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root 09/04/15(Wed)23:35 No. 254 Stickied

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ok, i'm a little confused. what is the reason to compile from source if a package is already built for you to use? i've heard that doing this optimizes the app specifically for your setup. is this something that just the act of compiling does on it's own? or do you adjust some kind of parameters when compiling so that the build is optimized for your setup (cpu,etc)?

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>>	root 09/11/01(Sun)22:44 No. 1478 hell yeah. why leave the repositories anyways?

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ATG root ## Admin ## 09/03/30(Mon)18:35 No. 1 Stickied

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Welcome to /nix/. This board is for discussion of open source software in general, not just operating systems, so feel free to talk about cool apps you've found / bitch about portage / brag about your xmoto skills.

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>>	root 09/04/30(Thu)19:37 No. 346 FreeBSDizzle rawks. But I must add this must be the ugliest desktop I have ever seen...

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root 09/11/12(Thu)23:09 No. 1500

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Anybody dual boot Linux & hackintosh OS X? I am making a PC to use as my Linux box, but am willing to get Hackintosh compatible parts. I know Windows / OS X seems more common from reading articles.

Is this complicated, should I go and spend a few weeks at the Hackinstosh forums? I'm a linux noob and use training wheel equiped Ubuntu for now. Should I just stick with learning Linux and not get in over my head.

>>	root 09/11/13(Fri)10:44 No. 1501 Getting in over your head is what linux is all about. If you have the computer to spare, i say go for it. It never hurts to learn something.

>>	root 09/11/19(Thu)23:43 No. 1513 >>1500 Sure. I have Slackware and Kalyway (OSX) on one of my PCs. It's a very simple process, but make sure you do read the forums of course first. Check which parts will suit you for networking and so on.

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Hosting, servers, etc. root 09/11/13(Fri)17:06 No. 1502

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Where do you guys go for *nix hosting, and how much do you pay?

I'm looking for SSH tunneling, but info on web hosts is fine too.

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>>	root 09/11/15(Sun)18:55 No. 1504 If you just want a simple shell account you can try the free service at freeshell.org. They also have pay services too.

John Freeman!!DlZzSvMGpm 09/11/17(Tue)10:53 No. 1509

I'm a huge fan of www.x10hosting.com

They have affordable VPS plans if you want the full experience. The "regular" hosting plans all come with SSH (if I'm not mistaken, I pay $10 a month for mine) and come with a couple of the standards covered (Perl, SQL (who doesn't have SQL these days), CGI, Python, etc.).

Plus, if you suck at life, they have good tech support.

>>	root 09/11/19(Thu)23:38 No. 1512 OVH is the best place to go for nice servers in my opinion. As for SSH tunneling, it depends what you want to do with it. You could just get a free shell somewhere if that's all you want to do.

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root 09/09/18(Fri)22:41 No. 1230

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Minimize -> Screen Cap -> Post

Post your desktop at this very moment without polishing it.

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>>	root 09/11/17(Tue)09:34 No. 1508 File: 125847928117.png-(1.37MB, 1366x768, Screenshot.png)

>>	root 09/11/19(Thu)01:24 No. 1510 >>1276 >>1506 Please, sauce on wallpapers!

>>	root 09/11/19(Thu)02:04 No. 1511 File: 125862506258.jpg-(249.03KB, 1024x768, 1258628737333.jpg) >>1510 Ek

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P2P Cash root 09/10/06(Tue)01:00 No. 1330

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http://bitcoin.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?page=Bitcoin

anyone tried it yet?
will it work as promise?
any theoretical weakness?

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>>	root 09/11/11(Wed)22:03 No. 1499 >>1491 Sucks to be you. I've managed to generate 3,800.00 bitcoins so far. Is anyone else managing to get this much or more? I'm curious how common the coins will be.

root 09/11/15(Sun)20:47 No. 1505

>>1499
>I'm curious how common the coins will be.
The current exchange rate for 1 greenback is around 809.22 bitcoin.

We're basically "minting" computing cycles into bitcoin and the mining costs of computing cycles is bound by electricity rate. It's similar to "minting" graphite (carbon) into cultured diamond (carbon) in controlled explosion.

root 09/11/16(Mon)08:56 No. 1507

>>1505
I understand the theory behind all of this. However, that does not tell us the distribution. For instance, one fellow here has been unable to generate any coins, but I have had no trouble at all. Does this mean on some individuals will be able to mint, leaving others to seek employment from the minters to have any money? In our new world where real currency no longer exists this gent is at a disadvantage and I am at an advantage. He must come to be for help. Granted this is no different then current reality and this whole thing may simply be a way to move power into the hands of computer people and hackers.

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root 09/08/29(Sat)06:48 No. 1132

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I'm looking for a stable Webkit browser that compiles on 64bit linux (it'd be nice if it ran on on 32bit FreeBSD, but that's not a requirement), extra points if it happens to be in the arch repos.
-There's midori, but it's very unstable.
-There's Arora, but it's Qt, I want Gtk.
-There's Chrome, but I don't like the Google part of Google chrome, and so far I don't know of a Chromium fork that has all the Google tracking stuff scrapped that compiles on 64bit linux.
-There's uzbl, but well, it's uzbl.
Thanks in advance.

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>>	root 09/09/30(Wed)13:49 No. 1306 >>1291 I'm still lurking around. Yeah, I know about the engine switch in Epiphany, I haven't tried it though. I've been using Arora for a while, even though it's qt. I must say that it's pretty neat, way less buggy than midori.

>>	root 09/11/11(Wed)04:20 No. 1497 How about Surf? You can find it on suckless.org

>>	root 09/11/11(Wed)08:03 No. 1498 on a side note... >>1497 yeah man suckless' stuff kicks ass. I use wmii and slock all the time.

root 09/10/25(Sun)19:24 No. 1437

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Hello /b/

I apologize in advance for a very stupid question.

I just got ubuntu 7.10 up and running on my PS3.
i'm a complete linux n00b.
i know 7.10 is an old version, but its the only version i had pre-burned. my computer is borked ATM, the whole reason im using linux.

i want to install firefox 3.5, i've extracted the contents of the archive and now have a folder called firefox, which looks as it would on a windows install, but i cant seem to figure out how to install/run it.

HALP

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>>	root 09/10/30(Fri)15:00 No. 1468 >>1467 I was building swiftweasel, though

root 09/11/04(Wed)21:10 No. 1487
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>>1468
swiftweasel is a whole different bag of potatoes. As I remember swiftweasel comes pre-compiled and all you have to do is run the installer. Read the documentation and you might actually be able to install it lol

Also why the fuck did you tell us that you wanted to install firefox then?

>>	root 09/11/09(Mon)21:03 No. 1496 also, I found a couple of links that you might find useful if you go with firefox and not swiftfox https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Configuring_Build_Options http://gemal.dk/mozilla/build.html

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zombae!!HlLzV1LwV1 09/10/23(Fri)15:35 No. 1426

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How did /nix/ celebrate the official release of Windows 7?

http://picasaweb.google.com/cschlaeger/JapanLinuxSymposium#5395358413061926434

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>>	John Freeman!!DlZzSvMGpm 09/11/06(Fri)11:40 No. 1489 Haven't used the actual copy, but early beta builds and the RC copies weren't too bad. Didn't run CSS or TF2 fast enough for my tastes, but I have a bad video card. So in other words, if you like XP, it's worth a try.

>>	root 09/11/09(Mon)01:23 No. 1493 >>1488 I'm running it instead of ubuntu. it has a couple of nice touches, but nothing really special. I was about to say that it has a great selection of wallpapers included, but then again -so does Ubuntu 09.10...

>>	root 09/11/09(Mon)07:18 No. 1494 >>1488 here >>1493 I tried it out. I agree, nothing special. I'm gonna just stick with XP for my TF2 and other couple of computer games. And for wallpapers I go to /w/ :)

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root 09/10/09(Fri)04:23 No. 1348

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I had been running Arch Linux with OpenBox as my WM for a while, and I didn't really have any problems that I couldn't resolve, I think.

However, lately I've been bored with arch (though it does what I want and it does it right) and wanted to use one of those corporate-backed distros where everything is preconfigured with pretty themes and all that. Like Ubuntu or Fedora and the likes. Yeah, it's weird, I'm not sure why I want it either, meh.

I installed Fedora, because if I'm going to bother playing around with SELinux and such, I thought Fedora would be the best thing to use. And I don't like it. I'm having problems that I didn't have in Arch, ie problems with some games I wanted to run (one of them on wine), and some other stuff that I can't recall. Fuck, I'm not feeling very well, maybe I need to sleep more. Do you know what I mean?

Plus, it doesn't even do its job right as a "aww, so bloated, but so pretty!" OS. On bootup I just get a black screen with a blue/white bar at the bottom of the screen that loads until Xorg/GDM kicks in. I liked my arch bootup better :|

So um, anyway, what "aww, so bloated, but so pretty!" distro do you recommend?

You know, I think that I should try a KDE distro.*

*Before someone says "you can use any DE/WM on any distro, you silly goose!": I know, but I think that for bloated corporate-backed pretty preconfigured systems, it's best to use the default DE they work with.
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>>	root 09/11/07(Sat)04:36 No. 1490 OP, check out Mandriva.

>>	root 09/11/08(Sun)10:02 No. 1492 >>1490 Screw Mandriva. I've been back to Arch for a while now anyway :/

>>	root 09/11/09(Mon)07:19 No. 1495 >>1492 Good man.

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