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Can somebody give me some useful guides or tips for ricing/personalizing Debian XFCE? Looking for a more dark theme, sorta like dark grey with light red writing
>download gtk theme >download xfwm theme >put it in /usr/share/themes or ~/.themes >select it in your theme thing
Colton Carter
Is void good, I'm sick of Gentoo's compile times and errors. >inb4 hipster distro
Robert Morales
Void is a useless hipster distro. If you are going full vegan go install Haiku and show off
Ayden Perry
Whats Cred Forums's thoughts on Elementary OS ?
Julian Parker
Pantheon is nice
Ayden Baker
It's Ubuntu with a different DE and it's so far downstream that I wouldn't consider it for any serious application.
William Bell
Why? It is the second largest systemd-free distro next to Gentoo, and isn't source based. If anything, source based packages managers are for hipsters.
Gabriel Cook
fuck off pedo
Aiden Murphy
>systemd-free distro Running a server?
Lucas Wood
>Display all 2490 possibilities? (y or n)
Holy shit, that's a lot of programs. Sometimes when I start writing one of them that I need and hit tab halfway in, I see all those little unknown programs. To think that there's a package somewhere which they belong to...
Most recently I discovered serdi.
>Usage: serdi [OPTION]... INPUT [BASE_URI] >Read and write RDF syntax.
Charles Sanchez
Nope, just desktop use and C development.
Oliver Gomez
Then stick with systemd
Robert Miller
What's really the benefit to linix?
it's light weight, you get more 'control', durr command line.
Why do programmers prefer linux
Asher Perez
the quality of this bait is very low
>inb4 it's not bait just google it then
Camden Thomas
>you get more 'control' That's not a meme
Hudson Parker
I'm still on windows 7 at least
It's not. And I'd just prefer to be spoon fed and here honest opinions from you guys
Charles Robinson
Sorry, I don't want a a large chunk of my OS controlled by RedHat, A company who's largest customer is the NSA.
Joseph Morgan
Then you shouldn't go for GNU/Linux at all, since RedHat has been already one of the major contributors to that even way before systemd was a thing.
Dominic Fisher
You list the most important answers (not that I personally care about the "weight"). If you don't understand them, I'm not sure I can put them in a way that will change that.
It's not really that it offers specific advantages for programming (though it is helpful), it's that it agrees more readily with the way programmers think.
One of the other big things I like about Linux is the software repositories and package management. Software management on Windows and Apple feels archaic compared to this now. Going to some random website and downloading a program, or buying a disc with the data on it, installing in some idiosyncratic process, updates handled on a per program basis. It's weird.
Jonathan Allen
Thank you.
So windows doesn't have kernel-level security
Do most distros come with that?
Elijah Ward
Where did you get "kernel-level security" from that text?
Adrian Bennett
Something I read in another thread about windows being a botnet. And it got me reading on SELinux.
Cameron Long
Any good, updated, noob-friendly guide to xorg.conf? My Debian doesn't recognize the max resolution of my monitor and the tutorial from the Debian Wiki doesn't work since it doesn't create a conf with the necessary modelines.
I already set up a xrandr script that adds the modeline and changes the resolution at boot, but the TTY still looks tiny and that triggers my autism.
Mason Howard
But RedHat's contributions to Linux have been audited. Systemd is so complex and large that it hasn't been fully audited yet. Also it's suspicious how RedHat wanted to push Systemd on all the major distributions so quickly when a init replacement wasn't such a huge priority.
Colton Flores
>xorg.conf >TTY
Sebastian Perez
The Linux kernel is larger and more complex than systemd.
>Also it's suspicious how RedHat wanted to push Systemd on all the major distributions so quickly
>one of the major commercial linux players >main business model is support >gee how can we possibly make more money >i know how, let's make everyone else use our project and that way we can get more money from offering support to it
There, your "mystery" has been solved, idiot. Sorry if it's not conspiracy enough for your retarded mind.
>init replacement wasn't such a huge priority. Says who? Are you a top contributor to a distribution? Are you a member of the RedHat board? It obviously was a huge priority for them, otherwise they wouldn't have spent their money and resources on it, idiot.
Noah Rogers
They spent the money and resources on systemd because NSA probably contracted RedHat to make a low level init that also acts as a backdoor. This isn't far fetched since the NSA tried to backdoor the Linux kernel 3 times and failed.
Anthony Hill
>backdoor >in free software whose source everyone can read
Kill yourself, you retarded, conspiracy theory nut. According to your logic, you should stop using the Linux kernel at all. If you don't stop using it, you're a hypocrite which renders your arguments invalid.
Nathan Edwards
No advertisements in the UI.
Jeremiah Edwards
Can anyone suggest me tiny liveCD destop with alsa and browser, non-systemd Wayland-based desktop prefered.
Jack Walker
How fucking incompetent do you believe the NSA to be?
Caleb Davis
>desktop EFI-capable also.
Angel Brown
But the linux kernel has been fully audited, systemd hasn't. And it is very easy to diguise backdoors as bugs in OSS ex. Heartbleed bug.
If your still too retarded to understand to reject systemd, here's a short video summarizing the arguments against systemd: youtube.com/watch?v=GNUGjFzenq4
If you are an actually shill employed by RedHat, I highly suggest you kill yourself. You only make the world worse acting like a cancer. I will even ship you a noose if needed for free.
BTW, in the time you have been shilling on Cred Forums, I already have a functioning Void install with lxqt.
Nathaniel Bailey
>But the linux kernel has been fully audited Stopped reading there.
Owen Bailey
CLI only? How to you do anything? Even RMS uses a wm once in a while.
Henry Reyes
>shit argument >deflecting
Jordan Garcia
systemd was also fully audited 6 years ago so you have no argument.
Ian King
No, he's an idiot that decided to go "full Wayland" and has no utilities for taking screenshots so he needs to keep taking pictures with his phone.
Gavin Ward
Proof, haven't found that anyone has even started an audit on systemd. NSA audits don't count.
Lucas King
>But the linux kernel has been fully audited The Linux kernel includes binary blobs, it's impossible to be fully audited.
Landon Campbell
>what is linux-libre >what is deblobing
Anthony Hernandez
Something that should not just be called "Linux ḱernel" anymore.
Sebastian Evans
It's the linux kernel, it just has all the blobs removed. But of course your a lennart shill and use a fully blobed kernel and non-free repos.
Isaiah Carter
No, I use Wayland window managers, they have nice backward capability with xorg, but I prefer Wayland software (webkit-based browsers, mpv, QT5, GTK3 etc.) But mostly I use console apps, rtorrent, cmus, fdisk, gcc, make, nano... Also some drm/framebuffer graphics software (mpv, fbpdf, etc.)
Adrian Long
It's an unofficial fork at best.
Parker Parker
So? Your point?
Jace Kelly
When you say "linux kernel" you're obviously expected to talk about the official release, not some fork which even has its own name to not be confused with it.
Eli Thompson
Ok, I misused the terminology. I ment that linux-libre has been fully audited.
Matthew Johnson
iv bought an openvz vps, and one of the available gnulinux distributions are gentoo, I want to use it because it is a bleeding edge distro. I've tried to, but I ran into many problems, the first of them is that portage version is too old, when i try to update it, I get this error message: "error unsupported eapi 5"
Python version is 2.5 portage is 2.1rc1(I think) linux is 2.6.32
Parker Price
>I'm using Fedora 24. If I use dnf search keyword it gives me a list with the available and installed matching packages how do I make it show only the installed packages?
dnf list installed or rpm -qa
Aaron Garcia
I just deleted bash with package manager, how to restore it? I put in filesystem /bin/bash, but system still doesn't work, I can't even chroot in it, what to do Cred Forumsuys?
Justin Baker
Hey guys, just switched to linux on my laptop permanently, wiped Windows completely off.
Any ricing guides?
Also wifi isn't working, will only detect one wifi network which is a broken extension anyway (doesn't work on anyone).
Also I usually use pycharm as my python editor, is it good for Kubuntu?
Nolan Morris
You're retarded
Juan Reed
I've been switching through a few different IDEs / terminal emulators. Do I need to do something to delete say KDE off my machine after installing Gnome?
Colton Jones
I'm trying to decide which VM use with my slackware install for running kali. Is VMware my best option or are there others I should consider?
Nathan Richardson
What's the significance of that picture?
Charles Cooper
A Quantun Theory offers a very different expanation.
Adam Hughes
>ricing guides Yes, you install themes, apply them and change options.
>wifi isn't working That's not enough information to troubleshoot and issue. Either way, by the way you worded it, it's impossible to help you fix it.
>is it good for kubuntu There is no "good for [distribution X]" software. The same version of a program will work the same on every distribution.
Landon Rivera
Yes, you remove it with your package manager.
You can install the programs you use on Kali on Slackware too, you know.
John Davis
Systemd is too big. Can you help me, or you don't know anything about your Free Open OS like all this ubuntutards?
Michael Murphy
I've yet to see an "ubuntutard" deleting bash from his system
Dylan Reed
It was a mistake
Alexander Edwards
i've just installed gentoo and checked for the available portage version, it's 2.2_rc16. any one is willing to help me upgrade?
Brody Robinson
Okay but you need to use Kali for certification.
Dominic Fisher
Well, you either can go and research on how to manually copy bash into your system so you have a chance to fix it or you can just go and re-install.
Asking here does not count as research.
Lincoln Perez
>deletes bash >ubuntutards
hoo boy. is sh there? chsh to sh and you should be able to reinstall the package.
Owen Ramirez
I can help, tell exacly what you need.
Kevin Scott
There are certified Kali-users?
Ryan Martinez
It is part of the the OSPC certification you 'tard.h
John Wilson
how can i upgrade portage on an old version of gentoo
Brayden Davis
I had tried to build bash into my system, but it didn'd finished installation. /bin/bash works from systemrescueCD, but I can't chroot in it, just error without explanation. Can you tell me what bash is? 1. /bin/bash 2.. ??? >Reinstall Gentoo Thanks, no.
Lincoln Bailey
>csh >sh >dash I'll try to install them and chroot.
Leo Gomez
What's the standard VM software you folks would recommend for Windows to try Linux distros out in?
Easton Hernandez
Thanks, from now on I can say that these threads have already proven that even retards can install gentoo.
Sebastian Russell
Install Python 3.4/3.5 Set python 3.5 as main. Try update portage, you will see some errors, rebuild packages, delete some, and upgrage portage. If you find trouble go here and show error.
Eli Campbell
Even kids can install and use gentoo every day, redards talk that is difficult.
Gavin Bailey
I always just use hyper-v because it's there or virtualbox
Cooper Evans
Ok, i run "emerge --sync" and all is good. i run "eselect profile set 1" and run "emerge portage" to update portage itself now the error is showen again: "!!! ParseError: Profile contains unsupported EAPI '5': '/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/13.0/eapi' and do not tell to install python3 i know emerge need only python2
Lincoln James
* and i even though portage needs python2 only, i can't install any thing at all so saying to install python3.5 is useless to me
Nicholas Edwards
You don't have 4MBs spare on your harddrive? With such an old computer, you have way bigger problems then.
Easton Gonzalez
VirtualBox says I need to enable software virtualization specifically when compiling on a 64bit system other wise I will need to use hardware virtualization to run 32bit hosts on my 64bit machine. What exactly do I need to use to do hardware virtualization?
Nathaniel Lee
don't want to shitpost, but why should I use linux? windows covers literally everything I need to do with my pc, plus i am not a turboautist so I don't do any programming at all.
seems like a waste of effort is all
Christian Brooks
really? none of you "install gentoo" people know how to upgrade a 2008 gentoo system?!
Nolan Johnson
I am trying to get bumblebee to work on my laptop(hd graphics 3000 + 630m) that has debian installed on it. I know that bumblebee is functioning partially as the led indicator shows that the iGPU is ebing used. I have installed the nvidia driver and bumblebee packages but the kernel module "nvidia" is missing and I can't run programs with the dGPU because of this. Wat do?
Noah Baker
Pls help
Kevin Bennett
How do people have onli like 600/700 packages? I just dont get it. On Arch i have like 1.3k and when i used ubuntu i had +3k.
Bentley Brown
>that pic
I usually generalize it a LOT. If it's forced out of me I will say I use GNU/Linux, and I will generally support unix-like systems in general and not say what distro I use unless it seems really relevant. That aside, I actually really avoid discussing this most of the time. It kind of gives me anxiety because of how normies will attack you if you don't use Windows. It's hard to describe, but I guess it's like Microsoft is their friend and I have personally wronged them if I'm not using Windows. It actually gets a bit scary. Both in the sense of "wow there are people this stupid/crazy" and in the more direct sense of them getting loud and aggressive.
Levi Torres
Sounds like you have way worse issues than your choice of OS
Michael Williams
ive installed ubuntu last night and i had tremendous problems with my internet connecection. although it established ive had a download speek of 50kbit/s.
ive found the solution to the problem anyway. it is in the network card of the laptop, a realtek 8723be.
the hack around it was to install the proprietary driver from git, however, the internet was still very slow.
question: is there a way to execute this when I boot or do i have to type this in manually everttime?
Christian Morales
I have no sound on my kali what do? No devices to choose from in gnome sound preferences either.
Caleb Adams
I have 1648 on Fedora xfce. The under 800 ones are running very minimal i3/openbox & everything portable just pointing to /bin.
Sebastian Sanchez
Is this normal vim behaviour? I don't know if it's a bug. Can someone confirm this?
>hit A to append at end of file >hit Escape to go into normal mode (exit insert mode) >hit O to start typing in line above >letter O appears for 1 second at end of file before disappearing and cursor moving a line above like it's supposed to
Joshua Collins
>linux 4.8 comes out >arch linux releases 4.7.6
bleeding edge my ass
Christian Carter
you don't need sound to hack the world
Xavier Anderson
>Systemd is so complex and large that it hasn't been fully audited yet. Where are people getting this bullshit? There are dozens of examples of other programs that are just as complex as systemd (or more so), and no one has this complaint about them.
Examples: The Linux kernel itself, various compilers, internet browsers, version control methods (git, mercurial), and probably tons more I that I can't think of off the top of my head.
All of these are comparable to systemd in complexity, meaning that they're constantly evolving and changing nearly every day because there's tons of features and bugs that need to be addressed, and that landscape is always changing over time. These programs can't ever be "fully audited" because they're changing too often. But, because they're all FOSS, anyone can go through the code at any time and raise an issue about it.
Also, RedHat working with the NSA in any capacity doesn't automatically taint all of their FOSS endeavors. Even SELinux is fully free software.
So unless you can find some actual evidence that systemd has malware/spyware, then stop pretending as if it does. If an issue like that is ever discovered, then someone will either fix the issue or make a fork that doesn't have the issue. That's how it works.
AND, if you still want to be an overly-paranoid weirdo, you can use a variety of other FOSS init methods that still work just fine.
Connor Hernandez
My vim doesn't do this
Landon White
>masina sa-mi sugi pl you might have a .vimrc that doesn't normally come in other distros
Jackson Sanders
despite the Cred Forums memes, arch is actually pretty stable, and so they are not always bleeding edge, although they are still a lot closer than anything debian-based
just compile the latest kernel when it releases if you want it right away, this isn't even all that uncommon
Luke Morgan
>overly-paranoid weirdo They just have difficulty assimilating their ideas and prioritizing because they get stuck on one thing.
Jaxon Baker
Yes, this is normal behavior. It happens when you press O within one second of Esc when your vim is nocompatible (specifically, esckeys is on).
See :help esckeys for more info, about how you can either ruin your arrow keys or set a shorter timeout to avoid this.
Justin Nelson
This has been answered literally hundreds of thousands of times. If you're happy with Windows, stick with it. I went to Linux because it runs great on older hardware, handles ram usage much better, doesn't grind my fucking hard drive to death when I'm literally not doing anything on it, and a LOT less likely to have viruses/malware. Oh, and if the file manager crashes for some reason, it won't take half the PC down with it.
Andrew Jones
I just tried using the default config file and it's indeed not happening. My config isn't even that elaborate and I only added features which I use (didn't just copy-paste one found on the internet). Shit, I guess it's time to remove one option after another to find the culprit.
Elijah Scott
I'm at 450 right now on one of my Arch machines. It feels pretty good my man.
Juan Brooks
>just compile the latest kernel when it releases if you want it right away I've been sitting on the mainline kernel for two weeks because of the OOM killer bugs in 4.7, kinda wanna return back to the official package because zfs-linux targets it.
Adrian Morgan
>OOM killer bugs in 4.7 scary
Jordan Kelly
GNU/Linux is free/open source whereas Windows and Mac are proprietary. That's pretty much the main reason.
Free/open source software benefits over proprietary: - doesn't hide its intentions from you (proprietary software must be reverse engineered, otherwise you put your trust in the owner/maintainer) - running it as you please (no drm) - dissecting it, learning how it works - modifying it for your own needs - sharing your modifications with others, so that they get the same benefits
So yeah, muh freedums is the primary reason GNU/Linux even exists or has any prominence at all.
Charles Bell
Wow, that was a surprise. I just used set noesckeys and got the behaviour I wanted. Thanks.
I'm fine with the "ruined" arrowed keys, since I don't use them.
Mason Roberts
Oh it ain't scary, it's fucking infuriating. I had to play whack-a-mole with Chrome tabs that were dying three seconds after me reloading them (picrelated). It was pain.
Ethan Walker
I installed chromiumOS on my brother's mother in laws laptop. Which is basically Linux kernel with chromium. I installed Linux mint on my nieces computer that still was running Vista.
99% of people use their computers just for web browsing. I need to remove windows10 from my mother's NUC. She has absolutely no idea what is Google Chrome. But she knows how to get on Facebook (by clicking Chrome shortcut). She almost called the "tech support" after she landed on a phishing page
Sebastian Evans
protip: if you have any Vim troubles/questions, you'll probably get a faster & better answer from the /r/vim subreddit. AFAIK it's the largest and most active vim community, and there are a handful of vim-wizard-autists there who are always waiting to give you answers.
Ethan Hill
>tfw wrote my first shell script >few weeks ago I was a completely illiterate windows 10 user
hey I know it's not much but it feels nice
Juan Campbell
I don't find Reddit convenient because you need an account and then you have to log in.
Joseph Carter
I remember that feeling. My first useful scripts on Linux were barely a dozen lines long, bet they did feel amazing.
Good job, user. Don't stop, it gets even better.
Joseph Brown
So inconvenient.
Brody Garcia
Happy hacking :)
Xavier Adams
Convenient conveniences are important
Lucas Hall
Fuck off annoying cunt.
Nolan Edwards
I wanna try out a window manager is i3 gaps good
Josiah Allen
...
Xavier Nelson
You're already using one.
Landon Williams
im on xubuntu should i just stick with the default or move on
Hudson Powell
How do I ssh into my PC when I'm not on the same LAN?
Leo Lopez
hey Cred Forums, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?
Ayden Phillips
Just like any other connection to your PC from outside the LAN, you need forwarding.
Juan Watson
Hey guys. Newb to using Linux here, and I'm looking to have my MacBook pro run it. I want to run elementary OS or solus. What are some innate benefits of using Linux over macOS? I know I could run PC games with an application. Just looking for some good reasons, as I'm interested, but at this point, I haven't found anything that is super compelling. Thanks!
Samuel Ramirez
Fedora netinstall + openbox. tint2 optional
Parker Diaz
How would I set up such a thing?
Luis Gutierrez
If that's a hurdle for you you probably shouldn't fir security reasons.
Adrian Walker
I'm trapped in vi and can't get out
Leo Robinson
esc
Ethan Peterson
I'm very new to this subtopic of computer use so yes, maybe I shouldn't. Could you point me towards a tutorial or even some Wikipedia articles where I can start learning what I need to know before setting it up?
Xavier Reyes
:q!
or something
Isaac Mitchell
thanks
Carson Howard
upnpc -a `ip -4 addr show| perl -ne 'm/inet (.*)\/.*dynamic.*/ and print $1'` 22 22 TCP
Camden Bell
anyone got a simple guide on how to install i3-gaps on linux
What exactly does the Perl code do? This is what I understand: >upnpc is used to open ports >22 22 specifies port range to open (port 22) >TCP is the protocol for which access is granted >ip -4 addr show puts current IPv4 addresses in stdout, this is piped into... >single line perl program; n means it's looping over and over; e means the following is a single line of code
Brandon Gutierrez
is there any program that can clean up ubuntu for me
Isaac Carter
Gentoo should take care of that.
Julian Diaz
is there away to keep my xfce panels
Brandon Fisher
It gets your ip address using ip.
I just assumed maximum retardation and wasn't sure he knew how ip addresses worked.
Mason Taylor
And how would that help him at all?
Owen Hughes
I'm the same dude. Any reason why you're using Perl to extract the IP instead of grep? And I'm genuinely interested in how that Perl program works; I don't know that language.
Jaxson Scott
Qemu
Lucas Morales
How can i play wmv file? Vlc crash mpv crash what do i do?
Nicholas Reyes
i3-gaps
Charles Lewis
Install it from internet, download, unpack, run ./configure make make install
Camden Smith
dont use a toaster logs faggot
Alexander Anderson
Don't bring cancer into this thread faggots.
Adam Campbell
?? this is what i get when i run ffplay
Andrew Allen
@56905179 People whining about tripfags are the worst. Give me better advice instead or fuck off. Check "Anonymize" in your 4chanx settings and move on.
Andrew Russell
9th line
I filter tripfags, and everyone should Im not going to make tripfags user, when they are tripfags
Adrian Miller
ip -4 addr show Basically just lists all interfaces with ipv4 addresses. Output would look similar to this.
1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: wlp3s0: mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000 inet 192.168.1.103/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic wlp3s0 valid_lft 85897sec preferred_lft 85897sec
perl -ne 'm/inet (.*)\/.*dynamic.*/ and print $1'
This will run on every line of output, the and before print tells it to only print output when there is a match, so although it runs on every line, in this case its only going to print once. m/blah/ is how you tell it to match something, the (blah) is how it knows what belongs in $1 for print. The rest is basic regular expression, .* matches any characters of any length. dynamic is there so that it prints only dhcp assigned ip addresses instead of the static ones like your loopback address.
You could probably do it with grep but I don't know how so I use perl because its simpler to me.
The 22 22 is internal port and external port, upnpc --help to see how its used.
John Nelson
>if I can't see the cancer, there's no cancer >meanwhile the cancer grows Filterfags are cancer.
Juan Moore
Which part of "DRM" don't you get?
Tyler Foster
>@ what is this bullshit faglord? do you even Cred Forums?
Lucas Long
I dont know anything about it, 1st time getting something like this. I just want to watch Swiss Army Man 2016 720p BrRip x264 - YIFY.wmv
Kayden Gomez
Again, how would that help him at all?
Brandon Williams
That guy posted a serious and (at least partially) helpful response to my question while you're whining that the green letters above his post aren't the same as yours. Now tell me who's more cancerous.
His response wasn't worthy of an actual reply.
Thank you. Are there any security risks associated with doing that?
Mason Howard
ssh is pretty secure in its default configuration as long as you have passwords for your users, you may want to change the port part 22 22 to something like 22 2322 so that its forwarded from a higher external port to avoid most attacks.
Jacob Jenkins
>downloading wmv seriously bro google
Ian Nelson
I wasnt looking what type of file is. Im downloading new one, mkv :D
Jayden Jones
mkv does not support drm
Jordan Butler
if you search a place to suck off attention dick, please fuck off to reddit
Ian Myers
Passwords for my users, check. Does it matter what external port I specify or do I pick literally anything except 80 (which I know is used for IP traffic)? I'm assuming if I run the above command on my home PC it'll spit out my external IP that I then connect to from my remote machine?
Anthony Parker
Debian
Benjamin Campbell
Games that can be played on the terminal besides nethack?
Logan Roberts
Then by that logic, unless void ships with libre as it's default kernel (it doesn't), then that totally invalidates the argument about systemd, since you're still using a very large part of the system that hasn't been audited.
Logan Robinson
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David Bailey
Port forwarding, basically you need to identify each part of your network where traffic is being filtered. Since you're a noob, it's probably just at your router. To break it down simple, most routers also act as firewalls that allow your computer to reach out but they don't allow other devices to reach in. You need to configure your router to allow external devices to reach in by specifying which ports people are allowed to communicate on and which devices on your internal network that traffic should be forwarded to. Your router has an IP address that is recognizable and routable on the internet and your computer has a different IP address that identifies it on your local network behind the router; You need to tell your router that any traffic on whatever ports you want to use needs to be sent to those ports on your computer.
This is a pretty basic rundown and glosses over some of it, but it should help you understand any articles you read. Be careful what you forward, you'll be exposing it to the public internet unless you know what you're doing with a proper firewall setup.
Asher James
When generating my initram it throws ==> WARNING: errors were encountered during the build. The image may not be complete.
Is there a switch i can run that will shine more light on this? I'm at a loss on what could be throwing this error. Where does one start to find whats wrong?
Ian Hill
>@ >4chanx
wow, what a faggot
Cooper White
please, please, PLEASE read an article on basic home network setup and networks in general. I can tell from how you're wording these posts that you don't know what's going on and that's okay but read up on this before you do it. If you forward an SSH service just to try it out with an insecure configuration it will be picked up in an automated attack very quickly
David Johnson
That's why I'm asking for help here first.
Got any good guides you can recommend before I start sifting through the thousands that are on the internet? I have a very basic idea of how it works; my poor wording is in part due to English not being my first language. Just so I understand this correctly: When I type "what's my IP" into Google, it actually returns the (external) IP that identifies my ROUTER on the internet, not my pc / phone / laptop that are connected to it. If I forward e.g. (pc local IP):21 to external port 2121, then an outsider could connect to (router external ip):2121 and send data that shows up at port 21 on my pc?
Sebastian Barnes
What font is that?
Jacob Hall
If you google "Home network port forwarding" you'll get plenty of good ones
I realize I'm stepping on a landmine here by saying this but google is really fucking good at recommending answers for this kind of thing.
Samuel White
How do i get almost 3gigs of ram usage but when i look at processes i see this >pic
>other processes that are not in pic are combined around 20-30mb
Benjamin Foster
You don't have 3 gigs of ram usage
Blake Lewis
A very very bad one, don't know why you would bother asking.
Carson Robinson
How do i make mpv stop using my 2 monitors in full screen? When i go into full screens, video is being played over both monitors.
Jordan Carter
I want to be able to ssh into my desktop from anywhere. (In a dorm btw) I'm pretty sure the uni firewall doesn't allow me to ssh into my linux machine (connected through ethernet). Is it possible to ssh into my mac, then ssh back into my desktop?
Levi Price
It looks familiar, is all.
Owen Torres
Configure your multihead accordingly? I doubt it's a mpv issue
Colton Williams
Yes.
Parker Morgan
How would you ssh into your mac if it's behind the same firewall?
Nathaniel Butler
oh well i was wrong :D i started video with ffplay not mpv :D
Brayden Gray
add it up.
Alexander Adams
anyone try or using the hawaii DE?
Lincoln Johnson
linuxatemyram.com
Chase Scott
I don't think you understand how networking or firewalls work
Jaxon Green
...
Justin Morgan
>swap kek
linuxatemyram.com
Jose Moore
I really don't ;_; I only got the idea from an article I saw about getting around corporate firewalls and I believe it listed a similar strategy.
Ethan Anderson
>durr what is an ssh tunnel
Grayson Harris
How do I undo this script's actions? /usr/bin/vfio-bind #!/bin/bash modprobe vfio-pci for dev in "$@"; do vendor=$(cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/$dev/vendor) device=$(cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/$dev/device) if [ -e /sys/bus/pci/devices/$dev/driver ]; then echo $dev > /sys/bus/pci/devices/$dev/driver/unbind fi echo $vendor $device > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/new_id done
Got this from the installgentoo wiki for pci passthrough, but wanna undo it
Brayden Ward
Reboot.
Camden Richardson
ZZ to write (save) before quitting
ZQ to not
Adam Taylor
How do I git gud at linux user? Already have a linux desktop, I'm teaching myself C right now, what languages are good for networking type stuff?
Gabriel Cook
Pick up a book on linux system administration. Though there is quite a bit you can ignore in these books like email configuration, they tend to cover core system stuff well.
Zachary Butler
Does not work, tried multiple times, and am unable to access the files the script creates, even as root, currently searching why
Alexander Garcia
What init system does Cred Forums recommend, and why? Like, what should I look for in an init system?
Adrian Robinson
It does work, you just don't understand what you are trying to do.
Cooper Clark
systemd since it's the future
Jayden Nelson
say your desktop is in your dorm, and you're at home. you connect to your dorms IP address on port 22.
how would the dorm's router / firewall know it should connect you with your desktop? the only way is to configure the dorm's router / firewall.
Jack Walker
Most likely. Perhaps the flaw isn't in the script after all. Thanks user.
Angel King
openrc
Easton Rodriguez
/sys/ is populated by your kernel, it isn't a physical filesystem really more of a file based way to control parts of the kernel, that script just unbinds drivers from PCI devices and then gives control of the device to vfio-pci.
I don't know what happens to the pci devices after that but if you reboot all pci devices are re initialized and the Linux kernel handles loading the drivers so you should be in the state you were in before you ran the script.
Wyatt Anderson
How can you people use serif fonts in your UIs? That looks horrible.
Charles Hernandez
>testing CentOS in a VM >install epel >can only install openbox, firefox, terminator >nothing else I want is found >can't even scrot
This is shit senpai
Asher Reed
Hi there!
You seem to have made a bit of a mistake in your post. Luckily, the users of Cred Forums are always willing to help you clear this problem right up! You appear to have used a tripcode when posting, but your identity has nothing at all to do with the conversation! Whoops! You should always remember to stop using your tripcode when the thread it was used for is gone, unless another one is started! Posting with a tripcode when it isn't necessary is poor form. You should always try to post anonymously, unless your identity is absolutely vital to the post that you're making!
Now, there's no need to thank me - I'm just doing my bit to help you get used to the anonymous image-board culture!
Bentley Richardson
We're going to need one for passusers too
Michael Morgan
I just installed Arch. What packages do I need for Unicode characters to display in Firefox?
Landon Morgan
systemd-unicoded
Lincoln Gomez
>scrot bloat, git gud with imagemagick
Luis Jackson
noto-fonts, noto-fonts-cjk and if you want emoji, noto-fonts-emoji
Grayson Gray
>using outdate server distro for daily driver updated distro kill your self
John Howard
>scrot is "bloat"
James Sanchez
usless additional package you basically just installed because the other cool kids installed it
Jonathan Murphy
I'm pretty sure that webpage is already using one of the Unicode encodings and all of the characters are being displayed. What you're missing is a font which covers all of the characters, so you don't get those boxes. Basically do this or install any other broadly covering fonts like DejaVu.
Christian Flores
I have no need for imagemagick It is a bloated "suite" of tools that serve no basic functionality,such as taking a screenshot
Zachary Morgan
How do I change the default font in Loonix? Im running Debian with no DE. I tried searching for it on but I guess im searching for the wrong thing or looking in the wrong place.
Lucas Martin
>imagemagick takes up >5 MB >scrot takes up neither are installed by default on CentOS
Austin Perry
thanks familia.
Tyler Reyes
>No DE >Change font Retard. I bet you are using GUI applications as well
Aaron Howard
use ffmpeg then newfag inb4 no need fo ffmpeg
Blake Anderson
>Im running Debian with no DE. Some people have jobs, you are not one of them
Ayden Davis
Only chromium and a handful of others. Everything else is a terminal application. Is there a way to set a default font instead of changing the fonts for each application?
Robert Johnson
>DE babbies in full defense priceless
Hudson Taylor
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
Cameron Lewis
Did the trick. Thanks fó €»aó €»m.
Hudson Rogers
Stupid question, I have this XFCE theme how do I extract files to ~/.local/share/themes? Does it even exist because I can't find it
Adam Russell
make it then
or put it in ~/.themes
Levi Scott
>He actually runs X-org Lmfao holy shit, noob get out
Xavier Baker
Xfce* X.org*
Isaiah Reed
thanks
Matthew Ward
>no need fo ffmpeg firefox uses it
Luis Evans
>friendly
Isaiah Reyes
>lightweight Important because responsiveness. Also, you just don't want to waste resources when you can spare them for other programs you might want to run in the future. Plus, it's one of the very basic postulates of programming philosophy - "less is more and more is less". Stuff that is less complicated and more light has less bugs, more security (because there isn't quite as much to attack), it can be easier to grasp for a programmer or a sysadmin. Sure, everything can't be lightweight, sometimes you need something heavy, but it's overall better to go in that direction for many purposes. >control Open-source is quite literally about putting control in the hands of the user. It's only natural you would get some fucking control out of it. Even Linux kernel can pretty much throw out almost every feature it has when not needed. And the whole system is built up from projects from different people, even on its most basic level. This hinders developing a uniform system somewhat (which is why DEs are a thing, having a separate project just for that is really the only way), but it leads to well-defined interfaces between programs, increased awareness of the ecosystem by developers and many things being non-essential for a system or exchangeable with other options. Which naturally leads to lots of control over your options. Also, the fact that like 90% of Linux programs are open-source and you can put a hack to support your favourite program whenever you want, and maybe even push it to the people who develop it, helps too. >command line Scripting capabilities. Programming is done in text, and scripting is "programming lite". It's good for complicated tasks since text is so flexible. You do need to learn it before you can use it efficiently, though. It is pretty much the power user way of interacting with your system. Also, command line programs tend to be more lightweight too. Graphics are hard on computers in general. All your reasons are perfectly valid.
Robert Anderson
Open Source means that you can look at the source, that's all. It does not imply any freedoms of control. Furthermore Linux includes binary code, which basically makes Linux proprietary software.
Austin Fisher
Download Portage from github and install it manually from there, then reemerge the portage package. The other options is to emerge portage from overlays where there are packages which don't need EAPI 5. A look at zugaina site tells me poly-c overlay and ROKO__ overlay have one ebuid each which are written with EAPI 2. You would have to have layman though, or download it yourself somehow. Afterwards, if the work at all, the can be used as a bootstrap. Not much you can do if portage doesn't support your ebuild EAPI. Basically, your package manager doesn't support the protocol which tells him how to emerge the package manager.
Nathaniel Phillips
autism*
Chase Perry
>which basically makes Linux proprietary software wouldn't say that, but surly it violates the gpl then again it's a good thing that people ignore it, since it makes linux support more hardware
Dominic Butler
normalfaggotry*
Kevin Thomas
le norman rooooo
Asher Collins
I'm currently installing gentoo, and I'm trying to figure out which profile to get.
What exactly is the difference between these? (.. is default/linux/amd64 since I don't plan on using hardened) # eselect profile list ../13.0 ../13.0/selinux ../13.0/desktop ../13.0/desktop/gnome ../13.0/desktop/kde ../13.0/desktop/plasma ../13.0/developer ../13.0/no-multilib ../13.0/systemd ../13.0/x32
(with systemd options for the DE's)
I guess my main questions are these: What exactly is a profile? What does it have to do with a DE? Why am I just selecting one DE here if you can have multiple? What would /13.0/desktop do?
Tyler Bennett
>choosing convenience over freedom
Colton Rodriguez
>selinux enjoy your botnet
Hudson Nguyen
>binary code Isn't is binary firmware that can't even run on CPU, though? Every binary driver that actually needs to run on CPU is not allowed, I think. Or am I misunderstanding something? >open source means that you can look at the source Legally, yes, you would need at the very least a BSD-style license to guarantee the minimum freedom needed for absolute control over your software. I meant that historically the movement arose because of these motivations. Thus, "open source is all about control". Well, OK, "free software is all about control", I guess.
So if I wanted to go back and forth between DE's, I'd just use 13.0/desktop and I'd be fine?
The fucking NSA develops it, and it's a known fact that the NSA spys on people. It's putting 2 and 2 together.
Gavin Perez
>So if I wanted to go back and forth between DE's, I'd just use 13.0/desktop and I'd be fine? That's the one I've also used and never had any issues. You can always add or remove USE flags after anyways.
Wyatt Peterson
I wish that the NSA actually worked towards making the nation more secure. Right now the name of the agency is basically newspeak, because it intentionally introduces/fails to report backdoors and security holes so that it can exploit them, and it pushes industries towards less secure standards.
Justin Allen
Kernel-level security is a kind of vague term. Windows and Linux both have kernel level mechanisms for controlling memory access, and preventing arbitrary code execution.
SELinux enforces certain kinds of security policies. Most major distros (Fedora, Debian, Arch, Gentoo, etc) have SELinux as an option.
Adam Thomas
Well here you're implying that the nation is the citizen. They do make the nation more secure, just not its people.
Colton Wilson
Where is my October Ubuntu release??? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Dylan Mitchell
Debian/Ubuntu use AppArmor but its seems pretty similar.
What firmeware have you flashed on your: NB controller SB controller SATA controller USB controller NIC controller BIOS ?
Hypocrite
Christopher Jenkins
>BIOS CMOS*
Dylan Anderson
$ sudo topkek
Why do you guys even like this trash? It doesn't make sense. Why couldn't they keep it simple like DOS commands?
Xavier Jones
So a faggot is okay to delete your / ?
Isaiah Brown
>320 master race
Although that's my fiddle VM I haven't done anything with yet because I hate gaying up my regular system testing things.
Brandon Flores
RMS BTFO
Jace Jones
forgot pic
Nathaniel Kelly
It's always funny to see people trying to sell Linux with "free", "open source" and "control" buzzwords when they bully windows users, but when it comes to actual freedom, they keep defending proprietary software and hate on RMS like true cucks.
Joseph Wood
Opinion on Opera browser?
Jaxon Flores
What are you even on about? Freetards go on suicide watch when ever said above is brought up.They cant flash all that so its forced proprietary :^)
Blake Bennett
>freetards >suicide watch 12 year old memer spotted
Ayden King
is there a window manager or desktop environment that is functionally similar to windows? I like being able to resize and snap windows with the mouse and keyboard. When I wen through a arch linux phase I used rat poison and it worked well enough until I hadn't used it for a few weeks and forgot all my hotkeys
Alexander Kelly
kde, xfce, cinnamon, mate and lxde all function like windows to my knowledge
as for window managers, blackbox, fluxbox or openbox I guess
Aiden Sullivan
I'm using LXDE, and I don't think openbox (which LXDE uses by default) has the tiling that I was talking about.
Aaron Myers
Been using Debian for about half a year now and would like to try Arch. There were a lot of small things I had to mess with before getting everything to work the way I liked/at all. Is there any way I can backup every single thing, in case I want to change back I could just load the backup and be good to go?
Luke Jenkins
I want to switch my old netbook to a lightweight distro that boots up quick, shuts down quick, and just runs with little overhead in general. I know little about Linux. The thing has 2GB RAM, a 1.6ghz Atom and a 1024*600 screen.
Is 'stock' cinnamon mint good for the task? Can I get a decent browser and maybe HTML5 video with that?
Liam Butler
dd if=/ of=debian.img
Grayson Myers
I'm pretty sure you can configure it in rc.xml.
You definitely should be able to use keyboard shortcuts to do so. Mouse may be trickier but the variables are in place I think. Check out the openbox wiki.
Jaxson Cooper
I'm a fan of using a clonezilla live image
Caleb Phillips
What do I do to enable software rendering in mesa? What driver am I even meant to use? Xorg configure doesn't detect a device.
Easton Thomas
Is there a way to execute ranger file manager in i3wm on startup?
Asher Brooks
take a look at lubuntu
Nicholas Baker
add it to your xinitrc of i3's statup file
Aaron Murphy
ty, but the problem is I want to execute it in terminal on a specific workspace
Hudson Rodriguez
read your terminal and find out its exec switch and have it start
example urxvt -exec ranger
I dont use i3 but i know other wm/s with workspace allow you to position shit on it via switches
>bug discovered >bug patched how will they ever recover
Jack Long
it works, thanks a lot
Jaxson Roberts
So I'm new to Fedora and I'm wondering about repos. I've already installed rpm and all that, but how do you know which repo to add for whatever package you want? Spotify, for example, requires a repo to be added before you can install it, but the repo itself doesn't show up in dnf search 'package'. Is there another command to search ALL repos or do you just need to go to that package's site?
Liam Lee
>cool, code that could crash my system >just run it, yolo Arch user spotted
Jayden Bailey
Nobody is using Fedora.
Dominic Price
Ubuntu. :*) I have nothing of value on this machine, and it restarts in seconds anyway, mang. What are you, some kind of pussy?
Brody Hernandez
Has GNOME acknowledged that Software is a laggy piece of shit? What are they going to do about it?
lmgtfy.com/?q=fedora+spotify
Mason Cooper
>GNOME Software but why
Ethan Richardson
Kek
Ayden Rivera
Arch would get the patch fresh off the oven :^)
Easton Barnes
>yify >shaanig it's like you hate quality
Lincoln Perez
Will someone explain filesystems to me? There's all sorts of elitism about which filesystem is superior, but I've never seen a rational argument about why, for example, Ext4 is better than XFS or HFS+. The only thing that everyone seems to agree upon is that NTFS sucks, but I haven't seen any real reason for that either. Is it just dumb elitism?
Noah Hughes
NTFS is fine if you are dual booting.
Jordan Peterson
Life is surreal
Nothing makes sense to me these days
I feel disconnected, like I'm watching a movie
The way i talk with my friends, my family, how I interact wit the world
It just seems like everything is simply wrong
I think I may be going mad, but I don't feel mad
I feel like everything is an illusion. Like I'm waiting for something that never comes
I don't even know what I'm waiting for.
But it doesn't matter
How can it not matter to me what I'm waiting for?
Everyone seems futile.
They seem interested to talk about such small pathetic things.
And I play along so I don't go completely insane with loneliness.
I talk about the same stupid shit, I laugh at the same jokes, I hear the same opinions.
And I start to feel like I'm the only one, the one who's wrong, the one who's simply a mistake
All everyone seems to talk about is sex, video games and party
And I hate it all.
So. Fucking. Much.
Adam Butler
My sides! That OP image. Well done user.
Blake Miller
>The fucking NSA develops it, and it's a known fact that the NSA spys on people. It's putting 2 and 2 together. Just because they spy on people in some ways, that doesn't necessarily make everything they touch and do about spying. SELinux is licensed under the GPL. If it is used for spying, then you should be able to find some code proves that it does.
Until proven otherwise, it isn't spyware. It's an additional security layer that allows for more control and precision than standard Unix permissions, and it's completely open to be examined by anyone. That's why its used by Fedora, a very adamantly free/open source project.
Thomas Stewart
use the command line, problem solved
Hudson Reyes
When using package managers, how the fuck am I supposed to know what to install? I'm fed up of reading guides on how to get everything I want and feel like my system is a mess.
Alexander Cruz
install just what you need faggot.
Levi Young
What are the specific benefits that only lubuntu brings in?
Caleb Peterson
Assume the low resource DE and the inherent new linux user friendliness from ubungu are the benefits you would get from lubuntu.
Christopher Gonzalez
>When going to a restaurant, how the fuck am I supposed to know what to order?
looks really old, probably wouldn't even work now due to gnome shenanigans.
Carter Brooks
I bought a cheapo Chinese Intel Atom tablet, is it possible to install Linux on it?
Liam Parker
New thread New thread New thread
Michael Anderson
Just curious, but why ChromeOS instead do say, Ubuntu Mate? Just so in case she wanted to do more, she could. I did that for a friends mom. I visit her at least once a month and install any updates that have come out. She never has any issues since I gave her the talk about how malicious websites work. She checks her email, plays games, listens to online radio streams and is learning how to edit photos with Gimp. It's awesome to see elderly people making an effort to learn about Linux.