On 02/08/17 16:34, Joe wrote:
Incidentally, serifs were invented to make blocks of text easier to
read, so Times or similar would be a better choice for paragraphs, with
a sans-serif font more suited to bold headings. Newspaper sites (not
surprisingly including The Times) use serif fonts.
On a
On 23/07/17 16:48, Curt wrote:
Except that the default 500x400 geometry is the same in Jessie and
Wheezy and seems sufficient since nobody appears to be having any
problems seeing all 5 tabs but Erik.
There seem to be some other changes to the upstream glade file between
version 2.0 and
On 22/07/17 13:20, Erik Christiansen wrote:
What we need to do is examine whether the Debian 9.0.0 distro-smith last
had it shrunken, and it is therefore in that condition in the distro.
If we knew what config file contains the menu gumpf, that could perhaps
be revealed, and minimise the need
On 19/07/17 12:17, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
One my wonder why GRSecurity is not (optionally) included in Linux.
For a variety of reasons relating to the personalities and opinions of
the people who would be involved - on both sides - in making it happen.
It should be noted that some people
On 16/07/17 12:47, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
May I ask, in passing, why Debian (for packages like apt, say) as well as Linux
did not switch to GPLv3? Would such switch ease enforcement?
Switching a project over from GPLv2-only to GPLv3-only or GPLv3-or-later
requires either (a) the consent of
On 13/07/17 04:34, Gary Dale wrote:
They didn't drop support for the older cards. The open source drivers
work perfectly for them.
No, they do not work "perfectly" for the older cards, unless you have
extremely undemanding requirements. On my AMD machine with integrated
graphics, Europa
On 03/07/17 20:42, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
Is there a pure Debian alternative?
There is an alternative init daemon, in the form of sysvinit (install
the package "sysvinit-core" to use this as your init daemon), and there
are several solutions for service management.
(I might humbly
On 22/04/17 12:30, deb...@alpenjodel.de wrote:
Hi!
is it possible to add these Kernel patches to Debian 8?
That depends what you mean by "add these Kernel patches to Debian 8".
If you mean "will a Debian package of the kernel, featuring these
patches, be released for Debian 8 'jessie'?",
On 14/04/17 14:17, Nicolas George wrote:
Le quintidi 25 germinal, an CCXXV, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
Some day there will be actual end-user-friendly systemd documentation
somewhere, consolidating all of these pieces of wisdom together. I hope.
Note: systemd is not for end-users, it is for
On 08/04/17 08:15, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[1] Yeah: a "declarative" configuration, which may be considered
as a plus (less obscure side effects) or as a minus (stronger
separation between "priests" and "mortals").
If a systemd unit for a particular service needs the attention of an
On 06/04/17 14:03, Carl Fink wrote:
Second set of hardware is a false requirement. Go to, say,
http://nosupportlinuxhosting.com and rent a VM for $1/month
*cough* That site does not offer VM hosting for $1/month. It offers
*web* hosting for $1/month. (The sister site offers VPS hosting... for
On 06/04/17 07:45, Ric Moore wrote privately to me with a question about
how my previous remarks made sense.
Here's my public answer.
First, the dependency bill could be considerably more than 111kB,
because while pavucontrol is itself only 111kB, it also requires the
Pango font handling
On 06/04/17 10:58, Joe wrote:
I understood that an upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie would switch to
systemd as init. Even if that could be fixed afterwards, then there
will be server downtime and a manual procedure involved which will not
be part of the upgrade procedure and therefore will not have
On 05/04/17 16:02, Ric Moore wrote:
What blows my mind is why this happens so frequently and
pavucontrol is not a "depend" on pulseaudio. Your problem occurs
frequently without pavucontrol being automagically installed to use.
Glad to be of assistance! Ric
pulseaudio currently Suggests:
On 05/04/17 18:25, Joshua Schaeffer wrote:
If you are looking for an exact answer of "Card /XYZ/ works in Debian
Stretch with package /ABC/" then I don't have an answer for you. Could
you provide a little more detail about your requirements, like what you
plan to use the card for. Do you do any
I'm currently using an AMD "APU" system with integrated Radeon HD6530D
graphics (yes, that's a component from 2011; the computer still works
fine). This is kind of awkward when considering moving to stretch:
* The DKMS-support package for the fglrx proprietary driver will not be
available for
On 14/03/17 00:20, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Actually, there have been numerous bugs filed against both
debian-installer and debootstrap about failures of the --include and
--exclude statements --- that directly effect the ability to specify
sysvinit instead of systemd. I don't recall seeing close
On 13/03/17 19:30, Patrick Bartek wrote:
The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So why
at install time, is there no choice for the init system?
Looking at the BTS page for package 'debian-installer', nobody seems to
have filed a wishlist bug requesting this feature.
On 11/03/17 08:32, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
Oh, come on! What you call good documentation means
writing for a user who has no clue about what the
program does.
That kind of documentation is *really important*, because that's a big
part of how people who don't know how to use the
On 10/03/17 02:09, Shahryar Afifi wrote:
why o why...
why debian keeps getting fancier like other operating system.
Because the upstream developers and maintainers of the software in
Debian continue to develop their software.
debian is a linux machine, not some toy like apple.
A great
On 12/02/17 14:19, Markus wrote:
Does anyone know when version 1.1 gets into the stable release (Jessie)?
Probably never.
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=849382#30 to
understand why.
On 04/02/17 07:30, David Christensen wrote:
On 02/03/17 11:04, Felix Miata wrote:
I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade to reach Jessie 8.7 from Wheezy.
I am of the opinion that attempting an in-place major version upgrade of
an operating system or a service is folly.
Perhaps - and yet, one of
On 22/11/16 07:06, Ric Moore wrote:
On 11/21/2016 11:38 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
apt-rdepends --state-show=Installed --state-follow=Installed PKGNAME
It lists just a couple of base packages. So, why would it want to remove
half of mmy installed desktop? It's the same with firefox. What
Ric Moore wrote:
> Is there some reason removing the libjack-jackd2-0 package removes
> everything audio/video and the kitchen sink??
Because:
1) some of the things on that list declare libjack-jackd2-0 as a
dependency (probably because they are libraries or programs which are
linked against
On 13/06/16 17:36, Nicolas George wrote:
Solution 1: ask every people who reply to A, i.e. people who do not care
about the unwanted CCs, to make a (moderate) effort without getting any
benefit for themselves.
Solution 2: A makes the moderate punctual effort to configure the MUA to set
the
On 12/06/16 14:23, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 12 June 2016 06:00:03 Martin Read wrote:
If ncurses programs that other people use without incident are
screwing up the contents of your terminals, my first port of call
would be checking that the value of the TERM environment variable
matches
On 12/06/16 07:12, Gene Heskett wrote:
And I have never not seen it. On several different mother boards, and
probably 2x the video cards. If there is a difference, I've not a clue.
If ncurses programs that other people use without incident are screwing
up the contents of your terminals, my
On 14/05/16 18:31, Richard Owlett wrote:
I envision
core A using memory range X
core B using memory range Z
My individual tasks could be handled by a 2MHz Z80
Can Debian do it on GHz machine?
Maybe.
Debian (and the Linux kernel) has a bewildering array of tools and
options that
On 14/05/16 10:05, Albin Otterhäll wrote:
I want to use virtual machines for my everyday work on my laptop (with a
Intel Core i5-3320M @ 2.60 GHz * 4 and 16GB RAM), using KVM on Debian as
my hypervisor.
But I can't find any general guidelines for how much system resources to
"give" to a VM. How
On 26/04/16 16:21, Vladislav Kurz wrote:
So what I would like to achieve is to set somehow the dependencies in systemd,
so that networking is deconfigured only after all services are stopped, and
that SSH is the last service to stop.
Documentation starting point for your particular problem
On 20/04/16 20:44, John L. Ries wrote:
Thanks! I think we need to share more examples on how to use systemd
properly. A lot of the criticism stems from the simple fact that people
just need to learn what the new tools can do for them.
That would be an indication that systemd is non-intuitive
On 14/03/16 00:23, David Niklas wrote:
I was most particularly interested in weather the (clear), cherry key
switches last. No one mentioned them.
Cherry make the explicit, measurable claim that their keyswitches have a
minimum service life measured in tens of millions of keystrokes. Twenty
On 15/03/16 07:45, deloptes wrote:
I see recently more python code written than real C/C++.
So what? Most programs *shouldn't* be written in C or C++, and I say
this as someone who loves C and C++ and reaches for one of them by
default as the language for solving computing problems. (Unless
On 07/03/16 03:13, maddonkeyk...@safe-mail.net wrote:
In Synaptic, I can't load any Changelogs, it gives this message:
This change is not coming from a source that supports changelogs.
Failed to fetch the changelog for cpio
URI was:
On 11/02/16 18:21, David Christensen wrote:
Does anybody have the CODE 104-Key MX Brown, or something similar?
Thoughts? Comments?
My Das Keyboard has Cherry MX Brown keyswitches. I find it quite
pleasant to type on (I type pretty fast), and I can say that while it's
not silent, it is
Is there a good reason why Amarok consumes 5% CPU even when it isn't
doing anything useful? (2.2GHz amd64 processor)
The interactive UI is not open, I'm not writing new files into my music
library directory, and it isn't playing any music.
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On 11/02/16 21:25, Jan Gregor wrote:
Hello,
I used /etc/mtab to list mounted filesystems with their mount
options. Unfortunatelly /etc/mtab no longer exists in debian jessie, it
is just symlink to /proc/mounts that lists 31 filesystems and I want to
see just 2 :-) classic filesystems like
On 27/01/16 21:37, Gene Heskett wrote:
What ails the udev maintainer(s) that seem to think the owner and only
human user of this machine is to be denied access to its facilities?
The udev maintainers have no idea how many users your system is going to
have, and udev itself is not sentient.
On 13/01/16 15:00, Hans wrote:
I think, it is very unlucky, to release systremd with these bad dependencies.
I hope, the dependencies will be fixed as soon as possible or a big warning
should appear, as network is really an essential function.
Your warning of these problems is simple: it is
On 06/01/16 10:00, Mart van de Wege wrote:
There is nothing wrong with trying to reach a reasonable accommodation
with people to make them feel more comfortable. The only argument
against OP is simply that you feel that they are not asking for a
*reasonable* accommodation. That can be debated,
On 06/01/16 14:53, deloptes wrote:
BTW a doctor dealing with overweight (political correct word) people stated,
most (90%) are fat because they have unhealthy life and food. All desieases
they have are a result of it. No one can escape causality. That's it! This
is not a blame. This is a fact.
On 31/12/15 17:30, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
I have made some bash scripts (about 300 lines). I want it to be
available for direct install along with some additional files for direct
use.
How can I make the .deb file out of a shell script and about 5 more text
files?
Also, how can I get it added
On 01/01/16 17:47, Ric Moore wrote:
On 01/01/2016 11:23 AM, pe...@berghold.net wrote:
I'm confused what specifically is meriting censorship?
I'm not seeing any full frontal nudity. Ric
An image can feature full frontal nudity without being an exercise in
sexual objectification, and equally
On 31/12/15 12:21, deloptes wrote:
Fernando Arenas wrote:
openclipart2
so which one is bugging you?
There's a list at the end of the OP.
I don't agree that any of the images on that list need to be removed
from Debian for the reasons stated by the OP (I can't comment on whether
they
On 18/12/15 18:14, Gene Heskett wrote:
Ok, I have constructed a recursive pull ~/.wgetrc, but all I get are
syntax errors. The file: (which kmail cannit insert, so copy-paste)
gene@coyote:~/Documents/dovecot-wiki$ cat ~/.wgetrc
-np
--follow-ftp
-r
-l 20
-k
Using "info wget" to read the wget
On 13/12/15 09:19, Eduard Bloch wrote:
Observation: various programs use the XDG mechanism (freedesktop
configuration method) to start a specific browser to visit a hyperlink.
Easy to verify with the xdg-open tool.
But how can I change this setting in a persistent way especially when I
don't
On 08/12/15 16:58, Darac Marjal wrote:
On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 11:15:50AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
If you have bookmarks set for the old site you should update your
bookmarks. Some pages from the old site are not on the new site
because I judged them to be obsolete.
To which, the
On 02/12/15 03:07, James P. Wallen wrote:
Thanks for your response, Sven. It's nice to know that someone else has
seen this type of problem. I was thinking that this could be
self-inflicted. Perhaps that's a little less likely now.
So, is this behavior controlled by systemd?
I'm not trying to
On 01/12/15 08:47, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
Do you still have any i386 packages installed? I think running
dpkg -l "*:i386"
should list them (I don't use multiarch myself, but it works for the
native architecture and "*:all").
I can confirm on my multiarch system that the command you
On 30/11/15 00:05, Bit Head wrote:
In Jessie, this is proving to be more challenging as there is no inittab
file to edit, and while I could create one, it would only contain
commented lines, having a null effect. It seems that in prior releases,
one had to explicitly say what to do in order for
On 20/11/15 15:07, Kynn Jones wrote:
Also, I set the contents of my `/etc/apt/preferences` file to this
(the file was empty before):
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Looking at the Debian wiki's page on APT preferences[1] and comparing to
your file, I notice that you haven't
On 10/11/15 20:19, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote:
When I type 'startx' it says 'command not found'
Install the 'xorg' package.
On 31/10/15 12:02, Chris Bannister wrote:
Logically, doesn't it make more sense to make it so that you install
with the minimum number of packages necessary, and then download any
extra packages you want *after* the install?
Only if you accept austere minimalism as axiomatically good.
On 28/10/15 11:14, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 28 October 2015 01:03:20 Doug wrote:
it is now a system which even grandmothers are using.
Hey!! Ada Lovelace was a grandmother.
Not while she was alive; sadly, she died before any of her children had
children of their own.
On 27/09/15 08:06, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
Like any other job the programmers need money and software authors are
not obligated to publish their work to be available to all humanity(or
at-least these parts of humanity that are connected to the WWW).
The above is something I think is right and
On 22/09/15 13:38, Reco wrote:
1) Users of non-free software (especially users of non-free wine-embedded
software) should suffer anyway.
It speaks ill of you that you cite this as a reason for not offering
cautionary advice to users of proprietary software.
If such people *do* in fact
On 21/09/15 19:18, Felix Miata wrote:
http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-face-samplesM.html and
http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-comps-linuxmono.html provide ways to
compare some common monospace fonts.
Only if you have the fonts already installed, which isn't helpful if
you're trying to
On 16/09/15 12:10, mudongliang wrote:
mdl@NjuMdl:~$ sudo apt-get install xorg-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package xorg-server
The package you are looking for is "xserver-xorg", not
On 09/09/15 09:07, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
I have a dell inspiron 15 laptop with intel core i5 5200U and Broadcom
hardware. On booting, debian jessie runs fsck and then says some
firmware brcm*** failed to load. Also, the bluetooth isnot working.
Anybody could please fix this?
You probably
On 09/09/15 12:43, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
I am a bit novice. I have attached the result of lspci. Can you please
suggest the package name?
Thanks in anticipation.
You have a Broadcom BCM43142 device. Please see
https://wiki.debian.org/wl
for information on how to install the appropriate
On 08/09/15 14:09, Darac Marjal wrote:
Just as a point of interest, I understand that most BIOS limits are
limits in the ATA command set (that is, PATA and SATA drives experience
these issues).
Looking at
http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/2tib-disc-limit.html
I see
On 06/09/15 22:16, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Installing 'flashplayer-mozilla' that is in Debian main will solve the
flash problem.
This statement is factually incorrect, as no package of that name exists
in jessie main.
A package of that name *does* exist in the deb-multimedia repositories.
On 07/09/15 08:29, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
I still tend that there should be a desktop version that may or may not
optionally have systemd and a server version that definitely does not
have systemd.
It is, to me, nonsensical to suggest that systemd has no utility in a
server context. I mean,
On 06/09/15 16:11, Doug wrote:
Perhaps BCD can read a DOS file. It's the _other_ way I'm thinking of. I
want to be able to access BCD from Linux or Windows, and vice-versa--
access Linux and/or Windows from BCD. Anybody know if this is possible,
and if so, how?
Read/write support for UFS has
On 05/09/15 23:21, Michael Grant wrote:
I have to say in some ways this seems like a feature not a bug! I've
long missed the option some other unixes have to inhibit resolving the
name. But at the moment the hostname! Frankly, there should be an
option to w, who, finger, and last to not
On 03/09/15 22:06, Stuart Longland wrote:
I'll bite, why an nVidia graphic card? I have a couple, but the Intel
GPU in this laptop would run rings around most of them.
Surely it only matters that it implements ${OPENGL_FEATURES} to a
sufficient standard to run the application.
OpenGL's
On 01/09/15 04:07, The Wanderer wrote:
I believe that's roughly how it works, yes - and I believe rsyslog is
intentionally set up that way, so that various system messages which
would appear in the active console if the journal were not present will
still appear there. It's just that now there
On 31/08/15 08:09, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
How much do those things cost? Now that a keyboard can be had for $10 or
$15, is it better to pay $150 or even $250 for a quality keyboard, or
replace a $15 keyboard every year or even every six months?
Well, I'm typing this on a Das Keyboard
On 30/08/15 03:20, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
Back in the 1960's and 1970's, manufacturers such as Honeywell and Cherry
made keyswitches with a life rating in the tens of millions or even
hundreds of millions of keystrokes.
Cherry still *are* (or at some point resumed) making mechanical
On 20/08/15 06:59, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
If you are talking about console use, indeed I would not know why I would want
/ need it there.
Because you might be using your terminal to edit an input file for a
document processing system which contains the character, or to create
new files that
On 12/08/15 18:23, Brian wrote:
On Wed 12 Aug 2015 at 16:57:33 +0100, Martin Smith wrote:
I suffer from them, I haven't had a tv since 1971, and they can't let go,
Unless you have typed and sent your mail from a friend's computer, you do.
Conveniently, what the law requires people to
On 14/08/15 23:03, Brian wrote:
On Fri 14 Aug 2015 at 09:08:30 +0100, Martin Read wrote:
And yes, the law does distinguish between broadcast programmes and live
internet streaming (e.g. the BBC's live coverage of the World Snooker
No it doesn't. Watching BBC News being streamed live
On 13/08/15 07:29, Rohnan Donohue wrote:
My name is Rohnan, and I am a secondary student in Victoria,
Australia. I am writting to you to please ask for express permission to
host Debian products on a website I am currently producing in one of my
classes. This website will host only 'freeware'
On 01/08/15 16:26, Frank McCormick wrote:
It's been a while since I used the Canon LIDE 20 scanner attached to my
Debian Sid system. Today I found out it's not being recognized.
LSUSB doesn't find it on the scan of USB ports.
Have you checked that the cable is good?
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On 23/07/15 19:06, Lee Winter wrote:
The following sequence of commands leads to an error:
mkdir nano
cd nano
apt-get source nano
You missed an important step here:
sudo apt-get build-dep nano
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On 21/07/15 16:32, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
Scenario: Mail/web server with file corruption. I have I/O errors on a
few blocks which results in regular (daily) server crashes (including
kernel panic) at random times during the day, usually afternoon CET. I
need to run fsck on the disks. I have
On 18/07/15 15:25, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
the output of ip is a bit of a mess.
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
what the hell ? i have no idea what tha means. i know i'll do man ip, it's
probably
got an explanation. no. it doesn't.
It's saying that the valid and preferred
On 17/07/15 18:49, John J. Boyer wrote:
None of these solutions work. ifconfig is not available on Jessie. ip
seems to be inapropriate. dig produces nothing. I have used ifconfig on
other distros.
I'm using DHCP at home, and it appears to me that the answer Lisi Reisz
kindly provided you with
On 16/07/15 13:56, Nicolas George wrote:
the authors should not be
allowed near a keyboard.
I find myself increasingly impatient with that kind of line (which,
admittedly, I have sometimes succumbed to the temptation of in the
past); it carries with it the distinctive odour of
On 15/07/15 21:44, Nicolas George wrote:
In my opinion, PulseAudio is only good for messing things up. The features
it brings are of doubtful usefulness for most users and the brittleness and
complexity it introduces are very real.
For a contrasting angle on this, I've found Debian with PA to
On 13/07/15 14:41, Man_Without_Clue wrote:
Chinese made.
How can you trust that?
Just about every piece of consumer (and quite a lot of not-so-consumer)
electronics on the market probably contains *some* non-volatile storage
components manufactured in a facility whose management are
On 06/07/15 06:07, Dhiraj Bhor wrote:
Also wanted to know which are security bugs reported for glibc-2.19-18.
Thanks for being patient.
Information about current bugs in Debian packages can be found through
the Bug Tracking System at https://bugs.debian.org/
Upstream bug information for GNU
On 05/07/15 19:50, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
Most certainly the Debian of old, being stable and trustworthy has
been lost due to systemd adoption. I want old Debian back, not
Devuan, not Gentoo .. bring back the /real/ Debian, if only for server
use which has no need for systemd whatsoever.
On 03/07/15 04:21, Bob Bernstein wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, Martin Read wrote:
Because in order to still be for us, software freedom has to be for
everyone.
But surely you can't mean literally everyone, yes?
To a first approximation? Sure.
Just cast a glance
at the group of characters who
On 02/07/15 16:08, Bob Bernstein wrote:
Why are such persons even allowed to operate linux equipment?
Because in order to still be for us, software freedom has to be for
everyone.
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On 30/06/15 05:50, Seeker wrote:
Gnome-core doesn't depend on those.
Gnome-core in debian jessie does, in fact, depend on Gnome 3.
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On 29/06/15 11:39, Dhiraj Bhor wrote:
I am using debian 8.
I need help to resolve this issue.
$ tar xvf procps-3.2.7.tar.gz
$ cd procps-3.2.7/
I'm curious: why do you need to build a nine-year-old version of the
procps tools on a Debian 8 system?
(The answer may help people to provide the
On 29/06/15 06:53, Bret Busby wrote:
(as I can not copy the
list, as a block copy, a command line command to so list the packages,
would be useful, eg apt-get list-intalled | grep xserver)
The command you want is dpkg -l.
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On 27/06/15 06:16, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
My complaint is that CUPS is complaining. if it doesn't matter - then why is
it complaining ?
Some programs complain about things that *might* matter where if they do
matter then the humans they matter to will be very upset to not be notified.
On 26/06/15 12:10, Brenton Horne wrote:
`Media change: please insert the disc labeled
'Debian GNU/Linux 8.1.0 _Jessie_ - Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1
20150606-13:00'
in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press enter`
And I'm wondering what's this is about.
There is a file on your virtual
On 26/06/15 13:10, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Friday 26 June 2015 12:47:23 Martin Read wrote:
Comment out the lines starting deb cdrom: by putting a '#' at the
start, and see if things work.
He will need to update.
Oops! Thank you for remedying my omission.
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On 25/06/15 15:37, The Wanderer wrote:
What happens if you try to log in as root, or to 'go root' (by e.g.
running 'su' in a terminal)?
Does it error out directly, or can you log in as root by pressing Enter
without typing anything (i.e., giving a blank password)?
The former would be (as
On 24/06/15 00:48, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
Will the same pinning prevent systemd from installing when I dist-upgrade from
Wheezy to Jessie ?
Yes. This procedure is *clearly stated* in the official Release Notes
for Debian jessie.
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On 24/06/15 10:51, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
Anyway, I thought the mate terminal was just a fork of the gnome one,
so if it can't repaint it's probably a bug.
Mate terminal is a fork of GNOME 2's gnome-terminal; the gnome-terminal
package in Debian jessie is GNOME *3*'s gnome-terminal.
But yes,
On 22/06/15 15:32, Gene Heskett wrote:
But from the tone of the messages, I think its clear that it should have
spent another 6 months on the back table in a lab someplace, getting the
kinks worked out so the end result for the unwary user who has not
encountered it before, will not be
On 22/06/15 18:02, Erwan David wrote:
What is the use of this libsystemd0 you get even when systemd was
never installed ?
Utility functions for programs designed to be run in a systemd-based
environment, or to run in many environments but also take advantage of
capabilities offered by a
On 22/06/15 18:01, Bret Busby wrote:
The names of the applications are also in spanish.
Is it really too much to ask, for application names to be in english?
Speaking as a native speaker of English: Yes.
What's wrong with using languages other than English to name programs?
The last program
On 22/06/15 18:26, Zebediah C. McClure wrote:
What is the correct way to work towards not having systemd be installed by
default in stretch?
That depends on your goal.
If your goal is to have a dpkg-based Linux distribution which leverages
the good work done in Debian and does not use
On 22/06/15 20:09, Erwan David wrote:
I have a stretch with only parts of systemd and settings that I do not
know how to replicate in systemd: How do I do ?
That depends on which settings those are.
Where so I find docs and tutorials to migrate ?
I have no idea.
Where can I discuss the
On 22/06/15 20:37, Zebediah C. McClure wrote:
I think sysv is a great candidate to replace systemd. Which system init
system is most likely to be considered to replace systemd?
Honestly? None. The entire topic caused a great deal of incendiary
debate among the people who make Debian happen,
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