General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. I broke my Arch Install

[Protocol7]

[QUOTE=Megaman1811;42462740]But you're on a Mac

[editline]9th October 2013[/editline]

Oh. Never mind[/QUOTE]

I don't even have a Hackintosh anymore. My iPad user agent went weird.

[MetricMoose]

Is webmin safe to use on a VPS?

[Comfy]

Just tried out elementary OS, it's quite nice, but why the kernel 3.2?

[Van-man]

[QUOTE=kaukassus;42466166]Just tried out elementary OS, it's quite nice, but why the kernel 3.2?[/QUOTE]

Stable and thoroughly tested.
Should be a compatible 3.8 kernel in the repository

[Protocol7]

Yeah, they have documents on how to run a more recent kernel hidden somewhere. Maybe I saw it on elementaryupdate.com

[shodan]

[QUOTE=benjgvps;42466078]Is webmin safe to use on a VPS?[/QUOTE]

Having a web interface that grants the user that much power is always a recipe for disaster

[Rockman1811]

[QUOTE=Protocol7;42465559]I don't even have a Hackintosh anymore. My iPad user agent went weird.[/QUOTE]

I was referring to the fact that Elementary looks almost exactly like OS X at a glance.

[Van-man]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;42467303]Having a web interface that grants the user that much power is always a recipe for disaster[/QUOTE]

Use it over a well configured SSH tunnel

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=Protocol7;42466986]Yeah, they have documents on how to run a more recent kernel hidden somewhere. Maybe I saw it on elementaryupdate.com[/QUOTE]

And even if there wasn't a way to do it through package managers and what not, you could just compile your own.

[nikomo]

[QUOTE=kaukassus;42466166]Just tried out elementary OS, it's quite nice, but why the kernel 3.2?[/QUOTE]

It's based on Ubuntu LTS releases, which is getting old as fuck right about now.

[Lerlth]

Has anyone using Debian/Ubuntu used this before?

[url]http://notblog.org/faster-updates-with-apt-fast/[/url]

[QUOTE]apt-fast downloads repositories (package sources) and packages in parallel, which can greatly shorten the time it takes to update a system. In contrast, the default package manager (apt-get or aptitude) downloads repositories and packages sequentially.[/QUOTE]

[Stonecycle]

[QUOTE=Stonecycle;42455777]
One last question for now. Let's say I want to install GNOME Ubuntu over Ubuntu. How does this get done? I heard there's the thing to select the partition Ubuntu's on and select something along the lines of "format and mount as /" but wanted a second opinion.[/QUOTE]

Do I still do this or is it a different thing? Like I want to reinstall it without having to system restore or make a new partition for it.

[nikomo]

[QUOTE=Lerlth;42470115]Has anyone using Debian/Ubuntu used this before?

[url]http://notblog.org/faster-updates-with-apt-fast/[/url][/QUOTE]

Linux Mint uses that out-of-the-box AFAIK, it's pretty cool.

[rilez]

[QUOTE=kaukassus;42466166]Just tried out elementary OS, it's quite nice, but why the kernel 3.2?[/QUOTE]

Elementary is based on 12.04 and uses the stable kernel for that release.

[url]http://www.elementaryupdate.com/2013/08/top-things-to-do-after-installing-luna.html[/url]

This is the best resource for a fresh Elementary install. More specifically, you're looking for this:

apt://linux-generic-lts-raring

[Comfy]

[QUOTE=rilez;42472311]Elementary is based on 12.04 and uses the stable kernel for that release.

[url]http://www.elementaryupdate.com/2013/08/top-things-to-do-after-installing-luna.html[/url]

This is the best resource for a fresh Elementary install. More specifically, you're looking for this:

apt://linux-generic-lts-raring[/QUOTE]

oh I almost forgot about that. Yesterday I tried to install several kernels (3.8, 3.11, 3.12-rc4) but by the looks of it, they broke the login managers or something. (just a black screen with a cursor.) but I can switch to a terminal fine.

I've now settled with Mint since I really dig cinnamon, and I've configured it to my liking.

[Rockman1811]

So is there any recommended packages for Ubuntu?

[naelstrof]

[QUOTE=Megaman1811;42473047]So is there any recommended packages for Ubuntu?[/QUOTE]

If you don't mind compiling and installing things via makefiles: I highly recommend [url=https://github.com/naelstrof/slop]slop[/url], [url=https://github.com/naelstrof/maim]maim[/url], and ffmpeg(aka avconf) for simple CLI screenshooting utilities.

I use them all daily and there's really no replacement for them.

[Comfy]

So after my win8 installation crapped itself after yesterdays update, I've decided to install mint on it.

Still WIP, but I really like it right now:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ZSKEauV.jpg[/t]
Left: Mint, Right Win7 VM

[Gloriam]

Which theme did you use to make Mint look like that? I couldn't find any good window borders in the first place.

[Comfy]

[QUOTE=TDocter;42475400]Which theme did you use to make Mint look like that? I couldn't find any good window borders in the first place.[/QUOTE]

Cinnamon theme is "Faience+"
GTK and Window theme is "Numix".

And the dock at the bottom is docky.

[shodan]

[QUOTE=kaukassus;42475348]So after my win8 installation crapped itself after yesterdays update, I've decided to install mint on it.

Still WIP, but I really like it right now:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ZSKEauV.jpg[/t]
Left: Mint, Right Win7 VM[/QUOTE]

Same wallpaper :3

[Lerlth]

[QUOTE=kaukassus;42475348]So after my win8 installation crapped itself after yesterdays update, I've decided to install mint on it.

Still WIP, but I really like it right now:
Left: Mint, Right Win7 VM[/QUOTE]

I'm not familiar with Gnome, how do you get it to display more than one program in the nav. bar?

[Stonecycle]

[QUOTE=Lerlth;42476331]I'm not familiar with Gnome, how do you get it to display more than one program in the nav. bar?[/QUOTE]

That's Cinnamon, a fork of GNOME 2. But with GNOME 3+, that has to be done with [url=https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/584/taskbar/]an extension[/url].

[XxThreedogxX]

[QUOTE=rilez;42472311]Elementary is based on 12.04 and uses the stable kernel for that release.

[url]http://www.elementaryupdate.com/2013/08/top-things-to-do-after-installing-luna.html[/url]

This is the best resource for a fresh Elementary install. More specifically, you're looking for this:

apt://linux-generic-lts-raring[/QUOTE]

That was actually very helpful. Thank you.

[.Lain]

[QUOTE=nikomo;42462354]Ran into this comment on Reddit:
[url]http://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxActionShow/comments/1o0m3p/flash_now_used_on_less_than_17_of_web_pages/ccnrzd1[/url]

I set it up, it works amazing on my laptop. Flash always sucked monkeydicks, and being able to watch Youtube without Flash is amazing.[/QUOTE]
where have you been all of my life?!

[MetricMoose]

It's probably alright, though I might as well ask before I go about messing around with this...

My Ubuntu Server VM (Running in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012) has a physical 3TB hard drive attached to the VM. I want the host machine to have access to it and share it out to the VM using SMB. If I kept the file structures the same and mounted the share to the mountpoint that the drive currently uses, do you guys think I'd run into any problems?

[Rockman1811]

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;42473286]If you don't mind compiling and installing things via makefiles: I highly recommend [url=https://github.com/naelstrof/slop]slop[/url], [url=https://github.com/naelstrof/maim]maim[/url], and ffmpeg(aka avconf) for simple CLI screenshooting utilities.

I use them all daily and there's really no replacement for them.[/QUOTE]

But printscreen does the same thing. FYI, I'm on 13.04

[naelstrof]

[QUOTE=Megaman1811;42483556]But printscreen does the same thing. FYI, I'm on 13.04[/QUOTE]

Printscreen doesn't automatically upload to a server of your choice, nor does it take videos.

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;42484663]Printscreen doesn't automatically upload to a server of your choice, nor does it take videos.[/QUOTE]

it can if you have some sort of global shortcut daemon running

[Rockman1811]

Well screen grabbing aside, any other recommended packages?