Previously on: >>54682268
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http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
first for
>categorizing distributions according to your ignorant arbitrary definitions and absolute lack of any previous experience
>>54691011
>ignorant
>arbitrary
>absolute
Haha, 4chan stranger strikes again
>>54690956
feelsgoodman
>>54691011
kek
seconding this
>>54691057
These are called buzzwords.
>>54691058
shucks, got only two
>69
https://distrochooser.de/
For the love of god if you are a new computer user and you want to use linux but you don't know why, just use emacs instead.
> Newbies
- Ubuntu
- SUSE
- Mint
- Trisquel
>Advanced Newbie
- Fedora
- Manjaro
- BunsenLabs
> Corporative User
- Debian
- CentOS
> Advanced User
- Slackware
- Arch
- Parabola
> Hacker
- Gentoo
- BlackArch
>Hacker:Security
- Tails (VM only)
- Kali Linux (VM only)
> Beyond Hacker
- LFS (1- you create from the scratch)
- BLFS (2- you expand it)
- ALFS (3- you automate it)
- HLFS (4 - you protect it)
- CLFS (5 - you cross compile it)
>>54691197
Blackarch belongs to Hacker: Security (VM only)
Furthermore: Fuck off.
>>54691197
reported for being annoying little shit that doesn't want to go
>>54691288
>announcing reports
>>54691296
go on, report me if it bothers you so much.
it's not like i'm leaving the city tomorrow
>>54691265
I must say you do know your distros. Commencing Fucking off
>>54691288
>> Newbies
>- Ubuntu
>- SUSE
>- Mint
>- Trisquel
>>Advanced Newbie
>- Fedora
>- Manjaro
>- BunsenLabs
>> Corporative User
>- Debian
>- CentOS
>> Advanced User
>- Slackware
>- Arch
>- Parabola
>> Hacker
>- Gentoo
>- BlackArch
>>Hacker:Security
>- Tails (VM only)
>- Kali Linux (VM only)
>> Beyond Hacker
>- LFS (1- you create from the scratch)
>- BLFS (2- you expand it)
>- ALFS (3- you automate it)
>- HLFS (4 - you protect it)
>- CLFS (5 - you cross compile it)
> Newbies
- Ubuntu
- SUSE
- Mint
- Trisquel
>Advanced Newbie
- Fedora
- Manjaro
- BunsenLabs
> Corporative User
- Debian
- CentOS
> Advanced User
- Slackware
- Arch
- Parabola
> Hacker
- Gentoo
- BlackArch
>Hacker:Security
- Tails (VM only)
- Kali Linux (VM only)
> Beyond Hacker
- LFS (1- you create from the scratch)
- BLFS (2- you expand it)
- ALFS (3- you automate it)
- HLFS (4 - you protect it)
- CLFS (5 - you cross compile it)
>>54691197
> Beyond Reasoning
- lo/g/os Linux
- Ubuntu Satanic Edition
- Hannah Montana Linux
- Justin Bieber Linux
- Apartheid Linux
- Linux for Niggers
>>54691403
>linux for niggers
That's just Jewish
>>54691403
>>54691421
There's also HITLERLINUX.
http://properfucked.net/hitlerlinux.html
>>54691403
Ubuntu Christian Edition
http://ubuntuce.com/
>>54691506
>To protect your system for being overrun by liberal thinkers, all telnet sessions are dumped (to /.Hitler/SNIFFS) and monitored for words like 'freedom', 'liberation', 'bar.*mitzvah', 'hitler.*gay' etc.. If any of these regexes are found, the first sector on your main harddrive (the bootsector for HitlerLinux[tm]) are nullified and the system is immediately halted.
What's happening here:
http://www.linuxisforbitches.com/
>>54691506
That's hilarious.
whens wayland getting a good window manager?
bad thread this one.
>>54691506
general information.
HitlerLinux[tm] is a free proactive antigay linux operating system shipped under the GML (Gay Mutilation License (related to the GPL)). It's installation comes on 11 DVDs (1 install and 10 DVDs for a unique 1200 gigabit serial key), or optionally 237 CD-ROMs (beat you, SuSE!) or approximately 106 thousand floppys (if you want to order HitlerLinux on cd-rom or floppy you have to notify us 5 weeks in advance). It comes with a filesystem and directory structure unique to the linux environment and a modified linux 2.0 kernel.
>>54691620
the one in gnome is not too bad. is sway still being developed?
I saw that someone is trying to break the board's rules by using a script that mensions all dubs and trips, etc.. when he announces that he created a new thread.
I'll break it 3:)
0. 10000000
1. 11337111
2. 12674222
3. 14011333
4. 15348444
5. 16685555
6. 18022666
7. 19359777
8. 20696888
9. 22033999
10. 23371110
:^)
>>54691768
neat hack but it doesn't work.
>>54691768
I will also release the program used to generate those numbers under the GNU General Public License v3./* checkem.c
* generates numbers that will (hopefully) be mistaken for
* "GETs," to help stop this autistic phenomenon that's
* beginning to spread on /h/
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#define LENGTH 7
#define STEP 1337111
#define ITERS 10
int main (void)
{
int i, start, step, iterations, tmp;
start = tmp = 1 * pow(10, LENGTH);
step = STEP;
iterations = ITERS;
for (i = 0; i <= iterations; i++) {
if (tmp <= ((1 * pow(10, LENGTH + 1)) - 1)) {
printf("%d. %d\n", i, tmp);
tmp += step;
}
}
return 0;
}
>>54691807
If that's what he uses >>54690129 it'll work.
I upgraded to a new version of Xubuntu and now my mouse pointer disappears every time I log in. What gives?
>>54691660
sway-0.7-1-x86_64 10.2 MiB 1696K/s 00:06 [######################] 100%
How do I install KDE on Fedora?
>>54692077
>How do I install KDE on Fedora?
literally first result on ddg
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE
How long did it take for you guys to stop being perpetually confused and lost with Linux?
>>54692077sudo dnf install @kde-desktop
>>54692181
Believe me, dear Windows/Mac user, you are the one who's lost and confused.
>>54692117
>>54692269
Thanks. Turned out I already had it installed, just didn't realize that I had to manually switch to it upon login.
>>54692181
got a decade with it, on and off at the start, but more on nowadays.
feeling better with it, but i'm always learning something new, be it a new program or new way of doing what i was doing before. it's great actually, just takes perseverance to stick with it.
>>54692181
a few weeks i think.
>>54692287
Big man, sitting behind his shiny, highly-tailored computer screen.
I'd beat the shit out of you in real life. I'd knock you for a loop so hard, that it'd be infinite and you'd crash.
>>54692351
>Big man
For you
>>54692351
Muscles are for the imbecile.
>>54692390
My muscles will render you an imbecile after I pummel your fucking skull in, at which point you'll be small, and stupid.
>>54692417
I'm pretty sure I can beat you in a fight irl.
when Distrowatch says that xfce Manjaro is considered the mainstream version as opposed to the KDE one what does that actually mean?
>>54692429
>I'm pretty sure
Oh, you're pretty sure? Pretty sure based on what, hmmm? Exactly. Kek. You post about your intellectual superiority and then make a vacuous post such as this.
I'm pretty sure that you're not nearly as smart as you'd like to believe, and that's based on what I've said in this post.
>>54692471
Look, I can stay here wasting my time talking to you, a person I will never meet IRL, tell me that you will "pummel my skull in," or I can just ignore you, report you, and tell you to shut the fuck up, and get the fuck out. This is a friendly thread.
If you don't like GNU/Linux, and you have no intention to learn it or anything, then you have absolutely nothing to do with this thread. Go back to your miserable slave life.
>>54692522
>If you don't like GNU/Linux, and you have no intention to learn it or anything
You could also stop talking out of you ass and acting like an insecure child.
I want to learn GNU/Linux. That's why I'm in this thread. I asked this question >>54692181 just so I'd know what to expect. And while you can say "this is a friendly thread," the fact remains that you responded to my simple question with hostility, like a child, perhaps thinking that post was made with derision or something. I don't know what your fucking problem is.
>>54692593
>Believe me, dear Windows/Mac user, you are the one who's lost and confused.
You call this hostility? Well, sorry if I offended you.
>>54692631
Your apology is accepted.
Anyime i use a filechooser of any type,it hard locks up.Any program that allows file choises does this.What could cause this? It isnt ram or space issues
zsh on suicide watchbind 'Tab: menu-complete'
ls[TAB]bind '"\e[5~": history-search-backward'
bind '"\e[6~": history-search-forward'
echo "foo"; date
echo "bar"; date '+%T
da[PGUP]bind '"\em": "\eb\ed\C-y\e#man \C-y\C-m\C-p\C-p\C-a\C-d\C-e"'
# alt+m runs man for the command under the cursor
What did I do wrong? All I did was change the system font to terminus now the taskbar is gone as well as my dock and nothings responding it stays the same after reboot. This is mint I installed yesterday
>>54692988
Could you be more vague?
>>54693089
maybe
i love learning about gnu/linux!!!
http://pastebin.com/raw/d6FmcsdP
>>54692988
>mint
Might as well stay on /v/indows since you're willing to use literal shit just because it vaguely resembles it.
I'm trying to learn java, but I can't compile it. I'm using Fedora MATE.
Sorry for uploading a picture, laptop isn't connected online at the moment.
How to fix javac command not found?
>>54693566
install java
>>54693658
Thanks. Will try through a local hotspot.
>>54693838
>>54693658
No luck.
>>54693941
jre and jdk?
>>54693964
How to check? Probably missing jdk.
x220t
how to shift my screen back and keep accurate pen inputs?
like alt ctrl up arrow from windows
>>54693532
What's wrong with Mint? It's great for browser shit and Steam
>>54694101
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X220
>>54692988
idk
I sent Stallman-sama this
>>54694136
I used the ubtuntu installer on
>https://thinkpad-scripts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/getting-started.html
and folding the laptop into a tablet shifted the screen sideways fine
now, when I used the screen flip my screen went black and I ended up restarting my laptop
the page says this is a known bug but I don't understand the fix mentioned for it, it's over my head
>>54694244
this was the page with the fix I mentioned
>https://thinkpad-scripts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/man/thinkpad-rotate.1.html
>>54694151
"Non-free software is nice." -- Richard Stallman, 2016.
Yesterday I posted a problem with ncmpcpp visualizer "not working" it turns out it only works with FLAC files for some reason, is there any way to change it?
>>54694398
Unfortunately, you'll have to install the nonfree codecs.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Codecs
>>54694398
You'll need the codecs for them. The reason the flac ones work is because it's FREE.
>>54694472
>>54694451
So basically I need to pay in order to get the visualizer work? I kinda don't understand
>>54694495
Free as in freedom, not as in "gratis" (Free speech vs. free beer)
>>54694495
Free as in freedom
>>54694523
>>54694517
oh I see I see
>>54694495
FLAC was available because it's FREE so it was bundled with your distro, so the non-free ones couldn't be bundles and thus weren't.
>>54694523
>>54694517
>>54694554
So what codecs I'm gonna need to get this thing to work?
>>54694579
What kind of music do you have? MP3 most likely, and AAC (M4A)
>>54694604
MP3 and some m4a.
>>54694579
mp3
aac
vorbis
flac
That should be about it for the standard mix
>>54694647
I have already those codecs except for vorbis
Best video editing software for Linux? The moar features the better. Free as in free of charge. idgaf about free as in freedom
I want to learn about penetration testing just for fun. I used Ubuntu at school for a while but only learned basic commands and shitty simple bash scripts.
I have a 1.2 GHz 2GB RAM laptop that I don't use anymore so I can format it and install some distro in it.
Should I learn first in ubuntu or is it better to jump right into Kali?
I know some Java, C, php and a bit of cisco networking (I don't know if knowing something about programming and stuff affects the decision)
>>54694875
openshot
>>54694875
>idgaf about free as in freedom
woah son, tread carefully here.
>>54694876
Just go with Kali.
>>54694875
YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT YOUR FREEDOMS!
>>54694917
>>54694936
Gtfo, nerds. I'm going to use my computer how I want to
>>54694919
ok. Where can I learn how to use it?
>>54694885
Thanks, broseph
If I want to write a free version of unrar, how would I go? Reverse engeneering?
Also: Let's say the project is finished, wouldn't it encourage users to coninue using rar?
Thoughts welcome.
>>54695138
>Also: Let's say the project is finished, wouldn't it encourage users to coninue using rar?
i guess that's the reason why nobody already did the job
>>54695138
unar
>>54695179
Very nice. Replaced.
>>54695240
Use 7z
>>54695246
p7zip-rar is nonfree.
>>54695138
The real question is, why does the web still use this cuck format? While I personally prefer txz, I think 7z should already have been replaced rar years ago.
>>54695351
The warez scene's fault. These people are following strict guidelines and these guidelines are updated one in a blue. When the scene drops rar, the normies will follow. Proof: The dead avi format.
>>54695240
You should just install Parabola if you care about this stuff. It does all this for you. Have a look at parabola's blacklist for software alternatives. I would post the link but the system thinks it's spam.
>>54695460
https://desustorage.org/qa/thread/526352/
kek
>>54695460
>>54695489
How can we fix this?
>>54695432
>one in a blue
sorry anon, I had to laugh.
Not sure how popular Desktop Environments are among you guys, but I'm trying to get into Linux using Fedora and I'm having trouble.
Trying to install KDE Plasma 5 to get my feet wet, but for some reason my post-installation environment doesn't look like Plasma 5. I think it's a previous version.
Pic related is what it looks like in VMware.
>>54695623
I thought Fedora only had kde4?
Try opensuse, or a different de? My personal favorite is MATE.
>>54695623
what it looks like according to kde site
>>54695637
>Last response a year ago.
>>54695658
According to this, it has KDE 5. https://fedoramagazine.org/installing-kde-plasma-5/
>>54695680
Yep, and the link above reports something similar. The difference in wallpaper doesn't bother me alone, but coupled with the different start button I'm convinced I'm doing something wrong.
>>54691197
Is Linux good for emulation?
>>54695658
>>54695707
Thanks for the suggestion, though. I'll look into MATE.
>>54695720
It's the king for emulation when you're going for /vr/ stuff.
>>54695735
If you just came from Windows, try out Cinnamon
>>54695623
If your DE is found in fedora spins, you're ok.
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/
Everything else not supported officially is pretty buggy.
If you're new to Linux and want to get started using Fedora, get Linux Bible 9th edition e-book, 9/10 ebook.
>>54695745
Cinnamon was the first distro I messed around with, but it's been a few years since then so I'll start there, then.
>>54695747
Thanks. Downloading it right now.
>>54695747
>Linux Bible 9th edition
>Acknowledgments
>Since I was hired by Red Hat, Inc. over three years ago, I h
Stopped reading here.
>>54695805
ayy lmao
>>54695744
What about ps2/GameCube/dreamcast?
>>54695863
retroarch for the first, I have no experience with the other two you mention.
>>54695863
mame for arcarde
vice for c64 stuff
fs-uae for amiga stuff
ZSNES, SNES9x or Higan/bsnes for SNES
Mednafen for most nintendo stuff
Dolphin for gamecube
PCSX / PCSX2 for playstation stuff
Mupen64Plus for nintendo64 stuff
VisualBoyAdvance for gameboy jazz
DOSBox, ScummVM for good old adventures
WINE for Windows gaymen
winetricks to get some resent games running
playonlinux for conviniece (bloat)
>>54691197
>Neckbeards
- Slackware
- Arch
- Gentoo
- Fedora
- Debian
- Manjaro
- Trisquell
- Kali
> People who do actual work
- Ubuntu
- Centos
>>54696036
Yep
>>54696050
>>54696036
Hello 9GAG.
>>54696036
> People who do actual work
Friendly requesting definition of actual work.
Sometimes I think I'm surrounded by retards.
Why does /fglt/ fall for the weakest baits?
>>54696090
The meme of "friendly" causes people to be ostracised when they call out bait.
>>54696090
2 (or more) threads ago someone explained it pretty nice that baiters are the actual fish
hating myself right now for not copypasta saving
What's a good desktop environment for a newbie desktop user looking for something clean and sleek that's not a resource hog? This is for Ubuntu, if it matters.
>>54696193
dwm
So, we all know vanilla Linux is bundled with propritary modules, but how does it work together with Linux being GPL licensed?
>>54696148
it's in your history and in an archive somewhere. go dig it, post here. I'm interested.
>>54696206
>newbe user
>dwm
kek
>>54696193
Try openbox, but if your skill is C and you know how to compile stuff, try indeed dwm.
>>54696228
I know a few people who use vanilla Linux and I used to use it myself and haven't had any issues.
>>54696272
As far as I understand the GPL, if you use GPL'd code in your propritary project, you need to change your license to be GPL conform.
>>54696325
*, but the modules aren't confirm. That's basically the thing I dont understand.
When did you realize gentoo is the best linux distro?
>>54696338
when I installed it
>>54696338
redpill: https://usesthis.com/interviews/daniel.robbins/
>>54696371
> [...] Chrome as my preferred browser. I will use Windows 7 or Mac OS interchangeably as desktops, and often surprise people when they find this out. I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop [...]
>>54696371
>developer finds it hard to not tinker
Not exactly redpill anon.
Having known Daniel personally I can say he does what he needs to get by.
>>54696444
>>>developer finds it hard to not tinker
meh. Once you set up your dotfiles, you rarly need to change anything at all.
>>54696492
>says someone not capable of creating a distro and potentially designing a DE
>>54696432
Well, drobbins being a faggot doesn't change the fact that he did 2 good distros. Most people from the tech world who did epic stuff were actually gay.
>>54696570
>>54696338
>12 hours compiling for a browser update
>best distro
Someone from the last thread mentioned to use seq instead of brace expansion. now I researched it and it turnes out that seq isn't defined in POSIX so what is the right way to generate number sequences? for (())? Stackoverflow answers differ extremely. No idea where to read more about this shit.
inb4 autism
>>54695805
u mad debian boi?
>>54691197
>General Use (there is no need to be 1337 all the fucking time/shit should just work):
- Ubuntu (or some derivative)
- Mint (pretty much Ubuntu without Canonical)
- Fedora
- OpenSUSE
- Manjaro (I like Arch but reading Wikis scare me)
- Elementary (I'm not a Macfag I swear)
>Server
>>RPM
- Ubuntu Server (deal with it fgt)
- Debian
>>RPM
- CentOS
- RHEL
- SLES
>> not even Linux
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
> The Linux Hobbyist
- Arch
- Gentoo
- LFS
>Freetard
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html
>Hacker
Kali (Live/VM)
>the government has gone 1984/I want to sell drugs and cp on the silkroad
- tails (Live/VM)
>Get off my lawn
- Slackware
everything is pretty much only slightly different and aren't worth mentioning.
>>54696703
oops under server
>>RPM
should be
>>DEB
>>54696663
Never use seq if you can use brace expansion (which is always). Brace expansion is the best way, being a shell builtin and all.
>>54691197
There's a golden rule:
If the distribution referes to itself as "Linux" it's generally a waste of time and freedom.
> Newbie
- Trisquel
> Corporative User
- Debian
> Advanced User
- Parabola
>>54696736
>>54696736
I forgot, you also can use a C-like for loop. There's no reason to use seq. And I found a page your should read http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide/Practices?highlight=%28seq%29#Don.27t_Ever_Do_These
>>54696736
>>54696736
if Xft.dpi = 120 in .Xresourses
how to set Qt5 applications to scale factor = 1 ?
also how select font and size for Qt5 without KDE or LXQt ?
>inb4 qt5ct
it doesn't work
>>54696837
>>54696814
Are you just pretending to be stupid?
>>54696855
Are you trying to tell me that it's a good idea to spawn a whole bash shell just for brace expansion?
>>54695747
>+10 rupees
>>54695805
>>54696998
what's with the red hat hate?
t. uninformed pham
>>54697013
Annoying shilling for buzzword systems that nobody is using except people who fell for it.
Dunno about the other memes.
>>54697013
>>54697191
>>54694331
cute*
>>54697191
who is en es ayyy?
Why did "Install Gentoo" become a meme? Installing Gentoo isn't really a daunting task unless your experimenting with different methods and less than minimum hardware. Honestly, w/ building support for LUKS and LVM it only took me 45 minutes. (Not including compile time.) Compiling w/ Portage isn't a daunting task either compared to compiling with Ports.
>>54694151
>Dr Stallman
Yeah no you're a fraud
>>54697576
i saw someone on /g/ insist that a handful of honorary doctorates equate to a real one, as if JK Rowling's 7 doctorates should earn her almost as much esteem as a real doctorate. except in this context of course they were arguing that RMS's 12 should have additive credibility somehow.
it was the most obvious case of appeal to bandwagon that one could imagine; it was such clearly horse shit-eating apologist logic; i loved it.
maybe you're special and above all that stupid shit, but the people in these threads defending stallman are 90% retards trying to scrape together credibility and prop up the bogus practice of honorary degrees against all reason.
and, as an aside, this is why it's healthy to take shots at your own camp when idiots show up making specious arguments that agree with you - because if they're allowed to persist then the whole camp gets weaker as they parrot that specious argument. my loyalty is to the free software movement, and i'm happy to cast out RMS if he's stopped being beneficial and has only become a liability to the cause. at this point i would argue that he has done more harm than good for FSF in the past 15 years:
- GPLv3 drove a wedge in the open source community that was neither necessary nor helpful (copyleft in general has alienated industry developers who might have otherwise been allowed to dabble with open source licenses except that now legal is worried about what they call "viral licensing" terms - a bogeyman made real by GPLv3)
- RMS has been a lightning rod of controversy involving outbursts, meltdowns, and inappropriate comments; his public perception has been more negative than positive by a wide margin.
- the general perception about honorary degrees is that they're not real, and even somewhat arrogant people know not to call themselves "doctor" because of it; it's self-aggrandizing on a shaky platform. and yet, RMS happily uses the title like he earned it the way PhDs have earned it.
>>54697612
>>54697576
Stallsham is a cancer
I bought a X220 with non os installed.
Now I wanna start fedora live image from my usb stick. In BIOS the system says "Boot" only "PCI LAN IBA GE SLOT" or "ATA HDD0". By "Network Boot" I can choice between HDD, CD and my USB Stick. But nothing happend by the next start. Halp?
>>54690956
is there a quick way to change a keyboard like on windows in linux?
>>54697847
>plug keyboard out
>plug new keyboard in
It's operating system agnostic.
>>54696206
>>54696259
>asks for a desktop environment
>they recommend just a window manager
>not recommending a taskbar, file manager, notification daemon, wallpaper setter and other utilities which make up a desktop environment
>how do you want your UI fäm?
>just split my shit up
>>54697847
>>54698066
i meant keyboard language
>>54698315
>>54697847
Obviously there is. From your desktop environment's bundled GUI tools to things like setxkbmap or localectl.
I'm using Linux Mint and I need to be able to compiled Fortran 77 code to run some software. Could someone please tell me the easiest way to accomplish this?
I tried following http://www.wikihow.com/Manually-Build-and-Install-GNU-Compiler-Collection-on-Linux-Mint but I'm getting an error at step 10.
Getting pic related soon, what would be the best distro to put on it?
>>54698418
dont got a DE so i gotta use setxkbmap or localectl kay
for i in $#
do
mv $i i.mp4
done
Why doesn't this work as a shitty rename script?
Considering I'm new to programming, which would be a good scripting lang to learn: perl or python? I plan to learn C simultaneously with the chosen programming lang.
>>54698766for i in $(seq 1 $#);
do
echo $i
mv "$i" i.mp4
done
Further precising my question, why does this not echo all the arguements of a file?
It insteads only echoes the range of all the numbers.
>>54698839
perl
>>54698962
What would be a good book to learn perl for a beginner?
>>54699071
>still can't upload .pdf on 4chan
Perl for Sysadmins - O'Reilly is a good place to start i guess.
>>54698766
>>54698928
Just use rename.
>>54699198
It's what I ended up doing
I'll learn shell scripts another day
>>54698839
>>54699071
You'd be an idiot to learn Perl instead of Python in this day and age. You're also an idiot for blindly just going with the first answer posted on an anonymous image based forum. An answer most likely posted by someone who doesn't even use or know Perl, but merely suggested it as a an "epic meme troll" post, because it's old and less adopted than Python nowadays.
Why is there no way to disable ip6 for mpd during runtime?server_socket: bind to '0.0.0.0:6600' failed: Address already in use (continuing anyway, because binding to '[::]:6600' succeeded)
I don't want it to use ip6 and I don't want to keep two config files (one for my laptop and desktop) with different "bind_to_address" lines. Using "any" gives me the error from above. Does anyone know a different solution to this?
>>54699169
Thank you.
>>54699220
I'm sorry. I was supposed to make this post on /dpt/ or /sqt/, I just realized now that I made it in the wrong thread.
I appreciate your advice, I was going with python but then I read somewhere perl was more powerful and stuff and got interested in it. I'll look for help in the aforementioned threads.
>>54699392
>more powerfull
I see you're falling for buzzwords.
>>54699392
Btw, why do you want to learn a scripting language ?
I have this command here:amixer set Master toggle | awk -F [ 'NR > 6 { print $3 }' | sed "s/]/ /g"
and i want to use it as an alias, but for some reason when i paste it in my .zshrc it doenst work anymore.alias mute='amixer set Master toggle | awk -F [ 'NR > 6 { print $3 }' | sed "s/]/ /g"'
also tried it as an functionmute() {
amixer set Master toggle | awk -F [ 'NR > 6 { print $3 }' | sed "s/]/ /g";
}
>>54699328
I solved it by modifying the PKBUILD and building mpd without ipv6 support.
Now I have a different problem: a bunch of customized packages. How do you people deal with this? Do you give them special names to distinguish them from the packages from the main repository or do you keep the original name? If I keep the same name, I suppose it has the advantage of seeing when a new version comes out (it will update my package), but also the disadvantage of mixing and possibly installing new files that I don't want.
Why is this so complicated? ;_;
Yo.
There's a dad that I have somewhere that suffers from baby duck syndrome to the next level. Aside from his Surface Pro 3 he has this old ass computer with XP because he wants to copy DVD movies (last decade shit and all, but he still wants to do it) rip music CDs and some other stuff. There's a shitton of software out there for him that does this but he insists on using Nero 7.
Not the current Nero, not a 5 year old version. Nero 7. Because he just likes how it works and he got used to that. Several times over the years I have tried to give him alternatives but he's like "nah dawg nero works for me".
Of course XP has a shitton of issues nowadays and his computer is slowly dying.
I was thinking, is there software on linux that is baby tier easy to use to do similar tasks? Copying movies, converting media files and ripping audio CDs? That's all he wants to do with this machine.
>>54700139
for ripping audio cds he could use the built in importing feature of many audio players, rhythmbox's is quite easy.
Also see pic related, sound juicer.
A quick search in gnome-software didn't show me anything for the other two tasks, but there has to be software for that. Do you know about alternativeto.net?
>>54691905
I feel like you'd need glasses to read this because you cannot c#.
>>54700139
>>54700216
>Copying movies
makemkv
>converting media files
handbrake
>>54699994
>Why is this so complicated?
Describe how it should work in order to not be complicated, and maybe someome can guide you towards doing that.
>>54698766
Because $# is the amount of command line arguments, so if you have 5 arguments, you are sayingfor i in 5which makes no fucking sense.
>>54698928
Again, $# expands to the number of command line arguments.
You probably want $@ instead, which expands to all the command line arguments
>>54697788
You fucked up writing the usb stick.
>>54700467
Well, it's not really a problem, I guess.
For now I have settled to slightly renaming my modified packages. Example: mpd-custom.
32bit tablet. UEFI as well. Pretty shitty with Windows 8/8.1/10, has a fairly slow SSD.
Is there any distro that, without tampering, would boot properly on one of these? So far all I managed to do was show GRUB with options. Once I choose one it won't do shit.
>>54700930
which tablet?
>>54700945
A Samsung ATIV Tab 3.
I wouldn't care much about losing S-pen support but I really want to have something else than Windows, which takes about a whole fucking day to install properly (I'm not kidding here).
>>54693262
You are not an awoo irl
>>54700534
Not really m8. I found the problem, but thanks..
How do I customize the i3bar in arch. And the gtk theme for it, and also add a wallpaper for i3?
>>54691197
or ya know, just use whatever distro you want
>>54701417
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/I3
>>54690956
hi i am trying to run irssi on arch vm, but it only lets me run as root. then i see this in my sudoers. do i uncomment this, or is there something else i need to do?
#%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL
>>54697612
I honestly spend most of my time on /g/ lurking. However, when I do post it's mostly some shit supporting RMS. Why? I honestly think he's cancer, and that he is bad for everything he advocates. However, I find him to be hilarious, and he makes for some quality shit-posting memes
>>54702137
a small part of RMS' popularity on /g/ is because of his achievements regarding free software.
a much larger part is because posting him triggers the autists so much. If we didn't have daily hate threads and discussions about him, I don't believe people would know as much about his ideas as they do now.
but he is honestly a man with great ideas and great passion for them.
>>54697549
install gentoo is used when somebody asks a question he could have easily answered himself if he had the skills required to install gentoo. (following a manual and using a search engine)
>>54697612
Do you really feel the need to post about this every single day? Have you talked to him about this? if not, you are no better than girls in middle school that talk shit about each other behind their backs. You seem to be so emotional about this that it sounds like you have some personal beef with rms. Don't post all day about it on /g/, hust write him an e-mail or something.
https://www.strawpoll.me/10290231
I've just got an interview to apply for a Junior Linux Administrator. They asked me on email if I had knowledge about terminal commands, and now want to do a Skype call with me. I'm terrified, I don't feel confident enough. Anyone has any experience about being a Jr Linux Admin and could share what I should know before the interview?
Is there a bash equivalent for sscanf?
For example, if I have a bunch of files formatted like%artist - %album (%year) - %no. %title
I'd like to be able to extract the necessary information and store them in variables.
>>54690956
Pls help me /fglt/. I'm trying my first linux by installing ubuntu. However, I wanna be able to delete it later without too much trouble. I read that if I install it to the HDD and later delete it, I'll have to repair my win10 install to fix some boot issue.
Can I avoid this by installing to a USB?
>>54703577
Use live usb and be done with it.
>>54703577
yes
>>54695351
Its just a container, almost 99% of the time its compressing compressed data,which is pointless and just waste time.
If you want real compression,use lrzip
>>54703597
or run it in a vm
>>54703597
>>54703602
So I do this?
>http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows
>>54703652
Yeah, download ISO and Rufus or Universal USB Boot and make a bootable usb. Plug it in your pc, restart and boot to it via bios.
>>54703689
Aite, sweet. Hopefully, the next time I post will be from ubuntu.
I got a question for slackware users. How do you guys manage unofficial software that isn't in the official repositories? It feels a bit scary and overwhelming to manage and keep my system updated
>>54703718
Good luck and have fun :)
>>54703119
http://www.funtoo.org/Linux_Fundamentals,_Part_1
parts 1-2 should take around an hour to work through.
Also install vim and run vimtutor if you feel like you should have vim knowledge. That will take around 30 minutes to work through.
Also learn how to use systemd, there are 3 basic command pairs: start/stop, enable/disable, mask/unmask
journalctl if you work with systemd lets you look at logs, else they're in /var/log
>>54691197
To every person ITT: don't fall for the special snowflake distro meme
Will only waste your time
Stick with Ubuntu
It's not "for newbies"
That makes zero sense, it's an idiotic idea
My father is an extremely advanced users, he writes programs for power plants and sets up their Linux servers (CentOS I think, I'm not sure though) ... for home use, he always uses Ubuntu (maybe UbuntuMATE now, not sure, anyway that's just a small difference)
The point is: the idea that you somehow "graduate" from Ubuntu is fucking idiotic. "Now I learned apt-get, let's start wasting hours upon hours of time to build from source and gain 0,1% speed optimiziation!"
No, it doesn't work like that
Linus Torvalds himself said "Debian was too complicated for him"
It's not like you "graduate" an OS, Jesus Christ I hate this idea
"OK now I know Linux a little better, let's erase the disk and install a distro that is more unfriendly to the user"? I mean what the fuck
One of the most advanced computer scientist I know of, who is in cutting edge research in Artificial Intelligence / Deep Learning , uses OS X
If OS X is good enough for him, how can Ubuntu not be good enough for you?
Ubuntu is good forever, don't fall for the "For newbies" meme
NASA uses Ubuntu, Google engineers use Ubuntu, the German Government uses Ubuntu
Just go with Ubuntu if you don't have some VERY specific needs... either ideological (Trisquel), or you have security concerns (Tails), etc.
For the vast majority of people Ubuntu is the answer and you will NEVER have to replace it
There will be absolutely no reason to
>>54704211
Jesus Fucking Christ. End yourself you reddit spacing faggot.
>mfw finally posting from Ubuntu
I did it guys. I'm using Ubuntu.
Can I be as productive on Ubuntu as I am on win10? I have to do a lot of word processing and excel sheets.
Also, the firefox font looks a little blurry. What's up with that?
>>54704211
A few things to consider:
1: stop
the
spacing
2: using a based on distro fragments the GNU/Linux world without any development benefit
3: some people prefer rolling release distros for the sake of convenience or dislike that you need to reinstall buntu every few years.
4: stop behaving like a shill for any company
5: it is nice that your father is happy, but not everybody is like him or would like the same things
6: debian is more popular if you believe distrowatch, by your logic this would make it more worty of being used. I think it is but that doesn't mean everybody would find it to be the best.
>>54704211
You don't
Need to
Use unnecessary spacing
Every few sentences.
Stop it
Your whole post
Could have been
2-3 paragraphs
At the most
>>54704325
you can. I recommend using libreoffice 5+ as it has better compatibility but it is entirely possible to use ms office in wine so it wont change it.
Remember that a live distro runs from your usb mass storage device so it is not as fast as a real installation will be.
The font rendering can be a bit off on the live distro, it should look pretty good on a real install and if not, you can make it look beautiful. Have fun and enjoy your stay. And have a look at the different desktop environmemts like xfce, gnome...
>>54690956
IS THAT A STICKER ON HIS THINKPAD?????
STICKERS ON LAPTOPS COMFIRMED TO BE ETHICAL AND RIGHTFUL THING TO DO
>vnstat
>YAMon
>bandwidthd
>doesn't have enough traffic info
>ntop
>good looking interface
>no package for chaos calmer
>definitely will rape the router's CPU and Memory
I'm more interested in data traffic from sites I've visited, like :
destination 110.20.37.82 traffic 30 MB
destination abc.com traffic 10 MB
destination def.com traffic 40 GB
mfw there's no good choice.
Router with 300 MHz processor and 32 MB RAM is good enough until you want to become NSA.
Maybe I should move to Raspberry Pi / ODROID device.
>>54704449
I like what I'm seeing and I'm gonna use a partition of my SSD for it. Best part is, all my docs, music, memes can be shared between both OS's.
However, if in the future I wanna try some other flavor of linux and want to delete ubuntu, I'm scared the boot issue could be a problem.
Also, the wifi keeps asking for the password. I wonder if its because its the live version and not installed.
What are your thoughts on Manjaro?
>>54704704
it's shit
>>54704704
it's eh
>>54704704
Garbage and people who manage it are incompetent.
I am currently reading "Free as in Freedom" (2nd edition) and it's pretty inspiring t b h.
> tfw you weren't born in the sixties
> tfw when you started out with BASIC at 10 years it was already obsolete
> tfw never used a TSS and started out on a personal computer
> tfw only learned high level languages in school and uni
> tfw will never be a pure hacker coding and eating Chinese food with your hacker buddies all night and sleeping all day
>>54704669
Fixing grub really isn't hard. You can also just overwrite buntu with another distro during the install and grub should configure itself automatically. To test the different desktop environments you don't need to reinstall btw.
have you typed in the password already? Should be gone in a real install but i never had this as a problem.
how to i make pkexec work with bash script which sudo runs pycharm?
>>54704831
I'll just search for "fixing grub" or ask /g/ when I need to fix it, I guess. The fact that I can just install over it is best.
I've input it like 5 times over the last hour. Lets hope it doesn't happen in a real install.
>>54704947
>>I've input it like 5 times over the last hour. Lets hope it doesn't happen in a real install.
it could be your wifi chip. can you tell me which one you have in there?
for reinstalling grub there are a lot of guides. usually the best help for fixing stuff and general system maintenance are the gentoo wiki, the debian wiki, the arch wiki and man/info pages to different programs.
>>54703608
>completly missing the point
>not understanding tar
Just leave.
>>54705087
>tar is just a container
>point
What point,that you think arbitrary containers matter at all?
It can be any fucking format you want,its the same across every fucking container
Started my Linux journey through a Ubuntu Crouton install on my Chromebook (easy to fix when things get broken, planning on going full Debian install before next college semester).
I'm needing android-tools (adb+fastboot) for my phone and there seems to be many different ways of doing it. Is there a preferred method?
How do you determine the best route for these situations? (where there are many differing solutions)
After wiping my drive and installing Minix, where do I get the graphical interface? I just see this command line crap.
>>54705689
i don't know if MINIX has a gui. if yes, please tell me, it has a great kernel.
Fish or Zsh?
