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ƎpᴉʇʎXD

7:00 AM

Evil sayings: "DOWN BEFORE YOUR MASTER!"

Zanna

This looks like an easy question if you have Unity... askubuntu.com/questions/816059/…

Kaz Wolfe

7:23 AM

What is?

Killing hotmail was a good step. Let's do MSN and Windows pls

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

sure

Kaz Wolfe

Wait no

That will drive everyone over to Apple

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

Lets kill apple and windows!

So they will drive everyone to Linux!

Kaz Wolfe

Then... Mint.

Serg

meh, let them be . . .

Kaz Wolfe

7:27 AM

But Linux is objectively better

I mean according to the theory of evolution, Windows should be dead. I guess creationism is real...

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

What is this "Paper Mario Color Splash" racket about?

its on google, its on bing, its EVERYWHERE

Kaz Wolfe

The next No Man's Sky

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

Oh yeah

NO MANS SKY

Serg

Linux is better, that's true. But . . . it's sort of an acquired taste . . .

Kaz Wolfe

Like other good things! Beer, for one...

Zanna

7:33 AM

olives

Linux wasn't an acquired taste for me... love at first boot

Takkat

Linux is better only because noobs usually keep their hands off it.

Journeyman Geek

lol

didn't quite work out for me the first time

I had no idea how a package manager worked ;p

Kaz Wolfe

Or... Other things I won't mention because Edity is impressionable...

Serg

My first Linux was Ubuntu 13.04 . That day I skipped class, since i was somewhat depressed, went to the library , and installed 13.04. Took forever to install from 13.04 DVD

At first I was like "Uh . . .wow, this is different , but I like it"

Kaz Wolfe

7.04 here... God that was fun.

Damn, I've been using Ubuntu for 9 years...

Serg

7:43 AM

Can we just take a moment to thank Denis Ritchie and Ken Thompson ? Because from Unix, to Minix, to Linux, and eventually to Ubuntu, it was from them that everything started

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terdon

Hmm. My first was some version of Mandrake. No idea which.

Journeyman Geek

I think the one that got me hooked was suse 10.1

I remember this cause it had a broken... wait for it... package manager ;p

terdon

Heh. Yeah, SuSe was my next one.

Journeyman Geek

I think I've been running ubuntu on and off since 6.04

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

My first linux was trusty

terdon

7:51 AM

I had RH and then, when it came out, Fedora at work. At home I switched to Ubuntu at some point in the early aughts. 2004 maybe? Then Mint, then LMDE, then Arch.

Serg

I tried out newest openSUSE a few months ago. Didn't really like the EULA agreement and difficulty with installation , so after a while I nuked it

Fedora 21's network manager just died for no reason on me, and i couldn't get it back to work , so got rid of it. Mint also kernel-panic'ed on me , so got rid of those two

Journeyman Geek

I run f24 on my main linux box at home.

kinda switched cause my last job was centos 6 and I wanted a RHalike to get used to

Serg

By far , I like the most Ubuntu. Next is Deepin , because it's just beautiful. Have respect for CentOS for the stability. That's like my top 3

Journeyman Geek

well, these days as long as it runs kde/lxde/xfce I'm fine. I have one application at home that needs a gui (qbitorrent) and that's cause I use its rss feed feature a lot

Serg

I came to love Unity after a while. At first I was like, "Boy , Unity is resource heavy". Now that I have SSD and 8 GB of RAM it runs perfectly smooth. Besides, I just love writing scripts for it

Journeyman Geek

7:58 AM

I kinda like the "taskbar at the bottom, button on the left" layout

Serg

It's one of the classic layouts. Probably also more natural.

terdon

@Serg Aww, come on, you know better than to equate the distro with the DE. That's like saying that one book is better than another because it has a micer cover.

Serg

@terdon Yes, I know that. It's just one of several other points that Deepin wins me over to have 2nd top place in my book, although it was the very first one that made impression.

terdon

What else does it have apart from the DE? I tried the DE briefly, it's absolutely gorgeous but doesn't support "focus follows mouse" and that's a total deal breaker for me.

Actually, wasn't I the one who told you about it?

Ah, no I wasn't.

Serg

No, I don't think so. I had a period where I just discovered virtualbox, and started downloading bunch of distros

1) It comes with zsh by default , that's one. I'm no zsh user, but i can recognize that as a good point. 2) It's fairly easy to use for n00bs. 3) It has it's own software center. 4) Runs fairly smooth in VM ( although haven't tried on actual hardware ) 5) It uses apt-get and dpkg

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

8:15 AM

night

Rinzwind

8:30 AM

@JourneymanGeek i do that on my router :-) no gui needed for torrents and the webversion I can use remotely

Journeyman Geek

8:43 AM

@Rinzwind oh and a RSS feed feature ._.

user136984

9:01 AM

Is it just me or does this answer feel a little weird?

Serg

@Seth I think that bug with "According" and "Wikipedia" only shows up on that one specific question O_o I am . . .confuz'd nau . . .

user136984

9:27 AM

@JourneymanGeek: Are you around?

user136984

Or any mods for that matter?

user136984

I need a private word with one of you.

towc

ok, I'm back

can anyone walk me through expanding my root partition online on a debian LVM with a separate home partition?

posts online all seem to have very different things than mine

so, I deleted so much stuff from my debian install that I might as well just scratch everything and start with a new install, where I pick the sizes of partitions manually

terdon

9:44 AM

@ParanoidPanda What's up?

user136984

@terdon: That is a matter I would prefer to discuss in private.

terdon

@ParanoidPanda Hang on

Journeyman Geek

@ParanoidPanda now I am, tho, I'm not a local mod

user136984

@JourneymanGeek: It's fine, it's been dealt with, sort of.

Journeyman Geek

kk

towc

10:01 AM

noticed another weird thing: instead of a file growing, it now seems like space just doesn't want to be used

output of df:

Filesystem                  1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/dm-1                     9480420 9222888         0 100% /

right after clearing ~80M

what could cause that?

towc

10:16 AM

and great, now can't find a non-free+mate testing iso that isn't live

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Q: How to build my code to run on a linux system without vdso support

I have a small C++ program which I am compiling on a ubuntu machine. The program runs fine on the same machine, but when I copy and try to run on a different linux system it printed ./prog1 : No such file or directory. Further probing I realized the VDSO (linux-vdso.so.1) support is not enabl...

dino

@Zanna I didn't mean it that way. :(

Serg

10:36 AM

dino

lol

Serg

i guess nobody uses nametags with address, eh?

user136984

:D

Serg

11:19 AM

the webupd8 guy opened an issue in my launcher-list-indicator repo . I got some fixin' to do , oh yeah >:)

Rinzwind

@JourneymanGeek I think I use FlexGet on my router for that. It picks anything up for me from tokyotosho from horriblesubs and in 1080 :D

Journeyman Geek

lol

I've used some pretty gnarly regex in the past

Zanna

@dino awww no I didn't think anything bad <3

Rinzwind

@JourneymanGeek I once had someone run out of the room cuz of a regex

Journeyman Geek

lol

Serg

11:36 AM

Anybody wanna help me test the Unity indicator ?

I need to check if issue report is reproducible

dino

@Zanna <3

@Rinzwind Are you sure it was because of a regex? o.O

Serg

Aand just like that, the issue is closed. The guy wasn't using the latest commit :D

towc

12:12 PM

so, I deleted /usr/share/locale

can I get it back in any way?

ok, managed, thanks anyway

Rinzwind

@dino oh yes. He wanted me to show him how to delete some stuff in a text file so I used a regex for it.

Serg

12:47 PM

@Rinzwind you should have showed them vim. They'd run out screaming "What kind of Black Magic is this? "

edwinksl

rofl

Zacharee1

@Seth I know. I'm hoping it'll be good

user136984

Does anybody know anything about making Backtraces?

user136984

I am going to be doing it with the program gdb, can I get it to insert timestamps every so often into the log file so that I can keep track of things?

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