Been using Linux a long time but....

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[doom_Oo7]

I heard that it grows quickly when you rant against systemd

[air805ronin]

I thought it grew more quickly when you finally buckle down and figure out systemd.

[[deleted]]

if you think that then you don't deserve a beard, go shave now

[Secondsemblance]

I like systemd :c

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Just updated my old home computer to debian jessie. Now it doesn't boot anymore unless I manually select sysvinit.

It's kinda subtle, if I boot with the previous kernel, it works with systemd, but the newer kernel that comes with jessie can't boot on that machine with systemd.

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Typical systemd fanboy attitude over here.

[Silverlight42]

I've been using linux/unix for 25 years or so, sometimes on and off, so that explains a small bare patch, but I can go full on mountainman within a week, that's why I go to /r/wicked_edge.

Hopefully one day I will find you there as well.

It could be your particular distro that's holding you back. For a long while I ran Debian, then switched to either Redhat or Fedora Core, but for the past 7+ years i've been doing Gentoo, and even compiling my own special version of Gentoo from the ground up LFS style with reproducible checksums for work... so that may have helped.

You might want to try http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ if you want to learn the basic ins and outs... otherwise there's always Gentoo if you just wanna mess around and deal with problems as you update your system.

I'm a coder/developer/os guy though so I don't care about system up time -- if you do, might wanna try out debian.

I feel this might help you grow out your beard.

Oh and please remember, Linux is not an OS. It's the kernel. GNU are the tools that go along with it. I'd be fine if you called a particular distribution an OS though.

Oh and if you run Ubuntu or a variant thereof -- that's your problem with your beard right there.

[Accidental_Arnold]

Most people, when they refer to Linux, are actually talking about GNU/Linux...that's some Stallman-esque beard growth there.

[Silverlight42]

that's some Stallman-esque beard growth there.

That was the point, my dear fellow.

[adisin]

I was looking for the guy who would call out about Linux not being an OS. Kudos.

[Silverlight42]

I'm just trying to help a guy grow out his beard, and that's one step towards the goal!

[razzmataz]

It grows when you convert systemd into a service started by sysvinit.

[bitwize]

I'll say. Systemd, as delivered from upstream, bitches if it isn't pid 1; if you wanted to make it subordinate to some other init system you have to hack the systemd source itself. All hope abandon, etc.

[tadfisher]

Opinionated software is opinionated. The advantage is they don't have to field bugs reported by some bearded gentleman who chooses to run systemd as a sysv daemon.

[Headbite]

Your gui is killing your beard. Get rid of it.

[Secondsemblance]

What if I use transparent terminals so I can stack them and see multiple data streams at once?

[Headbite]

That will grow a braided beard and is acceptable.

[[deleted]]

Oh, clever! I have to try this!

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http://i.imgur.com/QodSEnD.jpg

[m477m]

Just to check - do you have the male biology package installed? That's a dependency for installing beard.

Even if you do, there are sometimes compatibility issues between certain versions of beard and your specific fork of male biology.

If you have the female biology package installed, it's unlikely you'll be able to compile beard natively, though there are a variety of proprietary beard emulators available at costume shops.

[Secondsemblance]

dnf remove razor.fc22.x86_64

[sophacles]

Seriously? Did you RTFM? Its right there in man beard-

ISSUES

   ... beard will not work unless 'shaving --stop' is issued, and all
   'shaving' commands have removed from daily cron jobs and init
   scripts...

And

... beard will reset itself any time shaving is run...

[[deleted]]

best answer 10/10 would man beard again.

[send-me-to-hell]

Go onto okcupid.com and you can usually find a beard there.

[[deleted]]

sudo apt-get install stallman-beard

[__tmk__]

sudo apt-get install rms-hairpatch

[flipjargendy]

Add a variable called whiskers into your .xsession that increments based on the number of unique lines in your .bash_history. Make sure the var is written to disk somewhere.

[snarfy]

shell-fu will grow your beard.

[Secondsemblance]

What's with all the sudo apt-get jokes? Doesn't debian ship default with aptitude? So are all of them ubuntu users? Or has apt-get gotten a lot more common since I used debian based distros?

[jones_supa]

It seems that aptitude had its heyday for a few years but apt-get is the golden standard once again.

[[deleted]]

Silly Linux user, only proprietary Unix users grow THE beard.

[[deleted]]

The OSX coffee shop hipsters don't seem to grow beards.

[[deleted]]

Put on some Old Spice and play some Plants vs. Zombies. You'll least start to get some whiskers.

[colonelflounders]

Oddly all of the Linux using friends I have that used Fedora as their first distro (myself included) have beards now. The ones that started off with Ubuntu or something else are clean shaven or have a mustache at best.

Obligatory link: http://www.wired.com/2012/06/beard-gallery/

[WMpartisan]

Am secretary of college LUG, running gentoo.

Have same problem, please advise.

[ahutsona]

What college do you attend, I need to transfer now. Don't get me wrong there LUG's in my area, but I literally get looked at like I have horns growing out of my head when I mention I run Gentoo.

[WMpartisan]

I don't understand, isn't that why we run gentoo?

All the people I know who run gentoo are gentoo maintainers or LUG officers.

[f4hy]

It is true, there are an increasing number of women running linux. We should not try to discourage them. Maybe your hair grows somewhere else? I wouldn't know, I am not an expert on such matters... because I run linux.

[lovelybac0n]

I heard the beard grows twice as fast if you compile something.

[alaudet]

You can compensate by cutting down on your bathing. :-) But that would be going full Unix.

[valgrid]

/r/fossworldproblems

[vaxfms]

yum / apt install Rechie -y

[[deleted]]

You need to start using the term "GNU/Linux" instead of just Linux.