jyte

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jyte, (edited )

Ubuntu is a fork of unstable Debian packages

And where do you think debian stable packages come from exactly ?..

itā€™s basicaly the exact same thing. In both case :

  • At some point freeze unstable (snapshot unstable in case of ubuntu),
  • fix bugs found in the frozen set of packages,
  • release as stable.

What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

Iā€™m working on a some materials for a class wherein Iā€™ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and weā€™re including a section weā€™re calling ā€œfoot gunsā€. Basically itā€™s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....

jyte, (edited )
  • apt something that ended up removing sudo. No more admin rights.
  • used rsync to backup pretty much everything in / , with remove source optionā€¦
  • find with -delete option miss positioned. It deleted stuff before finding matching pattern
  • chown / chmod on /bin and/or /usr/bin
  • Removed everything in /etc
jyte,

It doesnā€™t work with root disabled.

The way to fix this is to boot in bash recovery where you land a root shell. From there you can hopefully apt install sudo if deb file is still in cache. If not, you have to make network function without systemd for apt install to work. Or, you can get sudo deb file and all missing dependencies from usb stick and apt install them from fs. Or just enable root, give it a password and reboot so you can su - and apt install sudo

jyte,

I tried to convert Debian to Ubuntu by replacing the Debian repos in apt with Ubuntuā€™s and following with dist-upgrade

Shouldnā€™t it work though ? Or be close to work with the appropriate options passed down to dpkg

jyte, (edited )

Not if root account is disabled. Which is by default on Ubuntu and Debian . Youā€™d need sudo su - but wellā€¦ No sudo left you know.

jyte,

rumors

You can remove that word, rly.

jyte, (edited )

Itā€™s a she, because thatā€™s a woman job. Same goes for dish washer !

Also, there are a few words that even french (most of them) would have the gender wrongā€¦

jyte,

Un lave linge, une machine Ć  laver le linge, un lave vaisselle, une machine Ć  laver la vaisselle. It actually all depend on they way you phrase it. Agreed though. It was mostly for the joke.

jyte, (edited )

Because ā€œpeopleā€ (my french self included) would just say (most of the time) ā€œla machine Ć  laverā€ (or even shorter : la machine) and out of context, youā€™d figure out which of the 2 is actually talked about.

Also, as ā€œmachine Ć  laverā€ litterally translate to ā€œwashing machineā€, it didnā€™t even occure to me that it had to be understood as laundry machine, hence why I initially said it was a ā€œsheā€.

jyte,

whatever works for you, but what will you comme up with for ā€œun avionā€ ? :)

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