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

[QUOTE=Van-man;48213895]Well that's the beauty of Linux, you pick what fits you best then make it close to perfect for you. Suse Studio is neat, I'd wish other distro's would offer something similar.[/QUOTE] Although other "distros" don't offer it themselves, a lot of distros could easily have an equivilant service set up very quickly. Hell, you could probably set one up yourself in a matter of days.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;48214888]Although other "distros" don't offer it themselves, a lot of distros could easily have an equivilant service set up very quickly. Hell, you could probably set one up yourself in a matter of days.[/QUOTE] With the same stability, usability and feature-completeness? I don't think so.

-snip- my brain is toast

[QUOTE=Medevila;48218124]XFCE plays much nicer with seamless than Plasma 5 wanted to [t]http://i.imgur.com/AXISOBx.jpg[/t] buttery smooth[/QUOTE] For me moving windows looks a bit odd, but other than that everything's smooth as well.

After installing Arch, my CPU idle temperature has dropped around 5 degrees. Win?

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;48215642]With the same stability, usability and feature-completeness? I don't think so.[/QUOTE] Why not? All the packages are already there in Ubuntu to do these things really efficiently and fast, and the same goes for debian with debootstrap and stuff like that. It's really just a matter of what options the user can get, and then perform all those operations ahead-of-time, and upload the images to a server, ready to go. For additional operations, those images could easily be rw mounted and modified with ie additional custom configs, and shit like that. Doesn't take 5 seconds to complete most of these operations, if the servers hosting this are reasonably alright. Source: I work in hosting, and use (some of) my spare time at work to automate system building and distribution creation.

Is there a way to "clone" an existing Linux installation to a bootable flash stick?

dd

what?

[QUOTE=Killuah;48220566]what?[/QUOTE] [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_%28Unix%29]Data transfer program[/url]. The idea is to copy the entire partition onto a flash drive. You may still have to do some configuration, of course, so the system realises what it's booting from.

dd is the best thing.

[QUOTE=Killuah;48219740]Is there a way to "clone" an existing Linux installation to a bootable flash stick?[/QUOTE] If the existing Linux installation is bigger than the entire flash stick, it may be a good idea to use gparted to make this happen. However, please note that however you do this, it is not adviced to clone a RUNNING Linux installation.

[QUOTE=Levelog;48220636]dd is the best thing.[/QUOTE] Or the worst thing to cross your system if you "accidentally" `sudo dd of=/dev/sda if=/dev/zero` which I would advise never try it at home (or on anything) ever.

[QUOTE=Stonecycle;48221291]Or the worst thing to cross your system if you "accidentally" `sudo dd of=/dev/sda if=/dev/zero` which I would advise never try it at home (or on anything) ever.[/QUOTE] I done this to my external hdd which is my BACKUP drive. Lost (pretty much) everything :v: dd is bloody dangerous

To be fair if it's backed up just once or all in the same location, it might as well be not backed up.

disk destroyer

never broke anything with dd the only thing you can really mess up is what your output is, haing to check what the partition nr is etc

dd is like a minigun if you can handle it it's very powerful, but if you have issues with it you'll destroy everything in a 50ft radius of your target whether you want to or not

[QUOTE=Levelog;48225369]To be fair if it's backed up just once or all in the same location, it might as well be not backed up.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I know. Kinda silly to dd an iso to a usb from a drive full of my stuff :v:

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;48228182]never broke anything with dd the only thing you can really mess up is what your output is, haing to check what the partition nr is etc[/QUOTE] Note that writing `dd of=backup of=/dev/sda` is perfectly valid and will truncate the last specified file then write anything you accidently put into stdin. Also note that 'i' and 'o' are right next to eachother on QWERTY keyboards. What could possibly go wrong.

[QUOTE=josm;48228479]Yeah, I know. Kinda silly to dd an iso to a usb from a drive full of my stuff :v:[/QUOTE] You don't have to use dd to write an iso to a usb disk. You can usually use cp to do it. [CODE]cp my.iso /dev/sdb sync[/CODE]

My goal for this Friday night is to get very drunk at the bar with my coworkers then each of us install Gentoo directly after. Going to see who's is least broken tomorrow.

I wish my life was that interesting

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;48231749]I wish my life was that interesting[/QUOTE] Get a job with a bunch of borderline alcoholic nerds.

[QUOTE=Levelog;48231890]Get a job with a bunch of borderline alcoholic nerds.[/QUOTE] Any job within infosec should do.

[QUOTE=Levelog;48231728]My goal for this Friday night is to get very drunk at the bar with my coworkers then each of us install Gentoo directly after. Going to see who's is least broken tomorrow.[/QUOTE] feel free to call on me for help

[QUOTE=Levelog;48231728]My goal for this Friday night is to get very drunk at the bar with my coworkers then each of us install Gentoo directly after. Going to see who's is least broken tomorrow.[/QUOTE] Sounds like /g/'s perfect night out.

This is my first time I shot myself in Linux. I have dual boot Xubuntu and Lubuntu installation, and I need to delete steam folder inside Lubuntu to free up some space. Unfortunately I've accidentally deleted the steam folder inside Xubuntu, which I use everyday. I then remember that I've installed apt-btrfs-snapshot, but it doesn't take any snapshots for my home folder, so all of my KSP saves and ships are gone, with all of its screenshots and mods, with Dota 2 screenshots and Reborn, and everything steam related :suicide:

[QUOTE=Abaddon-ext4;48236827]This is my first time I shot myself in Linux. I have dual boot Xubuntu and Lubuntu installation, and I need to delete steam folder inside Lubuntu to free up some space. Unfortunately I've accidentally deleted the steam folder inside Xubuntu, which I use everyday. I then remember that I've installed apt-btrfs-snapshot, but it doesn't take any snapshots for my home folder, so all of my KSP saves and ships are gone, with all of its screenshots and mods, with Dota 2 screenshots and Reborn, and everything steam related :suicide:[/QUOTE] wasn't any of it synced to steam cloud?

[QUOTE=Levelog;48231728]My goal for this Friday night is to get very drunk at the bar with my coworkers then each of us install Gentoo directly after. Going to see who's is least broken tomorrow.[/QUOTE] I didn't even get fully through the installation before I passed out.