If I had mod points I'd mod you down. What gives you a right to dump on them? Its an Open Source project, totally free, totally dedicated to the right principles of freedom which is vastly more than much software. If you don't like it, develop your own or use another.
I don't recommend modding AC's down since it is a waste of your mod points. Sure you do get trolling which is not just confined to AC's but most people on Slashdot ignore them although some (not all) do deserve sarcastic, but not abusive replies.
On occasion, you do get AC's that come up with statements that are worth modding up.
Nothing like insulting a group of people while using incorrect grammar.
Back on subject, I think I might actually like this feature. I do not have connect for my Xbox One and I've found it a bit burdensome to navigate in order to create groups with my brother to start playing a game together.
Guess I'll find out soon enough.
Maybe you want to rethink what you just said.
When you use "Cortana" you do send all information to Microsoft's cloud where it can be used for who knows what. Don't believe me, well bring up your security settings for Windows 10 and look at what "Cortana" actually does. In addition, why don't you do a web search using something like "Cortana privacy concerns" or any phrase with "Cortana" and "privacy", then if you are happy with what that entails, "Be my guest".
I do have Windows 10 running on a virtual machine on my PC and I only run that virtual machine when I need to test things regarding Windows 10.
Grab a random sequence of characters that you think you can type reliably.
Well you could try this: head -c 80/dev/random | base64 | head -1 | cut -c 7-15
The above is for an 8 character password, starting from the seventh character to the fifteenth. You could fiddle with the "cut" numbers to make it longer or shorter but if you have a Unix or Linux system you could try "mkpasswd".
For Linux users, you do need to download "expect" from your repository and running "mkpasswd" by default you will get a random eight character password which is made up of letters both upper and lower case with numbers and one special character. Of course, you can modify length and style with options so read the manual entry.
There are plenty of password generators of varying complexity and a web search will find them.
Now you have a password how do I remember it?
There are many password database managers some GUI others command-line. Again a web search will find them, however, the most important thing is remembering and keeping your personal password private (never give it to anyone - ever). As well as being mindful of security you also need to have some plan (ie. disaster recovery) if your computer or even your corporate machines (assuming you are the system manager) are compromised.
Yes I know for many what I just said will make their eyes glaze over but it would be interesting to be the fly on the wall when they have to explain to their manager why they did not take IT security seriously or in the case of a private PC why they just lost all their files or worse they now have a ransom demand.
I dread the day the Marine Corps is forced off of Windows 7.
Well, how does January 14, 2020 if the Marine Corps have extended support. If they don't have extended support, too bad. Check here for more information.
Not meaning to troll,
but articles like this always leave me with a smile, not out of malice, but out of relief.. that I got away from M$ products SO many years ago.
Not even a twitch, only condolences to the poor bastards having their lives literally ruined by M$ Abortionware and the reasoning of the assholes at the M$ helm. From TFA, et al.
For the record:
% uname -a
FreeBSD Krypton42 10.2-RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p14 #0: Wed Mar 16 20:46:12 UTC 2016 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
Just for the record:
> uname -srvm
Linux 4.5.5-201.fc23.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat May 21 15:29:49 UTC 2016 x86_64
Too bad Linux is going through an equally braindead period with systemd taking the role of gwx. Still, there is slack, I've used it for several years, time to get back to it after the bad experiences with ubuntu and others.
Ok please explain to a person who has used Linux with "systemd" since inception what is really wrong with it. Just because you don't like something new or because it uses a database (have you heard of or used AIX?) does not cut it.
not because Linux makes such as great desktop but because microsoft has become such incompetent assholes and windows has become such a pain the ass to bother with
I have been using Fedora for over seventeen years and in the last eight on my only personal PC's and in those eight years have only have had one major annoyance and that was when KDE came out with 4.0 which IMHO was not ready for prime time so to keep the peace in the family I switched to Gnome until KDE 4.1 was released. From then on everything I wanted to do with a PC including games although Microsoft-centric games are somewhat problematic, just works.
I can compare Windows 10 to Fedora 23 KDE spin since I run Windows 10 in a virtual machine on my Fedora 23 desktop and IMHO Fedora is much more customizable and functional than Windows 10. Of course, if you want the so-called start menu intermixed with "tiles" then Windows 10 is fine but once you get over the "pretty" and "shiny" part of Windows 10 there is little that is appealing to me. I even have Linux Mint which is quite nice (I still prefer KDE although other may disagree and that is fine) in a virtual machine and I prefer that to Windows 10.
What really does turn me off Windows 10 is the privacy concerns which are fairly easy to turn off (they are all on by default) in the settings menu, however, that is not the end of it, you really do have to know how to edit the Registry and know what to look for, which is no easy task and impossible for normal PC users. Sure there are third party tools that can assist, assuming you trust them, but basically "All your information belongs to us" is so true. Even if you have locked down your Windows 10 PC Microsoft has been known to turn some features back on "For our own good - of course".
And without updates, the laptop would end up getting hacked by worms and used for other bandwidth intensive tasks like ddos, spam, etc...
I have no objection to updates if they are useful like you have said but Windows 10 "nag-ware" (let's call it what it really is) and forced install by stealth is basically what is called "mall-ware". It is also known that while you can turn off some of the privacy features all of which are set to "on" by default some Windows 10 updates actually turn them some of those features back on again.
Turning off the privacy features is not just a simple matter of selecting your privacy setup and clicking accordingly, but you also have to go into the registry as well if you know how to do that and what to look for. Basically, the majority of Windows PC users have no idea how to edit the registry much less that one exists.
I have a Lenovo laptop with Windows 7 Professional on it. Sometime in the last nine months, Windows has forgotten how to talk with much of the hardware in the laptop. This includes the finger reader and all networking devices. I called both Microsoft and Lenovo, and both refused to help.
Do you have "extended support" for your Windows 7? You probably don't hence the reason why Lenovo and Microsoft refused to help. Check here to get more information.
Like it or not if you want support for Microsoft Windows you either get extended support or move to Windows 10. If you do want Windows 10 then get the ISO from here rather than upgrade although make sure you do backup your important data. It is very easy to install although before you do I do suggest looking at the following video . The presenter was a Microsoft employee for 15 years and is not against Windows 10 but what he does not like is how Microsoft Windows 10 phones home by default, he then goes on and explains how to tighten your privacy.
If you have a powerful PC you can easily install Windows 10 in a virtual machine and the ISO is great for doing this. I actually have Fedora 23 on my Desktop (latest Skylake core i7 with 16GB DDR4 memory) and used my six and a half-year-old laptop's (has Fedora 23 on it) Windows 7 product key. I also used KVM as my virtual machine which surprisingly is actually certified to install Microsoft Windows. You can use VirtualBox if you wish but I am not overly impressed with Oracle at the moment.
If you have watched the video and you can even search for "windows 10 privacy concerns" in your preferred search engine (Google gets 1.8 million hits) you will know that Windows 10 phones home by default. You can turn off many of the so-called privacy features but you will either have to fiddle with the registry (Oh joy!) or get some third party (if you trust them) software to lock down Win10 but it has been known for a Microsoft update to turn some features back on again (for our own good of course:-)) so you need to be vigilant.
Basically, if you don't like Windows 10 then you better get to like it because soon it will be the only game in town (Windows 8.1 mainstream support expires 8th Jan 2018) or switch to an alternative OS such as one of the many Linux distributions, BSD or even a Mac if you have the money. If you have a work PC then the problem is not your problem.
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It got a decent boost with Win7. Win8 was more or less underwhelming, but not disastrous. Now the current push for Win10 earns them reputation of some supervillain with a master plan.
I installed MS Win10 in a virtual machine a few hours ago and as an operating system, it is fine, as I would expect it to be.
Here are my observations.
1) The base OS installed from the ISO is about 9.4GB.
2) Very pretty although that is subjective and you like tiles, although it is possible to hide them.
3) Verry intrusive into your private use.
4) Loves to make is fairly difficult for the average user to change the security settings. Fortunately, there are private tools (be careful) that can fix that.
5) Please check out the following site . The presenter does not object to Win10 however he does not like the way Microsoft hides the fact that this OS can phone home if you let it. What is even more reprehensible is that after an update some of your settings may be reverted back from "off" to "on". Sure this is not a big deal for someone with a bit of technical knowledge but most people don't have that.
Compared against my Fedora 23 KDE Spin:
1) My 2600 packages which include the OS, GUI and lots of packages such as LibreOffice, The Gimp, Handbrake, Chrome, Firefox, some serious maths packages, video display software such as VLC and MPV Media Player as well as a host of other packages too numerous to name here, add up to 9.1GB. Even Linux Mint with it's base ISO install (including LibreOffice and The Gimp) is about 5.1GB. What on earth has Win10 got in that 9.4GB base ISO install that does not have an Office or photo editing suite?
2) My fully customizable KDE display is also very nice and while it does not use tiles (very subjective here) it is very functional and IMHOmuch more flexible.
As for installing Fedora it took about the same as it took to install MS Win10, but configuring for security was so much easier in Fedora (again subjective).
Personally, I would rather use Fedora since I have full control, however, there is nothing inherently wrong with Win10 if you lock it down but this is beyond the capability of most users.
Once you have Windows 10, every update acts like this and cannot be rejected.
Stop spreading lies. Updates in Windows 10 can easily be ignored or rejected. There are several that I'm currently holding off on at the moment.
Here is a simple question for you. Do you want the Microsoft operating system that you are currently using supported?
Now take a look at the following Microsoft operating systems that are supported , keep in mind that only those that want and are willing to pay for extended support will get supported, which basically means if you have any Microsoft OS that is less than 8.1 it is not under mainstream support.
If you are a gamer then you either upgrade to MS Windows 10 or you won't be able to play any games that require DirectX 12 support.
What is reprehensible (at least at the moment) is even when you have configured the options for MS Windows 10 an update may revert them back because we all know that "Microsoft knows what is best for us". Take a look at the following video . It is import to note that the presenter is not against the OS, what he does not like is when updates change the user's configurations and this type of thing got a great deal of controversy when some like this happened with a Debian update.
Might have been true some years ago, but thr current state of Linux desktop environments is so bad that Windows 10 feels fine in comparison. I still haven't recovered from the PTSD after trying to cope with Unity. Current KDE and Gnome are hair-raisingly terrible and XFCE makes Windows 8 feel user friendly.
I have been using Fedora for over seventeen years and in the last seven years on my own PC's and have never struck any major issues that could not be fixed. Currently, I am running Fedora 23 with the KDE spin on my Desktop with the latest Skylake architecture and have not had any issues with that release.
It is possible for me to run MS Widows under a virtual machine (currently Android, SeamOS and Mint) but to date, I could not be bothered since everything that I want and more is stable and works perfectly.
You can also try the stable releases of Fedora . You can even choose what GUI you would like as the default.
Of course, you can also try one of the many distributions as described here.
If you are an avid gamer then you basically have two choices. 1) Have a Microsoft Operating System or 2) Run a Linux distribution and run a Microsoft OS in a virtual machine if your PC has enough power. There is a third choice and that is to dual boot but IMHO this is rather pointless since most people will only stick with the OS that they play games on.
If you are not willing to switch to a Mac or a Linux distribution then just put up with Microsoft Windows.
Maybe that's not such a bad idea. Rename the company Minecraft.
Kinda like Philip Morris changing their name to the Altria Group, to help people forget about the horrible products [i]they[/i] made.
They will even make more money if they bring out a version of Minecraft called "Call of Duty - Minecraft" or better yet to cover all bases "Minecraft Battlefront".:-)
Fedora and Redhat would like a word with you. Personally, I have never used systemd command line programs but they do exist..
If I want to run a job and log out I would use "screen". If your "screen" processes get killed when you log out it is not the fault of systemd but possibly a flag in the/etc/systemd/logind.conf file. If you see #KillUserProcesses=yes then as the system administrator you should change it to #KillUserProcesses=no. Of course in a commercial development, testing or production environment, you better get permission to do this and raise a change request to cover yourself.
Who's bitching about systemd's insanity? A lot of people.
Who's concentrating on things hopefully working in debian stable? You.
The problem appears to be Debian specific and not on other distributions.
The systemd process will only do what it is configured to do no more no less. If your configuration is changed as part of an update then the blame lies squarely with the update process for that particular package.
Look at the/etc/systemd/logind.conf file (check it's last modified date) and check that following is set "#KillUserProcesses=no". If it is set to "yes'" then set it to "no" and restart systemd -- problem solved.
It however have to be said that just because v230 of systemd have changed "#KillUserProcesses=no" into "KillUserProcesses=yes" in/etc/systemd/logind.conf does not mean that distributions will ship with this. v230 have just hit Debian testing so it will be quite a while before it hits Debian stable.
In Fedora 23 with the latest updates the variable "#KillUserProcesses=no" is set in the/etc/systemd/logind.conf file. If this is not the case in Debian distributions then change it back to "no" -- hopefully, the problem is solved. Having an update change configuration settings is reprehensible and deserves the severest criticism. Well, I won't mention (cough!) a certain OS that a huge corporation is trying to foist on us --- for our own good of course.;-)
"screen" will work exactly as it always have, even with the new defaults.
Except that the way you describe is not the way that screen has always worked. Instead of the straightforward invocation screen on the command line, now it has to be prefixed with all kinds of systemd-specific stuff that wasn't there before.
Its functionality is the same. Really, just use an alias if typing is hard for you to do. Or even better. Start screen automatically at boot by running it as a.service. See the Arch wiki for how.
I question the moderator for marking you as a Troll.
The simple way I use "screen" is to just type "screen" in a terminal window then:
1) Run any processes I wish to run before I log out.
2) Type Ctrl a Ctrl d which detaches the screen session.
3) Logout.
Log back in again and in a terminal window type "screen -r" and your screen session will attach with all processes still running. This works fine with Fedora 23 and it's latest patches. You don't have to fiddle with systemd settings.
Because there is not other way for logind to determine that "screen" was one of the things a user actualy intends to keep running, or something that is still running because it's exit logic is misbehaving. The other alternative may be to add an extended attribute to the screen executable or other sort of thing that says "please don't kill me, I'm meant to linger, honest"
I don't have the so-called problem with Fedora 23 with the latest updates. The "screen" process works exactly as it should. I have detailed my test in a previous post in this thread so I won't bore you with a repeat.
If you have a GNU Screen session, then you're still technically logged in, innit?
Irrelevant, if you are running a background process that is under your user name you effectively own that process. In the case of running "screen" you can actually detach and reattach that particular process and all child processes attached to it.
Under Fedora 23 with the latest updates "screen" works as it should. Since this problem seems to be under a Debian distribution then it needs to be fixed or, are people just jumping on the "I hate systemd" bandwagon without running some trivial tests.
So, "screen" has always been a good way to ensure that processes don't get killed randomly by disconnections, logout or X crashes.
Then comes systemd and kills all your processes at logout, even when launched with screen.
Finally, then comes Poettering, explaining you that you're a moron if you expect to keep those processes running.
Seriously, the systemd devs make it really hard no to hate them.
Ok, I am not running any Debian distribution but Fedora 23 with the latest updates. Here is my test.
1) Fire up screen and run just for the sake of the test top.
2) Detach screen with the command Ctrl-a Ctrl-d (ie. detatch screen).
3) Check to see if the screen process is running using the "ps -ef" command. It is!
4) Now logout of my computer.
Log back into my computer and on the command line run "screen -r" -- does my detached process reattach and is my top process running?
Yes, my process is running which is what I would expect.
If the Debian side has a problem then this needs to be fixed. File a bug report.
I'm nearly 60, s'pose that makes me nearly elderly.
I pick my passwords using
pwgen -y
and select from a screen full of 'memorable' passwords
Tried this and got:
atom ~] 13:35:13 > pwgen
bash: pwgen: command not found
Ok. I installed it and by default you get a list of passwords without any special characters and if you want you can customize the list. It is even possible to generate single passwords.
Personally, I prefer the command mkpasswd which will give you a new password each time you run it (IMHO preferable to a default list, but to each their own). You do need to install expect though. You can even use options if you want different length passwords or even customize your password for those sites that have stupid password policies.
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If I had mod points I'd mod you down. What gives you a right to dump on them? Its an Open Source project, totally free, totally dedicated to the right principles of freedom which is vastly more than much software. If you don't like it, develop your own or use another.
I don't recommend modding AC's down since it is a waste of your mod points. Sure you do get trolling which is not just confined to AC's but most people on Slashdot ignore them although some (not all) do deserve sarcastic, but not abusive replies.
On occasion, you do get AC's that come up with statements that are worth modding up.
Nothing like insulting a group of people while using incorrect grammar.
Back on subject, I think I might actually like this feature. I do not have connect for my Xbox One and I've found it a bit burdensome to navigate in order to create groups with my brother to start playing a game together.
Guess I'll find out soon enough.
Maybe you want to rethink what you just said.
When you use "Cortana" you do send all information to Microsoft's cloud where it can be used for who knows what. Don't believe me, well bring up your security settings for Windows 10 and look at what "Cortana" actually does. In addition, why don't you do a web search using something like "Cortana privacy concerns" or any phrase with "Cortana" and "privacy", then if you are happy with what that entails, "Be my guest".
I do have Windows 10 running on a virtual machine on my PC and I only run that virtual machine when I need to test things regarding Windows 10.
Go truly random:
head -c 80 /dev/random | base64
Grab a random sequence of characters that you think you can type reliably.
Well you could try this: head -c 80 /dev/random | base64 | head -1 | cut -c 7-15
The above is for an 8 character password, starting from the seventh character to the fifteenth. You could fiddle with the "cut" numbers to make it longer or shorter but if you have a Unix or Linux system you could try "mkpasswd".
For Linux users, you do need to download "expect" from your repository and running "mkpasswd" by default you will get a random eight character password which is made up of letters both upper and lower case with numbers and one special character. Of course, you can modify length and style with options so read the manual entry.
There are plenty of password generators of varying complexity and a web search will find them.
Now you have a password how do I remember it?
There are many password database managers some GUI others command-line. Again a web search will find them, however, the most important thing is remembering and keeping your personal password private (never give it to anyone - ever). As well as being mindful of security you also need to have some plan (ie. disaster recovery) if your computer or even your corporate machines (assuming you are the system manager) are compromised.
Yes I know for many what I just said will make their eyes glaze over but it would be interesting to be the fly on the wall when they have to explain to their manager why they did not take IT security seriously or in the case of a private PC why they just lost all their files or worse they now have a ransom demand.
The message here is that Microsoft can do whatever they want and we are all helpless
We?? Who's this we, I have been using Linux on my own PC's for over eight years, I have not missed Microsoft's operating system offerings at all.
I dread the day the Marine Corps is forced off of Windows 7.
Well, how does January 14, 2020 if the Marine Corps have extended support. If they don't have extended support, too bad. Check here for more information.
Not meaning to troll, but articles like this always leave me with a smile, not out of malice, but out of relief .. that I got away from M$ products SO many years ago.
Not even a twitch, only condolences to the poor bastards having their lives literally ruined by M$ Abortionware and the reasoning of the assholes at the M$ helm. From TFA, et al.
For the record:
% uname -a
FreeBSD Krypton42 10.2-RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p14 #0: Wed Mar 16 20:46:12 UTC 2016 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
Just for the record:
> uname -srvm
Linux 4.5.5-201.fc23.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat May 21 15:29:49 UTC 2016 x86_64
Works for me. :-)
Too bad Linux is going through an equally braindead period with systemd taking the role of gwx. Still, there is slack, I've used it for several years, time to get back to it after the bad experiences with ubuntu and others.
Ok please explain to a person who has used Linux with "systemd" since inception what is really wrong with it. Just because you don't like something new or because it uses a database (have you heard of or used AIX?) does not cut it.
not because Linux makes such as great desktop but because microsoft has become such incompetent assholes and windows has become such a pain the ass to bother with
I have been using Fedora for over seventeen years and in the last eight on my only personal PC's and in those eight years have only have had one major annoyance and that was when KDE came out with 4.0 which IMHO was not ready for prime time so to keep the peace in the family I switched to Gnome until KDE 4.1 was released. From then on everything I wanted to do with a PC including games although Microsoft-centric games are somewhat problematic, just works.
I can compare Windows 10 to Fedora 23 KDE spin since I run Windows 10 in a virtual machine on my Fedora 23 desktop and IMHO Fedora is much more customizable and functional than Windows 10. Of course, if you want the so-called start menu intermixed with "tiles" then Windows 10 is fine but once you get over the "pretty" and "shiny" part of Windows 10 there is little that is appealing to me. I even have Linux Mint which is quite nice (I still prefer KDE although other may disagree and that is fine) in a virtual machine and I prefer that to Windows 10.
What really does turn me off Windows 10 is the privacy concerns which are fairly easy to turn off (they are all on by default) in the settings menu, however, that is not the end of it, you really do have to know how to edit the Registry and know what to look for, which is no easy task and impossible for normal PC users. Sure there are third party tools that can assist, assuming you trust them, but basically "All your information belongs to us" is so true. Even if you have locked down your Windows 10 PC Microsoft has been known to turn some features back on "For our own good - of course".
And without updates, the laptop would end up getting hacked by worms and used for other bandwidth intensive tasks like ddos, spam, etc...
I have no objection to updates if they are useful like you have said but Windows 10 "nag-ware" (let's call it what it really is) and forced install by stealth is basically what is called "mall-ware". It is also known that while you can turn off some of the privacy features all of which are set to "on" by default some Windows 10 updates actually turn them some of those features back on again.
Turning off the privacy features is not just a simple matter of selecting your privacy setup and clicking accordingly, but you also have to go into the registry as well if you know how to do that and what to look for. Basically, the majority of Windows PC users have no idea how to edit the registry much less that one exists.
I have a Lenovo laptop with Windows 7 Professional on it. Sometime in the last nine months, Windows has forgotten how to talk with much of the hardware in the laptop. This includes the finger reader and all networking devices. I called both Microsoft and Lenovo, and both refused to help.
Do you have "extended support" for your Windows 7? You probably don't hence the reason why Lenovo and Microsoft refused to help. Check here to get more information.
Like it or not if you want support for Microsoft Windows you either get extended support or move to Windows 10. If you do want Windows 10 then get the ISO from here rather than upgrade although make sure you do backup your important data. It is very easy to install although before you do I do suggest looking at the following video . The presenter was a Microsoft employee for 15 years and is not against Windows 10 but what he does not like is how Microsoft Windows 10 phones home by default, he then goes on and explains how to tighten your privacy.
If you have a powerful PC you can easily install Windows 10 in a virtual machine and the ISO is great for doing this. I actually have Fedora 23 on my Desktop (latest Skylake core i7 with 16GB DDR4 memory) and used my six and a half-year-old laptop's (has Fedora 23 on it) Windows 7 product key. I also used KVM as my virtual machine which surprisingly is actually certified to install Microsoft Windows. You can use VirtualBox if you wish but I am not overly impressed with Oracle at the moment.
If you have watched the video and you can even search for "windows 10 privacy concerns" in your preferred search engine (Google gets 1.8 million hits) you will know that Windows 10 phones home by default. You can turn off many of the so-called privacy features but you will either have to fiddle with the registry (Oh joy!) or get some third party (if you trust them) software to lock down Win10 but it has been known for a Microsoft update to turn some features back on again (for our own good of course :-)) so you need to be vigilant.
Basically, if you don't like Windows 10 then you better get to like it because soon it will be the only game in town (Windows 8.1 mainstream support expires 8th Jan 2018) or switch to an alternative OS such as one of the many Linux distributions, BSD or even a Mac if you have the money. If you have a work PC then the problem is not your problem.
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It got a decent boost with Win7. Win8 was more or less underwhelming, but not disastrous. Now the current push for Win10 earns them reputation of some supervillain with a master plan.
I installed MS Win10 in a virtual machine a few hours ago and as an operating system, it is fine, as I would expect it to be.
Here are my observations.
1) The base OS installed from the ISO is about 9.4GB.
2) Very pretty although that is subjective and you like tiles, although it is possible to hide them.
3) Verry intrusive into your private use.
4) Loves to make is fairly difficult for the average user to change the security settings. Fortunately, there are private tools (be careful) that can fix that.
5) Please check out the following site . The presenter does not object to Win10 however he does not like the way Microsoft hides the fact that this OS can phone home if you let it. What is even more reprehensible is that after an update some of your settings may be reverted back from "off" to "on". Sure this is not a big deal for someone with a bit of technical knowledge but most people don't have that.
Compared against my Fedora 23 KDE Spin:
1) My 2600 packages which include the OS, GUI and lots of packages such as LibreOffice, The Gimp, Handbrake, Chrome, Firefox, some serious maths packages, video display software such as VLC and MPV Media Player as well as a host of other packages too numerous to name here, add up to 9.1GB. Even Linux Mint with it's base ISO install (including LibreOffice and The Gimp) is about 5.1GB. What on earth has Win10 got in that 9.4GB base ISO install that does not have an Office or photo editing suite?
2) My fully customizable KDE display is also very nice and while it does not use tiles (very subjective here) it is very functional and IMHOmuch more flexible.
As for installing Fedora it took about the same as it took to install MS Win10, but configuring for security was so much easier in Fedora (again subjective).
Personally, I would rather use Fedora since I have full control, however, there is nothing inherently wrong with Win10 if you lock it down but this is beyond the capability of most users.
Stop spreading lies. Updates in Windows 10 can easily be ignored or rejected. There are several that I'm currently holding off on at the moment.
Here is a simple question for you. Do you want the Microsoft operating system that you are currently using supported?
Now take a look at the following Microsoft operating systems that are supported , keep in mind that only those that want and are willing to pay for extended support will get supported, which basically means if you have any Microsoft OS that is less than 8.1 it is not under mainstream support.
If you are a gamer then you either upgrade to MS Windows 10 or you won't be able to play any games that require DirectX 12 support.
What is reprehensible (at least at the moment) is even when you have configured the options for MS Windows 10 an update may revert them back because we all know that "Microsoft knows what is best for us". Take a look at the following video . It is import to note that the presenter is not against the OS, what he does not like is when updates change the user's configurations and this type of thing got a great deal of controversy when some like this happened with a Debian update.
Might have been true some years ago, but thr current state of Linux desktop environments is so bad that Windows 10 feels fine in comparison. I still haven't recovered from the PTSD after trying to cope with Unity. Current KDE and Gnome are hair-raisingly terrible and XFCE makes Windows 8 feel user friendly.
I have been using Fedora for over seventeen years and in the last seven years on my own PC's and have never struck any major issues that could not be fixed. Currently, I am running Fedora 23 with the KDE spin on my Desktop with the latest Skylake architecture and have not had any issues with that release.
It is possible for me to run MS Widows under a virtual machine (currently Android, SeamOS and Mint) but to date, I could not be bothered since everything that I want and more is stable and works perfectly.
there is always a choice. there is always a path to escape.
one of many. http://cdimage.debian.org/debi...
You can also try the stable releases of Fedora . You can even choose what GUI you would like as the default.
Of course, you can also try one of the many distributions as described here .
If you are an avid gamer then you basically have two choices. 1) Have a Microsoft Operating System or 2) Run a Linux distribution and run a Microsoft OS in a virtual machine if your PC has enough power. There is a third choice and that is to dual boot but IMHO this is rather pointless since most people will only stick with the OS that they play games on.
If you are not willing to switch to a Mac or a Linux distribution then just put up with Microsoft Windows.
Maybe that's not such a bad idea. Rename the company Minecraft. Kinda like Philip Morris changing their name to the Altria Group, to help people forget about the horrible products [i]they[/i] made.
They will even make more money if they bring out a version of Minecraft called "Call of Duty - Minecraft" or better yet to cover all bases "Minecraft Battlefront". :-)
I will not care until Minecraft is open source.
Well, you could try "Minetest" or any of the following here
"nohup" exists on every machine.
Your "systemd-run" twaddle does not.
Fedora and Redhat would like a word with you. Personally, I have never used systemd command line programs but they do exist..
If I want to run a job and log out I would use "screen". If your "screen" processes get killed when you log out it is not the fault of systemd but possibly a flag in the /etc/systemd/logind.conf file. If you see #KillUserProcesses=yes then as the system administrator you should change it to #KillUserProcesses=no. Of course in a commercial development, testing or production environment, you better get permission to do this and raise a change request to cover yourself.
Who's bitching about debian? No one.
Who's bitching about systemd's insanity? A lot of people.
Who's concentrating on things hopefully working in debian stable? You.
The problem appears to be Debian specific and not on other distributions.
The systemd process will only do what it is configured to do no more no less. If your configuration is changed as part of an update then the blame lies squarely with the update process for that particular package.
Look at the /etc/systemd/logind.conf file (check it's last modified date) and check that following is set "#KillUserProcesses=no". If it is set to "yes'" then set it to "no" and restart systemd -- problem solved.
It however have to be said that just because v230 of systemd have changed "#KillUserProcesses=no" into "KillUserProcesses=yes" in /etc/systemd/logind.conf does not mean that distributions will ship with this. v230 have just hit Debian testing so it will be quite a while before it hits Debian stable.
In Fedora 23 with the latest updates the variable "#KillUserProcesses=no" is set in the /etc/systemd/logind.conf file. If this is not the case in Debian distributions then change it back to "no" -- hopefully, the problem is solved. Having an update change configuration settings is reprehensible and deserves the severest criticism. Well, I won't mention (cough!) a certain OS that a huge corporation is trying to foist on us --- for our own good of course. ;-)
Except that the way you describe is not the way that screen has always worked. Instead of the straightforward invocation screen on the command line, now it has to be prefixed with all kinds of systemd-specific stuff that wasn't there before.
Its functionality is the same. Really, just use an alias if typing is hard for you to do. Or even better. Start screen automatically at boot by running it as a .service. See the Arch wiki for how.
I question the moderator for marking you as a Troll.
The simple way I use "screen" is to just type "screen" in a terminal window then:
1) Run any processes I wish to run before I log out.
2) Type Ctrl a Ctrl d which detaches the screen session.
3) Logout.
Log back in again and in a terminal window type "screen -r" and your screen session will attach with all processes still running. This works fine with Fedora 23 and it's latest patches. You don't have to fiddle with systemd settings.
Because there is not other way for logind to determine that "screen" was one of the things a user actualy intends to keep running, or something that is still running because it's exit logic is misbehaving. The other alternative may be to add an extended attribute to the screen executable or other sort of thing that says "please don't kill me, I'm meant to linger, honest"
I don't have the so-called problem with Fedora 23 with the latest updates. The "screen" process works exactly as it should. I have detailed my test in a previous post in this thread so I won't bore you with a repeat.
If you have a GNU Screen session, then you're still technically logged in, innit?
Irrelevant, if you are running a background process that is under your user name you effectively own that process. In the case of running "screen" you can actually detach and reattach that particular process and all child processes attached to it.
Under Fedora 23 with the latest updates "screen" works as it should. Since this problem seems to be under a Debian distribution then it needs to be fixed or, are people just jumping on the "I hate systemd" bandwagon without running some trivial tests.
So, "screen" has always been a good way to ensure that processes don't get killed randomly by disconnections, logout or X crashes. Then comes systemd and kills all your processes at logout, even when launched with screen. Finally, then comes Poettering, explaining you that you're a moron if you expect to keep those processes running. Seriously, the systemd devs make it really hard no to hate them.
Ok, I am not running any Debian distribution but Fedora 23 with the latest updates. Here is my test.
1) Fire up screen and run just for the sake of the test top.
2) Detach screen with the command Ctrl-a Ctrl-d (ie. detatch screen).
3) Check to see if the screen process is running using the "ps -ef" command. It is!
4) Now logout of my computer.
Log back into my computer and on the command line run "screen -r" -- does my detached process reattach and is my top process running?
Yes, my process is running which is what I would expect.
If the Debian side has a problem then this needs to be fixed. File a bug report.
I'm nearly 60, s'pose that makes me nearly elderly. I pick my passwords using pwgen -y and select from a screen full of 'memorable' passwords
Tried this and got:
atom ~] 13:35:13 > pwgen
bash: pwgen: command not found
Ok. I installed it and by default you get a list of passwords without any special characters and if you want you can customize the list. It is even possible to generate single passwords.
Personally, I prefer the command mkpasswd which will give you a new password each time you run it (IMHO preferable to a default list, but to each their own). You do need to install expect though. You can even use options if you want different length passwords or even customize your password for those sites that have stupid password policies.