General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Year of the Linux Desktop! - Hardware & Software

I personally opt for Ubuntu Servers. A Breeze to install, and a few presets (LAMP, Minimal, Basic Server, etc...) and works very nicely out of the box. Neat bonus is also that it's packages are reasonably up-to-date and since it's ubuntu, there's a ton of guides and tutorials aimed towards it. When I started distrohopping on both desktop and servers, for some reason, I always returned to Ubuntu.

Minimal Debian install has always been my go-to server distro. Only thing that is annoying is that it doesn't always have the latest & greatest features of some stuff. Latest example at the top of my head is something with nginx to do. I don't remember what I was trying to do, but I do remember it was too out of date to support what I was trying to do.

I use CentOS because EC2 had that as the default and yum is nice. Is this bad?

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50978137]I just straight up build the latest nginx myself or w/e package I need But Debian's philosophy is the way it should be for some justifiable reason If it ain't broke don't fix it Latest is sometimes not the greatest[/QUOTE] I usually prefer Latest for things like Compilers, Interpreters and Webbrowsers, Webservers and Texteditors. Anything else I just use what gets provided to me.

[QUOTE=Reflex F.N.;50975700]How much damage can Linux Malware cause if it doesn't have root privledge? Can it steal my passwords? If so, how can it do this without having root privilege?[/QUOTE] Why would the malware need root privilege to read user only information? I mean it can't read the /etc/shadow file, so it won't know your SYSTEM password, but it'll know all your other browser-saved passwords for sure. And like so many others, the important part isn't what it can take from you, but using your PC to do criminal activity that can incriminate you. [editline]31st August 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=kaukassus;50978322]I usually prefer Latest for things like Compilers, Interpreters and Webbrowsers, Webservers and Texteditors. Anything else I just use what gets provided to me.[/QUOTE] What latest text editor do you need on your servers, that a CentOS system doesn't provide?

[QUOTE=mastersrp;50978487]Why would the malware need root privilege to read user only information? I mean it can't read the /etc/shadow file, so it won't know your SYSTEM password, but it'll know all your other browser-saved passwords for sure. And like so many others, the important part isn't what it can take from you, but using your PC to do criminal activity that can incriminate you.[/QUOTE] [url=https://xkcd.com/1200/]Relevant XKCD:[/url] [img]https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/authorization.png[/img]

I use archlinux on my server, and it works really well if it's just some personal thing. The arch wiki isn't as helpful as it usually is for this kind of thing, although there are some nice guides for occasional things. Otherwise I really like FreeBSD for servers, as an operating system FreeBSD is really comfy, cohesive, and well designed. Really stable, but you also aren't trapped with archaic software either. [QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50978682]Yeah but the version available on Ubuntu Desktop outside dev channels is seriously underdeveloped[/QUOTE] What a shame, because Unity practically requires themes nowadays unless you want a desktop that looks several years old, because it is several years old.

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;50978656][URL="https://xkcd.com/1200/"]Relevant XKCD:[/URL] [/QUOTE] I'd actually strike the bank from this. Since I'd wager just about every decent one uses two factor auth by now. And if not, find a bank that does. ------------------- Though to be a bit egoistical and throw in a question myself. I've recently gotten an Aspire ES 13. Win 10 is all fine and dandy but been trying to hammer in a live distro for a couple of hours now, but no dice. The only thing that shows up is Windows Boot Manager. No USBs of any kind. Likewise if I set UEFI to boot in legacy mode, the laptop is unable to boot at all. Tried to prepare the live disc with Unetbootin, Rufus in both modes. Fast boot is off, secure boot is off. Honestly no clue how to even get the USB to show up during boot alongside the WBM, let alone run anything. If it helps, I'm trying to do it with bunsenlabs.

[QUOTE=wraithcat;50981309]I'd actually strike the bank from this. Since I'd wager just about every decent one uses two factor auth by now. And if not, find a bank that does. ------------------- Though to be a bit egoistical and throw in a question myself. I've recently gotten an Aspire ES 13. Win 10 is all fine and dandy but been trying to hammer in a live distro for a couple of hours now, but no dice. The only thing that shows up is Windows Boot Manager. No USBs of any kind. Likewise if I set UEFI to boot in legacy mode, the laptop is unable to boot at all. Tried to prepare the live disc with Unetbootin, Rufus in both modes. Fast boot is off, secure boot is off. Honestly no clue how to even get the USB to show up during boot alongside the WBM, let alone run anything. If it helps, I'm trying to do it with bunsenlabs.[/QUOTE] Also swap bank if they let you stay logged into the same session with more than a few minutes of inactivity.

[QUOTE=wraithcat;50981309]I'd actually strike the bank from this. Since I'd wager just about every decent one uses two factor auth by now. And if not, find a bank that does. ------------------- Though to be a bit egoistical and throw in a question myself. I've recently gotten an Aspire ES 13. Win 10 is all fine and dandy but been trying to hammer in a live distro for a couple of hours now, but no dice. The only thing that shows up is Windows Boot Manager. No USBs of any kind. Likewise if I set UEFI to boot in legacy mode, the laptop is unable to boot at all. Tried to prepare the live disc with Unetbootin, Rufus in both modes. Fast boot is off, secure boot is off. Honestly no clue how to even get the USB to show up during boot alongside the WBM, let alone run anything. If it helps, I'm trying to do it with bunsenlabs.[/QUOTE] My ~lovely~ bank also has a password limit of 15 characters. Joys of wells fargo. I want to switch to a credit union one of these days though. Also do you have any other methods of booting you can try? E.g. a disc drive? It's unlikely since you have it off but you could also try a Linux ISO that works with secure boot on, OpenSUSE is signed IIRC.

That reminds me I have to get a third bank because once again where I'm moving doesn't have branches for either of my current ones. Yay.

what the fuck, our freenas server got filled up and i can't delete files any longer, what a shitty system any better ones out there?

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;50981469]My ~lovely~ bank also has a password limit of 15 characters. Joys of wells fargo. I want to switch to a credit union one of these days though. Also do you have any other methods of booting you can try? E.g. a disc drive? It's unlikely since you have it off but you could also try a Linux ISO that works with secure boot on, OpenSUSE is signed IIRC.[/QUOTE] I'll try to make a live version of that. But I think it's something weird about Acer's UEFI. Still if that works, I'll try to get a signed Bunsen. I think there was a way to do it.

[QUOTE=Giraffen93;50982956]what the fuck, our freenas server got filled up and i can't delete files any longer, what a shitty system any better ones out there?[/QUOTE] You can still delete files using the CLI. Find a semi large file to delete and simply [code] echo > large-file [/code] where large-file is the filename of the large file. That'll empty the file, freeing space up. [editline]1st September 2016[/editline] This is a problem you will have on any system though. Nothing survives 100% fill rates.

Started on my new job today and installed Ubuntu because most tools are for Linux. I've come to like it, also there's some [I]really[/I] nice GTK themes out there. Command line is also starting to grow on me, although it kinda sucks there's no Musicbee or Google Drive.

[QUOTE=Number-41;50985093]Started on my new job today and installed Ubuntu because most tools are for Linux. I've come to like it, also there's some [I]really[/I] nice GTK themes out there. Command line is also starting to grow on me, although it kinda sucks there's no Musicbee or Google Drive.[/QUOTE] There's no [I]official[/I] Google Drive client, but you can do something that's even better IMO - mount your Google Drive storage as a file system. It's a little slower since it has to access it via the internet obv, but it doesn't take up disk space on your actual hard drive, which is great. There's a couple different third party clients to do this. But IIRC an official client is in the works if you prefer how the official one behaves. As for Musicbee, a quick search came up with Clementine as an alternative. I wouldn't know about either but check it out I guess :v:

Dunno, I've tried them all and none come even close. Musicbee has awesome auto-playlist stuff, highly customizable auto-tagging, LastFm scrobbling, really useful context menus (select a song and bam you can queue the entire album), .auto-organizing new music, ... I'll need a music library manager anyway so I'll probably go over all of them again. [editline]1st September 2016[/editline] Also the terminal is lovely!

If you -really- love Musicbee you should try it in WINE. I try to avoid WINE whenever possible (to the point where I don't even have it installed anymore), but if Clementine doesn't work for you then maybe it'll be worth it.

help I don't remember where httpd is on my VPS

[QUOTE=Ott;50985325]help I don't remember where httpd is on my VPS[/QUOTE] which httpd

the apache one [editline]1st September 2016[/editline] with the feather [editline]1st September 2016[/editline] the 404 page looks like this [img]http://i.imgur.com/YUbhAG7.png[/img]

Try /etc/apache2/ or /etc/apache/

[QUOTE=mastersrp;50983905]You can still delete files using the CLI. Find a semi large file to delete and simply [code] echo > large-file [/code] where large-file is the filename of the large file. That'll empty the file, freeing space up. [editline]1st September 2016[/editline] This is a problem you will have on any system though. Nothing survives 100% fill rates.[/QUOTE] it didn't help, but deleting snapshots did that's not true at all, this isn't the boot/system drive

[QUOTE=Giraffen93;50985498]it didn't help, but deleting snapshots did that's not true at all, this isn't the boot/system drive[/QUOTE] What isn't true? That nothing survives it? How is that not true? What survived? What files were you able to remove or create after a 100% fill rate?

[QUOTE=mastersrp;50985568]What isn't true? That nothing survives it? How is that not true? What survived? What files were you able to remove or create after a 100% fill rate?[/QUOTE] i couldn't do anything to the drive at all, neither truncating files (size was at 0 but drive was still 100% full) or rm. had to delete snapshots (which i was lucky to have created) to free up space so i could then delete files.

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;50985488]Try /etc/apache2/ or /etc/apache/[/QUOTE] I don't see anything [img]http://i.imgur.com/AYxrunT.png[/img]

[QUOTE=Ott;50985602]I don't see anything [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/AYxrunT.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] Strange, debian says it goes there. But I see lighthttpd is installed, perhaps that's the webserver you have running? You have an error page so you have something running at least

Oh :v:

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;50985118]There's no [I]official[/I] Google Drive client, but you can do something that's even better IMO - mount your Google Drive storage as a file system. It's a little slower since it has to access it via the internet obv, but it doesn't take up disk space on your actual hard drive, which is great. There's a couple different third party clients to do this. [/QUOTE] Just did this. It's awesome. How does this work for simultaneous access/modification though? Also, why is dragging tabs in Chromium so shitty?

You could also open top (or htop) and see what processes are running.