@JJoyner1985 said in UNIX: What Is a Tarball:

So, do you think the reason I am seeing a lot more gzip in use with tarballs is due to the familiarity of gzip and the negligible difference in the compression between it and bzip2? Basically, bzip2 doesn't make enough of an improvement with sufficient regularity to entice people to move away from gzip, or is there some other benefit to gzip that my training material hasn't covered?

That's correct. The difference between the two is generally small enough that people are not concerned. And lots of systems still don't have bzip2 installed by default so if you want scripts or whatever to work universally you often use gzip because you know that it is always there and predictable.

A bit shorter

wget -qO- icanhazip.com

Dumb question from me... Have you tested the network CABLE to make sure it is good?

Any lockups since the fix?

Thanks for the link.

New Commands are:

The salt-key command is used to manage all of the keys on the master. To list the keys that are on the master:

salt-key -L

The keys that have been rejected, accepted, and pending acceptance are listed. The easiest way to accept the minion key is to accept all pending keys:

salt-key -A

@tim_g said in Installing Salt Master:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Salt Master:

Now we can easily get Salt Master installed.
cd /tmp; curl -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com -o install_salt.sh
sh install_salt.sh -M

What's the difference between installing it like you mention above, or via the repository apt-get install salt-master for example?

https://repo.saltstack.com/#ubuntu

Ubuntu because that's all I have available right now for testing, in case anyone has the urge to point that out. It's also the same for Fedora: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/installation/fedora.html
But that's besides the point.

In theory it handles grabbing the repos under the hood, but in a more universal way. And handles some distros that dont' necessarily have repos.

Pidgin is certainly good, won't go wrong there.

@scottalanmiller said in Understanding X2GO Desktops:

@stacksofplates said in Understanding X2GO Desktops:

@gjacobse said in Understanding X2GO Desktops:

Also - is connecting to the local desktop the only option on using that computers speakers?

I've installed MATE, and am able to connect via that now - but it plays Pithos using the main computers speakers. not what I want... when I have the stereo system on the other side of the room....

There should be options to tunnel the sound through the SSH session.

He wants to use X2Go as a remote control for the machine with the audio playing.

Ah ok. I read that wrong, my bad.

I still have a working, and very powerful, PA-RISC powered desktop.

@scottalanmiller fwconsole starts asterisk, and it makes sure it's started and running with the correct UID

Or it should. It did last time I checked 😎

Edit: Saying that, I believe I was the last one that messed with that code, so if it's NOT working, it's probably my fault.

https://github.com/FreePBX/framework/blob/release/13.0/amp_conf/htdocs/admin/libraries/Console/Start.class.php#L147

@aaronstuder said in Skype for Linux Alpha:

or stop complaining about alpha software.

Then we can start complaining about a lack of software. They had production software that stopped working. This is what they replaced it with.

@scottalanmiller Ok Will try with the True Os soon with other ISO file

@MattSpeller said in Mail in a box- Mail Server:

@Ambarishrh said in Mail in a box- Mail Server:

Havent worked on Zimbra in the last 5 years (so not sure whats new with Zimbra) , but i guess the selling point for this would be the ease of setting this up

as a linux noob I like the fact that it's a self contained single package that I can dump into a VM

Zimbra?

I see new, greater, horizons of automation happening here.

@scottalanmiller

While my main drive wasn't to get the rPi to learn some basic programming, I am hoping that it will help 'encourage' it.

I am planning to load Linux on my laptop as the primary, and take it from there. But I also am pushing myself to use the CLI more in the rPi than before..