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What Linux distribution do you use @ HOME ?

  • Slackware

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • Ubuntu

    Votes: 32 42.1%

  • Mint

    Votes: 16 21.1%

  • Fedora

    Votes: 12 15.8%

  • Debian

    Votes: 9 11.8%

  • SUSE

    Votes: 6 7.9%

  • Arch

    Votes: 5 6.6%

  • Gentoo

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • Puppy

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Mandriva

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 23 30.3%
  • Total voters
    76
wilkxus

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RiP Sun Microsystems.

Writing was on the wall for months but tis official now with Oracle laying off whoever was left. Sun really had excellent engineering, innovative hardware, software languages and cool Unix before Linux was even a glimmer in Torvalds eye.

Sad to see them fade away, I still miss the Motorolla 68k days and the Sun and Sparc workstations. Even though the OS and software landscape has certainly evolved a ton since those days of primordial software ooze, computing was a ton more personal then on all platforms whether MVS mainframe, PC, Atari, Amiga or Unix.
 
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alavaz

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I cut my Unix teeth on Solaris/SPARC and even though it lacked a lot of QoL that Linux brought, I still think it had all the cool shit before the world was ready for it. With zones, jumpstart, live upgrade and a lot of bash I was doing all of the automation people take for granted with chef/puppet/docker a decade ago.
 
dizzie

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Just wanted to thank all the folks that recommended Mint to me. New to this as a windows user but it flies and seems pretty great overall.
 
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kudos

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Mint is known for lackluster security issues. Why wouldn't you just run Ubuntu instead?
 
Alkorin

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Their site gets broken into once and they're "known for" security issues? Come on.

Besides, they were listed as running "Ubuntu" at the time of the break-in. I wonder if they're running their own product or if they took your advice? =D
 
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kudos

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Alkorin said:
Their site gets broken into once and they're "known for" security issues? Come on.

Besides, they were listed as running "Ubuntu" at the time of the break-in. I wonder if they're running their own product or if they took your advice? =D
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You think that's the only issue they have when it comes to security? Really? I suggest you go read up on their shitty practices.
 
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Alkorin

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OK, looked it up, and yep, some pretty shitty practices. The average user won't really need to care about most of them. I'll also readily admit to having been out of the desktop Linux space for quite some time as I work in a Windows shop these days, so I didn't know about the 2016 stuff (except for the web site breach).

For anyone who's interested, there is a good explanation here: Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised [LWN.net]
 
sadris

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Mint also rewrites and changes the names of upstream packages so they can bundle their own special snowflake shit.

Just use ubuntu mate or xubuntu.
 
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MusicForFish

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So I made this jump to Linux Ubuntu.
I have a drive full of all of my coding projects and want to move them into my Ubuntu space.
Or move them to github.
Would running windows in a VM allow me to access the files and accomplish this?
Or should I pull the drive and try to access it from a different computer?
I would rather not have to pull the drive as it is full of media and I have zero issues with accessing my media, etc.
 
alavaz

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I might be misunderstanding... but why can you not access the drive from Ubuntu as it stands? You can either install ntfs-utils or cifs-utils (I'm a RH guy so install whatever the deb equivalent of those packages are) and access windows filesystems as is or over the network from Ubuntu.
 
MusicForFish

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I can access the drive, but I cant move the files out of the windows file system(ntfs) over to Ubuntu.
Furthermore, the system wont allow me to upload them to github.
Read/Write etc arent options for me.
 
Alkorin

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So, you can browse the filesystem of the NTFS partition, but you can't copy any files from it?
 
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Alkorin

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Wow. I have no idea. If you can mount it, you should be able to copy from it.

Anything in dmesg that might give us a clue? Try

Code: 
dmesg | tail -20

and paste the output here.
 
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MusicForFish

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Once I'm home I'll do that command and see what turns up, thanks Alkorin Alkorin !
Noodleface Noodleface Most of the files are from asp.net mvc work. If I can just get the files to upload, or allowed to be commited to repositories on local git, I would think that the problem would be solved.
 
sleevedraw

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I've tried a number of distros including Mint, Deepin, OpenSUSE and Solus. I really enjoy the latter in particular.

Unfortunately I don't have the time to fight my computer for several hours every time I want to get a new game working, so Windows is still my daily driver.
 
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