So I have come to realize a few things about my laptop / computing OS habits and needs. 1 > I have not wrote ANY Windows code in the past 5-6 months. (.Net code freelancer) 2 > Almost all software that I use is Free / Open Source. 3 > Outside of Visual Studio ... I have no reason to stay with Windows. 4 > Learning Python and Java has shown me that .Net is not as good as I believed. So, having given this some discussion, I am moving back to Linux, namely, Ubuntu 13. Thing is, I have a UEFI hard drive... So it may be hard. I am using a program to image my whole hard drive (at it's current state) to my 1TB hard drive as a backup, so in case anything goes wrong, I have a recovery. My main software, in case people wonder, is this... Web > Chrome. Graphics > GIMP. Video archiving > MakeMKV and Handbrake. Web > Kompozer (and Chrome). Outside of (and this is what I plan on doing) reformatting the hdd to linux (new partition and all), does an one have any suggestions? The only reason I am considering Ubuntu is due to it supporting (i think) EFI/UEFI. I would MUCH rather use Mint... submitted by solodev [link] [comment]
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I am looking for a Linux distro that will run smooth on 3300 AMD Athlon 64 processor with 512 mb pc3200 sd ram and 160 gb hard drive. any thoughts? submitted by Blazer73 [link] [2 comments]
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Hey everyone, I've been doing some reading in my OS textbook (studying for finals next week), and was reading about how the Linux kernel uses slab allocation (or I guess SLUB) to allocate its own data structures. The book says that this method is used by the kernel since there is no resulting fragmentation, and memory requests can be satisfied quickly. My question is why isn't this method used for user-space memory? Since paging can create internal fragmentation, it seems like using a method like SLAB would greatly help in this regard. I'm thinking it has something to do with the fact that the kernel already knows what data structures it will allocate/deallocate but I figured I would ask here to get a better explanation. Thanks! submitted by echoplex920 [link] [comment]
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After installing and enjoying Arch on an old PC I figured I would install it onto my Macbook Pro early 2011 model. I decided to use Archbang to make to install as painless as possible, and to prevent accidentally damaging my OSX partition. When I booted from a live USB, instead of being greeted with the standard grub menu, I was instead greeted by the basic command line, which is pictured below. All of the commands return errors. http://imgur.com/Zan6Aj8 Does anyone know how to fix this? Is Archbang unable to be installed on mac? If you guys have any other recommendations on how to proceed I am open to suggestions. submitted by jb270 [link] [2 comments]
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In a few weeks, I'll be in the market for a new laptop. My current one dual boots between Windows 7 and Ubuntu. A brief check on recent dual-boot experiences with the now-common UEFI bullshit shows an almost unending litany of headaches and model-specific solutions. My current laptop does support virtualization, but performance tends to lag a bit when Eclipse needs ~1GB RAM allocated. This is why I prefer to dual boot, as I'm also a pro photog and need Adobe products for my work. Anyone have any experience using virtual machines to sidestep UEFI bootloader issues? submitted by daredevil82 [link] [comment]
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The project I've picked up to keep me busy is writing a replacement for man in Haskell because I hate myself it seems like fun. I don't want to shell out to groff/troff to parse the man pages, so I've been looking around for how to parse them. I already know that man pages (in /usr/share/man/man) are just gzipped groff source, but I can't find any documentation on the syntax, how to lay them out, how to resolve macros, any of it. By straceing man I found /etc/manpath.config, which has been very helpful in answering some questions on man's behavior, but I really need more. Is it around? tl;dr: groff syntax, how to resolve groff macros, how to lay out the result, and general man specifications beyond the incredibly vague POSIX standards. submitted by Rotten194 [link] [comment]
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I changed 58 workstations to Linux Mint! I work for a building automation company and our main customers are large Banks. Ironically when I came to work here we had no security other than antivirus software. The boss supported a Wild West approach and it has been a disaster, illegal software, nonstop virus/malware outbreaks. I worked day and night trying to support this mess, including software that I did not even know was installed. I tried to get the owner to switch us to an AD environment and ban BYOD. IT’s budget out of our 7 million a year gross was and still near $0, and everyone wanted something for nothing. The owner is all about surfing porn from his office and he doesn’t deny it. No matter what I did I was not able to keep up on the number of infections on just his computer. One week he went on vacation so I installed Linux Mint on a spare computer I built out of recycled junk from around the office. To my amazement he loved it. Everything in the office is now opensource. The firewalls at both of our CoLo’s and at our office are pFsense, our web servers are Ubuntu and our SAS software is all built on apache, postgres, etc. Our office runs OpenERP, Samba, LDAP, Zimbra, MediaWiKi, RT, Asterisk, and Mercurial. The workstations are now Linux Mint, I removed Thunderbird because I want employees to use our emails web client. I removed transmission because we have no need for bit torrent in the office. I updated all the workstations to LibreOffice 4.x, Chrome, PDFsam, Microsoft Fonts, Skype, Kaza, and OpenVPN, GatherPlace on all the laptops, freeCAD for the engineers workstations, InkScape, Scribus, and Blender for Marketing. I started weekly training classes to help with the new software. I manage support using x11VNC via ssh and Bash scripts. Security has never been better, there are no outbreaks, no rouge emails to customers, office traffic is lowest it have ever been. pFsense has been great also, I broke the office in VLANs, I broke VPNs into groups and change key every year or every time we lose an employ, I employed VPN between the office and CoLo’s in addition to the road warror setup. submitted by up2oneghz [link] [5 comments]
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The excuse that developers are not aware of fucking gamers on linux is an old fucking excuse! Linux Ubuntu has been around since 2004 and has a fair amount of success in the Desktop PC market. It clearly is being used by people who are not geeks too and why would you make assumptions that geeks don't want to blow off some steam by playing games? I browsed through the games in the ubuntu software center and I want to cry myself to sleep. Seriously? What kind of games are these? The only thing worth my while was Battle for Wesnoth and even that gets pretty old too! Nothing adrenaline pumping and fun! I am not an extremist fan of 3D graphics either. As a matter of fact I cannot even play 3D games because the mesa drivers are next to shit! and some other libraries are missing or needs updating or some shit when i ran the games with the terminal.I cannot even play Second Life, something I could HAVE DONE ON A PENTIUM 4 COMPUTER BACK IN THE DAY with the same distro without a graphics card! I am using an Acer Aspire 5742 running Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit with 4 GB of RAM, an Intel® Core™ i3 CPU M 370 @ 2.40GHz × 4 and some unknown ironlake mobile series integrated graphics card from intel. The integrated graphics card series is unknown as I tried looking hard to find the specs and I could not find it both in Windows and in Ubuntu.. Previously on Windows 7 64-bit before I installed Ubuntu, I could play Secondlife, render creations in Blender good and play 3D games without these kind of stupid problems. I hope Canonical is aware of these problems as this is something that can drive a fair amount of people away from the Distro and I am not installing Wine either. Telling me to use Wine is detrimental to the progress of linux ubuntu itself. Why should I go back to using something windows-like? Why can you just make linux versions of the fucking games or make open source games that do not fucking suck so much? It has been 8 years People! 8 Fucking years! Think about it! submitted by clownprincejutsu [link] [comment]
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First of all, this is something I’ve been wondering ever since i switched to Linux, and i dont have anything against open or closed source. But it seems that there is a lot of hate towards closed source software (or am i wrong?). I can see from a developer’s side of view that releasing something closed source would be better for them rather than giving out for free all of your work. But in your honest opinion, why do you prefer open source? submitted by Anguiish [link] [4 comments]
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If it is possible, would it then be possible to roll a distro that can install any package that's out there in any format? Or is there something inherent about linux flavors that allow them to only use a certain package format on the system? (I know that it's possible to convert packages to different formats, but that's not what I'm asking. I say this because I Googled the question and all I found were people recommending conversion tools). submitted by AnticitizenPrime [link] [comment]
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