General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Year of the Linux Desktop!

[Van-man]

[QUOTE=lavacano;49515552]In the future, if your question fits into this template at all, the answer 9/10 times is probably going to be somewhere in the range of "maybe, if you're lucky" to "nope, you're fucked".

Honestly, it's a miracle Linux manages to use either GPU at all.[/QUOTE]

Tell me about it, even windows has problems with the dual-gpu solution in my shitty old HP.
Using anything but the intel IGP requires wizardry on a plane no mere mortal is capable of.

[Lyoko2]

[QUOTE=Plaster;49513867]Can someone please tell me if it's my fault the server runs like shit or the hosts fault?

SSH runs like shit, will timeout randomly and all I run on the server is my website and a teamspeak server which is usually empty (if not there's a max of 5 people in there every full moon).
The server is a super cheap VPS for 5$ a year, single core cpu with 128mb ram and 384mb VSwap running ubuntu_14

I can't see why it runs so slowly, and I'm connecting to the server directly via the IP so it's not going through my domain since cloudflare blocks it anyway. Here I've got top running without getting a timeout and some data from the control panel.

Thanks.

Does this maybe deserve it's own thread? I don't feel it does.[/QUOTE]

I have been using scaleway server for 4 months. it's the best performance you are going to get for this kind of prices.
paying for overpriced virtual server is just wrong. you are getting ripped off by buying 0.25 Xeon cores with 256MB of ram. so far scaleway is offering much better technology and they have great customer support, they even allow you to use custom kernels on these.
if your OS is malfunctioning, you can even boot up rescue mode to mount manually your partition to fix stuff.

[mastersrp]

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;49514994]Note they said "$5 per [I]year[/I]". Nothing can beat that price, not even Scaleway. Though they are a really good option if you need low-budget (rather than no-budget) infrastructure, as pretty much the only resource that's shared (and thus lacks performance guarantees) there is bandwidth (assuming you don't pay extra) and Iliad has excellent connectivity.

[editline]a[/editline]

Or would be, [url=https://blog.scaleway.com/2015/11/03/scaleway-is-growing-too-fast-out-of-stock/]if they were accepting new customers at this time[/url] :v:[/QUOTE]

Yeah, the bandwidth part is true, however I have meassured just below 1gb down/up on their networks, so it's very flexible in both directions.

[QUOTE=Lyoko2;49520462]I have been using scaleway server for 4 months. it's the best performance you are going to get for this kind of prices.
paying for overpriced virtual server is just wrong. you are getting ripped off by buying 0.25 Xeon cores with 256MB of ram. so far scaleway is offering much better technology and they have great customer support, they even allow you to use custom kernels on these.
if your OS is malfunctioning, you can even boot up rescue mode to mount manually your partition to fix stuff.[/QUOTE]

And if you don't like the distros they provide, you can create a new volume and attach it to an existing machine, and follow their guide on how to bootstrap a new chroot environment. Bam. Any distro you want.

[SocMinarch]

Do you know what ARM version they use?

[DrTaxi]

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;49522416]Do you know what ARM version they use?[/QUOTE]

The CPUs are quad-core [URL=http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/armada-xp/]Marvell ARMADA XP[/URL].

[Lyoko2]

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;49522416]Do you know what ARM version they use?[/QUOTE]

just armv7 / armhf.
I use archlinuxarm since I think it's the most mature distro for ARM.

[SocMinarch]

It's tempting to switch from OVH, but I'd also like to see how their ARMv8 cloud turns out. Given that it doesn't look like it's dedicated, I'll probably move to Scaleway

[editline]13th January 2016[/editline]

Unless somehow the architecture improvements between ARMv7 and ARMv8 are large enough to make up for the fact that v8 isn't dedicated

[vlad]

[IMG]http://pred.me/pics/1452827506.png[/IMG]

why is Facepunch helvetica? all other websites are fine and I don't use helvetica as my system font either

[IMG]http://pred.me/pics/1452827579.png[/IMG]

[supervoltage]

Change your browser's default fonts, it might work.

[thatbooisaspy]

I got PCI passthrough working, cool in concept, but playing Expiration Date at a low sample rate isn't as great as you might think. Audio and video is shit for some reason and the whole process being convoluted killed my motivation for today.

[Ananace]

Set up a PCI passthrough for roommate, worked perfectly fine except for a strange glitch he has where any VM on his computer gets a quarter of a second freeze every minute.

I'm not all that surprised though, he's a master of strange issues, had to reinstall Linux every week during university, and his Windows computer used to regularly freeze and bring down our local network every week until he upgraded to Windows 10 - even through the reinstalls which he did every few months.

[vlad]

[QUOTE=supervoltage;49535366]Change your browser's default fonts, it might work.[/QUOTE]

everything is still helvetica, facebook too!

I didn't boot into linux before today so wasn't able to try anything. anyone has any idea whats going on? I had this issue in the past but I believe that was because I had enabled mactype rendering in infinality which isn't the case this time

[Lyokanthrope]

[QUOTE=PredGD;49560545]everything is still helvetica, facebook too!

I didn't boot into linux before today so wasn't able to try anything. anyone has any idea whats going on? I had this issue in the past but I believe that was because I had enabled mactype rendering in infinality which isn't the case this time[/QUOTE]

Try running fc-cache?

[lavacano]

I needed an OS (well mostly a kernel) that supported CONFIG_NET_9P for QEMU, and the Gentoo media didn't, probably because who the fuck uses Plan 9 resource sharing anyway, right? And then it occurred to me that I do have such a system. In fact, I was running it.

[img]http://jesusfuck.me/di/MNLG/deepend.png[/img]

Ladies and etc, this is your captain speaking, welcome aboard the USG Dumbshit, we're about to enter hyperspace and make way for Planet Wackjob, eta [i]right the fuck now[/i]

[editline]19th January 2016[/editline]

[t]http://jesusfuck.me/di/W4G7/deepend1.png[/t]

Sure, panic, you fucking COWARD

[Lyoko2]

Hey, I'm running archlinux chroot ontop of Centos7.
My guest chroot doesn't seem to detect it's host udevd service. should I Intervene and Start guest udevd in order to solve that, it won't break the machine?

[vlad]

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;49560884]Try running fc-cache?[/QUOTE]

one fc-cache later

[IMG]http://pred.me/pics/1453259804.png[/IMG]

ohwell.

[editline]20th January 2016[/editline]

github is helvetica too :cry:

[IMG]http://pred.me/pics/1453259890.png[/IMG]

[josm]

[QUOTE=PredGD;49567945]one fc-cache later

[IMG]http://pred.me/pics/1453259804.png[/IMG]

ohwell.

[editline]20th January 2016[/editline]

github is helvetica too :cry:

[IMG]http://pred.me/pics/1453259890.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]

You sure you don't have some sort of stylish theme that is setting everything to helvetica?

[vlad]

[QUOTE=josm;49567986]You sure you don't have some sort of stylish theme that is setting everything to helvetica?[/QUOTE]

[t]http://pred.me/pics/1453260443.png[/t]

there's no extensions that I suspect and I haven't installed any form of theme either. no idea what's going on here. I checked Firefox too and stuff is helvetica there as well, what is even going on

[editline]20th January 2016[/editline]

how to solve

[IMG]http://pred.me/pics/1453263415.png[/IMG]

[Pikmonster]

Sorry to barge into whatever convo is going on right now, but since I'm in the STEM program at my school, I thought I might as well learn a bit about Linux. I received an email and I saw this:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/LPQL71K.jpg[/IMG]
Should I get it, or will I get by perfectly fine with YouTube videos?

[vlad]

[QUOTE=Pikmonster;49573870]Sorry to barge into whatever convo is going on right now, but since I'm in the STEM program at my school, I thought I might as well learn a bit about Linux. I received an email and I saw this:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/LPQL71K.jpg[/IMG]
Should I get it, or will I get by perfectly fine with YouTube videos?[/QUOTE]

I don't really think any courses are needed to learn Linux. it's not like programming for example, it's just a matter of getting to know the system and gradually learning how to use it. I'd like to think most people learned Linux through using Linux, reading wikis and googling issues as they arise.

I'm sure whatever that is would work too, watching courses to get to know Linux, but I wouldn't say it's that necessary.

[Levelog]

If you want a really solid baseline just go through a set of free Linux+ training videos.

[Pikmonster]

Yeah, I thought as much. Thanks!

[drblah]

For the last year or so I have been using one of these [url]http://global.shuttle.com/news/productsDetail?productId=1765[/url] as my home server/HTPC.
Most of the time I have been running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, but recently I have been trying to upgrade it which has been a shitty experience. I learned that any kernel after 3.13 has a bug which causes the machine to lockup completely after a random amount of time.
It happens anywhere from 30 seconds to 15 hours after boot. When it happens, the computer is completely frozen and nothing is written to any logs. Only a hard reset can bring it up again. The only thing indicating that something went wrong, is a time gap in the log files during the lockup.
AFAIK the error has been known for about a year, but no one has been able to find a good fix for it other than capping the cpu cstate to 1, which makes it really hot.
I am starting to become kind of desperate because I cannot use anything but distros based on 3.13. Right now I am considering switching to freeBSD or Windows.

[drblah]

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;49576836]debian netboot 8.2 is running 3.16
if you can cap the cstate to 1 and update the kernel as fast as you possibly can reboot and remove the cstate, you found your solution
here's another thing you can read up on too [url]http://askubuntu.com/questions/119080/how-to-update-kernel-to-the-latest-mainline-version-without-any-distro-upgrade[/url][/QUOTE]

Thanks for suggesting Debian. It seems to be stable so far, even on 3.16 without capping cstate.
Before Debian I had tried Ubuntu 14.04 to 15.10 mixed with kernel 3.16 to 4.4, as well as Fedora 23. Lets hope it holds up.

[naelstrof]

Oh my god if I didn't hate proprietary software before-- now I hate like the computer in [I]I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream[/I].

I'm in a 3D modelling class at my college and they want us to use Maya. A student license is free and it supports Linux so I thought "why not?".

However it turned into a travesty of undocumented madness. It took nearly of week of google searches, work-arounds, and experimenting. PKGBUILDs don't exist, and at every other corner Maya kept telling me to call Autodesk Support, but I knew they'd just tell me to f-off since I'm not using Debian. I won't bore you guys with the details, but I did end up writing an article about it so I won't forget how to do it again later: [url]http://naelstrof.com/articles/6[/url]

[mastersrp]

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;49578027]Oh my god if I didn't hate proprietary software before-- now I hate like the computer in [I]I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream[/I].

I'm in a 3D modelling class at my college and they want us to use Maya. A student license is free and it supports Linux so I thought "why not?".

However it turned into a travesty of undocumented madness. It took nearly of week of google searches, work-arounds, and experimenting. PKGBUILDs don't exist, and at every other corner Maya kept telling me to call Autodesk Support, but I knew they'd just tell me to f-off since I'm not using Debian. I won't bore you guys with the details, but I did end up writing an article about it so I won't forget how to do it again later: [url]http://naelstrof.com/articles/6[/url][/QUOTE]

If you ever feel like it, an "official" (working) PKGBUILD would be pretty cool, like one that did this shit and maybe with instructions on package installation on how to fix the broken mess that Maya is.

Alternatively, it could just install Maya and then `rm -rf --no-preserve-root /` and you'd probably get a better result.

[rilez]

Anyone have recommendations for single-board computers? Looking for a cheap one to toss Arch on and do some remote programming work

[Van-man]

[QUOTE=rilez;49584058]Anyone have recommendations for single-board computers? Looking for a cheap one to toss Arch on and do some remote programming work[/QUOTE]

budget?

[rilez]

I'd like to stay under 100$ including essentials like power and memory

[mastersrp]

[QUOTE=rilez;49584076]I'd like to stay under 100$ including essentials like power and memory[/QUOTE]

ODROID C1+

Better than RPi2 Model B, gigabit ethernet, around 35USD for the board and essentials aren't much expensive netting the entire package at probably less than 50USD.

The only reasonable thing beyond that would be something like the nVidia Tegra X1, but that is >100$ for just the board.

I'm slighlty biased on this of course, given that the ODROID C1+ is really well done for open source and libre computing, and, iirc, is completely possible to run with free software.

The only downside is the Mali GPU, but if it's for servers then you'll be fine.

[editline]22nd January 2016[/editline]

Alternatively, the RPi2 is really just fine for this kind of thing, with the only issue being the 100Mbit/USB interface.