I use ubuntu 12.04 with gnome 3, because unity was created by the devil, and rebooting doesn't bother me because I run it on a notebook, so it reboots frequently anyways

Ubuntu(Custom, latest Dev-branch) for my clients and LFS for servers(like the control and i can control file-sizes for deployment).

Gentoo is ok... but i dont like how the compiler is not optimised for more than 2 threads...

In a workstation like mine with 16 proc-core's(8x2) it slugs along compiling. Since per-core performance is lacking...

I recently moved to Arch from Kubuntu and the quality just isn't there. Simple things like fonts being fucked up, KDE daemon's crashing because the build processed moved to a buggy GCC version (all the was needed to find the problem would have been starting KDE!), and things like my joystick not "just working" as it does on every other distro for the last half decade.

I'm going to move back to Kubuntu, strangely enough, because as crappy as its lack of polish is, it works. It's not that I can't figure it out -- I started using Linux 13 years ago on Debian 2.0 (Hamm) -- I just don't want to waste my time.

Really... a unix fork that has NO developers... Might as well use OSX... atleast there is more development for it...

Eh, FreeBSD is still under development...
Don't know what gave you the impression that it doesn't have any devs.

yeah... developed by a team of 6 people, with over 300 inactive community members and very little kernel-module support for hardware...

Not to mention, JFS is the default supported filesystem... ill stick with a modern kernel, I/O stack and Redundant filesystem(Ext)...

Did i mention, that there is little support and its still using unix-style memory managment?

again... OSX > BSD > Unix... Everything from that stack is pretty much undeveloped...Atleast they finally added Posix-style threading... After getting it upstream from apple...

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda && mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda

rm directory1/ file1 directory2/ file2 file3

it will simply delete all files and directories listed.

seriously... there is a MAN page for a reason...

-R(-r) = Recursive
-f(-FFF) = Force action

back in the 2.4/(early)2.6 kernel days, you required the -d switch to remove directory's though...

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find . -type d -exec "> ./* & touch ./*"\; will zero all files and update there mod date in a directory and recursively...

alot better method if you want to leave placeholders and update recurisively...

Again, all require Superuser access and if its intended maliciously, Modern linux administrator block su access to non-local clients and limit logins to only select users. Even more effectively they will set up ssl-key and PAM-auth to verify local connections and ensure there not using a relay agent.

I found my problem. I was forgetting to clear the duplicates page after each addition of files.

Have you tried FSlint, finds files, that have the same size.

Gthumb has a find duplicates function. Is that what you're looking for?

Canonical got it right. Most Linux user of the past relished in the fact that it took mid to high level computing knowledge to install and even run Linux. Canonical wants people to use and enjoy Linux, so yes, they made it easier with an Award winning installer (read idiot proof) and a software center that comes with most of the programs that people use everyday. Yeah so you got put in few extras to play DVD's and such.

But the point is this..I see it in all Linux threads around the WWW. Linux will never compete as an outstanding OS as long as there is infighting amongst the various distros and their fanboys. RPM or DEB? Su or sudo or yum? Portage or Software Center? Get it?

I'm not saying all Linux should be the same, not by any means, but somewhere, somehow, we've lost the common goal of what Linux was supposed to be.

Yeah, Ubuntu, Fedora(Red Hat), and Micro-OPENsuse-soft (owned by Novell whos owned by Microsoft) are very well funded and thus are the most popular, there are a hundreds of distros out there tho choose from. Notice I said choose? One of the founding principles of Linux! Freedom of choice. You think Mac or Windows will let you choose you interface? NO!

You can choose from the granddaddy of them all, Arch, all they way to a new distro released yesterday. Have an old computer? Mac and Windows want you to keep upgrading. Linux has low resource distros tailor-made for low resource machines. The choice with Linux are only limited by how much your willing to work and learn about it.

Command Line: Learn it and unleash the power!

I step off of my soapbox now.

>>374
I love Arch. It's the distro I run. But seriously, "granddaddy of them all". Since when?

Arch started in 2002. Linux was already a decade old at the time.

Debian is more of the granddaddy. It started in 93/94...

>>210
su can be logged in the sense that "This user ran su", but what they do once they've got a root shell is between them and the OS. If you enforce fine grained sudo permissions (I.e. "sudo su" or "sudo bash" are Right Out) then you can log every single action that every user took that required super user privileges.

Watching with interest. I really doubt there is anything of real quality out there.

not exactly porn but it is a decent wallpaper...

Gentlemen,
http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/2010/06/sexy-fedora-no-shirt.html

Could you do anything with two.drawball.com?

i.e create a script with automates drawing

>>105
almost forgot
http://www.linuxliveusb.com/
and if you are gonna use it, dont tick the "hide files on key" option, its useless, and its so hidden that not even navigating to ~home will get you to see it.
PIC related: its LiliUsbCreator about to do shit to Puppy528

>>105
and you can choose source:
>ISO
>IMG
>Zip

>>105>>105
GRUB is a bootloader,that works in the same way as Apple's BootCamp, and the windows variant "Bootloader". Once puppy linux or other distro is installed, sharing a drive, for example your c:\ drive, GRUB is there to sort out what you wanna boot, because by default, creating the new distro creates a partition in the local harddrive, and that partition cannot be always opened (ext filesystem,etc). I do not reccomend GRUB, as when i had arch, alongside windows 7 homepremium, it didnt recognize my windows, and it butthurt my computer.
>I use the windows bootloader config instead of grub, it does the exact same thing.
Happily carrying pup 5 with me since it came out, and running Xubuntu on a powerhouse alongside windows 7 (forgaming =D)