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- My linux setup - setup a minimal look and great tools to empower your OS
- Linux issues with root?
- Linux for netbooks, for a way down southern Argentinian fellow
- Why don't you need anti virus/malware for Linux but need them for Android?
- Bodhi linux, "no default or ui configuration directive found"
- GRUB works fine, but my GRUB menu has cosmetic issues. Any fix?
- Help configuring Ubuntu for a bit more security
- No Linux distros able to recognize Thinkpad Yoga 11e keyboard or touchpad.
- Complete Noob needs help choosing a distro for old laptop
- sudo apt autoremove question?
- is there a command that selectively displays the files in your current directory?
- Installing Slackware for the first time
- Concerned about Disk Health
- Help with configuring nano
- Trying to find a desktop environment for my laptop
- Desktop Environment which can handle 3 Monitors, one of them scaled
- Screen tearing manjaro xfce with amd hardware.
- Can I force fstab network mounts to "time out"/unmount after losing connection?
- What are the problems with pulseaudio that this post from /r/linuxmemes is referring to?
- Is there anything I can do on Linux that I can't do with Windows?
- is cp -r and cp -R the same thing?
- Minor UI Problem with Widgets Moving Around. Kubuntu and Plasma.
- Monitoring dashboard
| My linux setup - setup a minimal look and great tools to empower your OS Posted: 04 Mar 2018 05:47 AM PST |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2018 11:46 AM PST Recently I've encountered an issue with Linux. It's almost as if my root permissions are missing. Originally while in Dolphin I could edit my files and folders in the root directory. And recently I'm using ssh and it wants me to have root permission to mount something from a connection, the result of this is I can't view it except in the terminal where I do sudo su, it's almost as my profile has had it's root permissions taken away. I've done some searching but haven't found much on the issue. Does anyone have any idea as to what the issue might be? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Linux for netbooks, for a way down southern Argentinian fellow Posted: 04 Mar 2018 07:58 AM PST Hello! I just put my hands on a very small HP mini 210-2000 Atom netbook. Just try to run some light distro with Xfce. Any hits? Elementary Loki runs nice, but I was looking for a faster alternative. Any ideas? Cheers! Marcelo from Argentina [link] [comments]  |
| Why don't you need anti virus/malware for Linux but need them for Android? Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:32 PM PST Windows need anti malware because it's proprietary so no one reviewed any of the source code; Linux is open source so exploits gets fix quickly. But since I'm noob, I get confused when it gets to phone cuz it's the other way around. Proprietary iOS needs no anti virus while whenever I tried to get an Android phone (cuz its open source and tweakable) people kept telling me that I need anti virus&malware 24/7. Why? [link] [comments]  |
| Bodhi linux, "no default or ui configuration directive found" Posted: 04 Mar 2018 11:17 AM PST I'm trying to install Bodhi on a Lenovo x201 tablet, and every time I try to boot from the USB, it gives me a "no default or ui configuration directive found" error. I tried formatting the USB stick and re-downloading the ISO and it keeps screwing up. [link] [comments]  |
| GRUB works fine, but my GRUB menu has cosmetic issues. Any fix? Posted: 04 Mar 2018 10:43 AM PST Dual booting xubuntu and W10 on my desktop. My xubuntu install is a 150GB partition on my secondary HDD, and my W10 install is on my main SSD My grub menu sort of blurs out the ubuntu selection on GRUB. I can still use GRUB fine and access all of the options, but it just looks weird any fix? [link] [comments]  |
| Help configuring Ubuntu for a bit more security Posted: 04 Mar 2018 01:47 AM PST Hello all So I am thinking of moving my x250 to Ubuntu for simplicity as generally everything just works. Now I primary come from a windows background, and I always take the time to configure windows. So with windows I use privileged access workstation as a baseline, altering for things I don't require. I know how to do encryption on Linux, but does secure boot work with ubuntu? Further more is there anything like gpo or at least a security baseline for Linux? Finally I use IPSec AH how would I configure this on linux? Are there any other suggestions you can provide me with like ClamAV or something, while I don't need this security I think it's important to always have more security. Many Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| No Linux distros able to recognize Thinkpad Yoga 11e keyboard or touchpad. Posted: 04 Mar 2018 10:02 AM PST The Yoga has never been terrific with Linux (even lightweight distros were slow on it), but they used to work on this thing. The problems happened after I installed Windows 10 (I had to for school) and tried to go back and install Linux. I have tried variants of Ubuntu, Debian, and other non-deb distros, but they all fail to recognize my hardware. Plugging in a keyboard and mouse works, but I can't keep doing that. Other weird things: distros used to find additional drivers for me to install, but they no longer see anything to install. Also, occasionally a random letter will start typing itself when I'm not even touching anything (like something fell on my keyboard). Is this thing just toast? Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Complete Noob needs help choosing a distro for old laptop Posted: 04 Mar 2018 09:39 AM PST Okay. So, I'm a lifetime Windows user since the days of 3.1, and recently I've also begun toying with MacOS. More recently, I inherited an old Compaq Presario C500 laptop, and thought I'd maybe set it up for my son to use for basic school work from time to time. (He's in 8th grade, headed to high school next year. But, he doesn't take care of stuff so good, so I'm not interested in picking up a more modern laptop for him at this time. If you're a parent, I'm sure you understand.) While I was able to install Windows 10 on it, it's not really what I'd call useable -- but still leaps and bounds better than the Vista install that was on it, that took a literal 15 minutes to boot to desktop. So, I figured now was a good time to try wrapping my head around Linux. :) So, we're working with: Celeron M 430 1.73Ghz (32bit) 1536 MB RAM (up to) 128MB Video Memory (Windows XP Only...it says?) I'm not afraid of a command line, I can follow instructions, and I don't mind digging around Google for answers to small problems. Needs: Ease of use -- Like the rest of us, the boy is most familiar with the Windows environment. The closer to this, the less questions and issues I have to deal with later, the better. Speed -- While Windows 10 boots to desktop pretty quickly and smoothly, actually attempting to do anything causes it to move with the speed of a drunken snail. I'm sure there are infinite options to solve this problem though. App Needs: Browsing & Email -- Currently uses Chrome on desktop and phone. Needs proper Flash support for some of his specific school-related stuff. YouTube probably makes up 90% of his browsing history. Uses Gmail on browser and phone. I'm guessing Chromium the obvious solution here, if only for syncing with Google. Still open to other suggestions. Office -- Currently uses Google Docs and/or LibreOffice, depending on who's computer he's using at the time. Also needs PDF support, and possible something for other ebook formats. Misc -- I can't really think of anything else he might need out-of-the-box, given the hardware and intent. Myself, personally, I would want a desktop gadget of some sort that shows CPU and memory usage -- similar to what PartedMagic has on the UBCD. I like being able to see that kind of information. What I've already done: Very little, actually. I've briefly tested Bohdi Linux, and CloudReady (I know, not really a Linux Distro, but...) Both were very easy to install. Bohdi was very fast and smooth, although it only took me an hour to (embarrassingly) screw up the desktop UI to the point it was faster to start over. (Hey, it was my first time, alright?) Maybe should add "Idiot-Proof" to the list of Needs. :-/ CloudReady was...interesting. I've never bothered messing with a Chromebook before, so it was definitely an experience. Mostly intuitive. However, the demand for online connectivity kind of put me off a bit (regardless of the practical reality of the situation), and more importantly, it was notably sluggish in a lot of areas. Definitely not as zippy as Bohdi. Been scouring lists on Fossbytes in the meantime. There are just so many different distros out there, I start to feel overwhelmed looking through them, and thought I'd come looking for some specific suggestions rather than spends weeks trying one after another after another. In terms of speed and system resources -- Puppy, Linux Lite, and UbuntuMATE catch my eye (apart from Bohdi, of course). In terms of "beginner" distros, the options widen -- Zorin, Manjaro, Mint, and straight Ubuntu all look appealing. But, yeah, like I said, a little overwhelming at times. Any input is greatly appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Mar 2018 09:56 PM PST I ran this command, my server is working fine still but a little worried it might have removed some important stuff? What is [link] [comments]  |
| is there a command that selectively displays the files in your current directory? Posted: 03 Mar 2018 11:16 PM PST A command similar to ls but allows me to selectively display the files. I tried ls [0-9]*txt but that didn't work. [link] [comments]  |
| Installing Slackware for the first time Posted: 04 Mar 2018 04:53 AM PST Hello. I'm a linux noob who's trying to install a non live distro for the first time. I have a laptop with windows 7 on it and "unpartitioned" the last 107GB to use for linux and the 7GB for swap. However, when I login to root during instalation and use fdisk -l, the not partitioned sectors do not appear. What should I do? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2018 12:26 AM PST I built a Linux server a few years back and I have some disk health concerns. What's the best software to monitor disk health to keep an eye on health? I don't wanna wake up one day to find out all my data is hosed... [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2018 01:35 AM PST I have been trying out editors other than vim recently and I have enjoyed nano quite a bit, it is very usable from a heavy vim user but one feature I am missing is the ability to run commands from within. I right a lot of beamer presentations in markdown so in my vimrc I have this: autocmd Filetype markdown map <F5> :!pandoc<space><C-r>%<space>-t<space>beamer<space>-o<space><C-r>%.pdf<Enter><Enter> Is their a way to set up something similar in nano. Have not been able to find any info about this in the nano and nanorc manpages. Thanks Edit: That vimrc segment runs "pandoc <filename> -t beamer -o <filename>.pdf" just incase you are unfamiliar with vim [link] [comments]  |
| Trying to find a desktop environment for my laptop Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:51 PM PST I installed Ubuntu on my laptop, and then I installed my DE of choice, Cinnamon. The reasons I use Cinnamon are:
But I noticed that the battery life of my laptop was, while not bad, much worse than I was expecting given its combination of low-power processor and beefy battery. Out of curiosity, I decided to try another DE, MATE, and while I didn't like MATE for its lack of aforementioned features, I noticed what seemed like a 50-75% battery life improvement (from ~8 hours to 12-15 hours). But even with all of the tweaks I made to MATE, I just couldn't live with it. As a compromise, I'm back to Ubuntu's default Gnome, and I figured out how to make Alt+Tab work the way I want. I also got rid of the dock and I'm just not having anything show which applications I have open at the moment (just using the Super key or Activities view to check). Gnome seems to not be nearly as power-saving as MATE, but it's still a nice bump up from Cinnamon (10-12 hours vs 8 hours). So basically, what I'm trying to do is make either Gnome or MATE, which I have installed right now, have some of the functionality of Cinnamon, or find another DE altogether. I've also tried Xfce, which also gets me much of what I want, but not everything (and I also haven't tested it out on this laptop, so I don't know what the battery life would be like). I'm also wondering why Cinnamon seems to reduce my battery life so much. [link] [comments]  |
| Desktop Environment which can handle 3 Monitors, one of them scaled Posted: 04 Mar 2018 01:15 AM PST Hello, Im using a ThinkPad 13 and most of the time I use it with a Dockingstation. I tried KDE but I can force the DPI of the Font (Others Monitors Fonts are too big than) and scaling resolves in weird graphic bug, which I werent able to fix. Unity does better, but I get weird graphic Bugs here and there too. Does anyone know a DE or Distribution (bonus points if Debian) which can handle this? [link] [comments]  |
| Screen tearing manjaro xfce with amd hardware. Posted: 03 Mar 2018 11:18 PM PST I have screen tearing problem on manjaro linux. Changing to non-free driver does not help. My hardware amd r9 390 and fx 8350 Any tips are welcome. [link] [comments]  |
| Can I force fstab network mounts to "time out"/unmount after losing connection? Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:47 PM PST I have some network shares that get mounted at startup with /etc/fstab, one is an SSHFS mount and another is a windows samba cifs share. If the samba share goes down (if I turn off my Windows PC), it causes problems on my linux machine which has it mounted, it freezes in thunar when I try to browse around it, and a monitoring program which checks the status of my mounts and displays whether or not they are connected freezes as well. Eg, my samba share gets mounted to /mnt/samba, and if I go to /mnt/ in thunar (or do ls /mnt/), it freezes for a long time and then says "cannot access '/mnt/samba': Host is down". The program I have that monitors my mounts by checking those folders is also stuck and still says there are 2 mounts even though my samba share has been down for half an hour. I tested the SSHFS share by shutting down the remote host and have the same issue with browsing and things freezing. Is there something I can add to /etc/fstab to make the system 'time out' those mounts and know they are no longer mounted if they haven't been able to communicate for a certain amount of time? I see some things here regarding timeouts but it looks like they refer to the amount of time to attempt to mount the drive in the first place before timing out, not after they've already connected and have lost connection. [link] [comments]  |
| What are the problems with pulseaudio that this post from /r/linuxmemes is referring to? Posted: 04 Mar 2018 12:23 AM PST I get the joke that audio input/output isn't working, googling just shows general advice posts, nothing that would imply a widespread problem... [link] [comments]  |
| Is there anything I can do on Linux that I can't do with Windows? Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:58 PM PST This post is in no way intended to imply that Windows is better than Linux. I am simply looking for an objective answer to the question, "Can I do anything interesting in Linux that I can't do in Windows?" I've done web searches on the subject, but virtually all the articles about the advantages of Linux are about how it's free, and the apps on it are free, and it's more secure, and it runs better on lower end PCs, etc. I understand and concede all that. But I've already paid for Windows, and I already have a high end PC, and there is free software for almost everything I want to do, and the precautions I habitually take are evidently enough that I've never had a malware attack of consequence (for example, I use a free copy of VMPlayer when exploring shady websites). I am a retired Windows system programmer, so I can do quite a bit with Windows at a low level, and I'm not afraid of a command line. But I don't want to spend time the time it takes to learn Linux well if it's not going to repay me with something interesting that I can't do with Windows. I'll occasionally read an article where someone is doing something cool on Linux, like using Tor to browse the deep web, or scraping websites, or the like. But a little googling invariably finds a way to do the same thing with Windows. Sometimes it's less convenient to do it on Windows, but it doesn't take enough more time to justify learning Linux, at least to me. So again, I don't want to argue with anybody, I just want to know if there are any interesting things that I can do with Linux that I absolutely can't do with Windows. Thanks for any help. [link] [comments]  |
| is cp -r and cp -R the same thing? Posted: 03 Mar 2018 10:59 PM PST when removing or copying files, is -r and -R the same thing? [link] [comments]  |
| Minor UI Problem with Widgets Moving Around. Kubuntu and Plasma. Posted: 03 Mar 2018 05:27 PM PST I've somewhat recently moved to linux from windows and I feel reasonably confident with the system, but I'm having a minor problem with UI. I run primarily from from my laptop, as i use it for school, but when i'm home i plug it into my second monitor. The issue i'm having is;
Minor issues I know, but any help would be appreciated. I'm using Kubuntu 16.04 LTS with KDE Plasma 5.8.8. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:50 PM PST Hi I'm looking for a lightweight, modern monitoring dashboard which will allow me to display alerts for things like processes/hosts not running and clear them when they restart. I've used opennms before but it's very heavy and not very pretty Any suggestions? [link] [comments]  |
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