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

If you want stability like that you should probably be using Debian Stable or CentOS. Or Suse, because they've got that uptime funk.

If you want stability, you don't use a distribution with RPM or YUM based package upgrades or scripts upgrades at all. You use a system with an atomic-transactional upgrade system like what Nix or Guix does. Or something better that is out there. Anything else currently has issues. Or will have issues, eventually.

Manjaro is doing a pretty damn good job being both rolling release [I]and[/I] stable.

Eh people can use whatever distro they wanna use. I might be killing my Arch install soon because I almost never use it, will probably end up installing Ubuntu instead for my Android build environment.

Meanwhile, if Gentoo upgrades break (which doesn't happen often, even on ~amd64), it's more likely to be the upgrade process [i]itself[/i] that breaks, and you still have (most of) your old pre-update system running to try and figure out what the hell happened. And there's also a bunch of tools to fix the most likely cases of runtime breakage, because people actually thought of that shit and said "alright we have no reasonable way to prevent this scenario because that's just how bleeding edge works but here's an automated tool you can use to fix it" (i do not get paid to evangelize)

Out of curiosity, your post made me look up whether there was a Gentoo ARM port or not. Yes, there's a full install guide for the Raspberry Pi. That should be fun...

[QUOTE=rilez;49604111] Wireless can be annoying to setup. Use NetworkManager or something, unless you want to be annoyed. Make sure you sort through the mirror list, because the default usually isn't the best. [B]Reflector can do that for you automatically. [/B][/QUOTE] That's pretty useful, thanks fam. I was wondering if something was up with my internet; I guess it was just the mirrors that couldn't give me more than 600 KB/s.

[QUOTE=rilez;49608483]Out of curiosity, your post made me look up whether there was a Gentoo ARM port or not. Yes, there's a full install guide for the Raspberry Pi. That should be fun...[/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/YsxiYvC.png[/img] There's also Gentoo on FreeBSD, Gentoo on Mac was a thing at one point, and I think I even remember a Gentoo on Windows, so no matter what your device, the answer is [b]always[/b] to install Gentoo.

[QUOTE=lavacano;49609548][img]http://i.imgur.com/YsxiYvC.png[/img] There's also Gentoo on FreeBSD, Gentoo on Mac was a thing at one point, and I think I even remember a Gentoo on Windows, so no matter what your device, the answer is [b]always[/b] to install Gentoo.[/QUOTE] Gentoo on IoT. Let's make it happen.

But can I install Gentoo on my TI84?

[QUOTE=Levelog;49609602]But can I install Gentoo on my TI84?[/QUOTE] It'd probably take a few lifetimes to get it to run a single command :v:

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;49609664]It'd probably take a few lifetimes to get it to run a single command :v:[/QUOTE] Yeah... But it'd be a challenge!

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;49609664]It'd probably take a few lifetimes to get it to run a single command :v:[/QUOTE] So it's just like Gentoo on S390x then?

I need help. I installed the AMD Catalyst 14.9 video drivers for x86_64 Ubuntu (I'm running Mint 17.3, and that's Ubuntu-based as much as I know), and now I only get a blank screen when launching. I wouldn't have such a problem if not the recovery menu not wanting to start the network, it starts out fine, then throws a bunch of errors and stops me at the command line, unable to even get back to the recovery. People say to reinstall xserver, but I can't, because again, network not working.

[QUOTE=Hergan5;49610767]I need help. I installed the AMD Catalyst 14.9 video drivers for x86_64 Ubuntu (I'm running Mint 17.3, and that's Ubuntu-based as much as I know), and now I only get a blank screen when launching. I wouldn't have such a problem if not the recovery menu not wanting to start the network, it starts out fine, then throws a bunch of errors and stops me at the command line, unable to even get back to the recovery. People say to reinstall xserver, but I can't, because again, network not working.[/QUOTE] Boot into a recovery Linux and chroot into your system to fix it. Assuming you installed AMD Catalyst with your package manager (in this case I think Ubuntu used to use jockey for this, but [url=http://askubuntu.com/questions/441415/what-has-jockey-been-replaced-with-in-14-04/441416]this article[/url] says it's now software-properties), just use software-properties/jockey's CLI to uninstall it. If you downloaded and executed AMD's Catalyst installer as root you probably want to reinstall regardless, you should never install things without your package manager.

My god I'm an idiot. I was wondering why I was getting "Cannot connect to X server" errors while trying to open a desktop program. I was still SSH'd into one of my servers...

Decided to spring for the Pi for the maker community, picked up some electronics equipment while I was at it. I'll finally have a decent soldering iron (Hakko) so that should be fun

[video=youtube;WipM3SAYqK4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WipM3SAYqK4[/video] I've been pronouncing verbatim, Suse, Vi and GNU wrongly this whole time...

That stallman statement 10 minutes in had me in fucking stitches

[QUOTE=FPtje;49625439]That stallman statement 10 minutes in had me in fucking stitches[/QUOTE] Someone really needs to put that out there. It's gonna happen, and it's gonna be amazing. More should join the Church of Emacs. [editline]28th January 2016[/editline] Turns out this isn't the first time he's done that. Amazing.

Honestly, I thought Stallman would have a deeper voice. I blame the beard.

Not sure why you'd want to switch, but my opinion is that people should avoid Ubuntu. If you want to use something[B] like [/B]Ubuntu, stick to Debian. If you want a mostly FOSS OS, use Fedora or SUSE. Arch is my favorite, but part of its strength lies in your willingness to mess with it

I always recommend Mint as the "Linux for idiots" distro these days, it's basically Ubuntu without Canonical fucking it up as much

If you're going to use Mint, at least use LMDE

That moment when you laptop returns from repair and the xhci_hcd/ehci controller is broken, yeah...

Either you have to edit the [URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinitrc"].xinitrc[/URL] file or do something with your [URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_manager"]display manager of choice[/URL]. The command is [I]startxfce4[/I].

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;49637878]story time with my lxde laptop editing x11 50 synaptics conf added in what i needed made a fuck up and didn't realize till after reboot reboot no gui. remove xorg and everything related to x11, reinstall everything reboot still no gui,, remove lxde and install xfce4 reboot, no gui upgrade and went back into conf file i messed with i added in a EndSection where there was already one removed it reboot GUI but its still LXDE and not XFCE4 [t]http://i.imgur.com/DZFuEuD.png[/t] HOW THE FUCK[/QUOTE] not really related to your problem, but putty? don't forget that linux has SSH built into it, just use "ssh -p <your port, or just don't add -p if you still use the default port (22)> [email]user@example.org[/email]" to connect in the terminal

Just killed a Virtualbox VM with an active transfer over USB pass-through. System was _not_ happy about that; seems to have killed all USB devices on the host and I had to hard reboot.

[QUOTE=PredGD;49637974]not really related to your problem, but putty? don't forget that linux has SSH built into it, just use "ssh -p <your port, or just don't add -p if you still use the default port (22)> [email]user@example.org[/email]" to connect in the terminal[/QUOTE] Yeah what the shit Kiwi [editline]30th January 2016[/editline] I mean I guess with Putty you can save many SSH destinations for easy access.

[QUOTE=Levelog;49638578]Yeah what the shit Kiwi [editline]30th January 2016[/editline] I mean I guess with Putty you can save many SSH destinations for easy access.[/QUOTE] He's definitely using it for convenience.