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12:14 AM

@Seth How could it be bad?

12:33 AM

@jrg I don't want Linus to go from correcting people too harshly to not correcting them at all. I find that to be an unlikely occurrence, but once you decide you cannot or should not trust your emotion or judgement and must let others influence it.. well lots of things go up in the air. I don't think it's likely bad things will come of it, but the concern is there.

On the reverse side of the spectrum this is also a valid concern:

Dijkstra, please just don't let the kernel suffer any serious technical problems in the near term, or else we'll be hearing about how projects collapse unless you write personal attacks against your collaborators.

Tweeted by garybernhardt on September 16, 2018 at 9:47 PM in reply to garybernhardt

Plus a few other things I cannot discuss here.

jrg

1:44 AM

Hmm, interesting.

Seth

2:16 AM

It's a bit far fetched perhaps, but I've seen it happen IRL

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5:22 AM

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Q: is it a good practice to use symlink config files?

I am thinking of creating symlink for config files in /etc . infact, I tried doing it and end up services won't able to restart (even thoguh target file permissions and ownership are identical to the real config). why? this configs are kept in a git repo. I am wondering if it is a good practice ...

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5:53 AM

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Q: Why would one have to exit twice when leaving an ssh bash connection?

When connected through SSH, a machine requires that I exit twice before returning to the local computer's shell; is there a reason why this happens, it doesn't seem like it should work that way.

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Ayenn Ul

8:30 AM

[oz@admin25 ~]$ which consul
/usr/bin/consul
[oz@admin25 ~]$ consul version
bash: /home/oz/bin/consul: No such file or directory
Could you please tell me how to change the default searching value?

terdon

@AyennUl What's the output of type -a consul ?

Ayenn Ul

[oz@admin25 ~]$ type -a consul
consul is /usr/bin/consul

terdon

hmm. And what is the output of echo $PATH?

Did you used to have a file called /home/oz/bin/consul ?

Does this still happen if you open a new terminal window?

Ayenn Ul

@terdon Thank you for helping! I opened a new window and it worked.

terdon

You're welcome.

Ayenn Ul

8:45 AM

Could you please tell is threre any Slack group about linux which you recommend?

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9:17 AM

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Q: KVM passthrough in virtual machine more than 3 usb devices

I have a question, how can i passthrough in virtual machine more than 3 usb devices? I have a usb hub and i cannot passthrough in virtual machine more than 3 usb device. My usb device connect to usb hub, but if i connect them to mother board i have the same error error: ERROR: No free USB ports...

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paul23

I know this isn't about ubuntu directly: but is anyone experienced with alpine linux? - I need nodejs version 10+, however even the "latest" version in alpine package manage is 9.11 "only".

Fabby

9:58 AM

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy The bounty didn't help much so far... Only 3 upvotes.

@paul23 Does Alpine provide backports?

@AyennUl Slack is more of a corporate application than a general app

paul23

@Fabby only version 8.11 and 9.11 are in the package manager (when using apk search --update 'node*')

Fabby

@paul23 Let me rephrase that: Does Alpîne provide a backport repository like Ubuntu?

If yes: activate that. If no, does Alpine provide PPAs?

paul23

10:18 AM

Well they do provide a way to add ppas, but alpine linux is based on busybox so it needs to compile for source or have specific for alpine linux build packages. (Can't use debian or other linux os build packages/programs).

Fabby

@paul23 Sorry then, better go here in that case.

paul23

no problem :)

I know it's off topic here, just wondering if people had any accidental experience. Alpine linux is a lightweight linux version, apart from the kernel it's just 6 MB. - So it is used almost always in docker images, which are popular for servers nowadays. Maybe someone here had a passing experience with this. (Dev in ubuntu/deploy alpine shouldn't be that strange, I think).

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11:25 AM

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Q: Can I move my Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS OS to my SSD? (From HD)

I am currently dual booting windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS. My windows is on my SSD and when I tried to add Ubuntu not too long ago there was only 2gb available shrink space on my SSD. So I thought I would just use the free space on my other HD, and make a free partition there. I just wanted t...

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Q: Is it safe to rename .deb file?

The established structure of the .deb file name is package_version_architecture.deb. According to this paragraph: Some packages don't follow the name structure package_version_architecture.deb. Packages renamed by dpkg-name will follow this structure. Generally this will have no impact on...

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