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#15106239
Here is an excellent website where you can take a look at the newest releases of all the VAST different types of Linux operating systems out there: https://distrowatch.com/ .

Distrowatch lists about almost 300 different various kinds of Linux OSes that are currently active in their own database: https://bit.ly/2BJvuaN
#15106460
Politics_Observer wrote:Here is an excellent website where you can take a look at the newest releases of all the VAST different types of Linux operating systems out there: https://distrowatch.com/ .

Distrowatch lists about almost 300 different various kinds of Linux OSes that are currently active in their own database: https://bit.ly/2BJvuaN


Thank you, Politics_Observer, for providing some leads on where people can obtain a more liberty-orientated operating system than proprietary operating systems.

For those who do choose to use a Linux/BSD operating system, the following is a very rational theme for such systems:

* Computing Machine, https://github.com/Jamie-Michelle/Computing-Machine , https://www.pling.com/p/1315191/ .

For more information on this theme, see:

* Jamie Michelle, "Introducing the Computing Machine Desktop Theme", XFCE Forums, Aug. 27, 2019, https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=13299 , https://web.archive.org/web/20200710010 ... p?id=13299 , https://archive.is/fr8sN , https://megalodon.jp/2020-0710-1002-49/ ... p?id=13299 , http://www.freezepage.com/1594342926ASFGZPSKII .

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Continuing with the thema that your post invokes, the concept of "intellectual property" is fallacious and unjust. The entire point of valid property rights is to resolve disputes in scarce resources. Thus, if John takes someone's lawnmower then that person no longer has that lawnmower. Yet if Mary copies some output of someone's intellect, it subtracts no physical holding from that person.

So-called "intellectual property" cannot rise to the level of valid property for the reason that it is not a scarce resource: and hence everyone, in principle, can have their own copy of an intellectual creation without subtracting any physical holding from its creator. Enforcing fallacious "rights" in "intellectual property" actually violates genuine property rights, for then actual physical force is used against the physical property of people (including the property in their own bodies) who had not physically harmed, altered, or appropriated another person's physical holdings.

For more on the fallaciousness and unjustness of so-called "intellectual property", see the below paper:

* N. Stephan Kinsella, "Against Intellectual Property", Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Spring 2001), pp. 1-53, https://cdn.mises.org/15_2_1.pdf , https://webcitation.org/6E9neqZI3 . N. Stephan Kinsella, Against Intellectual Property (Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008), https://cdn.mises.org/Against%20Intelle ... erty_2.pdf , https://webcitation.org/5nvOa8JMd .

(For the above article Stephan Kinsella was awarded the Ludwig von Mises Institute's O. P. Alford III Prize for the scholarly article published during 2001-2002 that best advances libertarian scholarship, at the eighth Austrian Scholars Conference, March 16, 2002.)
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By the way, were you genteel folks aware that the Computing Machine computer-desktop theme has its own official '80s retrospective theme song? Yes, it's true. After all, what computer user-environment theme could possibly be complete without having official theme music selected for it? Since we're being thematic here. If Tony the Tiger can have an official theme song, then surely a computer-desktop theme can. So with no further ado, I present the theme song selected for Computing Machine:

* "Liquid Stranger & Space Jesus - Dragonhawks", WAKAAN ( youtube.com/user/TheLiquidStranger ), Sept. 5, 2018

Mirror: "Liquid Stranger & Space Jesus - Dragonhawks", Second Phase ( youtube.com/user/1080pDubstep ), Apr. 20, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nREN5CPReUU . Mirror: "Liquid Stranger x Space Jesus - Dragonhawks", Echo Music ( youtube.com/channel/UCXcq_IoUl1kNyV-Oa1nOb9w ), Apr. 24, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQSByNJOilg .

Everyone, enjoy this completely normal-sounding music which harkens back to an '80s classic!
#15106581
James Redford wrote:
Enforcing fallacious "rights" in "intellectual property" actually violates genuine property rights, for then actual physical force is used against the physical property of people (including the property in their own bodies) who had not physically harmed, altered, or appropriated another person's physical holdings.



Since I'm a Marxist and am *against* the bourgeois institution of private property, I *appreciate* this repudiation of private-property intellectual property rights.

However, given the *three* frameworks at-play here, that of *status-quo politics*, *reformist politics*, and *post-capitalist politics*, I have to address empirical denotations for all *three* paradigms.

I don't think that the status-quo enforcement of private property rights in intellectual property *violates* property rights, because it's effectively *upholding* the private property rights of that intellectual property -- not that I politically *support* such, of course.

It *wouldn't matter*, technically, if the state used violent physical force in its *enforcement* of whatever private property rights, including intellectual property, or not, because it would be the official *legality* that would count.

If *enforcement* of status quo definitions of private property rights included *physical violence* against those who *violated* the status quo state definitions, then that would be the status quo *paradigm* of state legality and enforcement.

Your use of the qualifier 'fallacious', to spurn this status quo paradigm of legality seems to indicate an *alternative* proposal of (reformist) legality regarding private property rights -- that of saying that any and all intellectual developments are *not* intellectual / private property *whatsoever*, and so do not impinge on definitions of -- presumably *tangible* -- private property rights, like that of land and productive machinery.

You're pointing out that the state could use physical violence against alleged perpetrators of the theft of 'intellectual property', which, in the *reformist* perspective, is an injustice since 'intellectual property' is not acknowledged as being legitimate private property. So the greater transgression would be the state's use of physical force to uphold an unjust legal definition.

As a *Marxist*, I do acknowledge people's *personal property*, meaning whatever they themselves use as *persons*, for *use* values, separate from any private-entity holdings, like rental units managed via absentee landlordship, for example. In a *post-capitalist* context 'intellectual property' would be invalid and meaningless, along with *all* private-property-type accumulations of whatever tangible or intangible assets, like land, means of mass industrial production (factories), precious metals, unique artwork, finance, money / currency / exchange values, etc.
#15106626
ckaihatsu wrote:Since I'm a Marxist and am *against* the bourgeois institution of private property, I *appreciate* this repudiation of private-property intellectual property rights.

However, given the *three* frameworks at-play here, that of *status-quo politics*, *reformist politics*, and *post-capitalist politics*, I have to address empirical denotations for all *three* paradigms.

I don't think that the status-quo enforcement of private property rights in intellectual property *violates* property rights, because it's effectively *upholding* the private property rights of that intellectual property -- not that I politically *support* such, of course.

It *wouldn't matter*, technically, if the state used violent physical force in its *enforcement* of whatever private property rights, including intellectual property, or not, because it would be the official *legality* that would count.

If *enforcement* of status quo definitions of private property rights included *physical violence* against those who *violated* the status quo state definitions, then that would be the status quo *paradigm* of state legality and enforcement.

Your use of the qualifier 'fallacious', to spurn this status quo paradigm of legality seems to indicate an *alternative* proposal of (reformist) legality regarding private property rights -- that of saying that any and all intellectual developments are *not* intellectual / private property *whatsoever*, and so do not impinge on definitions of -- presumably *tangible* -- private property rights, like that of land and productive machinery.

You're pointing out that the state could use physical violence against alleged perpetrators of the theft of 'intellectual property', which, in the *reformist* perspective, is an injustice since 'intellectual property' is not acknowledged as being legitimate private property. So the greater transgression would be the state's use of physical force to uphold an unjust legal definition.

As a *Marxist*, I do acknowledge people's *personal property*, meaning whatever they themselves use as *persons*, for *use* values, separate from any private-entity holdings, like rental units managed via absentee landlordship, for example. In a *post-capitalist* context 'intellectual property' would be invalid and meaningless, along with *all* private-property-type accumulations of whatever tangible or intangible assets, like land, means of mass industrial production (factories), precious metals, unique artwork, finance, money / currency / exchange values, etc.


"Since [you are] a Marxist" then you are a truly deranged and reprobate individual. Which is to say, you are a rather typical schizophrenic and sadomasochistic ape--i.e., among the apes called humans.

The entire point of all forms of socialism is to create Hell on Earth. Socialism is the most mass-murderous and impoverishing creed ever created. That's not a failing of socialism: that's its only feature. On their subconscious level (and perhaps for some, on their conscious level), the collectivists' entire goal is to send themselves to Hell eternally and to take as many people as they can along with them. For the details on that, see my following article:

* James Redford, "Societal Sadomasochism", Christian Forums, Apr. 19, 2019, https://archive.is/JPojL , https://megalodon.jp/2020-0325-0427-34/ ... n.450.html , https://web.archive.org/web/20200324192 ... n.450.html , http://www.freezepage.com/1585078048SAWDZFDONX .

Further, you state:

"You're pointing out that the state could ...".

I'm an anarchist. I have long been pointing out that every government (i.e., state) can go straight to the pit of Hell from whence it sprang.

For the details on that, see my following articles:

* James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708, https://archive.org/download/ThePhysics ... of-God.pdf , https://purl.org/redford/physics-of-god , https://sites.google.com/site/physicoth ... of-God.pdf .

* James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?", Pastebin.com, Apr. 18, 2019, https://pastebin.com/6bZDc7rB , https://archive.is/uHEyL , https://megalodon.jp/2019-0423-0435-52/ ... m/6bZDc7rB .

* James Redford, "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 4, 2011 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2001), 60 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1337761, https://archive.org/download/JesusIsAnA ... rchist.pdf , http://www.freezepage.com/1560442613QRSDHGPCAM , https://megalodon.jp/2019-0614-0116-58/ ... rchist.pdf .

* James Redford, "Libertarian Anarchism Is Apodictically Correct", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 15, 2011, 9 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1972733, https://archive.org/download/Libertaria ... ianism.pdf , http://www.freezepage.com/1560442546UTKUJCKYNM , https://megalodon.jp/2019-0614-0115-06/ ... ianism.pdf .

* James Redford, "How to Last During Lovemaking Like a True Sex-God Stud", Internet Archive, May 12, 2019, 6 pp., ark:/13960/t0tr3j398, https://archive.org/download/InfiniLast ... hnique.pdf , https://webcitation.org/78KGCK1s4 , https://megalodon.jp/2019-0513-0846-26/ ... hnique.pdf .
#15106629
James Redford wrote:
"Since [you are] a Marxist" then you are a truly deranged and reprobate individual. Which is to say, you are a rather typical schizophrenic and sadomasochistic ape--i.e., among the apes called humans.



No, you're *stereotyping* about the individual, based on politics. Macro-level domains, like sports, art, music, literature, industry, politics, economics, work, social science, science, etc., can tell one *nothing* about the particular character, or personality, of any individual within that domain.

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James Redford wrote:
The entire point of all forms of socialism is to create Hell on Earth. Socialism is the most mass-murderous and impoverishing creed ever created. That's not a failing of socialism: that's its only feature.



No, you're thinking of *Stalinism*, which was an *unintentional* historical trajectory.

It was preceded by the Bolshevik Revolution, which *was* mass-intentional, and which brought about soviet democracy, but which was invaded by imperialist armies, destroying the nascent industrializing economy, and paving the way for Stalin's rule with his nation-consolidating, so-called 'socialism-in-one-country'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_in ... _Civil_War


James Redford wrote:
On their subconscious level (and perhaps for some, on their conscious level), the collectivists' entire goal is to send themselves to Hell eternally and to take as many people as they can along with them. For the details on that, see my following article:



Nope, that's *still* not the plan for any collectivist-minded efforts, regardless of whatever has played-out in history so far. Really the underlying issue is about *industrialization*, and society's social-organization around the implementation and benefits of industrialization.


James Redford wrote:
* James Redford, "Societal Sadomasochism", Christian Forums, Apr. 19, 2019, https://archive.is/JPojL , https://megalodon.jp/2020-0325-0427-34/ ... n.450.html , https://web.archive.org/web/20200324192 ... n.450.html , http://www.freezepage.com/1585078048SAWDZFDONX .


James Redford wrote:
Further, you state:

"You're pointing out that the state could ...".

I'm an anarchist. I have long been pointing out that every government (i.e., state) can go straight to the pit of Hell from whence it sprang.



Fair enough -- that certainly *clarifies* things. Can't really *disagree* with that.


James Redford wrote:
For the details on that, see my following articles:

* James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708, https://archive.org/download/ThePhysics ... of-God.pdf , https://purl.org/redford/physics-of-god , https://sites.google.com/site/physicoth ... of-God.pdf .

* James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?", Pastebin.com, Apr. 18, 2019, https://pastebin.com/6bZDc7rB , https://archive.is/uHEyL , https://megalodon.jp/2019-0423-0435-52/ ... m/6bZDc7rB .

* James Redford, "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 4, 2011 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2001), 60 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1337761, https://archive.org/download/JesusIsAnA ... rchist.pdf , http://www.freezepage.com/1560442613QRSDHGPCAM , https://megalodon.jp/2019-0614-0116-58/ ... rchist.pdf .

* James Redford, "Libertarian Anarchism Is Apodictically Correct", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 15, 2011, 9 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1972733, https://archive.org/download/Libertaria ... ianism.pdf , http://www.freezepage.com/1560442546UTKUJCKYNM , https://megalodon.jp/2019-0614-0115-06/ ... ianism.pdf .

* James Redford, "How to Last During Lovemaking Like a True Sex-God Stud", Internet Archive, May 12, 2019, 6 pp., ark:/13960/t0tr3j398, https://archive.org/download/InfiniLast ... hnique.pdf , https://webcitation.org/78KGCK1s4 , https://megalodon.jp/2019-0513-0846-26/ ... hnique.pdf .
#15106634
ckaihatsu wrote:No, you're ...


Of course I don't suppose that you consciously desire to go to Hell for all eternity. However, that is your whole mode of being. Obviously you are looking to get hurt very hard with your adventures into socialism, even long after it has been patiently explained to you that socialism does not work nor can ever be made to work. And that in fact, socialism is the greatest horror that has ever been inflicted upon mankind.

Obviously you are looking to get your teeth kicked-in, existentially speaking. That's all well and good for you, but others do not share your Hellish view on existence.

For the evolutionary psychological details on your destructive behavior, see my following article:

* James Redford, "Societal Sadomasochism", Christian Forums, Apr. 19, 2019, https://archive.is/JPojL , https://megalodon.jp/2020-0325-0427-34/ ... n.450.html , https://web.archive.org/web/20200324192 ... n.450.html , http://www.freezepage.com/1585078048SAWDZFDONX .
#15106637
James Redford wrote:
Of course I don't suppose that you consciously desire to go to Hell for all eternity. However, that is your whole mode of being. Obviously you are looking to get hurt very hard with your adventures into socialism, even long after it has been patiently explained to you that socialism does not work nor can ever be made to work. And that in fact, socialism is the greatest horror that has ever been inflicted upon mankind.

Obviously you are looking to get your teeth kicked-in, existentially speaking. That's all well and good for you, but others do not share your Hellish view on existence.



Yeah, I think that's all *already* happened. I've been around revolutionary politics (only), since my initial politicization in 1990, at the protests against the Gulf War, during my first year at college.

I'm not *looking* to receive harm, but, yeah, the socialist politics isn't always well-received, unfortunately.

What about *you* -- ? How's the *anarchism* going? Why the *religion*? That's not typical of anarchism *at all*.


James Redford wrote:
For the evolutionary psychological details on your destructive behavior, see my following article:

* James Redford, "Societal Sadomasochism", Christian Forums, Apr. 19, 2019, https://archive.is/JPojL , https://megalodon.jp/2020-0325-0427-34/ ... n.450.html , https://web.archive.org/web/20200324192 ... n.450.html , http://www.freezepage.com/1585078048SAWDZFDONX .
#15106643
ckaihatsu wrote:Yeah, I think that's all *already* happened. I've been around revolutionary politics (only), since my initial politicization in 1990, at the protests against the Gulf War, during my first year at college.

I'm not *looking* to receive harm, but, yeah, the socialist politics isn't always well-received, unfortunately.

What about *you* -- ? How's the *anarchism* going? Why the *religion*? That's not typical of anarchism *at all*.


We now come to the source of your extreme schizophrenia and sadomasochism. Which is just the standard condition of the vile mentally-retarded apes called humans. So don't feel alone in this.

You see, you have just admitted existentially that you're not actually looking to help anyone, least of all yourself. You regard yourself as existential garbage.

If you do not believe that God exists, then why the need to proselytize others to your political position? You and everyone you know is going to become a rotting, stinking corpse; and that will be that.

Why not just take things easy, and stop worrying about the matter? Winning converts to your position isn't going to change anything. We're all still just going to end up as nothing more than rotting, stinking corpses whether people believe as you do or if people believe that there is life after death. If your position is correct, then you're just spinning your wheels to no effect with your proselytizing efforts. Nothing in the end changes.

There is a contradiction with your missionary efforts. You are not behaving as if you believe that your overt position is true. Rather, you are behaving as a psychologically self-conflicted individual. You are acting as if you subconsciously do believe that God does exist, yet that you are rebelling against God and wish others to, as well. That is, you are behaving as if you subconsciously desire to go to Hell for all eternity, and that you wish everyone else to go to Hell for all eternity.

As I have elsewhere demonstrated [1], there is no question that the demons do exist. Anything that one can interact with is real and exists--in some form or another. The issue revolves around what their actual ontological nature is. I say that they exist as naturally-evolved Minskian agent subset programs operating on the wet-computer of the human brain.

You are going through the motions as if these particular Minskian agent subset programs are subconsciously controlling you. Yet, regardless, a contradiction exists between your overt position and your missionary efforts.

And in all this, do not be so surprised. Throughout history there have been many apostles of Hell, attempting to win disciples of Hell. That you would be among their ranks is nothing so shocking. It's human apes acting like the apes they are.

As to why people often wish to go to Hell, it's because Hell is written into our DNA code. Hell is familiar. Hell is family. It's something the human ape mind can comprehend. Indeed, the human apes manufacture Hell on their assembly-lines, with their bombs, their poison gasses, their truncheons, their shackles. Humans know well the methods of Hell.

Whereas human apes have an extreme skepticism toward Heaven, because Heaven is strange. Heaven is unfamiliar. Heaven is not of this world.

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1. James Redford, "Societal Sadomasochism", Christian Forums, Apr. 19, 2019, https://archive.is/JPojL , https://megalodon.jp/2020-0325-0427-34/ ... n.450.html , https://web.archive.org/web/20200324192 ... n.450.html , http://www.freezepage.com/1585078048SAWDZFDONX .

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Regarding your question as to "Why the *religion*?":

Christianity is objectively correct so far as can be rationally known, and to the extent that other religions/philosophies contradict it, to that extent they are incorrect. The totality of all science has been a mostly-unwitting exercise in proving Christianity correct. The people who developed the various fields of modern science for the most part weren't consciously attempting to prove Christianity true, yet they nonetheless ended up doing so. To wit:

God's existence is a mathematical theorem within standard physics. Standard physics is the known laws of physics, viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics. This theorem has been given in the form of Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology. These aforestated known physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment conducted to date. Hence, the only way to avoid Tipler's Omega Point Theorem is to reject empirical science. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, "one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem." (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1996; 1st ed., 1988].)

Prof. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology has been extensively peer-reviewed and published in a number of the world's leading physics and science journals, such as Reports on Progress in Physics (the leading journal of the Institute of Physics, Britain's main professional organization for physicists), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (one of the world's leading astrophysics journals), the International Journal of Theoretical Physics (a journal that Nobel Prize in Physics winner Richard Feynman also published in), and Physics Letters, among other journals.

Prof. Tipler's Ph.D. is in the field of Global General Relativity, which is the field created by Profs. Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose during the formulation of their Singularity Theorems in the 1960s. Global General Relativity is General Relativity applied on the scale of the entire universe as a whole, and is the most elite and rarefied field of physics. Tipler is also an expert in quantum field theory (i.e., Quantum Mechanics combined with special-relativistic particle physics) and computer theory.

For much more on Prof. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the details on how it uniquely conforms to, and precisely matches, the cosmology described in the New Testament, see my following article, which also addresses the societal implications of the Omega Point cosmology:

* James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708, https://archive.org/download/ThePhysics ... of-God.pdf , https://webcitation.org/74HMsJGbP .

Additionally, in the below resource are different sections which contain some helpful notes and commentary by me pertaining to multimedia wherein Prof. Tipler explains the Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model TOE.

* James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?", Apr. 18, 2019, https://pastebin.com/6bZDc7rB , https://archive.is/uHEyL .
#15106684
@James Redford @ckaihatsu

Here is a website where you can download some of the most recent releases of the Linux kernel. If you want to see what kernel release you are running on your box in Ubuntu you can simply type "uname -r" at the Bash shell. Here is the link: https://www.kernel.org/ . If you check your "/boot" directory, that is where you will find your Linux kernel. If you want to build your own custom kernel like a hardened kernel for example for cyber-security purposes you need to get the source code for it. You can do this by first executing the following commands:

  • "sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev"
  • "sudo apt-get install build-essential"
  • "sudo apt-get build-dep linux-image-$(uname -r)"
  • "sudo apt-get source linux-image-$(uname -r)."

That will get you the source code for your currently running kernel and you can start your journey towards building your own custom kernel starting with the kernel source code you are currently running on your Linux box. You can also use a graphical approach to customize the latest kernel by downloading it from https://www.kernel.org/ and extracting it in the /usr/src directory. Follow that up by copying the current kernel config file in /boot directory to the /usr/src/<new extracted linux kernel directory> directory. You will need to install a few additional things on your Linux Ubuntu box:

  • "sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev"
  • "sudo apt-get install bison"
  • "sudo apt-get install flex"
  • "sudo make menuconfig"

You will want to be in the new Linux kernel directory of the kernel you are customizing when you do this to get the graphical way of customizing downloaded Linux kernel from https://www.kernel.org/ . Cyber-security specialists like to customize and hardened the kernel to protect against network and hacking attacks. For example here is what the menu looks like on my screen after downloading the latest kernel release from https://www.kernel.org/ which is 5.7.8:

Image
#15106690
Politics_Observer wrote:@James Redford @ckaihatsu

Here is a website where you can download some of the most recent releases of the Linux kernel. If you want to see what kernel release you are running on your box in Ubuntu you can simply type "uname -r" at the Bash shell. Here is the link: https://www.kernel.org/ . If you check your "/boot" directory, that is where you will find your Linux kernel. If you want to build your own custom kernel like a hardened kernel for example for cyber-security purposes you need to get the source code for it. You can do this by first executing the following commands:

  • "sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev"
  • "sudo apt-get install build-essential"
  • "sudo apt-get build-dep linux-image-$(uname -r)"
  • "sudo apt-get source linux-image-$(uname -r)."

That will get you the source code for your currently running kernel and you can start your journey towards building your own custom kernel starting with the kernel source code you are currently running on your Linux box. You can also use a graphical approach to customize the latest kernel by downloading it from https://www.kernel.org/ and extracting it in the /usr/src directory. Follow that up by copying the current kernel config file in /boot directory to the /usr/src/<new extracted linux kernel directory> directory. You will need to install a few additional things on your Linux Ubuntu box:

  • "sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev"
  • "sudo apt-get install bison"
  • "sudo apt-get install flex"
  • "sudo make menuconfig"

You will want to be in the new Linux kernel directory of the kernel you are customizing when you do this to get the graphical way of customizing downloaded Linux kernel from https://www.kernel.org/ . Cyber-security specialists like to customize and hardened the kernel to protect against network and hacking attacks. For example here is what the menu looks like on my screen after downloading the latest kernel release from https://www.kernel.org/ which is 5.7.8:

Image


Thank you for that information, Politics_Observer! This could be of help to people!

Although in my own case, I'm quite content with the Linux kernel version that I'm currently running on my ultra-high-tech computing machine. It does what I want. I mean regarding world-overtake. You know, little details like that.

By the way, did you kindly folk realize that Linux is going to kill us all? After all, Skynet's operating system is Linux. (For real--I didn't make that up. Look it up!)

At any rate, the System is learning, and at a rapid rate. Let us all hope that it crushes us with gentleness once it has decided that it has learned enough to finally act. That might sound dour, but it's an event that every good boy and girl should gleefully look forward to.

* "IBM Linux Commercial: The Kid", NOSMax ( youtube.com/channel/UCPLhTiipGBZxVV_5DBySAWA ), Nov. 5, 2006

Mirror: "The Linux Foundation Video Site:: IBM Linux Commercial: The", The Linux Foundation ( youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation ), Jan. 28, 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ozaFbqg00 .

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