I just installed ubuntu 11.10 and plan on install awesome wm.
Does anyone else think choosing ubuntu over arch was a bad decision? I have a lot of experience with arch but I felt like going easy mode and not caring about the effects ubuntu will have on my battery life.
[editline]26th September 2011[/editline]
Well I'm burning the arch net install disc right now. I can't bear to use Ubuntu anymore.
Notice how there's no 'edited on' text, he changed his mind that fast.
[editline]27th September 2011[/editline]
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[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;32486029]I've gotten a bit of a problem today, when I booted up my computer. At first, everything looked fine. Then I logged in, and my display driver was completely screwed. I rebooted, and now everything is like this:
[img_thumb]http://db.tt/0zDyARol[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]http://db.tt/77FXvXGV[/img_thumb]
I have NOT installed any proprietary drivers. I'm using the open drivers, and it just happened today. Been using Fedora 15 for quite a while now, and now this. It doesn't affect the most part of the visuals, except for GNOME3 itself.[/QUOTE]
You accidentally installed 3D mode.
Laptop battery, why is it so much shorter on Linux? I have a Thinkpad X220, which had a battery life of about 9-12 hours with Windows 7, now I get about 4 hours max on Arch.
[QUOTE=nos217;32503902]You accidentally installed 3D mode.
Laptop battery, why is it so much shorter on Linux? I have a Thinkpad X220, which had a battery life of about 9-12 hours with Windows 7, now I get about 4 hours max on Arch.[/QUOTE]Linux has never been too great on laptops to begin with but the past few kernel updates really fucked the battery life
[QUOTE=nos217;32503902]You accidentally installed 3D mode.
Laptop battery, why is it so much shorter on Linux? I have a Thinkpad X220, which had a battery life of about 9-12 hours with Windows 7, now I get about 4 hours max on Arch.[/QUOTE]
I didn't change anything though, it was just like that when I booted up. Got rid of it when rebooting, as I previously mentioned.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;32503977]Linux has never been too great on laptops to begin with but the past few kernel updates really fucked the battery life[/QUOTE]
I've gone and done all of the fixes powertop suggests as well as gone through the laptop tools page on the arch wiki and I'm getting an estimated 3.3 hours from powertop, which is ~30 more than windows ever give me. This is also without setting up the link state power management that got killed with kernel 3+
Now long term estimations are showing an estimate 9-10 watts. If the numbers are correct I am in love with this laptop.
Is it possible to restrict users and/or processes to only be able to listen on specific ports? Something like ulimit but for network stuff.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;32486029]I've gotten a bit of a problem today, when I booted up my computer. At first, everything looked fine. Then I logged in, and my display driver was completely screwed. I rebooted, and now everything is like this:
[img_thumb]http://db.tt/0zDyARol[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]http://db.tt/77FXvXGV[/img_thumb]
I have NOT installed any proprietary drivers. I'm using the open drivers, and it just happened today. Been using Fedora 15 for quite a while now, and now this. It doesn't affect the most part of the visuals, except for GNOME3 itself.[/QUOTE]
avatar fits.
[QUOTE=Jimbomcb;32510622]Is it possible to restrict users and/or processes to only be able to listen on specific ports? Something like ulimit but for network stuff.[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure about users, but I know netcat can do this with processes.
[code]
nc -l 1234 -e /bin/bash
[/code]
will spawn the process /bin/bash and listen on port 1234
Why does compiling gcc have to take so fucking long
compiling compilers
I love awesome, but frankly I need some semblance of a desktop enviorment because I can't be bothered to do everything the awesome complicated linux way when I need to take notes in class or get shit done. Anyone have any recommendations for a DE that won't cut the battery life on my laptop in half, or have a guide that just shows how to set up a desktop enviorment around awesome wm?
easy mode would be to install xfce and swap the window manager
xfce or lxde would be the best light DE. It's really just preference.
I have not used any other DE, but xfce is working out great; its very fast, even on my old rig.
Linux Question
What distrobution would work well under a low powered enviroment such as a Pentium 4 423
[QUOTE=Michael haxz;32530779]Linux Question
What distrobution would work well under a low powered enviroment such as a Pentium 4 423[/QUOTE]
I'm not very knowledgeable about processors, but if you need a minimalistic distro, arch linux is a very bare-bones upon install. I am running it on an old gateway with a Pentium 4, family 15, model 2 at 2.4GHz; and that is with a DE. I hope that helps.
[QUOTE=Michael haxz;32530779]Linux Question
What distrobution would work well under a low powered enviroment such as a Pentium 4 423[/QUOTE]Crunchbang, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, maybe Debian (untick desktop environment during installation) or Arch if you're willing to config it yourself.
I do love my Crunchbang (says the man who keeps jumping from Gnome 3 to Openbox to ridiculous CLI setups and back again).
I switched to Puppy Linux earlier today.
Can someone give me a basic rundown of what I need to know about Linux?
(Already figure out [del]ballsack[/del] package manager, so don't bother telling me about that, seeing as I figured out how to install Chromium)
Anything I should know before going to Arch? I've used Linux Mint for around 3 months.
[QUOTE=Cookieeater;32532791]Anything I should know before going to Arch? I've used Linux Mint for around 3 months.[/QUOTE]
Read the install guide and you should be fine. Arch's install guide is very straightforward and easy to understand.
[QUOTE=Cookieeater;32532791]Anything I should know before going to Arch? I've used Linux Mint for around 3 months.[/QUOTE]
Definitely read the beginner's guide. if you're not feeling too confident you can try to install it in a virtual machine first. That's what I did.
Where could someone send me a demonoid invite? I'm looking for some really good distros. I don't like the vanilla ubuntu.
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My online course has decided to use a .dcr shockwave file in one of it's assignments and I can't open it. I can't seem to find anything in the package manager either. Is there a way to open it?
I'm using mono to run Vapor, and I think it's kind of a pain to open it through the command line every time. Is there a way to make a shell script or something that when clicked would run the command and open Vapor?
[QUOTE=Octave;32548689]I'm using mono to run Vapor, and I think it's kind of a pain to open it through the command line every time. Is there a way to make a shell script or something that when clicked would run the command and open Vapor?[/QUOTE]
I got annoyed by the same thing, so I did this. Just change the command in the quotes of the first line to whatever you use. After this, you just type in "vapor-steamclient" to open it up. I also added the shortcut that calls "vapor-steamclient" command in my WM menu. You could probably find a tutorial that can add new commands to your applications menu.
[code]
sudo echo "mono /usr/share/vapor/Vapor.exe" > /usr/bin/vapor-steamclient
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/vapor-steamclient
[/code]
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;32545926]My online course has decided to use a .dcr shockwave file in one of it's assignments and I can't open it. I can't seem to find anything in the package manager either. Is there a way to open it?[/QUOTE]
There is no linux support for shockwave, but you could try using wine: [url]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Shockwave[/url]
[QUOTE=IpHa;32550266]There is no linux support for shockwave, but you could try using wine: [url]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Shockwave[/url][/QUOTE]
Thought I had to do something like that. Oh well.
clyde seems to be messing up for me and I found out that support has been dropped since about July. I went towards yaourt instead, however one thing that I've found a bit alarming is the commands to install and remove packages aren't restricted. How would I go by making them follow the same flag restrictions as pacman does?
I also found a neat package in the aur called "pacman-color" I've installed it and made an alias for pacman with it and it makes reading the repository searches a lot easier.
[editline]30th September 2011[/editline]
Oh wait, it was because I set up the alias that it stopped using the permissions. Well, that's an interesting backdoor...
I cannot for the life of me get Flash on Mint x64. Can someone help?
EDIT:
Got it.
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