General Linux Chat and Small Questions

[sir whoopsalot]

[QUOTE=iRzilla;26320474]Tried to use Wubi on Mint. It downloaded Ubuntu.[/QUOTE]

For future reference:
1. Get the iso from the official site.
2. Use Unetbootin.

[butre]

I just got a hold of a 40 GB IDE hard drive with Lubuntu up and running on it, I figure I'll stick with this on my bedroom computer for a little while before I install gentoo again

[Boris-B]

I hope that you are aware that Wubi has a tendency to give bad results. It might be working now but shit might just fuck up.

You'll never get a really good experience unless you install properly (without Wubi that is).

If you're just trying linux you might as well use a VM. It has more chances of working properly than Wubi. On the other hand, if you want to really start using it there's nothing better than installing in natively.

[butre]

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;26320697]I just got a hold of a 40 GB IDE hard drive with Lubuntu up and running on it, I figure I'll stick with this on my bedroom computer for a little while before I install gentoo again[/QUOTE]

dpkg segfaults on this installation, going to have to fix shit

[Ca5bah]

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;26320697]I just got a hold of a 40 GB IDE hard drive with Lubuntu up and running on it, I figure I'll stick with this on my bedroom computer for a little while before I install gentoo again[/QUOTE]

Only tolerable subdistro of Ubuntu right thar.

[butre]

[QUOTE=Ca5bah;26325521]Only tolerable subdistro of Ubuntu right thar.[/QUOTE]

yeah it's not too bad. I don't really like lxde but at least it's not bloated and slow like the other variations.

[kmlkmljkl]

My sound is weird, like it's coming from a radio, how can I fix that? I think it's something with the driver, but I'm not sure

[toaster468]

Guys how long should it take a CentOS live disc .iso on a VM to boot? I've been sitting here for about 5 minutes

[T-Bag-T]

Finally got my mums old laptop working with Ubuntu (had trouble with the wireless), no idea what the version is or anything because of how long ago I started trying to get it to work, but still, anything good I should get? it's just for simple browsing and emails and stuff like that.

[nikomo]

You're basically set.
Just make sure it's updated.

You could install the "easy" version of the 200-line performance patch.

[Boris-B]

[QUOTE=toaster468;26335813]Guys how long should it take a CentOS live disc .iso on a VM to boot? I've been sitting here for about 5 minutes[/QUOTE]

Not that long. I've installed it twice on VMs and it was super quick to boot.

[nikomo]

Anyone got a Samba share working on CentOS 5.5?

[toaster468]

I'm a newbie and this maybe very sad but, how do I install the JDK and JRE on CEntOS?

I dont have apt-get installed so please use yum

I've already tried

yum install java

and it installed stuff but when I try to run the .jar files it is like a file explorer

[butre]

I enjoyed this

[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/251301/MSP/shotgnuhuehuehuehue.png[/img]

[Boris-B]

[QUOTE=toaster468;26343691]I'm a newbie and this maybe very sad but, how do I install the JDK and JRE on CEntOS?

I dont have apt-get installed so please use yum

I've already tried

yum install java

[/quote]

For Oracle's JRE/JDK
You'll have to get the RPMs yourself
[url]http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html[/url]

For OpenJDK
You can find the latest version of OpenJDK in EPEL

To be specific (as root)

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk

[toaster468]

thanks.

Now, how do I SSH tunnel? Are there any programs to automate this?

[toaster468]

thanks.

Now, how do I SSH tunnel? Are there any programs to automate this? CEntOS

[Boris-B]

I'm no expert in SSH, but it would be useful if you would tell us what you are SSH tunneling from and what your are SSH tunneling to.

I would assume you're tunneling to your CentOS box. I know that you can enable tunneling in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

[nikomo]

Anyone got a nice guide or something to setup a network share (on CentOS 5.5) that I can access from a Windows (7) computer?
I tried Samba but it blew my mind.

[bye]

just learn how to use it, it's better for the long run

[nikomo]

Well I had that in mind.
Like, a Samba guide.
I tried setting up a share but couldn't see it under Network on my machine and couldn't connect with IP (\\192.168.0.2)

[Boris-B]

IIRC there are a few settings to change under Windows 7 for it to see samba shares properly. Microsoft has been putting some encryption settings for SMB shares under Win7 by default that samba doesn't fully comply with yet.

It's another cheap move.

[plazzydan]

looking for a distro

total noob here

tried linux once - ubuntu

hated it

something not ubuntu or mint, please

[butre]

Arch if you're competent enough to follow the beginners guide, otherwise fedora

[Boris-B]

If you didn't like it because of the interface you might want to try a distro with a different Desktop environment.

The big ones are Gnome (Ubuntu and Mint have it by default), XFCE which is very light weight but resembles gnomes and KDE which a lot of people seem to hate but you might want yo give it a try.

There's also funky super small ones.

[plazzydan]

It just felt really buggy and bloated. And I figured Mint is just like, a reskinned Ubuntu. So, yeah.

[butre]

you should totally try fvwm95

[editline]29th November 2010[/editline]

if you want something that feels less bloated, Lubuntu is pretty nice

[nikomo]

i'm going to install windows server 2008 r2 later today because i can't get samba to work

herp derp motivation

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=Boris-B;26376087]
and KDE which a lot of people seem to hate but you might want yo give it a try.
[/QUOTE]

Lots of people hate Gnome too. :colbert:

[POWA KILLERDeux]

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;26388916]Lots of people hate Gnome too. :colbert:[/QUOTE]

It's still way better than KDE.