I'm sure this has been asked a billion times, but what's probably a good Linux system for me to learn and mess around in with a VM?
[QUOTE=kaine123;31572322]I'm sure this has been asked a billion times, but what's probably a good Linux system for me to learn and mess around in with a VM?[/QUOTE]
Arch.
Does anyone have a good setup for a volume widget in awesome? I can't seem to get mine looking very good.
Also, is there some command that forces the widgets to update? I think it's silly how currently my volume widget runs an amixer command like every 2 seconds in order to update itself. It would make much more sense if I could force the widgets to update whenever I press a volume button.
Found a pretty cool alternative to flux called redshift. You only need your latitude and longitude to use it, and it's just a simple program without the unnecessary gui flux has.
It defaults to xrandr for the coloring, but Nvidia drivers as well as a lot of setups have problems with it in that mode.
I suggest you add -m vidmode to your arguments if it has no effect running normally.
I'm trying to install Backtrack 5 on my USB in persistent mode. [B][I]How do I do this? HNNG![/I][/B]
I'll pay a bitcoin to whomever helps me setup my centOS webserver.
[QUOTE=chipset;31584667]I'll pay a bitcoin to whomever helps me setup my centOS webserver.[/QUOTE]
Worst time, Bitcoin has gone down to $5/BTC.
[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;31585744]Worst time, Bitcoin has gone down to $5/BTC.[/QUOTE]
It's at 8 now, and it's a fast moving market so tomorrow it might be 10.
That's still $8+ to answer trivial questions and give opinions over IM.
Got a quick question for y'all.
I run Ubuntu 11.04 on a VPS because it's surprisingly lightweight without a window manager and a lot of things are compatible with it. This VPS runs a Minecraft server and I want to know how can I switch to the Java task from the console? I run it with "nohup" preceding it so it won't quit out when I close the SSH session obviously.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;31588291]Got a quick question for y'all.
I run Ubuntu 11.04 on a VPS because it's surprisingly lightweight without a window manager and a lot of things are compatible with it. This VPS runs a Minecraft server and I want to know how can I switch to the Java task from the console? I run it with "nohup" preceding it so it won't quit out when I close the SSH session obviously.[/QUOTE]
Run it in screen?
yeah you'll have to use screen if you want to go back to it.
simple tutorial on how to use it if you don't already know
[url]http://monkey-robot.com/2007/11/i-scream-you-scream-we-all-scream-for-screen/[/url]
Oh holy shit. That's awesome. Thanks man.
Yo, I kinda need some help with installing Arch.
I have this pc with an old Intel Celeron that I am going to turn into a server. I have ran through almost all the installation steps, using an Arch i686 Net install disc and I am stuck at installing GRUB. I use the default settings in the menu.lst and after that proceed to selecting the partition to install GRUB to. I have a total of 6 entries, these being:
[code]/dev/sda
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/sda3
/dev/sda4[/code]
Yes, /dev/sda is listed twice. When I select any one of these (tried all of them) I am told that an error has occurred and I should check tty7 for the output. There, it says a lot of stuff, a bit too much to type by hand, but there are two things that catches my eye. It runs a number of checks for GRUB stage files and it says that /boot/grub/stage1 doesn't exist. It fails to install with the error:
[code]Error 6: Mismatched or corrupt version of stage1/stage2[/code]
Doing some research, I have found mentions that GRUB doesn't officially support installing to and booting from an ext4 file system (which is what I am using) as well as there occurring certain problems with using an i686 processor. I have, however not found any solution or a workaround. Could you help out somehow? It is a simple clean install, I have already formatted the partition once and it's not a problem if I have to do this again, even to a different file system.
What the hell, Linux?
I was just installing OpenSuse from my USB stick, when suddenly: Artifacts everywhere!
Everything stopped working, except the mouse, which was a moving Artifact, so i restarted and Windows did a Checkdisk on startup, because Linux did something to my partitions or something.
What the fuck happend there?
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;31556350]You can boot the LiveCD from a CD then install to a USB. Or boot from a USB and install to another USB.[/QUOTE]
Have any guides on this? I have been trying for days to install Debian onto a USB drive via another USB drive, it works fine until I get to the GRUB installation then it just says it failed to install GRUB and won't continue..
y r u using arch lmao
[QUOTE=Surma;31601806]Doing some research, I have found mentions that GRUB doesn't officially support installing to and booting from an ext4 file system (which is what I am using) as well as there occurring certain problems with using an i686 processor. I have, however not found any solution or a workaround. Could you help out somehow? It is a simple clean install, I have already formatted the partition once and it's not a problem if I have to do this again, even to a different file system.[/QUOTE]
Usually Arch users create a separate, small ext2 /boot partition
[QUOTE=esalaka;31612261]Usually Arch users create a separate, small ext2 /boot partition[/QUOTE]
Was afraid of that. Will have to re-format and re-download packages then... Ah well, doesn't really matter. Thank you for the help.
[QUOTE=marlkarxv17;31612174]y r u using arch lmao[/QUOTE]
Well, do you know any better, lightweight os to squeeze enough performance out of a Celeron to make it run a minecraft server?
[QUOTE=Surma;31612790]Well, do you know any better, lightweight os to squeeze enough performance out of a Celeron to make it run a minecraft server?[/QUOTE]
Possibly Gentoo, seeing as you could optimize your packages, something that's impossible with binary-package distros like Arch.
(Unless you want to use abs for package downloading and building :V)
I'd never dream of running gentoo on a celeron
[editline]8th August 2011[/editline]
I'd be running debian on that system personally
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;31612842]I'd never dream of running gentoo on a celeron[/QUOTE]
I never used Gentoo.
But really if it's not lightweight then the only thing I can think of is LFS, really. Can't get much more lightweight than Linux from Scratch. :v:
[QUOTE=esalaka;31612875]I never used Gentoo.
But really if it's not lightweight then the only thing I can think of is LFS, really. Can't get much more lightweight than Linux from Scratch. :v:[/QUOTE]it's not that it isn't lightweight. Gentoo makes you compile a lot of the system. of course there's nothing keeping you from installing a package manager but you still have to compile a good bit of it to even get to that point
My point was more that you have to compile everything so it might run just a bit faster with -march=native -O2 and all that crap.
Of course, the speedup would barely be noticeable with today's hardware, even if it is a celeron. And I guess that invalidates the point.
[QUOTE=esalaka;31612875]I never used Gentoo.
But really if it's not lightweight then the only thing I can think of is LFS, really. Can't get much more lightweight than Linux from Scratch. :v:[/QUOTE]
Gentoo isn't inherently lightweight.
Nor is LFS.
Compiling large programs can use lots of resources.
And you may decide to compile KDE or something.
So LFS or Gentoo can be resource intensive.
If you want lightweight try [URL="http://slitaz.org/en/"]slitaz[/URL]: 30mb for a desktop/server.
tomsrtbt go go go
If you're looking for a light distro for minecraft, I beleive there's one distro that's very lightweight and fully setup with all the shtuff minecraft needs. I can't remember the name tho. My pal google should know.
[QUOTE=Boris-B;31615408]If you're looking for a light distro for minecraft, I beleive there's one distro that's very lightweight and fully setup with all the shtuff minecraft needs. I can't remember the name tho. My pal google should know.[/QUOTE]
I think I'll just get Arch rolling and see what I en up with. Worst-case is that I spent a few hours on nothing besides experience installing Arch.
Nobody that wants to help me setup my webserver?
I have centOS 6 minimal installed, wanna host a wordpress site (would help if you knew that too) and I've got a domain and all.
I'll give you a bitcoin, all I ask is advice, opinions and solutions to problems over any IM program until it's all up and running and possibly after if there are any problems.
I'm just so sick of hunting for howto's and guides, half of which barely apply to what I'm trying to do and most of which are either outdated or don't explain shit.
Re-formatted as ext2, re-downloaded all the packages and it still won't work.
[editline]9th August 2011[/editline]
I just realised something: It says that one of the stage files are missing, specifically /boot/grub/stage1. Ya think I could find/create one manually and move it to the correct location?
[editline]9th August 2011[/editline]
Update: I found out that there is one in some /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc so I copied it over to /boot/grub and tried again. Same result. I'm beginning to feel that grub is looking at the wrong place or something. Any way to look into that? Once again, I've re-formatted as ext2 and get the same error. I also get the same device map, with two /dev/sda.
[editline]9th August 2011[/editline]
Update: There is indeed not much inside /boot/grub (beside menu.lst), but /mnt contains a lot of stuff, including a /boot/grub which is full of stuff, including a stage1. Gona look around more and see what I dig up.
[editline]9th August 2011[/editline]
Checked mount. /dev/sda1 is mounted to /mnt/boot, sda2 is swap, sda3 is /mnt and sda4 is /mnt/home
[QUOTE=chipset;31621151]Nobody that wants to help me setup my webserver?
I have centOS 6 minimal installed, wanna host a wordpress site (would help if you knew that too) and I've got a domain and all.
I'll give you a bitcoin, all I ask is advice, opinions and solutions to problems over any IM program until it's all up and running and possibly after if there are any problems.
I'm just so sick of hunting for howto's and guides, half of which barely apply to what I'm trying to do and most of which are either outdated or don't explain shit.[/QUOTE]
Install Apache/nginx/lighttp, PHP and MySQL.
Set up vhost.
Install Wordpress.
????
PROFIT!
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