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I'm thinking to try the linux-ck kernel and use its brainfuck scheduler, but is it worth the trouble installing it?

[url=https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/posts/J2TZrTvu7vd]Poettering is mad[/url] [quote]Recently, people started collecting Bitcoins to hire a hitman for me (this really happened!). [/quote] uhm

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;46164074][url=https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/posts/J2TZrTvu7vd]Poettering is mad[/url] uhm[/QUOTE] Are you implying people on the kernel mailing list [B]aren't[/B] inapproppriately mean assholes?

Hello there, Fedora and Arch user here.

[QUOTE=esalaka;46164592]Are you implying people on the kernel mailing list [B]aren't[/B] inapproppriately mean assholes?[/QUOTE] The main issue is that toxic people stand out in a crowd. Especially in unmoderated discussions. I've had pretty positive experiences with contributing to open source projects.

Looking to get Linux on my rig, I generally only play games on Steam and browse the internet. Anyone have some tips or recommendations for me? Maybe shoot me a private message or something if you'd like but I'll try to check back here too.

I wouldn't recommend linux if you are looking to play games.

[QUOTE=Hugg;46165667]I wouldn't recommend linux if you are looking to play games.[/QUOTE] It's getting ~better~!

[QUOTE=Hugg;46165667]I wouldn't recommend linux if you are looking to play games.[/QUOTE] Depends entirely on which games.

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;46165543]The main issue is that toxic people stand out in a crowd. Especially in unmoderated discussions. I've had pretty positive experiences with contributing to open source projects.[/QUOTE] Other way around, really. Linus is certainly not famous because of his hateful tirades, those are famous because he is.

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;46166037]Depends entirely on which games.[/QUOTE] [img]http://i.gyazo.com/c4a8b44fe6ab3568b3b2270ad916010e.png[/img] i get by

also wine's been getting really good lately so a bunch of windows games (steam or otherwise) would probably run pretty good linux gaming isn't ideal yet, sure, but it's definitely viable

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;46166054]Other way around, really. Linus is certainly not famous because of his hateful tirades, those are famous because he is.[/QUOTE] His comments make me laugh, especially the "retroactively aborted" one. Haha!

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;46165543]The main issue is that toxic people stand out in a crowd. Especially in unmoderated discussions. I've had pretty positive experiences with contributing to open source projects.[/QUOTE] But the lack of moderation is exactly what the point seemed to be in that post. It's even spelled out: "In the systemd community, we moderate posts". I mean, I guess Linus being the biggest asshole of all is also a huge issue. [editline]7th October 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=FPtje;46167379]His comments make me laugh, especially the "retroactively aborted" one. Haha![/QUOTE] They are kinda funny - when they're not aimed at particular people, because it's kind of like "Hey, look at [I]this[/I] person in particular. [I]This person sucks[/I] and I want to make it publicly known." I mean, maybe that quote made sense in context, but still. I like bashing people categorically, myself. And maybe you're supposed to take it as a joke, or something. Finns are sarcastic. It's still not very nice.

Are there any alternatives to Synergy that let you share a mouse and keyboard over the Internet?

[QUOTE=esalaka;46168028]I mean, I guess Linus being the biggest asshole of all is also a huge issue.[/QUOTE] Other LKML bigshots probably aren't gonna care but the casual kernel hacker is probably gonna be really intimidated. [editline]7th October 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;46168296]Are there any alternatives to Synergy that let you share a mouse and keyboard over the Internet?[/QUOTE] Sure you can't configure Synergy to listen on a public IP? (You'd have to configure port forwarding manually, of course, if you're behind NAT) You can manually specify the IP of the Synergy server to connect to, no need to use the GUI necessarily.

I've never seen Linus go off on someone unless they were pulling some truly stupid shit, personally. Then again I don't follow LKML that closely so I might be missing a bunch of shit.

[QUOTE=esalaka;46168028]But the lack of moderation is exactly what the point seemed to be in that post. It's even spelled out: "In the systemd community, we moderate posts". I mean, I guess Linus being the biggest asshole of all is also a huge issue. [editline]7th October 2014[/editline] They are kinda funny - when they're not aimed at particular people, because it's kind of like "Hey, look at [I]this[/I] person in particular. [I]This person sucks[/I] and I want to make it publicly known." I mean, maybe that quote made sense in context, but still. I like bashing people categorically, myself. And maybe you're supposed to take it as a joke, or something. Finns are sarcastic. It's still not very nice.[/QUOTE] [quote] Kay, this needs to be fixed. Suggested fix: just use the 'seq_printf()' interfaces, which do the proper buffering, and allow any size reads of various packetized data. Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they noty die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?[/QUOTE] [url]https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/6/495[/url] It's not tied to a specific person until someone starts to look up who wrote that thing for debian.

[QUOTE=Hugg;46165667]I wouldn't recommend linux if you are looking to play games.[/QUOTE] Depends. If he's playing (mostly) Valve related games, I'd recommend switching to Linux, since you'll get much better performance from these games. If he happen to play all those fancy AAA titles that are coming up, they're getting released on Linux rather occasionally, so then he'd better stick up with Windows. Besides all of this, games are being ported on daily basis nowadays, so most of the (bigger) games will be supported sooner or later.

[QUOTE=Rayiner;46173719]Depends. If he's playing (mostly) Valve related games, I'd recommend switching to Linux, since you'll get much better performance from these games.[/QUOTE] Not quite. Maybe on fancy schmancy hardware that could run Valve games decently to begin with. If anything, the GNU/Linux ports ran half as well as their Windows counterparts, and even that's been on the decrease. 10FPS here and 60-20FPS on Windows 7.

[QUOTE=Stonecycle;46174566]Not quite. Maybe on fancy schmancy hardware that could run Valve games decently to begin with. If anything, the GNU/Linux ports ran half as well as their Windows counterparts, and even that's been on the decrease. 10FPS here and 60-20FPS on Windows 7.[/QUOTE] Except CS:GO which runs nearly perfect, except for a few lighting issues and rare lagspikes.

Just gotta make sure that pesky multi-core rendering option is disabled. It causes trouble on Windows and fps drops/stuttering on Linux. Unfortunately it's enabled by default.

Mentally preparing myself to migrate my main server from Fedora19 to Debian. Is there any way I can keep the user accounts I made for people?

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;46185318]Mentally preparing myself to migrate my main server from Fedora19 to Debian. Is there any way I can keep the user accounts I made for people?[/QUOTE] copy entries from the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files?

[QUOTE=kaukassus;46189099]copy entries from the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files?[/QUOTE] Is that it? Nothing more to it?

Don't forget /etc/group

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;46189834]Don't forget /etc/group[/QUOTE] Doesen't he only need group, when he has custom groups for his users?

[QUOTE=kaukassus;46189839]Doesen't he only need group, when he has custom groups for his users?[/QUOTE] I always have a custom group for each user (user:user, dark:dark, etc) and he might have some other groups as well (eg. www-data).

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;46189858]I always have a custom group for each user (user:user, dark:dark, etc) and he might have some other groups as well (eg. www-data).[/QUOTE] I always wondered about this. Isn't it a bit redundant to do this?

[QUOTE=kaukassus;46189877]I always wondered about this. Isn't it a bit redundant to do this?[/QUOTE] I make my users the sole administrator of their groups. Idea being they can add people to their own group and set permissions to 775 instead of 755 or something. I've not actually employed this strategy in an environment other than a system only I really use, but I like having the option.