#Linux noob

[blue-drink]

El susto que me acaba de dar el Linux.

Como referencia; si la interfaz gráfica de Linux os va rara, id al terminal de comandos con Ctrl + Alt + F3 o F4 o F5 y ejecutad el comando: sudo service gdm3 restart

Sudo es privilegio de root (tengo entendido) temporal (el comando actual)

Service es servicio

gdm3 es el servicio de intrefaz gráfica

Restart es reiniciar

Todo junto es: usando privilegios de root para este comando, reinicia el servicio de interfaz gráfica.

No os fies porque sí. Buscadlo por si acaso. Nadie quiere repetir lo del paquete frances.

[Translation]

The scare Linux just gave me.

As reference; if Linux's graphic interface is being weird, go to the command terminal with Ctrl + Alt + F3 o F4 o F5 and use the command: sudo service gdm3 restart

Sudo is temporal (this command) root priviliges (from what I understand)

Service gdm3 is the graphic interface service

Restart just restarts the service

All together: using root priviligies for this command, restart the graphic interface service.

Do not believe just because. Look it up just in case. Nobody wants to repeat the french packet.

[thelinuxnoobie]

What’s up guys, I’m setting up Kali Linux in a virtual machine just to look around and see what’s up

[praeca]

Fun linux stuff names:

Manjaro - sounds like mango in a jar 6/10

Conky - ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 10/10

Flatpak - sounds like a insult 8/10

Fedora - m'led 10/10

yay - Yay! 8/10

[rathanobsession]

How their made...

The previous week we learned some pretty basic stuff but need to know none the less. and that was "What is an editor and how to use it".

An editor is much like Notepad on a windows, it's a blank white window with really ugly fonts that make it the most monotonous writing tool there is, however this is so only if viewed as a word processor. there are many editors some designed specifically for certain languages but all have the same function or purpose, they are a source code writing tool. These are designed to be sure in the writing of a program's original script. this source code is written in what are called high level languages (such as C++, Unix, Python, DOS, etc.).

The preferred editor used by my course professor is named Emacs and is actually a a very simplistic looking program that seems easy enough to follow.

We were assigned a simple exercise, we were to come up with a simple program that asked for input to later produce an output, such as a problem of addition or multiplication.

I keed ! I keed! ...the professor gave us an already written script which we then learned to compile, link and run.

Compiling translates the written source code into the language of the machine (machine code, or better known as object code). After a compilation the translation is linked to other programs by a linker which then produces a executable program.

To compile we find the source code file with the .cpp ending with the computer terminal and the write:

g++ -Wall -c some_scketchy_name_program.cpp

and then link the produced object code (has a .o ending) like:

g++  -o PROGRAMNAME some_scketchy_name_program.o

.....or we can do both at once like this:

g++ -Wall -o -some_scketchy_name_program.cpp

Here is the "source code"of the program.

I would give readers more details but then again you would have to pay me for taking a full college course for you. ;P

[rathanobsession]

Some Background

A Linux distribution (often called distro for short) is an operating system built on top of the Linux kernel and often around a package management system. Short and sweet huh....lets break it down though, starting with what is a Linux distribution operating system? Now I know you know that an operating system is the software pre-installed on a computer when you buy  it at the store, you know, like Windows or Mac, or Android for your smart-phones, but those aren't the only ones!! Linux is the refers to open-source operating systems (translation It’s FREE to own/use and develop) which utilize the Linux kernel. This means that anyone can take an existing copy of a Linux distribution and alter its source code for your personal needs and it's not illegal or breaks your warranty or any of that like,unlike Windows, its free and public. These operating systems are call Linux because they utilize the Linux Kernel, but what's a kernel? In layman's terms its the bridge between the software (your operating system) and your hardware (your physical computer equipment). So no matter how different an operating system if different from another, if they utilize this kernel, there classified as Linux distributions. :D There are many open-source Linux distros, but the original idea of trying from the commercial Unix OS was the GNU project. The GNU became a platform and forefather to many Linux distros thus dubbed GNU/Linux.