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paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
i need to very quickly learn to appear like i know linux or i will lose my car.

im too intimidated to post anywhere but gbs for help

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Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
Read slashdot. Get mad 'bout Windows.

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
So being slovenly and unpopular wasn't enough?

Murray Mantoinette
Jun 11, 2005

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Clapping Larry
Use the word 'distro' when referring to the brand of linux you employ. Don't pick 'Ubuntu' or you'll look like an idiot. 'Debian', 'Fedora' (yes it's real), Arch, or SUZE are good choices. If someone asks you to show them how to use linux say "sorry, i'm in the middle of an update and my kernel is still compiling" and walk away.

Pendent
Nov 16, 2011

The bonds of blood transcend all others.
But no blood runs stronger than that of Sanguinius
Grimey Drawer
You should probably jerk off a bunch to Richard Stallman to get in the mood

Murray Mantoinette
Jun 11, 2005

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Clapping Larry

Pendent posted:

You should probably jerk off a bunch to Richard Stallman to get in the mood

Stallman's ok, but Linus Torvalds could mount my... proc...? And ps in my mouth? Sorry, it's early in the morning where I'm at and I haven't had my coffee yet. My linux puns are subpar.

Pendent
Nov 16, 2011

The bonds of blood transcend all others.
But no blood runs stronger than that of Sanguinius
Grimey Drawer

Linux Pirate
Apr 21, 2012


make sure you get a good pair of speakers

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge
act really mad about ubuntu and insist that everyone try arch

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

Classic paul_soccer, haha

The Bananana
May 21, 2008

This is a metaphor, a Christian allegory. The fact that I have to explain to you that Jesus is the Warthog, and the Banana is drepanocytosis is just embarrassing for you.



I have a wondowns coputer

Murray Mantoinette
Jun 11, 2005

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Clapping Larry
Say "'Windows'? More like 'Losedows', am I right?". And also use '$' instead of 's' whenever you spell Microsoft Micro$oft.

You can learn all the other stuff like network setup, customizable GUI and poring over config files for hours trying to get a video to play when you have more time later.

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn8gealMDsg

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
Make 99999999999999999999999999999999999 posts in YOSPOS. Like me.

Pendent
Nov 16, 2011

The bonds of blood transcend all others.
But no blood runs stronger than that of Sanguinius
Grimey Drawer

The Bananana
May 21, 2008

This is a metaphor, a Christian allegory. The fact that I have to explain to you that Jesus is the Warthog, and the Banana is drepanocytosis is just embarrassing for you.



Smythe posted:

Make 99999999999999999999999999999999999 posts in YOSPOS. Like me.

Hey Smiythe, I have a question

My Rhythmic Crotch
Jan 13, 2011

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

st1LL_51ngl3 posted:

Say "'Windows'? More like 'Losedows', am I right?". And also use '$' instead of 's' whenever you spell Microsoft Micro$oft.

You can learn all the other stuff like network setup, customizable GUI and poring over config files for hours trying to get a video to play when you have more time later.

Why would I go through the window when there is a door?

This is the kind of Winders burn that seems funny if you speak English as a 4th or 5th language.

Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


if anyone asks you the gotcha question of "how to get the time on a command line" remember it's date NOT time and also keep ur door oPEN!

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

loving. GOLDMINE!!!!!!!

Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


remember the names emacs and vim and if someone mentions one then get real mad and say u only use the other

Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


hey


fprot teh tarball !!!!!11







heh an old sa classic,.

Kthulhu5000
Jul 25, 2006

by R. Guyovich
what's so hard about linux?

you just need to think hard that you know linux, and then sure enough, you do!

Utterly Irrelephant
Sep 6, 2007
ive got a rocket in my pocket
#rm -rf */

Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is Richard Stallman? This is Richard Stallman speaking. Names convey meanings; our choice of names determines the meaning of what we say. An inappropriate name gives people the wrong idea. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet—but if you call it a pen, people will be rather disappointed when they try to write with it. And if you call pens “roses”, people may not realize what they are good for. If you call our operating system Linux, that conveys a mistaken idea of the system's origin, history, and purpose. If you call it GNU/Linux, that conveys (though not in detail) an accurate idea.

Does this really matter for our community? Is it important whether people know the system's origin, history, and purpose? Yes—because people who forget history are often condemned to repeat it. The Free World that has developed around GNU/Linux is not guaranteed to survive; the problems that led us to develop GNU are not completely eradicated, and they threaten to come back.

When I explain why it's appropriate to call the operating system GNU/Linux rather than Linux, people sometimes respond this way:

Granted that the GNU Project deserves credit for this work, is it really worth a fuss when people don't give credit? Isn't the important thing that the job was done, not who did it? You ought to relax, take pride in the job well done, and not worry about the credit.

This would be wise advice, if only the situation were like that—if the job were done and it were time to relax. If only that were true! But challenges abound, and this is no time to take the future for granted. Our community's strength rests on commitment to freedom and cooperation. Using the name GNU/Linux is a way for people to remind themselves and inform others of these goals.

It is possible to write good free software without thinking of GNU; much good work has been done in the name of Linux also. But the term “Linux” has been associated ever since it was first coined with a philosophy that does not make a commitment to the freedom to cooperate. As the name is increasingly used by business, we will have even more trouble making it connect with community spirit.

A great challenge to the future of free software comes from the tendency of the “Linux” distribution companies to add nonfree software to GNU/Linux in the name of convenience and power. All the major commercial distribution developers do this; none limits itself to free software. Most of them do not clearly identify the nonfree packages in their distributions. Many even develop nonfree software and add it to the system. Some outrageously advertise “Linux” systems that are “licensed per seat”, which give the user as much freedom as Microsoft Windows.

People try to justify adding nonfree software in the name of the “popularity of Linux”—in effect, valuing popularity above freedom. Sometimes this is openly admitted. For instance, Wired Magazine said that Robert McMillan, editor of Linux Magazine, “feels that the move toward open source software should be fueled by technical, rather than political, decisions.” And Caldera's CEO openly urged users to drop the goal of freedom and work instead for the “popularity of Linux”.

Adding nonfree software to the GNU/Linux system may increase the popularity, if by popularity we mean the number of people using some of GNU/Linux in combination with nonfree software. But at the same time, it implicitly encourages the community to accept nonfree software as a good thing, and forget the goal of freedom. It is not good to drive faster if you can't stay on the road.

When the nonfree “add-on” is a library or programming tool, it can become a trap for free software developers. When they write free software that depends on the nonfree package, their software cannot be part of a completely free system. Motif and Qt trapped large amounts of free software in this way in the past, creating problems whose solutions took years. Motif remained somewhat of a problem until it became obsolete and was no longer used. Later, Sun's nonfree Java implementation had a similar effect: the Java Trap, fortunately now mostly corrected.

If our community keeps moving in this direction, it could redirect the future of GNU/Linux into a mosaic of free and nonfree components. Five years from now, we will surely still have plenty of free software; but if we are not careful, it will hardly be usable without the nonfree software that users expect to find with it. If this happens, our campaign for freedom will have failed.

If releasing free alternatives were simply a matter of programming, solving future problems might become easier as our community's development resources increase. But we face obstacles that threaten to make this harder: laws that prohibit free software. As software patents mount up, and as laws like the DMCA are used to prohibit the development of free software for important jobs such as viewing a DVD or listening to a RealAudio stream, we will find ourselves with no clear way to fight the patented and secret data formats except to reject the nonfree programs that use them.

Meeting these challenges will require many different kinds of effort. But what we need above all, to confront any kind of challenge, is to remember the goal of freedom to cooperate. We can't expect a mere desire for powerful, reliable software to motivate people to make great efforts. We need the kind of determination that people have when they fight for their freedom and their community—determination to keep on for years and not give up.

In our community, this goal and this determination emanate mainly from the GNU Project. We're the ones who talk about freedom and community as something to stand firm for; the organizations that speak of “Linux” normally don't say this. The magazines about “Linux” are typically full of ads for nonfree software; the companies that package “Linux” add nonfree software to the system; other companies “support Linux” by developing nonfree applications to run on GNU/Linux; the user groups for “Linux” typically invite salesman to present those applications. The main place people in our community are likely to come across the idea of freedom and determination is in the GNU Project.

But when people come across it, will they feel it relates to them?

People who know they are using a system that came out of the GNU Project can see a direct relationship between themselves and GNU. They won't automatically agree with our philosophy, but at least they will see a reason to think seriously about it. In contrast, people who consider themselves “Linux users”, and believe that the GNU Project “developed tools which proved to be useful in Linux”, typically perceive only an indirect relationship between GNU and themselves. They may just ignore the GNU philosophy when they come across it.

The GNU Project is idealistic, and anyone encouraging idealism today faces a great obstacle: the prevailing ideology encourages people to dismiss idealism as “impractical”. Our idealism has been extremely practical: it is the reason we have a free GNU/Linux operating system. People who love this system ought to know that it is our idealism made real.

If “the job” really were done, if there were nothing at stake except credit, perhaps it would be wiser to let the matter drop. But we are not in that position. To inspire people to do the work that needs to be done, we need to be recognized for what we have already done. Please help us, by calling the operating system GNU/Linux.

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004


wget -O

Linux Pirate
Apr 21, 2012


i don't know jack poo poo about linux

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Does this just download tons of stuff haha

Dave_Indeed
Feb 22, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
I work with AIX a lot. I don't like it.

ps -ef | grep butts

butts
butts
butts
butts
butts
butts

Utterly Irrelephant
Sep 6, 2007
ive got a rocket in my pocket
man mount

Homo Simpson
Oct 21, 2014

by Smythe
Lipstick Apathy
Isn't that what hackers use?

Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


paul_soccer10 posted:

Does this just download tons of stuff haha

just check teh manpage llol.

code:
       -O file
       --output-document=file
           The documents will not be written to the appropriate files, but all will be
           concatenated together and written to file.  If - is used as file, documents
           will be printed to standard output, disabling link conversion.  (Use ./- to
           print to a file literally named -.)

           Use of -O is not intended to mean simply "use the name file instead of the
           one in the URL;" rather, it is analogous to shell redirection: wget -O file
           [url]http://foo[/url] is intended to work like wget -O - [url]http://foo[/url] > file; file will be
           truncated immediately, and all downloaded content will be written there.

           For this reason, -N (for timestamp-checking) is not supported in combination
           with -O: since file is always newly created, it will always have a very new
           timestamp. A warning will be issued if this combination is used.

           Similarly, using -r or -p with -O may not work as you expect: Wget won't just
           download the first file to file and then download the rest to their normal
           names: all downloaded content will be placed in file. This was disabled in
           version 1.11, but has been reinstated (with a warning) in 1.11.2, as there
           are some cases where this behavior can actually have some use.

           A combination with -nc is only accepted if the given output file does not
           exist.

           Note that a combination with -k is only permitted when downloading a single
           document, as in that case it will just convert all relative URIs to external
           ones; -k makes no sense for multiple URIs when they're all being downloaded
           to a single file; -k can be used only when the output is a regular file.

Praxieris
Dec 1, 2013
Probation
Can't post for 5 years!
Taco Defender
Geez, man. You aren't even spelling it correctly. It's "Lunix".

theperminator
Sep 16, 2009

by Smythe
Fun Shoe
Pro tip: to be a real linux user you need to overcomplicate everything pointlessly by making everything some rube goldberg nightmare with a million different parts to do something simple.
Everything should be as needlessly complicated as possible.

Edgar
Sep 9, 2005

Oh my heck!
Oh heavens!
Oh my lord!
OH Sweet meats!
Wedge Regret
I learned about xargs. Because rm -rf 92 million records makes my linux server unhappy.

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
stop showering immediately op

ferroque
Oct 27, 2007

sudo rm -rf

:D

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum

Ferroque posted:

sudo rm -rf /

:D

fuckin a dude do it right

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Spazzle
Jul 5, 2003

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