoplayers and use mpv or VLC or an mpv front-end like Baka Mplayer.
>>54260289
Thanks, I guess arch it is.
>>54260411
ok, i was just using what came installed
>>54256885
Arch killed my laptop desu. GG
Could someone with Debian and a copy of iceweasel help me out? Maybe anyone with any distribution and firefox could help too.
I need to know the value of "StartupWMClass" in the file "/usr/share/applications/iceweasel.desktop"
I actually replaced it with the path to a custom icon
Debian beginner here. Let's say, I want to add a line to the source of ls and recompile/reinstall/replace it. Which steps do I need to go?
>>54260629
You can just grab the .deb file from any mirror, and open it in an archive viewer or just midnight commander yourself.
>>54260629
http://apt-browse.org/browse/debian/wheezy/main/i386/iceweasel/38.2.1esr-1~deb7u1/file/usr/share/applications/iceweasel.desktop
StartupWMClass=Iceweasel
>>54260663
>>54260705
Oh yeah, great idea.
Thanks!
you totally missed the chance to make this a /fgt/ thread
>>54259453
Gnash+mpv works on most posts there.
>>54257254
Do you mean disk space or memory? Use the "df" command to view free space in your filesystems, and the "free" command to view memory and swap.
>>54260411
also what are the benefits to using bakaplayer over simply mpv?
>>54257395
What happens when you try to log in?
That's not the correct syntax for usermod, options come before the username.
Check /etc/passwd, make sure your shell is set to /bin/bash.
>>54261184
You get a GUI configuration tool.
>>54261010
What, for flash videos only? AKA the worst posts on /f/ that nobody cares about?
Yeah, real valuable.
>>54261223
oh, so its the same video playback on both? so just an ascetics thing?
>>54261224
>implying loli catgirls are not the best content
If people keep using flash for these reasons there is no way that there will be a free and more secure standard
is using lm-sensors really risky to use? I only had to reinstall my os and all applications today so it would suck if probing for sensors really would break my system...
>>54261224
as much asi hate it, f is all just youtube vids now. and that sex game that keeps on getting posted. as fun as Xday is its just videos in the end
I installed Arch Linux on VMs so many times and it went good, but on real machine there came some trouble. Tried to use "bootctl install" and efibootmgr to install bootloader, and I always get this when trying to boot. Secure boot is disabled, disk is GPT and Arch installed in EFI mode. Need some help on this
>>54261312
Don't be silly, of course it's not dangerous.
Unless this applies to you.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=193048
This is my first Linux so I decided to try out Gnome. I was happy with it, but sometimes it started to lag for for whatever reason even at 0% CPU and RAM usage.
So I've just switched to KDE, and it's pure crap. I tried to set some hotkeys, but I can't even bind anything for just the meta key. I managed to place the task bar on top of the screen, I just had to restart my PC 2 times during the process, and I'm still not content with it.
Is there a DE that has most of the functionalities that Gnome has, without the lag?
How do i rice xfce? specifically when i use themes like the windows3.x theme it doesnt change the windows borders and task bar
>>54261438
Gnome without animations, xfce, mate...
>>54256206
Fampai
Why won't muh Steam launch
This is the worst thing that's ever happened to anyone, pls respond before my life falls apart
Jk, but help would be appreciated
>>54261501
I don't think it's the animations. For example if I opened the data explorer in Gnome it took about 15 seconds, in KDE it's instant.
>>54261526
Nvm I got it working
NO THANKS TO YOU G
Jk, senpai I love you
On Cygwin, why on Earth does curl sometimes dump gz compressed data into the terminal if you point it a website expecting to get the page source? Wget does not have this problem.
>>54261565
Because gnome a browser app while KDE is written in c++
Here, have a beginner's Linux website that is actually good
worldoflinux.org
>>54261927
>click link
>"What is Linux?"
>"Linux is an operating system1 just like Windows or OS X."
>close tab
dropped
>>54261927
>Windows viruses do not work on Linux.
This website is full of bullshit.
>>54262004
Aww I even included the subscript for neckbeards like you :c
>>54262004
>1
>Technically Linux is the kernel - the core of the operating system which provides an interface between user applications and hardware. Linux distributions consist of the Linux kernel with other software packaged: most notably the GNU system.
Do I really need to know how to fix my GNU/Linux system when it takes two minutes to reinstall and git pull my dotfiles?
>>54260048
You can easily run gnome or KDE if you want to, it is more of a problem if you had 512M ram and a 32MB graphics card.
They are heavy systems, but if your computer can run Firefox or chrome, you are far beyond the specifications needed for the desktop environment.
My 8 year old (cheap at the time) laptop can run KDE without the window animations killing the thing.
>>54262050
>>54262058
You are referring to the GNU system and one of it's kernels "Linux".
>>54261927
>why linux
>no mention of it being free as in freedom
>no mention of it not spying on you like windows or OS X
>not saying it have a lot of advantages compared to another operating system linking to a page explaining more about it
>targeted to normies
>The LAMP stack
>expecting normies to understand that
>1Technically Linux is the kernel - the core of the operating system which provides an interface between user applications and hardware. Linux distributions consist of the Linux kernel with other software packaged: most notably the GNU system.
>thinking normies gives a shit about the technically
>putting this note just for retards calling it gnu/linux and getting buthurt for a name
Did you made this shit ? I'm not even sure I want to browse the other pages. Not sure if I'll laugh or cringe.
>>54262106
its, not it's
>>54261927
>cat file_name Display file contents
Did you even read the manpage of cat?
>>54262128
Thanks, your being very helpful.
>>54261927
>http://worldoflinux.org/privacy.php
> We do, however, use third-party advertising by Google to display ads. You can review Google's policy on this matter here.
well you know where it belongs now
>>54256377
You can improve boottime a lot by removing modules you don't need and making the kernel smaller.
You can improve performance or battery life by using a fork that has another scheduler or other policies.
The only downside is it takes some time.
My advice would be to compile it with your current kernel options while you figure out what you want to change as it takes less time the second time to build
>>54261927
Memes aside, I apricate the effort, but seriously this: >>54262119.
>>54262119
Thanks for the tip, I will probably follow your advice and change it
I'm not removing the technicality though. People MUST acknowledge GNU
>>54262132
http://worldoflinux.org/file-manipulation.php#cat
>>54262208
So you really did this website ?
>>54262119
>>>why linux
>>no mention of it being free as in freedom
Technically, Linux is nonfree. Only the GPL'd parts are free as in freedom.
People shouldn't connect "Linux" automatically with freedom anyway since Linus is an open source fag and dislikes the FSF.
>>54262119
but don't normies like buzzwords?
what would happen if I installed lo/g/os? is it just a pre-riced arch?
>>54262067
you should know how to not fuck your system up so bad that it requires a reinstall to fix.
>>54262424
Yes, and you can't install it, only the live system works. For a pre-riced Arch get Manjaro.
>>54261927
“LAMP” stands for “Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP”—a common combination of software to use on a web server, except that “Linux” in this context really refers to the GNU/Linux system. So instead of “LAMP” it should be “GLAMP”: “GNU, Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.”
Can i have an idiot question how to boot Chromium OS from live USB on non EFI laptop?
The machine is currently dual boot running Win 10 and Ubuntu 16,04.
The only way BIOS let booting anything from USB is when you turn on support for Legacy USB but since the Chromium images are always flashed with GPT partitioning it obviously fails.
There has to be a way to load OS from the GRUB menu or maybe some other trick. Any help?
I tried both .bin and .img images by ArnoldTheBat and hexxeh, in win and linux, by terminal, applications and Google own recovery tool. There has to be something i am missing.
>>54257193
I like when it does not suspends.
>>54262415
yes, but only buzzwords they know or that are simple, like "cloud", "app", "design material", "responsive", "web 2.0"...
>>54262516
I didn't know that Google OS isers really exist. Wow.
>>54257193
What could be the reason for decrease in performance after suspend or just after fresh boot? Restart helps but it is kinda frustrating. All default.
>>54262585
I wanna see how much battery it will consume.
wtf, the font on 4chan changed for me.
>>54256206
>Visit the Friendly GNU/Linux Thread/Website:
>http://fglt.nl/
The list on the site starts on "1". WHY?
THIS IS WRONG!!!
>>54262662
I love you anon.
>>54262662
what's it called when indexing starts at 0 i forgot
>>54262691
Why? Are you going to fix it? If you're not going to fix, I will send a pull request.
>>54262721
There's no name afaik, but it's because you can't count nothing, so you count 0 (1 bit)
>>54262721
>>54262767
>>54262721
>what's it called when indexing starts at 0 i forgot
It's called "wrong".
>>54262916
kek
>>54262721
ordinal/cardinal
trying to scan my dorm wifi for devices but nmap gives me every single ip address in the given range as a device. Is this some sort of a router firewall thing to prevent detection of individual users?
>create a bootable flash drive with mint
>boot it
>no install option
>select run so i can install from there
>no video input
wat do
>>54263178
That's a great way to get kicked out or at least lose your right to use the wifi
I'd start writing an apology email if I were you
>>54263837
nah I was spoofing. Plus they're technologically retarded
>>54257193
Semi-related but every Linux distro I tried would refuse to shutdown, reboot, suspend, etc. It would just hang. I had to go into the BIOS and disable a USB3 external controller or something along those lines.
>>54260633
The general workflow is something like apt-get source somepackage && cd somepackage-* && dh build
dh is from the debhelper package, but seriously there are tons of guides on blogs and shit. Search for it, IIRC debian women had a good guide up from one of their workshops.
Also ls might be a bad example because that is from the coreutils source which pulls down gnulib too.
>>54264164
Thank you.
>>54262516
>non EFI laptop
>turn on support for Legacy USB
Are you sure it is a non EFI laptop?
How do I disable animations in the gtk3 filepicker and make it show folders at the top? I've been able to avoid it until now, but now Firefox is using it.
>>54262662
><ol start="0">
>This integer attribute specifies the start value for numbering the individual list items.
>This attribute was deprecated in HTML4, but reintroduced in HTML5.
>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ol
Someone needs to get on this right away!
>>54263178
you could try using arp-scan instead
So much documentation, so little time....
>>54256206
How do u install screenfetch? and for some reason my root is encryped
>>54264687
What distribution are you using?
>>54264734
unbuntu version 16.04 LTS
Favorite IRC client?
>>54264752
nmv, i typed it in and it oped up with a thing to isntall, so i did
>>54264770
WeeChat
>>54264409
Are you going to fix this?
I'm trying to use HexChat on Ubuntu 16.04, but it's very strange. Doesn't HexChat have the hability to connect to more than 1 server, or join more than 1 channel? I can't!
>>54264486
A few days ago I calculated there are 2504600 lines of man pages on my computer in English. Taking a page is about 41 lines (this was the number of lines in the closest book to me at the time) that is about 61,000 pages. And if an average book is 300 pages, that's about 203 books.
howday
i attempted to upgrade my kernel via pacman -Syu, and now my shit's basically fucking fucked. the version of linux i supposedly upgraded to is 4.4.5-1, which is the version that shows in my installed packages database. this upgrade is shown as successful in pacman.log:upgraded linux (4.2.5-1 -> 4.4.5-1)
however, if iuname -ri get4.2.5-1-ARCH
my shit's all fucked because nothing fucking works. if i try startx, i get a bunch of messages about modprobe trying to look for modules in the old directory (/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH), which doesn't exist anymore.
i have rebooted.
>>54265660
reinstall the kernel, regenerate grub
>>54265707
>reinstall the kernel
i was trying to do that, but i can't mount my flash drive with the kernel on it because mount doesn't work either. is there another way? none of my network interfaces work either.
This deep in and no stallman pasta congrats flt
>>54265724
I don't know what you're trying to do. Boot in to a live usb image, chroot and install and fix.
>>54265762
fuck, i don't know how to do that shit. i'm just going to install fedora.
>>54265778
You probably shouldn't have installed arch if you can't do that, or at least can't find out how to.
>>54265787
i wanted to be hardcore ;_;
What's your "go-to" install after i3?
>>54265793
You failed.
Linux for phone?
>>54265805
awesome is before i3 for me
>>54265811
ok
Someone recommended manjaro to me since i want to dual boot with windows and have pretty much no experience with linux.
should I? or would someone recommend something else?
>>54265826
It's alright, worth a try, although I have no idea what that has to do with you dual booting
>>54265822
So what's your "go-to" install after awesome?
>>54265874
I don't have one, awesome works for me. Why would I need another install?
Greetings /g/entoomen
I am looking for a very specific kind of encryption software package.
------
The package should recognise two passcodes:
1. Correct passcode: If given, the file folder is decrypted properly
2. A specific incorrect passcode: If given, the file folder will be re-written with random values
-----
Is there any encryption software that has this feature or should I write my own?
If I have to, where should I start?
I only know a little bit of python and bash
>>54265533
You know you don't need to read all man pages, right? It's like a dictionary or a telephone guide.
>>54266028
Veracrypt does hidden volumes.
>>54256206
Anybody tried using CentOS as a desktop OS? How comfy is it? Also should I use CentOS 6 or 7?
I'm trying to compile DWM on my new raspberry pi
so why in the fuck am I getting an "exec format error" for a binary file compiled on the fucking machine
>>54266359
It's not what he wanted, VeraCrypt does not deletes the encrypted volume if you type the wrong password.
>>54266341
I know, but I wanted to know how much exactly there was.
>>54266406
Why then? To do statistics on the man pages? Like how much is an example and how much is just listing what the flags do?
>>54266390
What does file say?
What's the best beginner distro?
Mint?
Would it be hard to start with gentoo?
>>54266399
if they knew the software that you were using and knew it had that feature they could just compile their own client with that option removed and brute force. So doesn't help you against a competant attacker. I think hidden folders would be better (so still decrypt but not the real juicy stuff) but IIRC there isn't really a way to do that without the attacker having a good idea that that has been done (eg comparing volume sizes etc) at which point they will just bring out their rubber hoses again.
>>54267589
LFS is easier than Gentoo. Mint is a one man meme, best to stay away from it.
In Windows when searching from the start menu I can find files on my computer. Is there any way to implement this in Linux Mint?
I know about locate from terminal but pressing super/windows button and typing is just so much more comfy...
Thanks in advance.
What is the difference between
apt-cache search text AND apt search text
> inb4 read man pages n00b
If the man pages helped I wouldn't have asked
>>54268383
one was the older way of doing it, the other is the newer
>>54268426
cheers linuBro
Is it possible when using yaourt to automate this:
-no to editing files
-yes to continue
-yes to restart
would help out alot thanks
>>54268752
--noconfirm
>>54268781
Thanks
>>54268807
np
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Should I install Lubuntu or can it handle Xubuntu?
>>54268846
It should be able to handle Xubuntu
Lubuntu is dead btw
>>54268846
xfce runs on a fucking p3 well son.
That being said, install just xfce, not that abomination xubuntu.
>>54268807
You may also like to try packer, with which you can install stuff from the repos and AUR together with the same syntax as pacman
So im reading wikipedia and it comes to my attention
Testing conducted by Martyn Honeyford at IBM in January 2007 on Xubuntu 6.10 concluded that it "uses approximately 25 MB less application memory, and also eats significantly less into buffers and cache (which may imply that there is less file activity) than Ubuntu."[6]
Later testing showed that Xubuntu was at a disadvantage compared to Debian equipped with the Xfce desktop. Tests were conducted by DistroWatch on a Dell Dimension 4500 desktop machine, with an Intel 2 GHz processor and 384 MB of memory in April 2009, that compared Xubuntu 9.04 against an Xfce desktop version of Debian 5.0.1. These showed that Xubuntu used more than twice the RAM as Debian in simple tasks. Xubuntu also ran out of RAM doing everyday tasks, indicating that 384 MB of RAM was inadequate. The review concluded "It was obvious I had already run out of RAM and was starting to use swap space. Considering I wasn't doing very much, this was rather disappointing".[7] Subsequent experimentation by Distrowatch concluded that the performance advantages observed in Debian were due to Xubuntu's inclusion of memory-hungry software not present in Debian's implementation of Xfce.[8]
Testing conducted on a later version, Xubuntu 9.10 beta, in September 2009 showed similar results. The tests, conducted by Linux Magazine, concluded that Xubuntu 9.10 beta's RAM usage was actually greater than Ubuntu's 9.10 beta with GNOME.[9]
and im thinking, does that debian with xfce would out perform xubuntu on a laptop? How can a project like xubuntu even use more ram that debian, which its essentially based off of
how do I exit latex mode
How do I exit LaTeX mode in emacs* sorry
I just need to program, use my browser and read PDF's on my laptop when I'm at uni
I know I could just pick any distro but well
I want it to look good (minimalistic?)
thats all actually
just want it to look good and clean
I know I can make any distro look good
but maybe some recommendations?
I tried arch with gnome about a year ago and it worked fine, looked good and wasn't really hard to set up but after a while it suddenly started to bitch and fall apart for no reason
>>54269086
Try manjaro
>>54269086
seconding on manjaro. I love it
>>54269086
share background please
>>54269105
>>54269119
Thank you, I will try it out.
>>54269146
here you go
>>54269223
thank you
>>54260048
I'm guessing your asking how long it would take to properly configure xen/KVM with a Linux host and a Windows guest given that you mentioned PCI pass through.
Few people have tried this and probably even fewer people who have also post on g, so your probably better off going to a KVM or xen forum of your choosing and search there.
Now what your gonna need is a board that supports VT-d aswell as IOMMU for full PCI pass through.
As for the time it would take you; that depends entirely on how familiar you are with Linux and how many hiccups you encounter along the way.
should I go for lisp or c
no specific goal just want to learn
and what is a nice free site/pdf where I can read about it
>>54269105
>>54269119
I liked Manjaro, but it was pretty buggy on several installations. Invisible cursor happened a lot. I really, really like Antergos though.
How do i test driver issues when using a virtual box? the host seems to auto config the wifi
>>54269479
>>54269479
what driver issues? Usually a virtual machine has an simulated ethernet connection to your network via the host.
On Linux the first thing to check would be the logs, if your distro uses systemd (very likely) you can see them with journalctl
>>54266376
Bump
Want to experiment with LXC containers, should I use proxmox or Ubuntu Xenial or Debian?
does anyone know of a free alternative to synergy?
it's an application that let's you use your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers.
so I have split my emacs and reading 2 files on 1 screen. thats what I wanted but its top bottom split and I want left right split. can I change this fast or should I resplit everything now
>>54270371
Wow when they they make the free version unavailable! Those for-profit bastards! It is still available from the debian main repo and has links to synergy-foss.org (not a thing) and a sourceforge repo (also not a thing) weird.
Anyway googled how to forward mouse and keyboard between linux computers and it led me to x2x via http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/4253/forward-mouse-and-keyboard-input-to-x-session
Hope that works for you
>>54270371
>>54270472
Oh also read the last paragraph of the wikipedia article. It is still free (gpl2) but the website is just sneaky. So synergy is a free version of synergy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy_(software)
>>54268344
I think this is implemented in a few gui file managers, nautilus can do that.
>>54270472
thanks, but im actually trying to forward mouse and keyboard input from a windows machine to a linux one.
i guess x2x would work if i used cygwin? i'll test it out.
>>54269335
Both are fine and well documented.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/pdf/eintr.pdf
>>54269901
It's not, the repo is just too small and everything is ancient. It makes sense on a server but on ola desktop go for something more up to date. If you like red hat go with fedora.
>>54270229
Debian
Why is this even asked?
>>54270857
timezone
>>54270857
UTC u dumb pooinroo
>read post on arch linux forums
>it's a trilby post
How to create a bootable ISO that I got from github?
>>54271496
same way you do when you get it from any other source.
>>54271511
How? I'm kind of new to this ;_;
>>54271496
right click mount
or burn to cd or usb
>>54271523
How do I burn it? I've got the files on usb
>>54271519
Well using google is a good start if you want to use linux.
>sudo dd bs=4M if=/home/lazyanon/Downloads/mangina.iso of=/dev/sdb; sync
>>54271544
rufus
>>54271544
linux live usb creator. You put the distro on your hard drive though. Its really easy to do, as you just select the drive and the .iso.
Dont be an idiot though, check youve selected the right drive
why lubuntu dont let me change my monitor resolution higher than 640x480? i just installed this and i cant see shit
>>54271601
You most likely don't have your display drivers installed. Install them
>>54271594
>>54271561
>>54271550
The zip file has no ISO, am I missing something here?
>>54271616
did you unzip it?
what did you download?
>>54271616
You just said it was an iso though?
>>54271631
Yes, a repo of lo/g/os
>>54271636
lol good luck
>>54271635
I meant from files that I downloaded
>>54271636
you didnt click this, did you?
>>54271685
You know he did, there's literally nothing else to download on that abandoned page.
>>54271685
Yes, am I retarded?
>>54271615
how do i install drivers on linux?
>>54271719
there's an 'additional drivers' tab in one of the package managers, see if it suggests anything there.
>>54271705
use another distro.
>>54271705
this isnt an iso.
why would you use /g/os anyway? the only project that ever worked from g was tox, and who knows whats happened to it now
>>54271750
Like what then?
>>54271765
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux
>>54271765
anything is better than g os.
ubuntu
xubuntu
lubuntu
kubuntu
gentoo
funtoo
debian stable
crunch bang
gnu/hurd
the choice is yours
ACtually unrelated to you, why is #! so under rated?
