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mishaq posted:jesus yeah basically a home server/nas welcome to academia in a non compsci field, we just do whatever because the only people burned in the worst case scenario is ourselves
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my stepdads beer posted:a bunch of hypervisors can do this as you only read the OS at boot. i guess if you keep logs/swap elsewhere it's fine. the idea makes me uneasy though yeah this is the idea for freenas on a usb drive. the os is loaded into ram and never writes to the boot drive unless you are changing configuration or something. once you're done configuring you just make an image and put it on the next usb stick when the current one dies because you were too cheap to buy something with more sata/sas slots where adding an ssd doesn't eat into available storage drives
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2016 has so far been the year of linux on the laptops(' ultrabay secondary SSD I occasionally plug in to run outdated lab equipment that hates windows) successfully installed kubuntu over some older pile of garbage and successfully installed synaptic to get a less poo poo package manager kubuntu even helped me find out which of my USB drives are crapping out by helpfully crashing halfway into the install due to corrupted files 
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prefect posted:dunno if this was already posted ( there's an ian murdock deathwatch thread in yospos mocking the whole process starting from his tweets do you
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blowfish posted:there's an ian murdock deathwatch thread in yospos mocking the whole process starting from his tweets there's a 
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Symbolic Butt posted:it was also posted itt it's cool; i was pretty sure it had been posted before. now that i've actually looked for news items, it's a couple of days old. should have paid more attention to start with 
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blowfish posted:yeah basically a home server/nas don't u have central IT automatically backing up your poo poo (lmao)
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Everyone be sayin you need some patched urxvt or some poo poo but they're all on arch and gently caress this poo poo on debian.code:
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i've never understood why urxvt is the gold standard of linux terminal emulators. i tried using it for a long time and it was always a pain to use and configure
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b0red posted:what's a good terminal emulator that will do fonts, 256color, etc and not be lame like urxvt konsole
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:i've never understood why urxvt is the gold standard of linux terminal emulators. i tried using it for a long time and it was always a pain to use and configure it sounds like you understand it already neckbeards love needlessly arcane poo poo with a thousand configurable knobs
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:i've never understood why urxvt is the gold standard of linux terminal emulators. i tried using it for a long time and it was always a pain to use and configure i used to use urxvt and think it was good because i was* a dumb idiot with nothing better to do than read endless manpages and fiddle with rcfiles now i just use whatever the desktop provides, i.e. usually gnome-terminal, which turns out to be fine and can even be configured to look sufficiently like a graybeard xterm for me to be happy using it * lol past tense
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Barnyard Protein posted:its linuxes all the way down yo dawg i herd u liek linux so i got a linux to put in yo linux so yo can linux in yo linux wat up
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:it sounds like you understand it already imagine a user friendly preconfigured user interface with a has anyone ever tried this and how terrible did it turn out
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blowfish posted:imagine a user friendly preconfigured user interface with a just use windows if you want to change the color scheme to hot dog stand and dig through 10 layers of menus and panels to setup a printer (and then another 8 to print a test page)
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The_Franz posted:just use windows if you want to change the color scheme to hot dog stand and dig through 10 layers of menus and panels to setup a printer (and then another 8 to print a test page) i know but windows is not open sores
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I've been using Command Tool under OpenWindows 3 lately, it's been interesting, it reminded me a lot of the Transcript app under Andrew I also tried to get SunView working but was only sort of able to, maybe I'll give it another go soon, once I can more easily boot between OSes or maybe I'll see if I can dig up the Andrew Toolkit and wm sources and see if I can make it build under NetBSD 7, which is installing right now on my SS20 2016 the 36th year of BSD on the workstation (of course everybody at work is asking "so are you running OPENSTEP?")
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moonshine is...... posted:late to the party but gnome-terminal or terminator same
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i tried booting ubuntu from a usb stick on my laptop and it seemed to work. all the fonts and toolbars were really tiny, but since wifi worked, i reckon i could get all that poo poo fixed if i wanted a release from my windows 10 hell
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Wheany posted:i tried booting ubuntu from a usb stick on my laptop and it seemed to work. all the fonts and toolbars were really tiny, but since wifi worked, i reckon i could get all that poo poo fixed if i wanted a release from my windows 10 hell
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