General Linux Chat and Small Questions - Hardware & Software

Are there any non Arch Linux Distros that come with no shitty software?

Gentoo, and Slackware are the first two that come to my mind

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;28859860]Completely agree. I put the release version on my laptop, but I'll never run the beta versions on it. You get like 100 updates per day, and you're lucky if you can boot up again.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I've just learned that same lesson. I wound up running the update ignoring both the testing and Dropbox repos (lord knows why Dropbox is giving me an error). [editline]28th March 2011[/editline] I restarted and Gnome Shell crashes. On the plus side, Dropbox is working now! :suicide:

So I'm currently messing around with Arch in a VM and I just can't get GNOME installed and working. Thus I have decided to call upon the Linux gods of FP. I'm now doing a fresh re-install, updating, bla bla bla. Who can give me a complete runthrough of everything I need to do to install GNOME on a fresh Arch install?

Install gnome and gdm [code]pacman -S gnome gdm[/code] You might also want [code]pacman -S gnome-extra[/code] [editline]28th March 2011[/editline] To boot into gnome you need to edit /etc/inittab Comment the line that says [code]id:3:something-something...[/code] and uncomment the one that says [code]id:5:something-something...[/code] Then you comment the line that mentions xdm and uncomment the one that mentions gdm You save and reboot. [editline]28th March 2011[/editline] To be awfully specific [code] # # /etc/inittab # # Runlevels: # 0 Halt # 1(S) Single-user # 2 Not used # 3 Multi-user # 4 Not used # 5 X11 # 6 Reboot ## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented! # Boot to console #id:3:initdefault: # <- Comment me # Boot to X11 id:5:initdefault: # <- Uncomment me rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p # -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty1 linux c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty2 linux c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty3 linux c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty4 linux c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty5 linux c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty6 linux # Hypervisor Virtual Console for Xen and KVM #h0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 hvc0 linux ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now # Example lines for starting a login manager #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon # <- Comment me x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon # <- Uncomment me #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null # End of file [/code]

I thought about using Ubuntu next time but when I remote-desktop'd a friend to tweak his UI I saw it doesn't even have an option to open a folder as administrator or open the folder in terminal :v: Well, I am a lazy fucker.

[QUOTE=Boris-B;28865425]Install gnome and gdm [code]pacman -S gnome gdm[/code] You might also want [code]pacman -S gnome-extra[/code] [editline]28th March 2011[/editline] To boot into gnome you need to edit /etc/inittab Comment the line that says [code]id:3:something-something...[/code] and uncomment the one that says [code]id:5:something-something...[/code] Then you comment the line that mentions xdm and uncomment the one that mentions gdm You save and reboot. [editline]28th March 2011[/editline] To be awfully specific [code] # # /etc/inittab # # Runlevels: # 0 Halt # 1(S) Single-user # 2 Not used # 3 Multi-user # 4 Not used # 5 X11 # 6 Reboot ## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented! # Boot to console #id:3:initdefault: # <- Comment me # Boot to X11 id:5:initdefault: # <- Uncomment me rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p # -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty1 linux c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty2 linux c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty3 linux c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty4 linux c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty5 linux c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty6 linux # Hypervisor Virtual Console for Xen and KVM #h0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 hvc0 linux ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now # Example lines for starting a login manager #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon # <- Comment me x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon # <- Uncomment me #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null # End of file [/code][/QUOTE] Not working, still boots into the command line. [editline]29th March 2011[/editline] You know you need to pay more attention when you try to run GNOME without installing Xorg. [editline]29th March 2011[/editline] Anyhoo, how can I get Elegant Gnome installed on Arch? You know what? Who can give me some stuff so that my GNOME doesn't look boring and ugly?

Gnome 2: [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Emerald]Emerald[/url] + [url=http://compiz-themes.org/index.php?xcontentmode=103]Emerald Themes[/url] Gnome 3: [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gnome_3]gnome-tweak-tool[/url] + themes (it hasn't been released yet, so don't expect much here)

[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;28870684]Gnome 2: [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Emerald]Emerald[/url] + [url=http://compiz-themes.org/index.php?xcontentmode=103]Emerald Themes[/url] Gnome 3: [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gnome_3]gnome-tweak-tool[/url] + themes (it hasn't been released yet, so don't expect much here)[/QUOTE] Well, I've got the emerald manager installed and a theme imported into it but I can't seem to get it installed. Man, test of patience!

[QUOTE=That Ninja;28819684]I can't get Oblivion to work properly with Wine. (Ubuntu 11.04) I first installed it using PlayOnLinux, but I kept reading a lot about using Wine instead of PoL, so I uninstalled POL and Oblivion, installed Wine, and then Oblivion using Wine. My problem is that I have no sound in Oblivion. The only time I get sound is with the launcher and with the intro "videos" of the company name + engine, etc. Anyone know what's up?[/QUOTE] Check the [url="appdb.winehq.com"]AppDB[/url] to see if the game works or if there's any fixes. If not, you're on your own.

[QUOTE=Seiteki;28852268]Here's a quick question. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on my netbook, Acer Aspire One (Model: AOD255). What sort of hoops do I have to jump through to get the SD card slot working? My usual Googlefu isn't helping me.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Seiteki;28854042]Yeah, I tried both of those. Nothing looked very SD-related to me. [code] user@AOD255:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1) 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 user@AOD255:~$ lsusb Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0402:9665 ALi Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub [/code][/QUOTE] Anyone have any ideas here?

How about: [url]http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/309[/url] ?

[QUOTE=Pery;28894588]How about: [url]http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/309[/url] ?[/QUOTE] Going through that now, it seems like it's working, but I'll know for sure after building. [editline]30th March 2011[/editline] Yeah, it worked for me. Thanks!

I found this amazing set of guides that explains things in a lot of detail. It covers sed, regex, awk, some shells and more. It's really useful. [url]http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/[/url]

I tried that ubuntu studio in a virtual machine, and I was gonna install it on an older computer with only a CD drive.. Well that's a problem, since my CD's are max 700 mb... And ubuntu 10.10 is 702 mb... Any good minimal ubuntu distros?

Ubuntu should fit on a cd.

I just downloaded Xubuntu, and put it onto my portable HDD with Universal USB Installer. When I try to boot it on my computer, I get a command prompt. All it says it: "boot:" I tried typing in things like ubuntu, xubuntu, etc. and it told me the image kernel couldn't be found. I got the .iso torrent straight from the Xubuntu website. What am I missing here?

[QUOTE=Boris-B;28896106]I found this amazing set of guides that explains things in a lot of detail. It covers sed, regex, awk, some shells and more. It's really useful. [url]http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/[/url][/QUOTE] Cool. Been meaning to learn awk and stuff, and I only have a basic understanding of sed (i.e. basic substitution).

I'm trying to run minecraft off of a USB flash drive instead of my hard drive, but the game appears to go straight for /home/(user)/.minecraft. I tried making a symbolic link from the .minecraft on the USB, but I can't quite get it to work. Can anyone help me? Nevermind, just figured it out. I made a typo on the directory name.

[QUOTE=rosar0980;28897679]I just downloaded Xubuntu, and put it onto my portable HDD with Universal USB Installer. When I try to boot it on my computer, I get a command prompt. All it says it: "boot:" I tried typing in things like ubuntu, xubuntu, etc. and it told me the image kernel couldn't be found. I got the .iso torrent straight from the Xubuntu website. What am I missing here?[/QUOTE] Hitting enter without typing in anything should do it.

[QUOTE=Boris-B;28901226]Hitting enter without typing in anything should do it.[/QUOTE] Tried that. It went blank for a second, then went back to the same screen.

So, I have a Pentium 3 computer that I want to throw a Linux distro on. The question is which one? To help you further I will categorize things into what I need and what I want but can live without. If it isn't on either list, assume no opinion. Need: - A package manager. I hate resolving dependencies manually. - A CD ISO (as in NOT a DVD - I have no DVD-Rs but I still have some CD-Rs. And I don't think I can PXE this) Want: - A package manager that mostly deals in binary packages (apt is an example of this). - The ability to not have XDM or similar running. - KDE 3 packages (haha yeah right) Oh, and not Ubuntu. Debian is fine if that's what you recommend, but NOT UBUNTU. [editline]30th March 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=rosar0980;28901560]Tried that. It went blank for a second, then went back to the same screen.[/QUOTE] smells like it wasn't installed correctly.

Okay. I have Fedora 14 lying around on my computer so I decided to try it instead. I installed it, and tried to boot. The computer told me "vesamenu.c32: not a COM32R image" and it has the stupid little "boot:" prompt.

I'm running PureFTPd on Debian Squeeze, is there any way to show the actual owner of the file in ftp? Right now it's just 1001, which is the UID of ftpuser account. Also, how can i make 1 folder (And 1 only) read only without logging in?

@lavacano try something like sabayon or slitaz.

Anyone have any experience with Blackbuntu? Is it any good?

backtrack is better you probably can't use most of the tools anyway tbh unless you've learned something since "i need to vpn to tunnel thruogh my fierwall"

i can launch a hail mary with metasploit and crack wep networks that's about it that's why i'm setting up my laptop to learn stuff, you silly old man why in the hell would someone setup a vpn to tunnel through then again you have youtube videos full of kids running stupid shit and telling people to join their hamachi network

you'll probably learn that it aint "cracking" when it comes to wifi then hey, but it's really worth learning. I provide my neighbours with free internet in exchange for their network habits they don't know of course, but hey, would you complain if your internet was suddenly one days heaps faster? nah. some of them even work in IT and they haven't clued on, they probably don't deserve it, but complacency should be no excuse. there are also scores of retards that have remote management set on their router and still haven't changed their password, I find them every now and then the best trick is if they're an FP user going into their router and adding facepunch to their filter list, they never work it out. the only bad thing I guess is that i'm liable for whatever they happen to be doing, which most of the time is pretty innocent. the only thing i think i've actually stolen is a whole swag of some guy's movies from his HTPC NAS that had a pretty simple password lots of fun to be had, just don't be too evil (you probably thought i was a cunt for that "tracking pixel" thing)

Couple of Ubuntu-related things. I'm relatively Linux-savvy so be as technical as you need to be. I am running a laptop off of a MicroSD card. I am using a Memory Stick Pro as the SWAP partition to get more life out of the SD card, but is there anything else I can do to increase the life of the SD card? It may be some time before I can get an actual laptop hard drive to replace the broken one, so I'd like to get the most time out of the SD card. Now, some more technical things - 1. I have another SD card in the ExpressCard card reader on my laptop. It detects the ExpressCard but not the SD card. What can I do to make the SD card show up? 2. When I sync to my iPod with Rhythmbox, the songs show up but do not play, they just immediately skip. I haven't updated Ubuntu yet so that's probably my issue, but I'm wondering if it's something else. 3. How do I get the damn thing to not dim? I unchecked it in power options but it still does it, would that be an actual laptop setting I'm doomed to never change because it's locked in some EEPROM somewhere? And 4. This is mostly a general question. Is there anything else I can use for temporary storage? Something a little more versatile than a MicroSD card?