[QUOTE=Elecbullet;33191841]So let's say I have two wireless cards that work perfectly in Ubuntu, with no third-party drivers listed in Additional Drivers.
Would that be an indication that they would work just as well in Arch OOTB, meaning no shit drivers to install?[/QUOTE]My wireless card on my netbook worked with Mint but wasn't recognized by Arch. The wireless manual on the arch website said you need some code from your original windows install for certain cards. I had formatted already, so I didn't have it. The card was a 3com one, by the way. So it might work with Arch, but it might not.
solution: every company ever should just opensource everything
The best way for you to know is to go check on the arch wiki to see if you cards are supported.
[QUOTE=FPtje;33181579]Archbang is the best I know.[/QUOTE]
what about chakra?
how chakra is different than arch linux..
i heard they got changes in the repositories.
So here in America our government did a test broadcast, to test their new emergency broadcast system
Instead of getting an actual test message, there was just a Fedora login screen broadcast to everyone in the country.
I don't know anything about Fedora, is there anyone that can sort out any information via the images below:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/2fRKT[/url]
[QUOTE=Kopimi;33202732]So here in America our government did a test broadcast, to test their new emergency broadcast system
Instead of getting an actual test message, there was just a Fedora login screen broadcast to everyone in the country.
I don't know anything about Fedora, is there anyone that can sort out any information via the images below:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/2fRKT[/url][/QUOTE]
Looks like they are using Fedora 10 with a 2.6.27.5 Kernel on a 32 bit machine (i686). Other than that, not much you can figure out from just a login screen.
[QUOTE=Jetsurf;33203037]Looks like they are using Fedora 10 with a 2.6.27.5 Kernel on a 32 bit machine (i686). Other than that, not much you can figure out from just a login screen.[/QUOTE]
I'm mostly wondering what the text that comes before "login:" is?
It looks like "ChandlerEAS-[tSG" or something :v:
Would that represent the username that is being logged into, or the system name or..?
[QUOTE=Kopimi;33203242]I'm mostly wondering what the text that comes before "login:" is?
It looks like "ChandlerEAS-[tSG" or something :v:
Would that represent the username that is being logged into, or the system name or..?[/QUOTE]
System name.
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[QUOTE=Jetsurf;33203037]Looks like they are using Fedora 10 with a 2.6.27.5 Kernel on a 32 bit machine (i686). Other than that, not much you can figure out from just a login screen.[/QUOTE]
I'm amazed they're using such an old system for this kind of thing.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;33203282]System name.
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I'm amazed they're using such an old system for this kind of thing.[/QUOTE]
It's only slightly "older" than RHEL6 which is based on Fedora 12. Debian 6 is basically the same "oldness" as RHEL 6 comparitively.
What's more surprising is that they're using Fedora instead of RHEL.
Holy shit, I wish I'd seen that broadcast.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;33203360]It's only slightly "older" than RHEL6 which is based on Fedora 12. Debian 6 is basically the same "oldness" as RHEL 6 comparitively.
What's more surprising is that they're using Fedora instead of RHEL.[/QUOTE]
what's more surprising is that they're using Linux instead of FreeBSD
The new Indie Royale Bundle has one Linux game, Scoregasm.
I got it, and it's pretty awesome so far.
[editline]10th November 2011[/editline]
[url]http://www.indieroyale.com/[/url]
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;33223893]The new Indie Royale Bundle has one Linux game, Scoregasm.
I got it, and it's pretty awesome so far.
[editline]10th November 2011[/editline]
[url]http://www.indieroyale.com/[/url][/QUOTE]
Scoregasm is a new favorite of mine. You really should use a gamepad to play it. You can fetch one off of Amazon for around $10 from Logitech.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;33223893]The new Indie Royale Bundle has one Linux game, Scoregasm.
I got it, and it's pretty awesome so far.
[editline]10th November 2011[/editline]
[url]http://www.indieroyale.com/[/url][/QUOTE]
Bought it, tried installing it on Desura, wasted 15 minutes for it to do nothing, uninstalled and reinstalled it and it finally downloaded. I try to play it, the control scheme is kinda retarded - switching between wanting you to use enter to select, and left mouse to select. Then, to top it all off, the game instantly crashes as soon as I try to click out of the tutorial intro text.
Outstanding.
Speaking of games, I'm going to buy Sonic Generations (Windows only, but hey, it's Sonic) and throw a measly few bucks at the humble bundle.
[editline]11th November 2011[/editline]
[img]http://i42.tinypic.com/veyzc3.png[/img]
Well, if I can't get it on Amazon for $25 AUD, I guess I could always get it on Steam for $50 AUD or from retail for $100 AUD.
Not.
Guess I'll give my money to the Humble Bundle.
Some time ago I asked who would I have a separate /home partition if all the dotfiles (.gnome .gdm etcetera) fuck up across distros. I guess then that I can just mount my home partition to /mnt/home and make links, in each distro.
Not hard.
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;33233433]Some time ago I asked who would I have a separate /home partition if all the dotfiles (.gnome .gdm etcetera) fuck up across distros. I guess then that I can just mount my home partition to /mnt/home and make links, in each distro.
Not hard.[/QUOTE]
What? Why would those files fuck up? If you mean they would not be used due to missing programs, yes, but I dont see why your local config files should fuck up?
In my experience every time I tried that [I]something[/I] fucked up when installing/reinstalling Linuxes. I never really experimented with having more than one distro using the same /home, but any time I reinstalled and referred it to my old /home partition, it'd refuse to log me in correctly on my normal user /stephen, and I had to create another user and fix shit. Namely by removing all dotfiles.
Oh well. I shall mount to /mnt/home, and let /home/stephen just exist in the normal root partition. Then I shall create links to what matters- Documents, Pictures, etc. Should work perfectly!
Now I shall try to find out how to retroactively AES encrypt my porn partition.
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;33241627]In my experience every time I tried that [I]something[/I] fucked up when installing/reinstalling Linuxes. I never really experimented with having more than one distro using the same /home, but any time I reinstalled and referred it to my old /home partition, it'd refuse to log me in correctly on my normal user /stephen, and I had to create another user and fix shit. Namely by removing all dotfiles.
Oh well. I shall mount to /mnt/home, and let /home/stephen just exist in the normal root partition. Then I shall create links to what matters- Documents, Pictures, etc. Should work perfectly!
Now I shall try to find out how to retroactively AES encrypt my porn partition.[/QUOTE]
Maybe you should chown the folder recursively to your new user on your new system? Wouldnt that work?
Same user. I always use the username "stephen"- I can't think of a time I did otherwise on a computer intended for myself.
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Saw Elecbullet did exactly what I was going to mention
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;33242005]Same user. I always use the username "stephen"- I can't think of a time I did otherwise on a computer intended for myself.[/QUOTE]
The username isn't what's associated with the files, though. Files are associated with a numeric user ID, and /etc/password translates that to a name. You can have two different installations, each with a user named "stephen", but with different numeric IDs, and files created by "stephen" on one installation won't be owned by "stephen" on the other installation.
User IDs are generally assigned in sequential order, so the first user created after installation will pretty much always get the same ID, but different distributions use different numbers as the starting point, typically either 500 or 1000.
If you add a user in the terminal and there's already a user folder in /home with the name you register, it'll ask you if you want that user to claim ownership of the folder. I'm not sure about the effects across distros, but I preserve /home and reclaim the folder if I switch distros or screw something up to the point of reinstall.
Not sure if it's linux or VMWare, but when I make a .dd image of my flash drive and try to get it onto Windows so I can upload it I'm having an issue of the .dd image just disappearing from the flash drive. So when I remove it from VMWare and put it on Windows it won't show up on the flash drive then when I put it back into VMWare the image is still gone. It's driving me insane cause I need to hand this image in for course work pretty soon.
hey guys, I'm looking for a distribution again. and i need this distribution for my laptop..
I noticed Archbang and Chakra..(both archlinux distros)
but chakra has kde, I'm not really used to kde.. (i noticed KDE requires a lot of clicking).
archbang doesn't seem right for a laptop.
and building archlinux from scratch with desktop takes too much time!!!
what can i do?
It takes about 2 hours. Just go for it!
[QUOTE=nos217;33258884]It takes about 2 hours. Just go for it![/QUOTE]
If you already have a Linux install, it could take even less; I don't think it took me an hour to drop a working Arch install on my USB drive.
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;33241627]In my experience every time I tried that [I]something[/I] fucked up when installing/reinstalling Linuxes. I never really experimented with having more than one distro using the same /home, but any time I reinstalled and referred it to my old /home partition, it'd refuse to log me in correctly on my normal user /stephen, and I had to create another user and fix shit. Namely by removing all dotfiles.
Oh well. I shall mount to /mnt/home, and let /home/stephen just exist in the normal root partition. Then I shall create links to what matters- Documents, Pictures, etc. Should work perfectly!
Now I shall try to find out how to retroactively AES encrypt my porn partition.[/QUOTE]
since mine's just a desktop operating system I always just store everything in another partition that's linked to my home directory. it's hacky and takes forever to get working but it's better than backing up and restoring
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my server though I never reinstalled, it's just easier to upgrade from linux
Honestly the only reason arch took over an hour to install for me was my apprehension to follow the instructions because I was dual booting with a semi-important winXP partition. The subsequent 2nd and 3rd installs took at most an hour each, probably less. It seems to me a lot of the configuration is auto-completed for you if you are OK with their defaults, which you will most likely be. The only thing I had to change was adding a new boot device for GRUB so that I could boot windows still, and if you consider it configuration you have to go in and uncomment a few lines to tell Pacman where to ask for packages(but there are utilities to streamline this as well)
[QUOTE=Shanto;33257500]Not sure if it's linux or VMWare, but when I make a .dd image of my flash drive and try to get it onto Windows so I can upload it I'm having an issue of the .dd image just disappearing from the flash drive.[/QUOTE]
You're making an image [i]of[/i] the drive and then storing it [i]on[/i] the drive? Presumably either you're compressing the file first, or you're storing an image of a smaller flash drive onto a larger one, because otherwise it's impossible.
[QUOTE=Shanto;33257500]So when I remove it from VMWare and put it on Windows it won't show up on the flash drive then when I put it back into VMWare the image is still gone. It's driving me insane cause I need to hand this image in for course work pretty soon.[/QUOTE]
How big is the file, and what filesystem is the flash drive using? FAT doesn't support files bigger than 4GB.
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