Re: [Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

2017-02-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
without a swap. After some crashes we realised it was needed. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

2017-02-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 04:45:07PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote: > > > That is: you don't like systemd? fine. Installing Debian without it is > > rather simple: > >

[Arm-netbook] systemd and kernel: 3.4, mainline [was: Re: Logging and journaling]

2017-02-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
a decent hardware support? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|| friend ___ arm-netboo

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

2017-02-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
e numbers are corect. I suppose it won't get much better. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

2017-02-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
several years of normal operation), and generally encountered hardly any faults. Feel free to test this yourself. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|

Re: [Arm-netbook] Mainlining the EOMA68-A20

2017-02-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|| friend ___

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

2017-02-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
le syslog logging to reduce unnecessary disk writes, and similar tweaks). However, if "removing it from the rootfs" means something similar to Devuan, then It'll probably be simpler for me to reinstall the image with a proper Debian system. Please don't make my life complicated.

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

2017-02-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 06:57:48AM -0500, Julie Marchant wrote: > On 02/09/2017 05:22 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > A test we did for our systems is to constantly (re)write and sync a large > > random file for many cycles (enough to simulate several years of normal > > oper

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

2017-02-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
t; doesn't support journaling). That's the standard advice for the OpenPandora. So what happens on a violent poweroff? Just lose data? There's also f2fs. But you do need a recent enough kernel to use it. The versions from some older kernels may eat some files occasionally. -- Tzafrir Cohen |

Re: [Arm-netbook] New Open Access Journal for Open Source Hardware

2016-09-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
e all > that > money? > > http://theoryofcomputing.org/crisis.html > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/academic-publisher-elsevier-hit-with- > growing-boycott-1.115 Again, this is an open-access Elsevier publication. Not the typical Elsevier publication. -- Tzafri

Re: [Arm-netbook] OT: The U.S. Needs to Stop Lecturing the Rest of the World About Internet Values

2016-11-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
morning. Also, I guess you have a really good internet connection in Shenzen. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|| friend _

Re: [Arm-netbook] new development laptop needed, looking at dell xps 13 9350

2016-12-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 10:08:33AM -0500, Adam Van Ymeren wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 04:49:36PM +0100, Ythogtha wrote: > > > >> I'm new on this list, so hello everybody :) &

Re: [Arm-netbook] Init Freedom

2017-08-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ion), to > thinking about the enemy we were fighting, which was systemd, not > Poettering, and it would work 100% of the time, at least as far as I > remember. I thought you were out to write a good system, and not up against another software. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org |

Re: [Arm-netbook] severe systemd bugs (two of them)

2017-07-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
so no packaging tools for that, which makes the required patches larger, I believe. I would probably also not be able to easily be able to debug those. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il |

Re: [Arm-netbook] Doing without systemd

2017-07-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
y know that, and it > wasn't ready at the time. > > So you other guys: > If you're removing systemd from Debian, just use Devuan instead -- it's > already (mostly) been done for you! In another thread someone mentioned trusting people. I trust the maintainer of angband.pl gene

Re: [Arm-netbook] Fwd: [trinity-devel] TDE Fundraiser

2017-06-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
s of the GTK+ stack). Another minimalistic WM I used to use (icewm) added support for the library fribidi independently and thus should properly render Hebrew and Arabic. But good luck with other complex languages. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tz

Re: [Arm-netbook] Standards Organization as a Potentially Universal Free/Libre Software Developement Sustenance Model

2017-06-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
iles, web, shell, mailing list, tasks, and more) for free. It is no longer in that position. One problem with it nowadays is that they have been shown to used some non-optimal methods of getting ad money in the recent past. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafr

Re: [Arm-netbook] OT: Librem 5?

2017-09-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
urism", again? > > *sigh* For every purest of the purists there is someone even more purist. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best

Re: [Arm-netbook] Interested in pre-production unit for GNU Guix

2017-11-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
use mainline linux > kernel source. Looking at http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort , I see that HDMI is listed as "in linux mainline since 4.15". Yey! LVDS is still listed as "WIP" and VGA and CVBS are still listed as red no-s, and VE (Video Engine) is liste

Re: [Arm-netbook] Talk Download: Fosdem.2018 Component.Sourcing.for.Design.and.Manufacturing.in.Shenzhen.LiveStream

2018-02-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 11:51:14AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 11:47 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 10:04:26PM +0100, Parobalth wrote: > >> Am 04.02.2018 9:17 vorm. schrieb &q

Re: [Arm-netbook] You have been unsubscribed from the arm-netbook mailing list

2022-11-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi, Despite the mail suggesting otherwise, I was not. I have already mailed admin@ and such. I guess it's time to redirect mailing list messages elsewhere. Just wanted to note this in case this is an issue of someone else. I guess someone need to kick the list server at the right spot. Anyway,