Re: Debian 11 xfce

[Ken Cunningham]

> On Jan 12, 2022, at 9:58 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 09:52:01AM -0600, c. marlow wrote:
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>> I honestly don't see what people see in XFCE
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> Uh, oh. This is asking for trouble ;)
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>> To me, XFCE looks VERY DATED and out of the 90s. 
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> perhaps...
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>> YMMV, I guess.
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> That's *exactly* the point. Mileage varies wildly, especially in the
> user interface department. There are even people who don't want a
> desktop environment *at all*, imagine that :^)
> 
> The real challenge would be a way for all of us to get along together
> despite such preferencial differences :-)
> 
> Cheers
> -- 
> t

On a debian 11 ppc64 system running on an Apple Dual G5 PPC 970 with 3.5G of 
Ram, xfce turns out to the most responsive environment of the ones that will 
work there. So that is what I use on that system.

On the other hand, on an Apple Intel Macbook circa 2006 with a Core2 processor 
and 4G of ram, Mate is very nice, and I prefer that there.

Once the applications are running it matters little however, of course.

I’m happy there are choices.

Ken

Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up

[Ken Cunningham]

hey, you're right!

free upgrade :)

K

On Tuesday, November 30, 2021, Dirk Neumann  wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 08:52:59 -0800
> Ken Cunningham  wrote:
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> > Some software, like ninja etc, use that information to decide how many
> parallel jobs to set up. On my systems (2 processors, 6 CPUs on each, each
> with two threads per core = 12 parallel build processes) that works out
> well it seems.
>
> I would have expected 24 parallel build processes on your machine
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Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up

[Ken Cunningham]

> On Nov 30, 2021, at 8:18 AM, Paul M. Foster  wrote:
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> On 11/30/21 6:24 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
>> Paul M. Foster wrote:
>>> Folks:
>>> 
>>> Here's a curious thing. I have a 10th gen Intel i3 CPU with four cores. When
>>> I look at /proc/cpuinfo, it actually shows eight cores. There's a line in
>>> the output of each core which is
>>> 
>>> cpu cores   : 4
>>> 
>>> But there are outputs for each of eight cores, numbered 0 through 7.
>>> 
>>> Is it possible that there were eight cores on this CPU, and four of them
>>> were non-working (I know it's typical to have non-working cores on a die),
>>> and this file shows all the original cores?
>>> 
>>> Or does someone have a better explanation?
>>> 
>> Try lscpu. Useful lines:
>> CPU(s):  12
>> On-line CPU(s) list: 0-11
>> Thread(s) per core:  2
>> Core(s) per socket:  6
>> Socket(s):   1
>> So this machine has one socket, 6 cores in the socket, 2 threads
>> per core, which looks like 12 CPUs.
>> You should find that your has one socket, 4 cores in the socket,
>> 2 threads per core, which looks like 8 CPUs.
>> -dsr-
> 
> It appears you are correct. lscpu shows this CPU has 4 cores, and 2 threads 
> per core. But it shows 8 CPUs. Silly.
> 
> Paul
> 

Some software, like ninja etc, use that information to decide how many parallel 
jobs to set up. On my systems (2 processors, 6 CPUs on each, each with two 
threads per core = 12 parallel build processes) that works out well it seems.

Ken

Re: Debian 11 on old Macbook

[Ken Cunningham]

Well if MacOSX is no longer booting immediately, then it appears installing
rEFInd solved your initial problem, so that is good.

rEFInd is quite configurable via refind.conf, but you may find it is
simpler to just ignore the Windows icon rather than try to force it not to
appear. The hairy details are here:

https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/configfile.html

And rEFInd has it's own mailing list for more user help here:

https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/discussion/general/

K



On Saturday, November 27, 2021,  wrote:

> Hello,
> thanks for the help and suggestions:
> I don't need to press alt (option) to view the operating systems because I
> have rEFInd installed.
> However, 2 Debian icons appear, one OS X, and one Windows.
> If I click on the latter, a white writing on a black background appears
> with: MBR 12: and a flashing underscore.
> But I can't write anything.
> The Debian 2 takes me to Debian and OS X to the Apple operating system.
> Assuming I keep the 2 Debian, how do I get rid of the Windows symbol, since
> it doesn't lead anywhere, so it results useless?
> Thanks again
> Francesco
>

Re: Debian 11 on old Macbook

[Ken Cunningham]

> On Nov 24, 2021, at 11:11 AM, David Wright  wrote:
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> On Wed 24 Nov 2021 at 14:59:09 (+0100), fran...@libero.it wrote:
>> I installed Debian 11 (386) on a 2009 Macbook Pro 13 "(5.5).
>> 
>> The installation did not give me any problems except it did not detect wifi 
>> card and touchpad, but I was connected with ethernet and used an external 
>> mouse, so the whole process ended.
>> 
>> During the installation phase of Grub I only chose the hd that appeared in 
>> the window and did all the installer.
>> 
>> I enclose photos of the subdivision that the installer did. I only chose to 
>> install Debian on a partition that I had left empty choosing partitions / 
>> and home Unfortunately Debian does not appear on reboot and neither does 
>> Grub, but Mac OS (Snow Leopard) starts immediately How can I solve this 
>> problem?
>> 
>> If I reinstall using AMD64 instead, what can be the right suggestions to 
>> install Grub in the right place to reboot with it?
> 
> You don't mention anything about how you boot. From my great
> experience of Macs (watching people use them in the last
> century), I'm guessing you might have to hold down some key
> while you boot. That's not just for dual-booting (certainly
> not, 30 years ago), but for doing various Mac-ish things,
> so it should be documented somewhere.
> 
> Also there were threads here, in late August, about booting Macs.
> 
> Cheers,
> David.
> 


I can’t see your photos, but I am currently dual-booting between Ubuntu 21.10 
(64 bit) and MacOSX 10.7 on a MacBook 2,1 without troubles.

Although you can usually hold down the option key during initial boot-up to 
bring up the Mac’s BIOS boot selector, and then select either the MacOSX 10.7 
partition or the GRUB/linux partition, to make things simpler, most 
walkthroughs recommend installing rEFInd 
> which gives you a nice graphical 
menu of your available bootable systems to choose from. 


There are various walkthrus available, and all of them seem to recommend rEFInd 
as well — not doubt I followed one of these several years ago

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-linux-macbook-pro/ 


https://www.lifewire.com/dual-boot-linux-and-mac-os-4125733 


https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-dual-boot-ubuntu-mac/ 


HTH,

K

Re: Fwd: kencunninghan_Pedophile_alert_in_your_area_

[Ken Cunningham]

What do you want me to do with this
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