General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Year of the Linux Desktop!
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[QUOTE=mastersrp;49767095]It doesn't work with xrandr?[/QUOTE]
only halfway. I have to set it with xrandr first which for some odd reason will only affect the mouse cursor, then I'll have to open and close the nvidia control panel for it to kick in for everything else as well.
[QUOTE=PredGD;49767104]only halfway. I have to set it with xrandr first which for some odd reason will only affect the mouse cursor, then I'll have to open and close the nvidia control panel for it to kick in for everything else as well.[/QUOTE]
I suddenly have the same problem under Windows.
Okay Nvidia, what the shit, this better be a coincidence, because otherwise I guess their driver requires a internet connection now.
[t]http://s13.postimg.org/676vm3mxz/what_the_shit.png[/t]
It may be a stupid question, but is it possible to build a very minimal/small, statically linked with musl based system with gentoo or anything else?
[editline]18th February 2016[/editline]
Or do I have to go raw and balls deep in LFS
[QUOTE=ichiman94;49767714]It may be a stupid question, but is it possible to build a very minimal/small, statically linked with musl based system with gentoo or anything else?
[editline]18th February 2016[/editline]
Or do I have to go raw and balls deep in LFS[/QUOTE]
Alpine Linux is just that. Musl. Statically compiled as much as possible. OpenRC + Busybox init. It is also the new default Docker official image at just 5MB.
Also allows you to compile everything yourself with their repository, sort of like Gentoo or Ports, but not quite.
[url]http://alpinelinux.org/[/url]
I use it for my workstation on an SD Card, and it's great.
I think I have the perfect(read disgusting) linux/windows hybrid running.
I have Arch running in a headless VirtualBox VM with raw access to my btrfs RAID array and home folder shared to the host with samba. Then I have cygwin with xwin running on the host with a shell set up to auto-ssh into the VM with X forwarding.
It's a horrible abomination and I love it <3
EDIT: It's so terrible but it works
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/mmlLXSh.png[/img_thumb]
QEMU is a pain to get to work sometimes. trying to get a Windows 10 guest to work decently but its a struggle. it boots and I suppose it works, the disk and the network are both VirtIO and all other VirtIO drivers are installed so that's out of the way but for some weird reason I still don't have any internet or audio in the guest. the mouse is also pretty stuttery which is annoying. at the very least I got qxl and spice working pretty fast on something newer than Windows 7 pretty much instantly, that's new to me.
if anyone has any idea how to get networking to properly work I'd love some help.
networking stuff in my QEMU line
[code]-net nic,model=virtio -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no,vhost=on[/code]
this is literally just what the wiki said. the VirtIO driver is installed as mentioned earlier. I have a feeling I need to route my ethernet connection to the tap interface to get internet to work but I have no idea how I'd go about doing that. networking is not my strong side
You have to route eth0 or whatever to tap. Otherwise the guest won't see it. I think the Arch wiki had a guide to do this with networkmanager, or maybe I used something else.
Sound was always a pain in the ass for me, I couldn't get it to work with ALSA at all, had to use PA
Thunar literally takes two full minutes to start after a reboot. No exaggeration, I timed it. I'm on an old laptop with Ext4 on the HDD. I've tried reinstalling thunar, but to no avail.
What can I do?
try removing it's config under ~/.config ?
[QUOTE=Lyoko2;49778088]try removing it's config under ~/.config ?[/QUOTE]
No effect :(
Should people who do not code switch to Linux from Windows? I'm looking for a new platform since MS forced win updates on everyone.
[QUOTE=AhoyMate;49778599]Should people who do not code switch to Linux from Windows? I'm looking for a new platform since MS forced win updates on everyone.[/QUOTE]
That really depends what you do with it. People who don't code can switch to Linux, but there are the drawbacks that some software isn't cross compatible. But if all you do is browse the internet and use some sort of office suite, it wouldn't be a problem to switch
There's still benefits, like all software instead of just the OS, being updated, and you can just, not update, if you don't want to.
But that exposes you to security vulnerabilities. But you can just pick a distribution with a stable/LTS release, they don't swap out packages for funsies, they mostly only do security updates.
[QUOTE=FPtje;49777801]Thunar literally takes two full minutes to start after a reboot. No exaggeration, I timed it. I'm on an old laptop with Ext4 on the HDD. I've tried reinstalling thunar, but to no avail.
What can I do?[/QUOTE]
Add the thunar daemon to your autostart
thunar --daemon
Hey, I know Wine isn't very popular around this thread, but I seem to have an issue with Arch Linux this time.
In Ubuntu wine and wine mono are working together and .Net programs are actually working, but when installing same packages on archlinux, executing (arch wiki suggestion):
"wine msiexec /i /usr/share/wine/mono/wine-mono-4.5.6.msi".
I'm unable to launch any .Net program under wine at all.
anyone knows why?
I'm working on a few testbed VM's for practice. Trying to work on a list of server roles I need to configure. Any suggestions? Here's what I have so far.
Email
Print server
Samba
Internal chat
external website
internal website
fileserver
virtualized program
pfsense with dns, dhcp, filter
vpn server
[QUOTE=Lyoko2;49800961]Hey, I know Wine isn't very popular around this thread, but I seem to have an issue with Arch Linux this time.
In Ubuntu wine and wine mono are working together and .Net programs are actually working, but when installing same packages on archlinux, executing (arch wiki suggestion):
"wine msiexec /i /usr/share/wine/mono/wine-mono-4.5.6.msi".
I'm unable to launch any .Net program under wine at all.
anyone knows why?[/QUOTE]
[code]$ winetricks mono[/code]
?
[QUOTE=Levelog;49802868]I'm working on a few testbed VM's for practice. Trying to work on a list of server roles I need to configure. Any suggestions? Here's what I have so far.
Email
Print server
Samba
Internal chat
external website
internal website
fileserver
virtualized program
pfsense with dns, dhcp, filter
vpn server[/QUOTE]
Dunno what your org uses, but... databases? Centralised logging? Monitoring? IDS? Backups (unless that falls under "fileserver")?
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I have the weirdest fucking problem: xdg-open infinite loops. Basically my computer will freeze and burn a few minutes after clicking a link.
Why?
Well look at this
[code]
falco@falco-laptop:~/Documents/thesis$ xdg-open "https://www.google.nl/"
[/code]
Result:
[img]http://imgur.com/ri26RLCl.png[/img]
I've run the following commands to set chromium as the default browser:
[code]
xdg-mime default /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop text/html
xdg-mime default /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop x-scheme-handler/https
xdg-mime default /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop x-scheme-handler/http
[/code]
Both with root as with my normal user. No effect.
What is this nonsense!?
[QUOTE=Levelog;49802868]I'm working on a few testbed VM's for practice. Trying to work on a list of server roles I need to configure. Any suggestions? Here's what I have so far.
Email
Print server
Samba
Internal chat
external website
internal website
fileserver
virtualized program
pfsense with dns, dhcp, filter
vpn server[/QUOTE]
Git Server maybe?
-snip
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;49804221]Dunno what your org uses, but... databases? Centralised logging? Monitoring? IDS? Backups (unless that falls under "fileserver")?[/QUOTE]
IDS falls under pfsense and backup falls under fileserver, but thanks. Added.
[QUOTE=Levelog;49805785]IDS falls under pfsense and backup falls under fileserver, but thanks. Added.[/QUOTE]
Backup doesn't fall under fileserver, no. Backup falls under backup strategy planning, which is completely different. You might have a backup plan that saves using a fileserver, but maybe you don't. Maybe it saves using a different protocol, maybe it uses a network mount, maybe something else entirely.
Try multiple backup strategies. Plan them anyway. Figure out which ones work better than the others, and why. Maybe you could do something completely different in that regard too.
[QUOTE=mastersrp;49806014]Backup doesn't fall under fileserver, no. Backup falls under backup strategy planning, which is completely different. You might have a backup plan that saves using a fileserver, but maybe you don't. Maybe it saves using a different protocol, maybe it uses a network mount, maybe something else entirely.
Try multiple backup strategies. Plan them anyway. Figure out which ones work better than the others, and why. Maybe you could do something completely different in that regard too.[/QUOTE]
Fileserver is a pretty damn broad category. Backup strategy planning is not a server role.
[QUOTE=Levelog;49806063]Fileserver is a pretty damn broad category. Backup strategy planning is not a server role.[/QUOTE]
Maybe not, but it is incredibly important to know how your backup strategy is going to work with your server roles. Too many people work with servers for years with backup strategies that fail them. Don't be like that.
Considering I'm buying a server soon, how stable is BTRFS RAID and send/receive?
[QUOTE=mastersrp;49806194]Maybe not, but it is incredibly important to know how your backup strategy is going to work with your server roles. Too many people work with servers for years with backup strategies that fail them. Don't be like that.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I get that. I fairly well understand many backup strategies and their strengths and weaknesses working in a data center and all.
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