Re: [DNG] Red Hat ends KDE support

2018-11-06 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
ake > to Debian. Good advice! I did the same, then to Devuan, but now am considering PCLinuxOS; I do miss all the Drake* tools ;-3) Cheers, Ron. -- There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena

Re: [DNG] Repent! [Re: No spaces between menus in XFCE terminal.]

2018-09-02 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 03:59:47 +0200 Alessandro Selli wrote: > >>   Thou shalt be flogged for uttering this  blasphemy! > > De gustibus non est disputanum. >   Thou shalt have no other theme than DarkPurpy! And me thinking Linux was all about user's freedom of ch

Re: [DNG] Unbound details: was Mozilla and cloudflare to hijack all your DNS requests - for your own good of course

2018-08-22 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
Or one can use Devuan. It runs bash in xterms. ;-> Sadly, Debian and Devuan have nothing that compares with the Drak* tools. My lasting regret when I switched from Mageia to Debian years ago (did not know about PCLinuxOS then)... Cheers, Ron. -- Antisémite : ce mot me fait

Re: [DNG] Unbound details: was Mozilla and cloudflare to hijack all your DNS requests - for your own good of course

2018-08-21 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
s inherited from Mandrake / Mandriva / Mageia. Cheers, Ron. -- The magic of our first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. -- Benjamin Disraeli

Re: [DNG] Devuan on Panasonic FZ-G1

2018-08-21 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 23:07:46 +0200 Antony Stone wrote: > 1. If you have alsamixer installed, see if anything is muted. Or in pavucontrol Cheers, Ron. -- The magic of our first love is our ignorance that it can ever

Re: [DNG] I'm not going to respond to messages like that.

2018-07-27 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:06:59 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > 'The failure mode of clever is "asshole."' This is a family list; so: 'The failure mode of clever is "orifice".' Cheers, Ron. -- The most exciting phrase to hear in science,

[DNG] An eudev oddity ?

2018-07-27 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
c. Is the normal ? How can I format it so it is no longer "seen" as /dev/sdi ? Cheers, Ron. -- The business of the law was not the discovery of the truth, but the imposition of the power of the state upon its citizens. --

Re: [DNG] Web browser needed

2018-07-13 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
ty, and note carefully what cipher gets negotiated and > any problems observed. https://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/ has a basic > guide. Thank you for the advice. Cheers, Ron. -- When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

[DNG] Web browser needed

2018-07-13 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
the complete blockage ? And is there a way around it ? Cheers, Ron. -- True friends stab you in the front. -- Oscar Wilde -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- ___

Re: [DNG] [OT] vivivi

2018-07-10 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:34:35 -0400 Hendrik Boom wrote: > So the only inequivocally remaining received gospel is that Emacs is the > Only True and Holy Editor. Heretic ! True Believers worship at the Shrine of VI... Cheers, Ron. -- La marine est un art, une science,

Re: [DNG] Troll Alert Re: A Devuan kernel?

2018-07-09 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 13:19:40 +0200 Antony Stone wrote: > Thank $deity for that. Whoever He or She is, should not we accord Him or Her the civility of an upper-wase variable name as $DEITY ? ;-3) Cheers, Ron. -- A good question is never answered.

Re: [DNG] One week into Devuan 2.0 ASCII -- Some stats

2018-06-23 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
gested would help. A warning message at boot time, that the computer is 64-capable and the user might want to change his choice of iso ? Cheers, Ron. -- Il faut se garder de donner un nom aux choses: Tant qu'elles n'en ont pas, elles n'existent pas

Re: [DNG] Which desktops are available in Devuan?

2018-06-20 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 22:16:10 +0200 "J. Fahrner" wrote: > Bunsenlab has also a GUI program for adjusting fonts for Gtk. Where can one find it ? Cheers, Ron. -- Gli nomini si debbano o vezzeggiate o peguere; perche' si vendiciano del

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 12:45:36 -0500 goli...@dyne.org wrote: > > Just have to keep a post-it on the monitor, to remind you which HD has > > what ;-3) > I actually keep a small sticky label on the drive itself. ;) Might not be very useful at boot time ;-3)

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
t have to keep a post-it on the monitor, to remind you which HD has what ;-3) Cheers, Ron. -- Dieu créa l'homme, et ne le trouvant pas assez seul, il lui donna une compagne pour lui faire mieux sentir sa solitude.

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
. Cheers, Ron. -- All true wisdom is found in sig-files. -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin

Re: [DNG] broken PDF display

2018-03-26 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 10:09:02 + KatolaZ wrote: > Just to say: no problems over here with either zathura, xpdf, or mupdf > on ASCII. But my pdf files are not that fancy, TBH :) Here under Jessie, mupdf displays correctly, but xpdf does not. Cheers, Ron. -- La révo

Re: [DNG] broken PDF display

2018-03-23 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
F has same result as its display. I have noticed the same behaviour in recent days, but while the .pdf files do not display properly in evince or pdfshuffler, they do in gv. Cheers, Ron. -- The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The

Re: [DNG] firmware missing in live iso

2018-03-14 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
o. And the Debian logo did not register, as I see it under Devuan every time I log in... Cheers, Ron. -- Here is to the Council of Trent who put fasting on the meat, and not on the drink. --

[DNG] firmware missing in live iso

2018-03-14 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
wireless network, with the indication "device not ready (firmware missing)". And of course, I cannot get the firmware without a network connection. An oversight ? Cheers, Ron. -- Toddlers are the stormtroopers of the Lord

Re: [DNG] udev completely F-e'd up ?

2018-02-19 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
ot rid of with the g option in gdisk (expert mode). Is there a way to banish gpt from my box, to avoid future annoyance ? Cheers, Ron. -- Eschew Eschaton Immanentization. -- http://www.olgiati-in-par

Re: [DNG] udev completely F-e'd up ?

2018-02-19 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:17:43 -0300 "Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI" wrote: > Since upgrading from Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie, I have been having > problems with USB drives, unable to mount them unless as root, and seeing > strange things in Pcmanfm, like when connecting a drive th

[DNG] udev completely F-e'd up ?

2018-02-19 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
with gparted, I get two entries in the places list of Pcmanfm, one as sdi which, when clicked on, shows me the former content of the drive, and when I choose sdi1 shows me the new content. Lates madness is as follows: root@ron:/home/ron # df Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

Re: [DNG] ASCII Beta: too much love? :P

2018-02-14 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
SCII beta images as soon as > possible is to back off for a few hours, let the (many) mirrors use > the availale bandwidth to sync as fast as they can, and then download > the images from one of the mirrors listed at http://www.devuan.org Why not offer a BittTrrent downlo

[DNG] Log-out instead of screen-saver ?

2018-01-15 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
Would it be possible to configure the system so that after a set time of inactivity, it logs-out the user instead of activating a screen saver ? Cheers, Ron. -- Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public

[DNG] Any idea

2018-01-08 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
when ASCII will be declared stable ? Is it a question of weeks ? months ? Cheers, Ron. -- To our sweethearts and wives: May they never meet. -- 19th century toast

Re: [DNG] Meltdown and linux kernel KPTI patch

2018-01-05 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
ed by Meltdown." > and AMD wrote: > https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution > "Zero AMD vulnerability due to AMD architecture differences." ISTR that AMDs are not affected by Meltdown, but affected by Spectre Cheers, Ron. --

Re: [DNG] Happy New Year!

2018-01-01 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Mon, 1 Jan 2018 13:50:51 +0100 aitor_czr wrote: > Without being too pedantic [*], *devuanita* is the right term. A > debianita is to debian, like a devuanita to devuan. With due respect, your Worship, "Devuanita" would be a term of endearment for a young (female) Devuana...

Re: [DNG] URL - The importance of Devuan

2017-12-12 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:50:56 +0100 Antony Stone wrote: > > Oh, come on. Have some sense of humour! Didn't you see the sarcasm in > > my comment? > > Email is a notoriously bad medium for conveying tone of voice. so next time use a tag. Cheers, Ron. --

Re: [DNG] Text editor ?

2017-12-10 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 04:43:30 -0300 "Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI" wrote: > Thank you; sadly this is not offered in Devuan Jessie ;-3( Please ignore: Synaptic could not find it, but apt-get did. Cheers, Ron. -- The measure of a man's real character is

Re: [DNG] Text editor ?

2017-12-10 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 08:04:34 +0100 "J. Fahrner" wrote: > > Thanks, I should have been more precise: one with a GUI. > > My favourite GUI text editor is Geany. Thank you; sadly this is not offered in Devuan Jessie ;-3( Cheers, Ron. -- The m

Re: [DNG] Text editor ?

2017-12-10 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 22:16:18 + ael wrote: > > Is there in Devuan a text editor that will do find/replace on a regexp ? > Almost every non trivial editor will do that: my favorite is vim. Thanks, I should have been more precise: one with a GUI. Cheers, Ron. -- This coun

[DNG] Text editor ?

2017-12-10 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
Is there in Devuan a text editor that will do find/replace on a regexp ? Cheers, Ron. -- This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of

Re: [DNG] Cron / Anacron

2017-12-06 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
jobs presently done by Anacron, but have them done by Cron at a suitable time. Will that happen if I disable Anacron ? Cheers, Ron. -- Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance

Re: [DNG] Cron / Anacron

2017-12-06 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Wed, 06 Dec 2017 14:37:04 +0100 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Given my box runs 24/7, is there a simple way to banish Anacron, and run > > Cron at fixed times, in the wee hours of the night for instance ? > > Just remove anacron by removing the anacron package. Thank

[DNG] Cron / Anacron

2017-12-06 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
hours of the night for instance ? Cheers, Ron. -- Auntie Em: Hate you. Hate Kansas. Taking the dog. Dorothy

Re: [DNG] Decent GUI FTP client for linux (not filezilla)

2017-12-06 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
decent gui, ideas? Thanks Have you tried gFTP ? Cheers, Ron. -- Kilroe hic erat! -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [DNG] netiquette Was: Re: Installing & running eudev broke USB drives auto-listing in Thunar.

2017-12-02 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
wait any longer. Regarding technicalities we are > > speaking about he is fully aware. > > Fix your own mail reader before you complain about how others quote. It > still doesn't generate RFC 3676-compliant quotations. How about taking that discussion to the Hair-splitting group in Yah

Re: [DNG] Different philosophies (OT)

2017-11-10 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
d with a 0C7, 0CA or 0CC Exception code... Cheers, Ron. -- If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you really don't need advice. -- http:

Re: [DNG] systemd-udevd: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1

2017-10-07 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
ewhere a config option: "Do you want fixed NIC names or do you want them renamed whenever changed/moved ?" Cheers, Ron. -- Do not trust atoms: They make up everything !

[DNG] Life under Devuan is impossible.

2017-10-07 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
manfm, but not write; Gparted will create a partition table, when trying to create a partition gives me first an error "Daemon is inhibited", then fails to create the new FAT32 ffile system. Is there a way to move from Devuan Jessie to Debian Jessie without catching the

Re: [DNG] New behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-23 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
ty Cheers, Ron. -- Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. -- Samuel Goldwyn -- http://www.olgiati-in-p

Re: [DNG] And another new behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-23 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
isks2.filesystem-mount;org.freedesktop.udisks2.encrypted-unlock;org.freedesktop.udisks2.eject-media;org.freedesktop.udisks2.power-off-drive ResultAny=yes in it, and added the user to the plugdev group. Sadly, no change after a reboot... Cheers, Ron. -- If God didn't want women t

Re: [DNG] New behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-23 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:50:31 + Miroslav Rovis wrote: > Useful. But in which file do you stick it, you didn't say? ~/.bashrc ? I stick the root ones in the relevant /root/.bashrc, and in ~/.bashrc for the user. Cheers, Ron. -- If God didn't want women to

Re: [DNG] New behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-23 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
warning when you log in as root in an X session, and also when you log in in a tty. Cheers, Ron. -- When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. -- Mark Twain

Re: [DNG] New behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-23 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
m\]\u@\h:\w \$ \[\033[0m\]' in the various .ashrc to the colour you want/need. Been using that for years, never had a problem. Cheers, Ron. -- A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

Re: [DNG] And another new behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-22 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:09:21 -0500 goli...@dyne.org wrote: > Did you log out and back in after making the change? I did, no change. Cheers, Ron. -- Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to

Re: [DNG] And another new behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-22 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:52:56 -0400 "Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI" wrote: > > groups did not help; alas > > Thanks, butt adding my user to the plugdev Read: Thanks, but adding my user to the plugdev group did not help; alas Cheers, Ron. -- On

Re: [DNG] And another new behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-22 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
ng how to launch > > a prog as root from the CLI.. > > Why did the configuration change ? > > How can I restore it ? > I think it might just be associations of your user to groups, e.g., > groups did not help; alas Thanks, butt adding my user to the plugdev C

Re: [DNG] New behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-22 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
. OTOH, having done nothing to configure ssh, I have ssh -X working perfectly, allowing me to run on my desktop a pcmanfm to manage files on the remote box. Cheers, Ron. -- One way to make your old car run better

Re: [DNG] New behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-22 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:31:44 +0200 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > I don't know how one can prevent you from running ssh -X > > root@localhost . Permission to do so is set/unset > > in /etc/ssh/sshd_config . > > ..ok, how? "X11Forwarding yes" ? Cheers,

Re: [DNG] And another new behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-22 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
ade ? > So far it does work in one of my VM's when I connect a pendrive to the > VM it is automounted. What is your exact configuration? May be i can > find the reason by building a VM for it. No in a VM, just a recent upgrade from Debian Wheezy LTS to Devuan, and now no USB periphe

Re: [DNG] And another new behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-22 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
t; I had similar issues some time ago and switched to spacefm with udevil. > That solved it for me. This is a serious problem: how can I sell Devuan to users if they cannot access their pendrives after a Debian==>Devuan upgrade ? Cheers, Ron. -- A na

Re: [DNG] New behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-22 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
UI, maybe, but not when launched from the CLI. Cheers, Ron. -- A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. -- Edward R. Murrow -- http://www.olgiati-in-par

Re: [DNG] New behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-22 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
work. For many years.. Cheers, Ron. -- You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do. -- http:/

[DNG] And another new behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-21 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
ion change ? How can I restore it ? Cheers, Ron. -- It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. -- He

Re: [DNG] New behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-21 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 19:43:54 +0100 Dave Turner wrote: > Also, 'su' is just wrong, don't use it, always use sudo, If I wanted to always use sudo I would be running *ubuntu... Cheers, Ron. -- No one can make you feel inferior wi

Re: [DNG] New behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-21 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
having `xhost +` in ~/.bashrc ? Cheers, Ron. -- Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma. -- Philip Guedalla -- http://www.olgi

Re: [DNG] New behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-21 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
aged. OK ta, I'll look for a different one. Cheers, Ron. -- Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma. -- Philip Guedalla -- http

[DNG] New behaviour under Devuan.

2017-09-21 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
Under Debian, I could su to root in a console, and launch gparted from the CLI. Now, I get: ron@ron:~/Desktop $ su Password: No protocol specified xmodmap: unable to open display ':0.0' No protocol specified xmodmap: unable to open display ':0.0' No protocol specified xmod

[DNG] GUIs font sizes

2017-09-21 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
those prog fonts great again ? Cheers, Ron. -- Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. -- A.H. Weiler -- http://www.olgia

Re: [DNG] Gnome?

2017-09-20 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:35:42 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote: > And yeah, an analogy that makes systemd a disease is fitting... I know, been refering to it for ages as a pox... Cheers, Ron. -- Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow

Re: [DNG] Why all this systemd stuff ?

2017-09-20 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
is toothless ? Cheers, Ron. -- Sodd's Second Law: Sooner or later, the worst possible set of circumstances is bound to occur. -- http:/

Re: [DNG] Gnome?

2017-09-20 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:50:55 +0200 Narcis Garcia wrote: > I prefer the best (for me) of all worlds: No Systemd, but Yes Gnome. Which is like wanting unprotected sex, but without sexually transmitted diseases... Cheers, Ron. -- Sodd's Se

Re: [DNG] Why all this systemd stuff ?

2017-09-20 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:29:08 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: > Have you tried to install any of them? No, I did not; I do not either try to poke rattlesnakes with a stick Cheers, Ron. -- In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate,

Re: [DNG] Gnome?

2017-09-20 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
me. So go ahead, install Gnome, and go in peace... Cheers, Ron. -- In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent on

[DNG] Why all this systemd stuff ?

2017-09-20 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
] libsystemd0/stable 215-17+deb8u7 amd64 live-config-systemd/stable 4.0.4-1 all python3-systemd/stable 215-17+deb8u7 amd64 systemd-cron/stable 1.3.1+ds1-2 all systemd-dbg/stable 215-17+deb8u7 amd64 systemd-gui/stable 1:3-2 all systemd-shim/stable 9-1 amd64 systemd-ui/stable 3-2 amd64 Cheers, Ron

Re: [DNG] Gnome?

2017-09-19 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
FCE lacks ? Cheers, Ron. -- Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. -- H. L. Mencken -- http://www.olgiati-in-par

Re: [DNG] Gnome?

2017-09-19 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:00:22 +0200 Narcis Garcia wrote: > 3. Why not? Because all recent versions of Gnome are infected with the systemd pox. Cheers, Ron. -- A society that puts equality over freedom will not get any of those thi

Re: [DNG] Upgrade to Devuan done.

2017-09-18 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:07:48 +0200 info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > > import wx.media > > Is part of wxPython package afaik. Found it, the upgrade to Devuan had missed python-wxgtk-media3.0 Cheers, Ron. -- If you want creative workers, give them enough

[DNG] Upgrade to Devuan done.

2017-09-18 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
Two niggles: Is there a way to get rid of, or disable, keyring ? could not find the package that provides it. When I launch EasyABC, which worked under Wheezy this morning, I now get: ron@ron:~/Desktop $ easyabc Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/easyabc/easy_abc.py&q

Re: [DNG] What if...

2017-09-18 Thread Ron
Finally taking the plunge, and upgrading following Dev1fanboy's howto on https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/Upgrade-to-Devuan Cheers, Ron. -- My karma just ran over your dogma. --

[DNG] What if...

2017-09-18 Thread Ron
...I upgrade my Debian Wheezy LTS to Devuan Jessie ? What happens then to those packages I need/use which are not in the Devuan repositories ? Will the older versions still run ? Or will the upgrade remove them ? Or, if they have no systemd dependencies, can I install the Debian Jessie version

Re: [DNG] Gnome?

2017-09-18 Thread Ron
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:02:37 +0200 Narcis Garcia wrote: > Is there some published procedure to install Gnome in Devuan 8/9 ? > > I need this to migrate desktop users from Debian & Ubuntu. For a recent version of Gnome: 1- Install systemd .. Cheers, Ron. -- Whenev

Re: [DNG] Which desktops are available in Devuan?

2017-08-28 Thread Ron
have to run the adjuster program from the command > line instead of from a magical sequence of mouse clicks, but the result > is the same, a great font size for your eyes. Would your kindness extend to giving us the names of the adjuster program, so we know what to run from the CLI

Re: [DNG] serial and ps2 ports.

2017-08-27 Thread Ron
ill using, with both PC-XT to PS and Serial to USB adapters, an ancient AT keyboard with built-in trackball.. Cheers, Ron. -- Murphy was an optimist. -- O'Toole -- http

Re: [DNG] new behaviour of /dev

2017-08-23 Thread Ron
hey really *short*? Jeez, how happy I am not to have lived > in those awful times! All those adjectives, which come from a quote of Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679) refer not to people, but to their lives in preceding ages... Cheers, Ron. -- Gli nomini si debbano o vezzeggiat

Re: [DNG] new behaviour of /dev

2017-08-23 Thread Ron
was invented. 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short' come to mind Cheers, Ron. -- It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Re: [DNG] Proposed change in behaviour for ascii: eudev net.ifnames logic reversing proposal

2017-08-21 Thread Ron
for his daughter he wished on > his _own_ systems, but that his daughter wouldn't be plugging USB > devices into my servers, so I wasn't especially interested in helping > her there. I forgot to precise that the t

Re: [DNG] Proposed change in behaviour for ascii: eudev net.ifnames logic reversing proposal

2017-08-21 Thread Ron
years of use I have never had the problem of USB/NIC assignment changing at reboot, except when I had to replace a burnt-out USBtoRJ45 ;-3( Cheers, Ron. -- To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must imp

Re: [DNG] Proposed change in behaviour for ascii: eudev net.ifnames logic reversing proposal

2017-08-20 Thread Ron
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:38:18 +0100 Rowland Penny wrote: > As far as I am aware, each network device should have a different MAC, > couldn't this be used to identify which device is which ? Could, but whenever you have to change a NIC after a thunderstorm you are buggered... Ch

Re: [DNG] Proposed change in behaviour for ascii: eudev net.ifnames logic reversing proposal

2017-08-20 Thread Ron
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 01:38:00 +1200 Daniel Reurich wrote: > It implies > having "net.ifnames=1" in the kernel cmdline to get the "enp0s3"-like > scheme and not touching anything to get the "eth0" scheme. +1 Cheers, Ron. -- Tho

Re: [DNG] GNOME usability "improvements" (OT)

2017-08-11 Thread Ron
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 19:35:55 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote: > And they had no souls even late in Gnome2 days, > before systemd was even a glimmer in Lennart's eye. which probably made it easier for the Evil One to take them under his thrall... Cheers, Ron. -- To YOU I&#

Re: [DNG] GNOME usability "improvements"

2017-08-11 Thread Ron
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:24:31 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote: > It really makes me wonder why any distribution still even ships Gnome, much > less has it as the default. Could it be because Gnome have sold their immortal souls to Systemd ? Cheers, Ron. -- The optimist proclaims that w

Re: [DNG] Yes I am an attorney. - Re: Identity of OP (Software written by contractors and the 'work for hire') concept - To Bruce Perens

2017-08-01 Thread Ron
first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. -- Wm. Shakespeare Cheers, Ron. -- Linux: want to know why my computer works. Macs: don't want to know why my computer works. DOS: want t

Re: [DNG] High level language primitives [ was Please keep 32-bits alive]

2017-07-29 Thread Ron
ave *no* bugs ;-) > > > - easy maintainability > > - fast development > > - what else? > > Software would be Free as in freedom. Documentation ? Cheers, Ron. -- The difference between science and the fuzzy subject is that sci

Re: [DNG] [Desktop-Environment] Cinnamon and MATE

2017-07-23 Thread Ron
On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 16:44:40 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote: > Current parts you get from electronish rubbish are some i5 models, or Core > Duo if your rubbish pool is that old. Remember, I live in Darkest Paraguay, our technorubbish is not all that advanced... Cheers,

Re: [DNG] [Desktop-Environment] Cinnamon and MATE

2017-07-23 Thread Ron
in Paraguay, producing one working machine out of the wrecks of three or four old PCs given to the school by commercial businesses that had been upgrading their HW. And installing Linux (Mandrake 6.2 at the time) so the little dears could not bugger the installed OS... Cost: my time... Ch

Re: [DNG] [Desktop-Environment] Cinnamon and MATE

2017-07-23 Thread Ron
or the house LAN is a Pentium II running IPCop. Is it a coincidence that my three cars are a 1997 Citroën Berlingo, a 1979 Mercedes W123 300D, and a 1971 Cotroën 2CV, not to mention a 1981 250ES MZ m/c ? Cheers, Ron. -- When I am working on a problem, I never think about

Re: [DNG] [Desktop-Environment] Cinnamon and MATE

2017-07-22 Thread Ron
n, against how many for 64 ? Cheers, Ron. -- A "critic" is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased -- he hates all

Re: [DNG] Devuan Constitution and Social Contract WAS: Sexual politics and society

2017-07-19 Thread Ron
People, Please stop replying, just apply the Del key. Because unless the list gnomes apply the cluestick (or worse), nothing will stop those who want to continue with their OT rants, self-righteously claiming they can do so because someone else also did. Cheers, Ron

Re: [DNG] Forums: was I have a question about libsystemd0 in devuan ascii,

2017-07-16 Thread Ron
experience on other highly technical lists (Model Engineering, Steam railways, etc is that we get those OT threads from time to time, mainly when a list is slow-moving, and they resolve themselves very quickly when on-topic posts come back in higher numbers. Cheers, Ron. -- Deat

Re: [DNG] Forums: was I have a question about libsystemd0 in devuan ascii,

2017-07-16 Thread Ron
t why would you read a translation into Latin when you can read one int French or English ? Cheers, Ron. -- News is the mother of opinion, opinion the cause of mass-delusion, delusion the so

Re: [DNG] Forums: was I have a question about libsystemd0 in devuan ascii,

2017-07-15 Thread Ron
ntiment in _good_ Latin is opaque to my countrymen who aren't > Latin-proficient, which would impair the joke.) Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... ;-3) Ave atque vale, Ron. -- -- http://ww

Re: [DNG] systemd: good riddance!

2017-07-02 Thread Ron
On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 18:36:40 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > fate accompli > > "Fate" > > is very apposite in the circumstance > One misspell and a person's reputation is shot forever! > :-) And me thinking it was purposefully done ;-3) Cheer

Re: [DNG] systemd: good riddance!

2017-07-01 Thread Ron
On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 10:25:20 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote: > fate accompli "Fate" is very apposite in the circumstance Cheers, Ron. -- It is a typically Hohenzollern idea to believe that it is a crime for a country to defend itself after its army has b

Re: [DNG] systemd: good riddance!

2017-06-30 Thread Ron
-of-war-quotes/ Cheers, Ron. -- An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out. -- Will Rogers -- http://www.olgi

Re: [DNG] I have a question about libsystemd0 in devuan ascii,

2017-06-21 Thread Ron
On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:32:52 -0400 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > > 08/15 is a common german expression for "plain vanilla". > Reference to the 08/15 rifle still in use during the second world war; > re-read Hans Hellmut Kirst. Sorry, machine gun, not

Re: [DNG] I have a question about libsystemd0 in devuan ascii,

2017-06-21 Thread Ron
On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 13:21:17 + rain...@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de wrote: > 08/15 is a common german expression for "plain vanilla". Reference to the 08/15 rifle still in use during the second world war; re-read Hans Hellmut Kirst. Cheers, Ron. -- Tod

Re: [DNG] I have a question about libsystemd0 in devuan ascii,

2017-06-17 Thread Ron
is > built to protect your choices, not to rule some of them out for political > rather than technical causes. The only interesting information would be: "Is it possible to install and run Gnome without having installed systemd ?" Cheers, Ron. --

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