@terdon just voted up for election

@terdon i was wondering about that...do you have time to moderate both U&L and AU? AU is a much bigger workload than U&L (which is why i usually don't bother with it...too many questions + sturgeon's pollyanna-ish law = don't bother).

@cas Ask me again if I win. But yes, I think so. U&L doesn't have much of a workload and there are many more mods on AU. Primarily, I thought it'd be a good idea for the two to share a mod.

@derobert I've given up with trying to get Kali on the laptops. The sick joke is that Debian 8 installs perfectly on them with zero errors when i do it in UEFI. I'll just load the Kali tools i need manually.

@WorseDoughnut I don't understand why everyone doesn't do that (install the tools you need manually). Is it hard to do?

@FaheemMitha No clue, i'll let you know though. I imagine some tools will need tweaking if they've been modified to work specifically on Kali. Also convenience. The list of installed tools in the kali-linux-all metapackage is enormous. I'll probably only install them as I need them, but it's nice to go "oh i need some recon tools, lets see what's already in this folder of 30 tools..."

@WorseDoughnut True, convenience is a factor. Also, I suppose that not everyone in Kali is packaged for Debian. And I don't know if one can simply install stuff from Kali on Debian - the two probably aren't compatible.

@FaheemMitha Well most of the tools pre-installed on kali aren't specific to Kali, which is good. But there are definitely some forks and branches that were made specifically to work with Kali's weird custom setup.

My only complaint so far is I can't have cool transparent terminals with Gnome3 on debian anymore. Still on Kali though

@WorseDoughnut Are you sure you can't? :-)

@WorseDoughnut you might be able to install Kali into a chroot, or run it inside a VM under Debian

I might just grab a live image and point a custom grub entry at it. I'd be happy even with that.

I have a simple question...and i do not want to spam the Q&A area with it, so I thought I would try here: I have a CentOS server at a remote location. If I put OpenVPN on it and give two client machines credentials to connect with the OpenVPN CentOS server, will the two clients be able to ping each other through the VPN? For example client A typing http : clientB:8080 to see what clientB is hosting on port 8080 across the VPN?

@FarmHand yes, if you configure the VPN to allow that. It's an option in OpenVPN.

see --client-to-client

And asking a question is not "spamming" the Q&A area. That's what its for.

You can do all kinds of routing over OpenVPN tunnels. E.g., here I have OSPF running over OpenVPN tunnels.

Hi

Is this good place for Linux Desktop related questions?

@derobert THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I will now proceed with confidence in that direction, knowing that I can frame a more advanced question for the Q&A site.

@AndrewSmith the site is, questions go on the site (not in chat)

@AndrewSmith there is also Ask Ubuntu, if you're running Ubuntu.

I have Fedora, but I haven't thought that it would make big difference, but I dont know Ubuntu except for dpkg.

@AndrewSmith Fedora goes here. Ubuntu is fine here too, but also on Ask Ubuntu.

hey there, I'm following instructions for a kernel projects and am told to

git://git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-3.14

And then told, "You will need to switch to the 'v3.14.26' tag, as that is what we will be making use of." What does that mean? To "switch" to a different version?

@8protons it means that when you build the kernel, you need to first check out the right version: git checkout v3.14.26

whatever it is you're doing, I think you'll need to familiarize yourself with the basics of version control and with git in particular