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DrankSinatra posted:I'm trying to figure out what distro to use for my daily work. I realize, to a certain extent that's a dumb question, but whatever. I'm a grad student/programmer, and I spend a solid 75% of my computer time at the command line or in Emacs. I like farting around in Slackware, because it's a Unix-rear end Linux system, and coming at it from the perspective of a dude who does a ton of command line stuff, I like how every component can basically be configured in their respective text file; it feels simple and predictable to me.
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It's just a sneaky ad for Arch.
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 08:33 |
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Ubuntu + ppa's for your bloody edge.
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 09:27 |
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Fedora or Ubuntu probably. Or Debian Sid if you want as bleeding edge as possible without too much risk of cutting yourself.
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 10:10 |
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Fedora? Debian unstable? Arch?
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 13:48 |
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Ubuntu. It's the best desktop distro, and I don't mean for the default WM.
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 15:42 |
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DrankSinatra posted:Is there anything out there with a robust binary package management system that's still that level of dead-simple vanilla text configuration?
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 16:05 |
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OpenSUSE Tumbleweed?
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 18:39 |
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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:Ubuntu. It's the best desktop distro, and I don't mean for the default WM. which WM do you mean for?
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 19:25 |
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peepsalot posted:which WM do you mean for? Unity
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 19:29 |
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Uh, but thats the default you butthead!
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 19:35 |
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DrankSinatra posted:I'm trying to figure out what distro to use for my daily work. I realize, to a certain extent that's a dumb question, but whatever. I'm a grad student/programmer, and I spend a solid 75% of my computer time at the command line or in Emacs. I like farting around in Slackware, because it's a Unix-rear end Linux system, and coming at it from the perspective of a dude who does a ton of command line stuff, I like how every component can basically be configured in their respective text file; it feels simple and predictable to me. There's also openSUSE Tumbleweed. Rolling release without the "Arch" stigma.
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 19:58 |
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DrankSinatra posted:I'm trying to figure out what distro to use for my daily work. I realize, to a certain extent that's a dumb question, but whatever. I'm a grad student/programmer, and I spend a solid 75% of my computer time at the command line or in Emacs. I like farting around in Slackware, because it's a Unix-rear end Linux system, and coming at it from the perspective of a dude who does a ton of command line stuff, I like how every component can basically be configured in their respective text file; it feels simple and predictable to me. AIX Edit: more seriously, an Ubuntu flavour isn't a bad way to go if only because everyone else is running it. I run Kubuntu myself.
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 20:13 |
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peepsalot posted:which WM do you mean for? Whichever WM you like. I use i3, you can use whatever. I mean that Ubuntu is a solid, well supported, reasonably up to date distro that is well suited to desktop use. Desktop programs all work well, graphics drivers too. Weird proprietary desktop programs that want you to download a .deb like Google Earth generally work well. Steam and games work well. I may spend my most my day in tiles of terminals, but I can still wreck people (well, get wrecked ) in some FPS with zero loving-around-with-Linux effort too.
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 20:19 |
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Is anyone familiar with using postfix to forward mail? I've got it running on my Ubuntu home sever, set up with my gmail credentials via the /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd and sasl_passwd.db files. What I'm wondering is this: if postfix is using my Google creds to interact with the Google smtp server on a regular basis then am I sending my password out over clearnet? I don't mind the body of the emails going out in the clear because it's just boring server stuff like S.M.A.R.T tests and login times, and I don't really understand setting up my own TLS to do it encrypted. Should I learn how to set up basic TLS?
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 20:25 |
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apropos man posted:Is anyone familiar with using postfix to forward mail?
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 20:29 |
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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:Whichever WM you like. I use i3, you can use whatever.
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 20:31 |
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i3 is definitely a bit but SO good if you're looking for a tiling window manager. I'm just sad I used xmonad for years, because it is vastly worse and so much more of a pain to configure. (Okay so I do miss the default layout of xmonad where creating (i.e.) 4 windows results in the following automatically code:
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 20:58 |
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anthonypants posted:If you're using smtp.gmail.com then I don't think you can connect without SSL/TLS. Oh poo poo, yeah. I think you're right because I seem to remember using one of the default CA certs that comes with Ubuntu during setup. I was following a guide to set up postfix using monkey see monkey do method. I should really learn the basics of how CA's and certs work and how they interact with each other, though. I can rationalise in my head how public key encryption works, so understanding how TLS does what it does shouldn't be much of a stretch.
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 21:22 |
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ExcessBLarg! posted:I'd probably post a report against Dolphin in hopes of catching the attention of people likely to run into the same issue and hope that there's enough collective traction to figure out where the problem really is. Now that Mesa 13.0.0 is out on Arch, I filed the bug following this advice here: https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/9868 I did find one Vulkan program I could install that worked on the drivers - Vkquake. Which proves Arch didn't mess up the package somehow... and that I am still completely hopeless at FPSes.
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 22:01 |
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Oh shiiiiiiit, Fedora is writing EGLStreams support for GNOME. I guess I'll be reconsidering Linux again soon.
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# ? Nov 2, 2016 01:56 |
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apropos man posted:Oh poo poo, yeah. I think you're right because I seem to remember using one of the default CA certs that comes with Ubuntu during setup. I was following a guide to set up postfix using monkey see monkey do method. I should really learn the basics of how CA's and certs work and how they interact with each other, though. I can rationalise in my head how public key encryption works, so understanding how TLS does what it does shouldn't be much of a stretch. Understanding the basics of how TLS works and how certs are issued and trusted would put you ahead of a shocking number of IT professionals So yes, I recommend learning about it.
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# ? Nov 2, 2016 13:50 |
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Haha. I find things less daunting once I've actually managed to get them working in practice. I'll definitely have an educational hour looking at TLS/certs. Last night I stuck this in my root crontab in Ubuntu: smartctl -a /dev/sda | mail -s "smartctl" <my.receiving.address@mail.com> I got the email on my phone when I was at work today, but the smartctl part failed, so the email body was blank. If I put sudo in front of the smartctl command, like this... sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | mail -s "smartctl" <my.receiving.address@mail.com> ...then it works and I get an email from root with the details included. What am I doing wrong? I shouldn't need to use sudo in root crontab and the command works without sudo if I'm logged into the box as root using sudo -i.
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# ? Nov 2, 2016 18:55 |
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cron wants the full path to the command
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# ? Nov 2, 2016 18:57 |
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evol262 posted:cron wants the full path to the command If you don't know that, 'which' is your friend.
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# ? Nov 2, 2016 19:26 |
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evol262 posted:cron wants the full path to the command RFC2324 posted:If you don't know that, 'which' is your friend. Wohoo! Thanks. I feel slightly stupid now. I was going to ask if it was because the environment variables aren't sufficiently set up for root, but smartctl is covered by $PATH :scratches head:
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# ? Nov 2, 2016 19:43 |
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If for some reason you don't like giving the full path in all your crontab entries, you can set a PATH variable at the top of the crontab. I tend to prefer full paths, but if the command gets too long there's it's reasonable to shorten things up.
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# ? Nov 2, 2016 20:00 |
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Has this always been the rule? I have this in the example text: code:
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# ? Nov 2, 2016 20:08 |
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Maybe it has a limited path, like it'll search /bin and nothing else. If you want to know get to the google because I ain't trying to figure out the keywords to determine the history or specification of cron.
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# ? Nov 2, 2016 20:11 |
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What's the easiest way to find out if some USB 3.0/3.1 chipset is going to be supported? I need a PCI-E 1x USB 3.0/3.1 card on an IO workbench machine running Parted Magic.
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# ? Nov 2, 2016 22:24 |
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Shaocaholica posted:What's the easiest way to find out if some USB 3.0/3.1 chipset is going to be supported? I need a PCI-E 1x USB 3.0/3.1 card on an IO workbench machine running Parted Magic.
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# ? Nov 2, 2016 22:25 |
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xzzy posted:Maybe it has a limited path, like it'll search /bin and nothing else. Hehe. I sought and found out why, here http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/38951/what-is-the-working-directory-when-cron-executes-a-job The third answer down, by Bram, explains it quite succinctly: Bram posted:....you need to consider that the jobs will run in a non-interactive shell meaning that the $PATH might be different from the one you have when running the script from the command line.
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Shaocaholica posted:What's the easiest way to find out if some USB 3.0/3.1 chipset is going to be supported? I need a PCI-E 1x USB 3.0/3.1 card on an IO workbench machine running Parted Magic. The Renesas uPD720201 chipset is well supported in Linux. I use this inexpensive Rosewill adapter based on that chipset and have had zero problems with it, though any brand should work just as well.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 00:09 |
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I have a bundle of mystery desktops purchased at auction, and their hard drives are rightfully wiped. Whats a good live distro that i could load up quick and get the specs on each machine.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 00:45 |
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peepsalot posted:I have a bundle of mystery desktops purchased at auction, and their hard drives are rightfully wiped. Whats a good live distro that i could load up quick and get the specs on each machine. Eh they're all going to be pretty much the same if all you want to do is get specs. So let's say CentOS because why not.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 00:51 |
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Ok but is there also any one particular app that will report every relevant thing and fit it on a single screen and does it come installed on the live distro.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 00:58 |
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peepsalot posted:Ok but is there also any one particular app that will report every relevant thing and fit it on a single screen and does it come installed on the live distro. code:
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 01:29 |
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the utility is 'cat' and the relevant stuff lives in /proc But joking aside I know what you're saying and I honestly can't think of any utilities that do that. I typically just go through /proc when I need info, and then stuff like lsusb and lspci are useful and should come preinstalled on most liveCDs. Someone smarter than me will have to pipe in here, sorry.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 01:47 |
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peepsalot posted:I have a bundle of mystery desktops purchased at auction, and their hard drives are rightfully wiped. Whats a good live distro that i could load up quick and get the specs on each machine. You could try UBCD. It's not linux but it might get you what you want faster.
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SamDabbers posted:The Renesas uPD720201 chipset is well supported in Linux. I use this inexpensive Rosewill adapter based on that chipset and have had zero problems with it, though any brand should work just as well. Thanks! Bought.
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