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Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):
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>What distro should I choose?https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux>What are some cool programs?https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applicationshttps://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Pagehttps://suckless.org/rocks/>What are some cool terminal commands?https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browsehttps://cheat.sh/>Where can I learn the command line?https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuidehttps://www.grymoire.com/Unix/>Where can I learn more about Free Software?https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html>How to break out of the botnet?https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux>>29537No, that's Palemoon in the picture.
The alternatives are net-libs/webkit-gtk based.
>>29538Does anyone else have performance issues with palemoon?
Overall it's not bad but am seeing for example 50%+ CPU usage from just opening
https://deepseek.comFurther having lots of lag in the GUI for example moving tabs, or even just the loading graphic on the tabs.
Would try www-client/luakit instead but would need to write a patch for Emacs style bindings:
https://github.com/luakit/luakit/issues/557Don't think am up for that at the moment, even given the increased movement towards programming lately.
>>29671>only does so with my old dracut kernelWould be open to suggestions if anyone has any ideas as to why this might be happening.
With ugrd error is that everything is missing its shared libraries including /bin/login.
Tried modifying the configuration to explicitly mount /usr/ and even /dev/ but the latter wasn't supported and the former did nothing.
Tried just removing the udev dependency from the dracut.ebuild and adding the option omit_dracutmodules+=" udev-rules ".
This results in an error which have now forgotten, but don't have much hope for this path.
>>29737Is the documentation complete and up to date?
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/devices.htmlWould probably rather avoid the manual approach if it turns out it's not.
>>29745Had the "genius idea" to hand compress and parse the LAD table.
The idea is that devices are typically linked to the correctly named device in /sys/dev/.
However this doesn't give you the subdirectory in /dev/ to mount them.
So you just need to make a compressed and parsed table of subdirectories from the LAD documentation.
This way could have something like a minimal MAKEDEV before handling permissions.
Got until 116 (ALSA) before realized that the documentation is incomplete.
ALSA doesn't know to look outside of /dev/snd for these devices, but there's no indication.
Bummer.
>>29810Apparently the data used by udev to determine default mountpoints are stored in sysfs in the uevent file of the /sys/dev/*/*/ directory.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-uevent it's stored as DEVNAME.
Of course this doesn't solve the permissions issue,
one could reimplement a parser for udev rules.
Then one could have a hand-crank udev/MAKEDEV replacement, with all the proper permissions applied.Then /dev/ is just a directory which can be wiped and replaced with a snapshot tar.
It's late, was trying to get alpine chroot with tbb running but ran into issues when attempting to execute as non-root:
bwrap: Creating new namespace failed: Operation not permitted
error: ldconfig failed, exit status 256
The typical fixes didn't help:
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/703#issuecomment-293250243https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap/issues/324#issuecomment-517378834>>27473>>29821>>29824Cheaped out a little on the chroot, and just used debootstrap, but got this working.
The only thing that seems to not be working is the audio, but don't have it in me atm.
Have something like the following in my ,bashrc:
alias torbrowser-launcher=' \
sudo mount --bind /dev ${HOME}/jail/dev && \
sudo mount --bind /dev/pts ${HOME}/jail/dev/pts && \
sudo mount --bind /proc ${HOME}/jail/proc && \
sudo mount --bind /sys ${HOME}/jail/sys && \
sudo mount --bind /run ${HOME}/jail/run && \
sudo -E chroot ${HOME}/jail /bin/su ${CHROOTUSER} -c torbrowser-launcher' >>29824>* in AppImageShould have tested this before reporting.
They dynamically link to common libs.
But don't seem to have a list of what these are.
>>29828Needed to run with apulse and modify /etc/group so that the chroot and system have the same group number for audio.
Was considering replacing Pale Moon with LuaKit for webdev and public persona, but decided against it.
Guess it's all working now exactly as it should.
>>29895Emacs is the goat program, I love it so much. I also love all the ancient quirky shit It has tbh. 10/10 super fun program.
Also, I'm forced to use windows at work and emacs on windows is actually good enough to use and the eshell gives me a shell which isn't powershell
>>30527im using endeavour. they say it is just arch with calamares installer. it uses dracut but idk what that means. it also has yay for pacman by default which i like. i just picked it cause i was gonna kde anyway and i liked the space stuff. i was using grub to dual boot until i deleted windows and reinstalled on defaults so now its systemd.
people say manjaro is bad now. i think the popular one is Cachy? the gamers like it better but the real gamer meme is Garuda. i wanted less bloat and only install gamer stuff as needed. endeavour works great zero issues for almost a year now.
AUR Chaos malware: an analysis>https://www.mh4ckt3mh4ckt1c4s.xyz/blog/aur-chaos-malware-analysis/* There were malicious packages in Arch User Repo that installed remote access tool (RAT).
* The known malware packages are: librewolf-fix-bin, firefox-patch-bin, zen-browser-patched-bin, minecraft-cracked, ttf-ms-fonts-all, vesktop-bin-patched, ttf-all-ms-fonts.
* There might be even more malware on the AUR!
* Be sure to always review all package PKGBUILD files, even when you are updating AUR packages that were previously to be known to be good.
* I suggest using rua or yay AUR helper because they can show diff views of AUR packages.
>>26557I would just run FreeBSD if you want to use it. You could also use Slackware but I think FreeBSD or some more mainstream GNU/Linux distro is better, since package management is painful on Slackware.
>>30936>Be sure to always review all package PKGBUILD files, even when you are updating AUR packages that were previously to be known to be good.If they can pull malware directly from the PKGBUILD, they might as well go all the way and pull a legit-looking source from a compromised mirror. At this point you're better off getting the upstream source and handpicking any patches you need yourself.
Given that the distro refers to many AUR packages in its wiki and those especially would be maintained by relatively trusted community members, they should have made a PKGBUILD repository with barebones vetting already. Arch retardation syndrome strikes again!
>>26557It depends on what specific features of FreeBSD you are looking for in a Linux distro.
If you want a BSD init system, the only distro I know of that uses BSD init is CRUX; Arch used to use it, being originally based on CRUX, but has long since moved to systemd. The other init systems on Linux like SysV, openrc, and runit are all totally different systems from BSD init.
If you want ZFS, you can set up OpenZFS after the fact on any Linux distro, but if you want ZFS-on-root right out of the box then FreeBSD and Ubuntu are the only OSes I know of that provide that in their installers.
If you want jails, there's not really any equivalent to that on Linux, there's containerization and things like Docker but they work in a fundamentally different way than jails.
If you want a lightweight minimal OS that adheres to KISS principles and doesn't use systemd, there is Alpine Linux, Void, Gentoo, etc.
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