On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 12:56:25PM +0100, Alain D D Williams wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 10:55:11PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > continues in 5 mins... > > Yes ... I could not join ... I had set up a jitsi meeting early y/day > evening ... Firefox could not see my webcam it could a few days ago - but was > updated on Saturday - which, I suspect, is the issue - nothing else changed. > > That FF update also brought in new options "Allow Firefox to send technical > and > interaction data to Mozilla" and auto-set to on ... I do not recall that I was > asked :-( > > Time to upgrade my desktop to be able to run Brave (which does work with > jitsi). I have run RedHat/CentOS for 25 years, but Centos 8 comes with Gnome > 3 -- which I hate with a passion. I could install Xfce - but prefer Mate - so > I > am prob going to install Linux Mint - a child of Debian.
If you want Mate and do not want systemd, you could start with Devuan and install mate as a package. Mate is not the default desktop, but it is available. -- hendrik > > My desktop has mirrored disks. I will break the mirror, install on one disk, > preserve the current installation on the other, run up the current system, run > the new one as a virtual machine, configure it, copy stuff over, then boot the > new system native, test, add the old disk as a mirror to the new system (which > current versions of LVM should let me do). > > I have been putting this off for far too long :-( > > -- > Alain Williams > Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT > Lecturer. > +44 (0) 787 668 0256 https://www.phcomp.co.uk/ > Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: > https://www.phcomp.co.uk/Contact.html > #include <std_disclaimer.h> > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
